Divine Decree
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What is the relationship between the happiness and misery mentioned in the noble Prophetic حديث and worldly happiness and misery? Can a person know their destiny? What is the effect of not submitting to what is mentioned in the حديث on religion and piety? How can one understand complaining about unhappiness and attributing happiness to personal effort in the context of divine decree?
How can I maintain my relationship with my fiancé who is terminally ill, and prove that I will not abandon him, without displeasing God?
What is the ruling on one who vowed to pray two rak'ahs after 'Isha throughout her life to be delivered from a difficult situation, but fears she may not be able to fulfill her vow due to menstruation?
What is meant by Allah's decree of the matter in the heavens, mentioned in some hadiths, and is this ongoing or has it ended, and how can it be reconciled with what Allah has predestined in the Preserved Tablet?
Is what results from a person harming himself, such as illnesses or injuries from smoking, part of Allah's divine decree (qadaa’ and qadar), and would he have inevitably suffered from it, or is it that the person himself threw himself into destruction?
What is the ruling on saying: "I create my own destiny"?
Why did God not create more than one wife for Adam, despite the need for procreation, and does this indicate that polygyny is not natural?
What are the types of hadith that one should refrain from delving into?
Why do some people die early while others live long, and how does God hold accountable those who die early, and is there justice in the early death of those who commit evil, even though they might have repented if they had been granted a longer life?
What is the authenticity of the story of the barren woman for whom Moses, peace be upon him, prayed, and she conceived, and when Moses asked his Lord about that, He answered: "Every time I decreed her barren, she said: 'O Most Merciful,' so My mercy preceded My power"?
What is the reality of Tawhid al-Rububiyyah (Oneness of Lordship), and did anyone deny it?
How do we reconcile what is stated in Surat Al-Imran, Ayah 112: "They have drawn upon themselves wrath from Allah, and destitution was imposed upon them" with the current reality of the Jews, their wealth and power?
Is the questioner's not being married and her illness, for which no medical diagnosis can be found, caused by magic?
What is the reason our prayers for sustenance are not answered, despite fulfilling all the conditions for supplication, avoiding its impediments, and utilizing the times of responsiveness, and what should we do when despair has driven us to the point of considering unlawful earnings?
What does it mean to love a person more than Almighty Allah, and is it considered shirk (polytheism)? What are the practical examples of this, such as speaking with a forbidden girl out of love, or allowing one's wife to uncover her face while traveling out of compassion and love?
How does envy affect a person, causing illness, death, or poverty? What is the nature of this material effect? Does this contradict the written divine decree and destiny (Qadaa and Qadar)? And does Surah Al-Falaq protect from the envier?
How is Allah's knowledge of the unseen described, seeing that He has already written down every movement in the universe before its creation, similar to the example of a phone alarm that informs its owner in advance?
Why did Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah choose the principles by which they excluded those who declared the perpetrator of a major sin to be a disbeliever, and those who said that faith neither increases nor decreases, and others? And on what basis are these principles called the principles of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah? And is one considered an innovator (mubtadi') if he does not consider the Mawlid an innovation and deems it good? And who is the innovator? Is it everyone who contradicts the principles of Ahl al-Sunnah codified in books of creed, or everyone who commits an innovation and is bigoted about it? And to which group is he attributed?
How can one differentiate between the whispers of Satan that are a punishment from God for those who turn away from His remembrance, and the whispers of Satan that come from Satan himself without divine intervention, taking into account the words of our master Job (peace be upon him): "Indeed, Satan has afflicted me with hardship and torment"?
Is it obligatory to fast in fulfillment of a vow when the time of the vow and the date of obtaining the job have been forgotten? And are there Quranic verses for bringing sustenance and relieving distress?
How can a Muslim regain his morale, ambition, and contentment with Allah's divine decree and destiny after being afflicted with an illness that caused him to lose these, and is affliction with illness a sign of love or punishment from Allah, and is supplication (du'a) specific to incurable diseases or does it include all diseases, and how can one respond to those who claim that their supplication is not answered?
What is the evidence that the Divine Will (Mashi'ah) in the stages of divine decree (Qadar) is not pre-existent and is not concomitant with writing, and that the order of Qadar is: Knowledge, then Will, then Writing, then Creation?
Why does Allah not relieve the distress of a woman who feels sadness and psychological weakness, suffers from painful past memories related to her marriage and her failure to form friendships, feels she is being punished for a past sin from which she has repented, and fears that her doubt concerning the afterlife might be disbelief?
What is the ruling on feeling hatred towards one's nose because of its shortness and the width of its tip, and what is the ruling on cosmetic surgery or filler injections to change its shape?