Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

ta’âlâ creates it if He, too, wishes it. If man does not wish it, He
does not create the action which is optional. Then, if man uses his
irâda-i-juz’iyya in worshipping, Allâhu ta’âlâ creates the worship.
If he uses it for sins, He creates sins. Then man becomes evil and
will be tormented in the next world. Satan can say nothing to a
person who knows that this is so.
Abû Mansûr-i Mâ-turîdî explains the meaning of the
abovementioned âyat-i-kerîma as follows: “Your optional actions
do not happen with your will only. After your will, Allâhu ta’âlâ
decrees those actions and then creates them. As is seen, the slaves
are not independent in doing their actions.
People who follow the way of Mu’tazila say that man creates all
his actions himself. They make slaves partners with Allâhu ta’âlâ
in creating actions. [In Iran, people who name themselves Shiites
believe in qadâ and qadar as the group of Mu’tazila do. Thereby
they deviate from the way of Ahl as-sunna scholars. Deriving from
valuable books, I have given long answers to their abominable
slanders and explained the knowledge of qadâ and qadar in my
books Documents of the Right Word and SAHÂBA ‘The
Blessed’. The book entitled Mawâhib-i ladunniyya gives detailed
information about Irâda-i juz’iyya in its chapter which tells about
the holy war of Badr. There is a pamphlet entitled Irâda-i-juz’iyya
and written by the great savant and Walîy-yi-kâmil Mawlânâ
Khâlid-i Baghdâdî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ in the book entitled
SAHÂBA ‘The Blessed’. The pamphlet Irâda-i juz’iyya was
published in the ninth letter of the book entitled Bugyat-ul-wâjid,
by Muhammad Es’ad, the son of Mahmûd Sâhib, who was the
brother of Mawlânâ ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaihim’. The book was printed
in Damascus in 1334 [1915 A.D.]. Commentaries to the pamphlet
and the names of the commentators are also reported in the book.
In his book entitled Iqdul-jawharî, Mawlânâ Khâlid-i Baghdâdî
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ gives detailed information about man’s
option and his irada-i juz’iyya. A commentary to this book was
written by ’Abdulhamîd Harpûtî and printed with the title Simtul’
aqbarî in Istanbul in 1305 [1888 A.D.].
There are four factors in the realization of man’s optional
actions: 1) Imagining, remembering the action; 2) Opting the
action; 3) Then using the irâda-i juz’iyya, that is, beginning the
action; 4) The bringing about of the action. The first and the
second are created by Allâhu ta’âlâ. For, imagination and desire
are creatures. Something which exists needs to be created. Irâda-i
juz’iyya is from the slave. The action is created by Allâhu ta’âlâ.
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