Qadar
Qadar is divine decree: the belief that God has full knowledge of and power over all that happens. Human beings remain accountable for their choices within it. Fatwas on qadar often address how it relates to free will and responsibility.
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What are Divine Decree (Qada’) and Divine Preordainment (Qadar)? Does it mean Allah’s writing of what the servant will do, then His will and creation of the action, then the servant’s performance of it? And does this conform to the creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah (the People of the Sunnah and the Community)?
The four levels of divine decree are: knowledge, writing, will, and creation. Knowledge is eternal, while writing is a temporal event that occurred fifty thousand years before the creation of the heavens and the earth.…
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?
What the questioner mentioned concerning his understanding of the issue of Divine Decree (Qada') and Divine Preordainment (Qadar) is correct. The stages of belief in it are four: knowledge, writing, will, and creation.…
How can the issue of divine decree (Qada) and destiny (Qadar) be simplified with simple examples and accessible books, and do some aspects of belief in it conflict with reason and logic, or do we merely fail to grasp its wisdom?
The matter of divine decree (Qada’) and destiny (Qadar) does not require examples, for everything in existence is by Allah’s decree and destiny. Belief in it is one of the ranks of faith. Religion does not bring that…
Questions that use it
Does the noble verse: ﴿And when We intend to destroy a city, We command its affluent ones, so they defiantly disobey therein; then the word [of torment] becomes true upon it, and We destroy it with [complete] destruction﴾ [Al-Isra: 16] indicate that Allah Almighty directs the affluent to commit wickedness? And what is the explanation of the noble Hadith: "Indeed, one of you is created in his mother's womb for forty days as a drop of fluid, then he becomes a clinging clot for a similar period, then a piece of flesh for a similar period. Then an angel is sent to him to breathe the soul into him, and he is commanded with four words: to write down his provision, his lifespan, his deeds, and whether he will be wretched or سعaీद (blessed). By Allah, besides Whom there is no other god, indeed one of you may perform the deeds of the people of Paradise until there is nothing between him and it except a cubit, then what is decreed overtakes him, so he performs the deeds of the people of Hellfire and enters it. And indeed one of you may perform the deeds of the people of Hellfire until there is nothing between him and it except a cubit, then what is decreed overtakes him, so he performs the deeds of the people of Paradise and enters it" in relation to divine decree and destiny (Al-Qada wal-Qadar)?
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 divine decree (qadaa) and destiny (qadar), and the legislative and cosmic will, be interpreted with rational thought, while clarifying the relationship between effort and success? Does Allah's knowledge, inscribed in the Preserved Tablet, interfere with our choices? How is the acceptance of prayer understood when one's appointed time of death (ajal) has come? What is the correct interpretation of the spread of pandemics like Corona and their being a punishment?