Allah’s Encompassing Knowledge

If we look at the normal human; for example if you see that your son is not studying and is careless about his classes, you will say to him that he will not pass his exams and definitely he will not. Did you know the unknown future then? Or had you concluded that from the facts around you. And the same with the teacher who explains the lessons to a class of 20 students and says that only ten of the twenty students are going to pass the exams and actually only ten students pass. Does this teacher predict the future? Or did he judge them by evaluating their work in class.

If that happens with the humans who are Allah’s creation with their limited knowledge and weak power, do you think that it is hard for Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) and He is the Creator and the All Knowing to know by fact that some of his own creatures are in Hell. If the Creatures of Allah could guess some predictions that turn out to be true, would not Allah’s knowledge (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) reach definite conclusions by surety? Of course it does and Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) knows by surety. This is confirmed by what He (Jalla Jallaloh) says:

 “Should not He Who has created know? And He is the Most Kind and Courteous (to His slaves), All-Aware (of everything)” [Ayah 14 from surat Al-Mulk]

Allah’s knowledge is beyond our power and beyond all the knowledge that we could possibly have. That is why it is easy for Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) to know the destiny of His creatures. But some people would stop at the words of Prophet Muhammad (sallAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), Al-Hadith Al-Nabawy:

“A man amongst you acts like the people deserving Paradise until between him and Paradise there remains but the distance of a cubit, when suddenly the writing of destiny overcomes him and he begins to act like the denizens of Hell and thus enters Hell…..”

So how would the judgment be just when someone who is performing the deeds of the dwellers of Paradise until he becomes very close to entering it and then he stops doing that as it is pre-destined for him and he ends to be among the people of Hell. And how would one of us doing the deeds of the dwellers of Hell because of his destiny turns out to be among the people of Paradise. For if it is already written in the book it seems as if entering Paradise or Hell is already pre-destined irrespective of what he does because the book has already changed the consequences of his actions. Those words are spoken a lot and is taken as an excuse for those who have transgressed on themselves and want to blame others for what they do or want to say that it is out of their hands and it is already pre-destined for them, the same as the Pagans say as Al-Haqq (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) clarified to us in the Qur’an. He (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) says:

“Those who took partners (in worship) with Allah will say: “If Allah had had willed, we would not have taken partners (in worship) with Him, nor would our fathers, and we would not have forbidden anything (against His will)” [Ayah 148 from surat Al-An’am]

The Pagans who are associating partners (in worship) with Allah, by saying that wants to throw the responsibility of their faults on the will of Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala).

We tell them, yes you have not been out of Allah’s will as we have already shown that those who believe and those who disobey are both not out of Allah’s will. The one who believed entered the will of Faith and so Allah helped him to the way of Guidance and he endeared Faith to him and he will end to be in Paradise. And the one who expiated and associated partners with Allah (We seek refuge from Allah to protect us against that – wal ‘uiaz be Allah) entered the will of Infidelity. Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) has not helped him to guidance and has left him for the devils (Al-Shyatin) to send him astray. So neither the believer nor the infidel has walked out of Allah’s will.