The Meaning of Writing Down Every Small and Large Thing
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, you mentioned that one of the levels of faith in the divine decree is that everything has been written down, everything that will happen in this universe, and that it is obligatory to believe in this. So what is meant by the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Qamar 54:53]?
Answer:
It is the same thing.[Al-Qamar 54:53] means in the Preserved Tablet; it is written in the Preserved Tablet: [Al-An'am 6:38].
Honorable Shaykh, you mentioned that one of the levels of faith in the divine decree is that everything has been written down, everything that will happen in this universe, and that it is obligatory to believe in this. So what is meant by the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And every small and great
وَكُلُّ صَغِيرٍ وَكَبِيرٍAnswer:
It is the same thing.
And every small and great [thing] is inscribed.
وَكُلُّ صَغِيرٍ وَكَبِيرٍ مُّسْتَطَرٌWe have not neglected in the Register a thing
مَّا فَرَّطْنَا فِي الْكِتَابِ مِن شَيْءٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 28 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/الإيمان بالقدر خيره وشره/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة — youtube.com (58:17)
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