Sahaba - The Blessed

il-Mahfûz.” [1]
[Tayyibî], the annotator of Kashshâf, noted that
“According to some (scholars), ‘qadar’ means a ‘general
commandment’, and ‘qadâ’ means ‘the happening, one by one, of
the events (stated in the general commandment)’. For instance,
[Every living being will die] is qadar. And death of every living
being is qadâ.” Shams-ad-dîn Mahmûd bin Abdurrahmân
Isfahânî, who wrote an annotation to the book Tawâlî’, makes the
following definition: “Qadar means the existence of all things, en
masse, in Lawh-il-Mahfûz. And qadâ means the creation of their
causes and them one by one when their (foreordained) times
come.” Qadar means a cellar-full of wheat, and qadâ is to dispense
it piecemeal in certain quantities. The words ‘qadar’ and ‘qadâ’
can be used for each other. Qadar: (Ahmad becomes a Muslim of
his own volition and using his own will power. And Gregory
prefers disbelief, which, also, is his own wish and predilection.
There is many an âyat showing this fact.) There is detailed
information about qadâ and qadar in the (Turkish) book Se’âdeti-ebediyye.
A person who reads the information with due
attention will easily detect the sly, tricky and hoodwinking
sophistry which the Jewish author engineers throughout the book
(Husniyya). It would take no time for connoisseurs of Tafsîr [2] to
diagnose the unschooled and illogical inaptitude in the
interpretation of the âyats. Yet people who are unaware of Tafsîr
and the twenty main branches of Islamic sciences might be
inveigled into taking the book for granted under the influence of
melodramatic expressions, such as “She routed them, put them to
shame, refuted them, outwitted them, proved them false,” which
abound in the book. Therefore, such mendacious and heretical
books, magazines and newspapers should not be read at all. Not to
read them means to protect yourself from becoming a disbeliever.
7– At one place he says, “At one time Shaikh Behlûl [Behlûl
Dânâ] said (to Imâm a’zam Abû Hanîfa): ‘O Abû Hanîfa! You say
that man does not have ihtiyâr (choice). An ass is wiser and more
virtuous than you are. For it would not walk across an impassable
stream whatsoever you do to force it to!’ Ibrâhîm Khâlid was
unable to answer her. Hârûn Rashîd and Yahyâ Bermekî
laughed.”
[1] There is detailed information about Lawh-il-Mahfûz in the thirty-sixth
chapter of the third fascicle of Endless Bliss.
[2] Islamic science dealing with the explanation of âyats of the Qur’ân alkerîm.
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