Mufti Menk – Do We Have Any Choice
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Speaker discusses the concept of Allah's allowing negative things to happen and how he gives people the choice between expressing gratitude or ungratefulness. The concept of "the leeway" within which actions can take takes place is discussed, with the focus on the power of Islam.
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Subhanallah.
Why does Allah allow negative things to happen?
Do you know that Allah has given man
and Allah has given his creatures
to a certain extent,
some form
of a
some form of
a choice in some of
what they do and some of what they
say, etcetera.
So Allah has given us a choice within
what he has allowed in order to test
us.
And this Allah explains in the Quran in
a
few places where Allah
says,
We guided man to the path.
We've given him the choice. Either he would
be, you know, grateful, show gratitude by worshiping
Allah alone, following what Allah has revealed, or
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showing
ungratefulness,
ingratitude,
and that would be known as,
kufr, which means disbelieving in Allah
as well. So ingratitude and disbelief come hand
in hand. You know, so Allah has allowed
us certain
a certain leeway,
but all of that is within the permission
of Allah, within the power of Allah. Nothing
happens except by the permission and knowledge of
Allah