Are the actions of the servants created with their creation, or when they perform them?
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The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : What do you mean by actions? Yes?
The questioner : Are the actions of the servants created with their creation, or does Allah create them when they are performed, when they perform them?
The Shaykh : This is a strange question, my brothers. If we say that the actions of the servants are created along with their creation, does that mean the fetus in its mother's womb is playing soccer? Because playing soccer is one of the actions. Who says this? And eating and drinking and calling his people and scratching himself and them? The actions of the servants, may Allah reward you, are the result of power, knowledge, and will. Did you understand? This power, will, and knowledge were created by Allah (Mighty and Majestic); it is an attribute of the human being, but it develops gradually.[An-Nahl 16:78] It is part of the wisdom of Allah that the child does not know what is around him of pleasures or harms. If he knew what was around him, he would perish in one day because his body cannot bear it. So this instinct grows with him gradually until it is complete. But the actions of man are decreed before he is created by fifty thousand years. Clear, if Allah wills.
The questioner : I mean, is the origin created, or is the action created?
The Shaykh : The origin of the human being is created with knowledge, power, and will, and these develop until they are complete. The action is not created with the human being, meaning that the human being has been acting since he was created. No, otherwise we would not find him playing soccer in his mother's womb, or scratching, or anything else. Do you know what scratching is? May Allah protect you.
The reader: The author (may the Master preserve him, Glorified and Exalted is He) says: "And if an attribute is perfection in one state and deficiency in another state, it is not permissible for Allah, nor is it impossible for Him in an absolute sense. So it is not affirmed for Him with absolute affirmation, nor is it negated from Him with absolute negation. Rather, it is necessary to distinguish: it is permissible in the state where it is perfection, and it is impossible in the state where it is deficiency. This is like mockery, plotting, and deception, and the like of them."
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The Shaykh : What do you mean by actions? Yes?
The questioner : Are the actions of the servants created with their creation, or does Allah create them when they are performed, when they perform them?
The Shaykh : This is a strange question, my brothers. If we say that the actions of the servants are created along with their creation, does that mean the fetus in its mother's womb is playing soccer? Because playing soccer is one of the actions. Who says this? And eating and drinking and calling his people and scratching himself and them? The actions of the servants, may Allah reward you, are the result of power, knowledge, and will. Did you understand? This power, will, and knowledge were created by Allah (Mighty and Majestic); it is an attribute of the human being, but it develops gradually.
And Allah has extracted you from the wombs of your mothers not knowing a thing
والله أخرجكم من بطون أمهاتكم لا تعلمون شيئاThe questioner : I mean, is the origin created, or is the action created?
The Shaykh : The origin of the human being is created with knowledge, power, and will, and these develop until they are complete. The action is not created with the human being, meaning that the human being has been acting since he was created. No, otherwise we would not find him playing soccer in his mother's womb, or scratching, or anything else. Do you know what scratching is? May Allah protect you.
The reader: The author (may the Master preserve him, Glorified and Exalted is He) says: "And if an attribute is perfection in one state and deficiency in another state, it is not permissible for Allah, nor is it impossible for Him in an absolute sense. So it is not affirmed for Him with absolute affirmation, nor is it negated from Him with absolute negation. Rather, it is necessary to distinguish: it is permissible in the state where it is perfection, and it is impossible in the state where it is deficiency. This is like mockery, plotting, and deception, and the like of them."
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.