Divine Decree
983 questions
Why do I feel a sense of failure towards my deceased grandmother despite my care for her, and am I truly failing?
Does feeling angry with God due to painful and sporadic life experiences, accumulated disappointments, and loss of security, despite loving God and adhering to worship, constitute a state that angers God?
What is the benefit and importance of supplication after divine decree (qada') and destiny (qadar) have occurred, and should one continue to supplicate after the decree has taken place, and until when? And what are the supplications related to divine decree and destiny?
How can one overcome recurring negative thoughts, especially when going to sleep, which cause crying and insomnia, such as imagining the death of parents and the responsibility for siblings, knowing full well the love for one's parents and the unwillingness for any harm to befall them?
How do you know the result of Salat al-Istikhara, and does a person have a role in their destiny, especially concerning marriage? And is the failure to complete a marriage after it has begun a trial (from God) or a result of human actions?
Can it be said that good and evil, death and life, and night and day are created things?
Are those oppressed by illness, death, poverty, and humiliation unjust, deviant, and arrogant? And do the tribulations of this world occur due to a servant's injustice and deviance, or for another divine wisdom? And what is the reconciliation between Allah's Beautiful Names: Al-Qahir (The Subduer), Al-Qahhar (The All-Subduing), Al-Hakam (The Judge), and Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim (The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful)?
Is marriage predestined, and does a female receive what God has decreed for her without change, and is supplication (du'a') inscribed in the Preserved Tablet such that a servant supplicates only if God wills it?
Is the husband's saying to his wife, "Be quiet, or else I'll divorce you," considered a divorce, especially since it was intended as a threat and was not followed by a divorce? And is the accidental death of a son considered a punishment?
Is saying: "What if you had done such and such?" or "Why didn't you do such and such?" or "I wish you had done such and such?" or "If I were in your place, I would have done such and such?" to someone who did something, and you thought it would have been better if he had done something else, considered an objection to divine preordainment (qadar)?
Is it true that divine decree (qada’) in Islam is not divided into absolute (mubram) and suspended (mu’allaq) decree, and that, according to the Sunnis, there is only absolute decree?
Is the concept that Divine Decree (al-Qada wal-Qadar) comprises knowledge, writing, will, and creation, and that the servant chooses his actions while Allah wills and creates them, fraught with ambiguity or influenced by Ash'ari doctrine?
Has the prayer for healing for a deceased mother, offered before dawn, gone in vain? And did Allah not answer it due to sins? And is death part of the divine decree that can be averted by prayer? And is it permissible to pray that this supplication be a raising of her status and counted in the balance of her good deeds?
Is the choice of the words of Imam Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tustarī, as quoted by al-Lālakāʾī in Sharḥ Uṣūl Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah, for delivering lessons on the creed of the righteous predecessors, the obligation of adhering to the community, the love of the Companions, and the impermissibility of revolting against the ruler, sound?
How can God's comprehensive will in people's faith be reconciled with human free will, taking into account the noble verse: "And had your Lord willed, those on Earth would have believed—all of them entirely. Then, would you compel people until they become believers?" and the verses that mention "He guides whom He wills and He leads astray whom He wills"?
What is the way to get rid of the feeling of psychological distress when a person is deprived of what he loves or seeks, such as losing the opportunity to marry a girl he considers righteous, despite believing in Allah’s divine decree and destiny and that "But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you"?
What is the ruling on saying: "O Allah, we do not ask You to avert the decree, but we ask You for leniency in it"? And how can it be reconciled with "Nothing averts the divine decree except supplication"? And is the last Hadith authentic?
Is the saying "all accidents are preventable" true?
Is it permissible for women to confide in one another about the worries and hardships of this worldly life, or is that considered a complaint to other than Allah and contrary to gratitude and patience?
Is it permissible to wish for death due to the the difficulty of marrying a committed and suitable person?
Is it permissible to recite the Two Protectors (Al-Mu'awwidhatayn) over salt and black seed and place them in the house, carry them in a bag, or with children?
Is it possible for a person to marry someone whom God has not destined for them, and does a fiancé leaving his fiancée mean that God did not destine them to be a married couple?
Is a car accident predestined and written in the Book, and is it part of the belief in Divine Decree and Destiny, or is it due to negligence and a failure to take precautionary measures, or a trial to test patience, or a sign of God's wrath?
Is saying, "Why did Allah do this to me?" or "Why did Allah decree this upon me?" considered disbelief (kufr), and what is the ruling on the marital relationship in this case? Is it necessary for the wife to review [her faith] or renew the marriage contract after repenting from this sin?