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Scents of Jannah
:sl: Even if certain traits are inherited, who said they are uncontrollable?
Allah doesn't judge anyone over something they have no control over. That is why the insane are excused from prayer and other actions which they commit due to insanity. Furthermore, whether we have good traits or bad, both are trials for us, as even good traits can lead a person to Hell if they become arrogant and proud. Bad traits can save us from Hell if we control ourselves for the sake of Allah. At the end of the day, Allah has given us a choice which means He is fair and Just. He has given us tools. It's up to us how we use them.
Yes sister but listen for example:
there are some people who gets angry quicker than others .there are some people who are by nature calm and relaxed. Now Anger or excess of Anger is viewed by Islam as a bad behavior that should be avoided.Does this means this person who gets angry quickly and excessively is responsible for what's happening probably in the chemicals of his brain?
For the other calm and relaxed person , this behavior is viewed as Good from Islamic view. is it the person who educated himself to have this calm nature ? did he done any efforts to gain this Good behavior? I tend to believe this is a gift from Allah.and hope i'm not wrong.
I mean my Mind can't digest why there are inequality of the persons' characters. and i'm looking for an explanation whether character is something born with the human ,inherited from parents or only grown and educated by the person himself and his environment, or maybe all of this things together!
I mean the person characteristics are probably the key answer for whether this person will go to hell or paradise. So it's very important to know the mechanisms of how the personal characteristics are built and shaped. Is the will of Allah involved in this mechanism or is it the whole responsibility of the human?
Yes i know that we can change pesonal characteristics by working and training ourselves. that is No doubt and indeed a person who work on his character can definitely change from being bad to being good and pure.
But my question is why this person has to work harder than other persons who have a Good nature and who don't need to do lot of efforts to change their behavior because they are already Good?
does it mean the persons who do more efforts would get more rewards than others whom their spiritual journey has been easy and smooth? that's one probable logical answer.
I mean take the prophets and messengers of Allah : they all (peace be upon them all) have been born with highest degree of pureness and they were sain from all bad personal characteristics like arrogance and anger and so on..same thing there are some people who are very close to the pureness of the prophets of Allah.which make me believe those persons are being chosen by Allah swt and he decided that those will be his close slaves and he will protect them from all impurity of this worldly life.
Well, Yes this is the kingdom of Allah swt and his will swt is over every thing..but what worry me is those persons who have a mixture of good and bad nature and who risk to fail the test of struggling against their bad nature. Those will go to hell if they fail!. why would Allah choose some pure people to be his own and left others for their destiny.
I do admit it's a torturing question -probably philosophical one- but i couldn't find a satisfying answer of it..i read through the book of Imam Ghazaly Ihya ulum addin..there are some passages which speak about the ability of every person to train himself and purify himself from bad characteristics..but Immam ghazaly didn't digged deep into the Hikmah(wisdom) behind making people different and unequal in their characteristics. There must be some divine wisdom behind this But i really can't know it. It will probably takes faith and not ask for those questions that are tutoring the Minds of the believers.