Continuation of the explanation of the author's statement: And the successful group, the people of the Sunnah and the community, believe in the divine decree
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The Shaykh : Hmm? My memory.
In fact, there is also a discussion here. We do not accept what the grammarians have said, for it is permissible to say that nobility is first for the person himself, then he benefits from the nobility of his father because he is the immediate predecessor, then he benefits from the nobility of his grandfather because he is further back, then from his great-grandfather, and so on, or from his father’s father and his father’s grandfather, because a person’s nobility through himself is what he is praised for, then his nobility through his father, then his nobility through his grandfather.
All right, so we say this is a matter of what? Paternal lineage.
Or we can say that the term "qadar" here means "taqdir" in the sense of proportioning, meaning He created him with a specific measure, as He the Exalted said:[Al-A'la 87:2], so "taqdir" is not the eternal decree that He the Exalted decreed to be, but it means proportioning, meaning that he is created with a specific measure.
This meaning is closer to the first one, because it exactly matches His saying, the Exalted:[Al-A'la 87:2], and in that case, there is no problem with the issue.
Belief in the divine decree is obligatory; belief in the divine decree is obligatory, and its status in the religion is that it is one of the six pillars of faith, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Jibril when he asked: What is faith? He said:Sahih Muslim 8a.
In fact, there is also a discussion here. We do not accept what the grammarians have said, for it is permissible to say that nobility is first for the person himself, then he benefits from the nobility of his father because he is the immediate predecessor, then he benefits from the nobility of his grandfather because he is further back, then from his great-grandfather, and so on, or from his father’s father and his father’s grandfather, because a person’s nobility through himself is what he is praised for, then his nobility through his father, then his nobility through his grandfather.
All right, so we say this is a matter of what? Paternal lineage.
Or we can say that the term "qadar" here means "taqdir" in the sense of proportioning, meaning He created him with a specific measure, as He the Exalted said:
Who created and proportioned
الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىThis meaning is closer to the first one, because it exactly matches His saying, the Exalted:
Who created and proportioned
الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىBelief in the divine decree is obligatory; belief in the divine decree is obligatory, and its status in the religion is that it is one of the six pillars of faith, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Jibril when he asked: What is faith? He said: