The Relationship Between Cosmic Will and Love and Pleasure

Question:
So the Shaykh informed them that it should be said that the cosmic will is by His wisdom, whereas the legislative will consists of the matters He loves.

Answer:
The cosmic will does not necessarily entail love; it entails pleasure. As for the religious will, love is necessarily entailed by it, for Allah does not legislate anything except that He loves it and is pleased with it, Glorified and Exalted is He. As for the decree, He may decree something that He dislikes, and that is for a wisdom, in order to distinguish the believer from the disbeliever, the sinner from the obedient, and the wretched from the happy, by His wisdom and by testing His servants, Glorified and Exalted is He. So He creates good and He creates evil for a wisdom from Him, Glorified and Exalted is He. And for that reason He created Iblis, the enemy of Allah; He created him to test His servants with him, as a trial and an examination. Yes.