Matters in which a person has no will
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, what are the matters in which a person has no will? Matters in which there is no will, such as illness, for example. A person becomes ill and he has no will in becoming ill; rather, it is an illness.
Answer:
When illness strikes, one flees from it. Poverty is prescribed. These calamities are not within a person's will, but they are decreed upon him, either as a punishment for him, or as a purification and cleansing for him from sins and disobedience, and as expiation for his bad deeds. However, he has a choice in them: illness, hunger, fear, and theft—when his wealth is stolen, he has no choice or ability in it. Allah decreed it upon him with wisdom. All these hardships are decreed by Allah upon him with wisdom, and he is rewarded for them, or purified and tested by them, or his ranks are raised with Allah the Exalted. He is Wise and All-Knowing, and He does not decree for His believing servant except what is in his good and his benefit.[Al-Baqarah 2:216] Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, what are the matters in which a person has no will? Matters in which there is no will, such as illness, for example. A person becomes ill and he has no will in becoming ill; rather, it is an illness.
Answer:
When illness strikes, one flees from it. Poverty is prescribed. These calamities are not within a person's will, but they are decreed upon him, either as a punishment for him, or as a purification and cleansing for him from sins and disobedience, and as expiation for his bad deeds. However, he has a choice in them: illness, hunger, fear, and theft—when his wealth is stolen, he has no choice or ability in it. Allah decreed it upon him with wisdom. All these hardships are decreed by Allah upon him with wisdom, and he is rewarded for them, or purified and tested by them, or his ranks are raised with Allah the Exalted. He is Wise and All-Knowing, and He does not decree for His believing servant except what is in his good and his benefit.
But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you
وَعَسَىٰ أَن تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ
Source
الأمور التي ليست فيها إرادة للإنسان — alfawzan.live
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