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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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T H E D E V I L ' S<br />

D E C E P T I O N S<br />

Fir'awn could have given Musa ('alayhis-saldm) a similar response<br />

when He (;i) asked him to:<br />

0h1lJ<br />

"Would you purify yourself''<br />

[al-Naz/at (79): 18]<br />

<strong>The</strong>n such people may object to their Creator saying: What use<br />

was for you to send messengers, when what You have predestined<br />

was bound to take place?<br />

Anything that leads to rejecting books and ridiculing Messengers<br />

is certainly false. This was why Allah's Messenger told his Companions:<br />

"Perform deeds for it will be made easy for each person to do<br />

that which he was predestined to be."271<br />

Know that a human has the choice to ''gain" (perform) actions which will<br />

result in punishment and reward. So if a per son commits an evil deed then it was<br />

because h was predestined to disob. He will be punished frr his disobedience<br />

not because of his predestination. This is wl!J a murderer is killed, and<br />

al-Qadar is never used as an excuse for his crime.<br />

Allah's Messenger (;I) diverted his Companions from focusing<br />

on Qadar to focusing on action. We are aware of the orders and<br />

prohibitions that we must adhere to, so we must not focus on the Qadar,<br />

which we are unaware of.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Prophetic saying "it will be made easy for each person to do that which<br />

he was predestined for" refers to the means to achieve al-Qadar. He who<br />

is predestined to become a scholar, the means of gaining knowledge<br />

will be made easy or him. And he who was predestined to be<br />

ignorant will have the love of knowledge stripped from his heart.<br />

271<br />

Bukhari 7 /544 and Muslim #264 7.<br />

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