The ruling on the preacher saying: “Allah created evil and did not will it”
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Question:
He says: I heard in the remaining Friday books that the preacher speaks about good and evil. He said, “And Allah created evil and did not will it, and He did not will disbelief from His servants, and He created good and commanded it, and He creates evil for the angels.” What is your opinion?
Answer:
And he did not will this, and may Allah protect us from it. He willed evil and created it for a wisdom. If he had left out the phrase “and did not will it,” you would see the speech as sound. But his saying “and did not will it” is perhaps a slip of the tongue or ignorance on his part. It is obligatory to be cautious of such speech. There is nothing in the universe that Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) did not will. Yes.
He says: I heard in the remaining Friday books that the preacher speaks about good and evil. He said, “And Allah created evil and did not will it, and He did not will disbelief from His servants, and He created good and commanded it, and He creates evil for the angels.” What is your opinion?
Answer:
And he did not will this, and may Allah protect us from it. He willed evil and created it for a wisdom. If he had left out the phrase “and did not will it,” you would see the speech as sound. But his saying “and did not will it” is perhaps a slip of the tongue or ignorance on his part. It is obligatory to be cautious of such speech. There is nothing in the universe that Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) did not will. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 14/5 شرح العقيدة الطحاوية/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:03:31)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.