Re: (The Truth)(About Christianity,Jesus & Trinity)(130 pages)(DO NOT MISS IT!-Slide
If I may be allowed to interrupt for a minute:
The concept of predestination has always bothered me. If God has already determined who will be saved and who won't be, then nothing we do on this earth matters, because God has already decided who lives and who dies. You can lead a life of sainthood and still go to hell just because God decided you are not worthy. You can be the worst sinner and still go to heaven because "God thinks you're cool." It sounds too much like a high school club for my tastes. I like to think that we have free will and can choose our own fate. Otherwise, nothing we do here on earth matters, and that bothers me.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled argument...
Hi Pre-Brother,
I will try to explain the Islamic view for your point with proofs from the Holy Quran.
Allah Almighty says:
Q91:07-10 “
07 And a soul and Him Who perfected it, 08 And inspired it its libertinism and its righteousness, 09 He has succeeded who purifies it, 10 And he has failed who instills it.”
Q90:04-10 “4 We have certainly created man into hardship,5 Does he think that never will anyone overcome him, 6 He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance." 7 Does he think that no one has seen him, 8 Have We not made for him two eyes, 9 And a tongue and two lips,
10 And have shown him the two ways”
So the message here is clear. That Allah have created the man and gave him the <full ability><both physical & mental> to choose the bad or the good way in life.
Guidance in Islam can be divided into 2 categories which are:
1. Direction guidance.
2. Help guidance.
Let me take this example to explain them. If you are driving your car in a city and you have lost your way, you will stop by someone and ask him about your destination. Let us say that he told you how to go there but it was not easy for you to get it. If you were so nice and thanked the man with many good words, maybe he will feel sorry for you and jump up in your car to join you till you reach your destination.
The first time he gave you direction guidance, but in the second time he gave you help guidance.
The same with Allah Almighty. He gave them direction guidance by sending His prophets and books.
But the help guidance does not give it to any one, only the one who want to be good.
Another example: As a Muslim maybe I will feel lazy wake up in the early morning every day leaving my warm bed and wash myself with cold water to do the Salat (Prayer). But if I insist to wake up every day to my prayers I will feel with time that I would be so sad if I missed it one day. This is the help guidance from Allah, to make you love what you thought it was difficult to worship Him.
Allah Almighty said to His prophet Mohammed (PBUH):
Q42:52 “…, And indeed, [O Muhammad], you guide to a straight path”
This is the
direction guidance.
Q28:56 “Indeed, [O Muhammad], you do not guide whom you like, but Allah guideswhom He wills. And He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided”
This is the
help guidance.
Last thing to say, is Allah’s knowledge according to our destinies is <
a beforehand knowledge> NOT <
a guided knowledge>. Because God already knows what will happen with every one of us and which way each of us will choose from the time of Adam or the moment when He decided to create us.
I will give you an example from the Quran.
Q111 “May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he,”
This verse had been sent around 10 years before the death of this dis-believer man, Abu Lahab. He was able to convert to Islam and made the Quran look bad and not truthful within these 10 years, but he never did.
This is an example about how the knowledge of Allah is a beforehand knowledge.
I wish that help somehow.
BRMM
