Explaining the cosmic and legislative approval of disbelief
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it true that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, is pleased with disbelief as a reality but not pleased with it as a legal ruling?
The Shaykh:
No, Allah does not approve of it, neither cosmically nor legislatively. However, He decrees and creates it for a wisdom, a trial, and a test. Allah does not approve of it,[Az-Zumar 39:7] even the disbeliever; Allah did not approve of disbelief for him, but the disbeliever is the one who approved of it for himself. Yes. As for the fact that Allah decreed it, that does not indicate approval. The Shari'ah is what indicates approval. As for the cosmos and the decree, it may indicate approval or it may indicate the opposite of approval.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
The principle is that approval is not a necessary consequence of the decree. As for the Shari'ah, approval is a necessary consequence of it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it true that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, is pleased with disbelief as a reality but not pleased with it as a legal ruling?
The Shaykh:
No, Allah does not approve of it, neither cosmically nor legislatively. However, He decrees and creates it for a wisdom, a trial, and a test. Allah does not approve of it,
And He does not approve for His servants disbelief.
وَلَا يَرْضَىٰ لِعِبَادِهِ الْكُفْرَThe presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
The principle is that approval is not a necessary consequence of the decree. As for the Shari'ah, approval is a necessary consequence of it. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان، إغاثة اللهفان من مصايد الشيطان 19-05-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (49:02)
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