Allah created two types.

The questioner : Someone might say that the one who is stingy, is self-sufficient, and lies about the good, does these actions with a psyche that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, created in him. What is the response to this?

The Shaykh : The response, ah. Creation. For this reason, I mentioned earlier that if you have questions, please ask them. Creation is of two types, and this is one of the subtleties of the science of creed. There is creation directly from Allah (Mighty and Majestic), in which a human has no choice. Look at this session now: each person has a complexion, a form, and a color. Do you have any choice in that? No, this is the creation of Allah. But from another perspective, I mean, in the direct creation of Allah, we have no acquisition (kasb). However, look now: each person is wearing clothing of a certain style. This is also the creation of Allah, but here your choice and your action have entered. So, this action you performed and this choice you made in this simple example is also by the creation and will of Allah. If we note this distinction that there is creation directly from Allah, Allah does not create a person as a disbeliever in the sense of being forced into disbelief; He creates him with disbelief decreed upon him. There is no problem with that. But He does not create him as a disbeliever such that it is impossible for him to be guided. Why? Because we return to our previous discussion: if Allah had originally created the human as a disbeliever who cannot be guided, then why were messengers sent to these disbelievers and books revealed to these messengers? Because they have the innate disposition to accept the guidance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). For this reason, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: There is no compulsion in faith Look now, when a child is created, he is created directly from Allah, and a human has no acquisition in this; this is a male and that is a female. But this male and this female, with their lives, how do they come to have their own selves, morals, and beliefs, etc., such that the question arises: why do you do this and not that? Because this is true: it is from the creation of Allah, but through the voluntary action of the human. So this creation differs from that creation. There is creation from Allah for which the human is not held accountable, because Allah created it by His choice without human acquisition. And there is creation that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) creates through the human. For example, can a man who lives as a bachelor have a child? No. Allah is able to create a child without a father and mother, or without a father and with a mother, etc., but these are matters that go against the norm. As for the Sunnah of Allah in His creation, you will not find a person who does not marry and yet has a child. So if this man marries and is blessed with a child, this child is undoubtedly created by Allah. But is the creation of Allah for this child the same as the creation of Allah for Adam? The answer is no. The same as the creation of Allah for 'Isa? The answer is no. So here, the acquisition of the human comes in. Your child is from the creation of Allah, but you are the intermediary and the one who chose. But, may Allah forbid, if Zayd married in an unlawful way and committed zina with a woman, and this child was born, a child of zina, this is the creation of Allah, but through the acquisition of this fornicator. So this is a factual reality that draws attention to a very sensitive and subtle issue: that if Allah (Mighty and Majestic) forces a person to commit a heinous act, he is not held accountable for this act or for the effects of this heinous act. And the opposite is the opposite. So there are two types of creation: creation directly from Allah for which the human is not questioned, where it is not said, "Why is this one beautiful in form and that one ugly in form?" The one is not praised and the other is not blamed. But if the one who created him ugly in form—Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created him as a sound human, whether male or female—then the male came and changed what Allah created in him, he is responsible for that. The same is said about the woman. And this is summarized by his (peace and blessings be upon him) statement from the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas: Why? Because each of the two sexes, after Allah created him and perfected His creation, as we who prostrate say in our prayer: comes with an action from himself that changes the form that Allah created in the best possible way. So this becomes a creation from the human himself, not against the will of his Lord, but by his will, though contrary to His Shari'ah. So there are two types of creation: creation directly from Allah with no obligation, and creation through the human, for which he is either rewarded or punished.