The People of Sin's Argument with Divine Decree

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What is your opinion of the one who argues with divine decree regarding the commission of sins and says: I am written as wretched, or happy?
My opinion is that he is truthful in that he is written as wretched or happy, but is he compelled to this? And does he know that Allah has written that for him? None of us knows what is written for us until after we act; so if he does not know that it has been written for him that he will do a bad deed until after he does it, let him assume before acting that he has been written among the happy ones and act according to their actions.
Furthermore, this man who argues with divine decree regarding sin does not argue with divine decree regarding the interests of this world; you find him doing every cause by which he obtains the objective without arguing with divine decree. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has invalidated the argument with divine decree by His saying:

[We sent] messengers as bringers of good tidings and warners so that mankind will have no argument against Allah after the messengers

رُسُلاً مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنْذِرِينَ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ حُجَّةٌ بَعْدَ الرُّسُلِ

[Al-Nisa: 165] And if divine decree were an argument, it would have been an argument before the messengers and after the messengers,And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, invalidated the saying of the polytheists who said:

If Allah had willed, we would not have associated [anything] and neither would our fathers, nor would we have prohibited anything." Likewise did those before deny until they tasted Our punishment.

لَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مَا أَشْرَكْنَا وَلا آبَاؤُنَا وَلا حَرَّمْنَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ كَذَلِكَ كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ حَتَّى ذَاقُوا بَأْسَنَا

[Al-An'am: 148] .

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