Free Will Explained | Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf

Fate, predestination, and divine decree: This lectures deals very clearly with the difficult topic of qadr and attempts at explaining the wisdom behind decrees. The speaker eloquently provides great inspiration for the depressed and despondent.
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[@Mr.HeavyDuty]

After hours of searching, finally found the Answer! Thank you so much!

[@farrukhrasheed]

Very nice, jazak Allah

[@zul19654]

Subhanallah, very2 clear and its crystal clear Mufti Abd Rahman, May Allah blesses all of us with this Righteous Knowledge. Alhamdulillah

[@Erumim]

Loved your explanation. May Allah bless you. Two truths...God is all-knowing and Humans have Free Will. One truth has nothing to do with the other. Beautifully explained. Thank you, Brother.

[@farazq]

Subhan'Allah

[@Musi_012]

Im Muslim and soon to be physicist in sha Allah and have to say this video didn’t explain anything. It just says you don’t feel like dragged into the mosque or whatever. But after hard research and seeing many argument I had to agree with determinism. I just need someone to proof to us that we are more than just the body and have a soul. If so then yeah it could be true. Because there’s something above the physical realm

[@salimasadat]

I don't think anyone can give a satisfying answer to this question. He should have just said, "I don't know; only Allah knows," instead of making it more confusing.

[@robertjsmith]

no one is free,you can only do what you want

[@Gojoxahmed10]

Can we change what's written in the divine tablet by taking a different path using our freewill? For example as per the divine tablet i chose engineering but i decided to go for science using my freewill.

[@saidghendir1038]

Thank you so much. The kadhaa and kadr and free-will it's a matter of belief that has no thing to do with our life science, however this belief in kadaa and kadar comes after establishing an origin belief which is believeing in Allah and in what Mohammad's message brought. Example: If I give you a showing proof that i can carry up 500kg, this fact makes you believe in my power. Now, what if someone told you that I could carry an elephant. Here surely you will believe in me basing on the origin belief with no need to a another proof (this's called rational proof). Results: The showing proof is the Quran which establishes the origin belief. when the origin belief is built, that leads to accept the second belief that has no need to any proofs. What the purpose of all that?. This's the sound belief that feeds our worshiping to Allah as like as we see him (IHSAN level) with trust, and that what makes the difference between the children of Adam who never seen or talked to Allah and the Angels who has already seen and talked to Allah. For that reason the Angels have been commanded to bow to Adam, and for that purpose exactly the satan has taken us his enemy and we commanded as well in surat Alkahf to take him as our enemy). Final fruit: The real worshippers of Allah from the children of Adam are better than the Angels. Allah said to the Angels in the Quran in surat Albakara " I know what don't know" this's when the Angels didn't realize the wisdom of making Adam and his children as khaleefa in the earth as a test for them where Allah gave them the free will to do what they want (obeying Allah or Obeying the Satan). However the Angels they're ordered to obey to Allah with no free will. Conclusion: Without understanding the whole story of pur creation and our purpose in this life we cannot absolutely realize the wisdom of believing in kadha an kadar.

[@Hypokrites]

Allah is the Compeller correct?

[@sinitamakk8890]

Confused

[@zaid3825]

Assalaamu Alaikum. The best explanation that was given to me was this.... The Creator knows what we are going to do but we are not forced to do those things, as we have choice / free will. Like a parent who knew their child was going to touch an oven and burn their hand; even though the parent knew what the child was going to do, it doesn't mean that the parent forced the child to burn their hand.... Inshallah hope that clears things up for you.

[@yungle15]

@@zaid3825 this is a bad explanation. A parent predicting their child will do something doesn't NECESSARILY mean that child will. Allah knowing something means it MUST happen in the exact way he knows it. It is POSSIBLE for the child to not touch that stove. It is IMPOSSIBLE to do something that go against what God knows.

[@zaid3825]

The explanation i received was beneficial to me, Alhumdulilah. Being a parent i can also relate to it. If others also find the explanation beneficial, then even better.

[@hamadimwazuma2558]

All Muslims baffle on this topic. They try to convince that we're free but when you take a step back and think... We're not free! You Muslims under estimate Allah. You're all trying to cover up but in real sense we're are not free. Let me give up a good example, before Allah created Adam He knew exactly I repeat He knew exactly the time, day, hour and second that Adam would eat the forbidden fruit! And what happened? He went ahead to create him. Then Adam followed Allah predetermined fate and ended up eating the forbidden fruit 🍓. Who was to blame? Now to make matters worse Allah 'walks' in the garden of Eden and calls out Adam and tells him he was angry with him he had committed a sin. This is total ridiculous, Allah knew this moment billion years before it came to pass. Back to our present life. These Imams fool us that we have a free will . This is another joke. Imagine while I'm typing this, Allah knew way before a time like this would come to pass and compelle me to write this. He knows exactly how each one of us would die and whether we will end up in Hell or paradise. You claim Allah is All knowing yet you fool yourself that he doesn't know that you will either end up in Hell or paradise. He knows everything! He can even see us burning in hell right now, so let's be real for once. If you claim that we have free will then you're praying to the wrong God. I know my God knows exactly how I will end up no matter how hard I try , even trying is part of his plan🤣. Wake up Guys.

[@allahpedo7559]

Your own books says things completely different. For example - [Says Adultery is fixed by Allah and there is no escape from it] - So, adultery is no human choice, but your Allah is forcing that on people. Chapter: The Son Of Adam's Share Of Zina Etc. Is Decreed For Him(5)باب قُدِّرَ عَلَى ابْنِ آدَمَ حَظُّهُ مِنَ الزِّنَى وَغَيْرِهِ ‏ ‏ Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying. *Allah fixed the very portion of adultery which a man will indulge in. There would be no escape from it.* The adultery of the eye is the lustful look and the adultery of the ears is listening to voluptuous (song or talk) and the adultery of the tongue is licentious speech and the adultery of the hand is the lustful grip (embrace) and the adultery of the feet is to walk (to the place) where he intends to commit adultery and the heart yearns and desires which he may or may not put into effect. حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو هِشَامٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سُهَيْلُ بْنُ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ كُتِبَ عَلَى ابْنِ آدَمَ نَصِيبُهُ مِنَ الزِّنَى مُدْرِكٌ ذَلِكَ لاَ مَحَالَةَ فَالْعَيْنَانِ زِنَاهُمَا النَّظَرُ وَالأُذُنَانِ زِنَاهُمَا الاِسْتِمَاعُ وَاللِّسَانُ زِنَاهُ الْكَلاَمُ وَالْيَدُ زِنَاهَا الْبَطْشُ وَالرِّجْلُ زِنَاهَا الْخُطَا وَالْقَلْبُ يَهْوَى وَيَتَمَنَّى وَيُصَدِّقُ ذَلِكَ الْفَرْجُ وَيُكَذِّبُهُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ Reference : Sahih Muslim 2658a In-book reference : Book 46, Hadith 33 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 33, Hadith 6422 And in the Hadith below, Muhammad himself disproves Free Will - Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Adam and Moses argued with each other. Moses said to Adam. 'O Adam! You are our father who disappointed us and turned us out of Paradise.' Then Adam said to him, 'O Moses! Allah favored you with His talk (talked to you directly) and He wrote (the Torah) for you with His Own Hand. *Do you blame me for action which Allah had written in my fate forty years before my creation?'* So Adam confuted Moses, Adam confuted Moses," the Prophet (ﷺ) added, repeating the Statement three times. حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ حَفِظْنَاهُ مِنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ احْتَجَّ آدَمُ وَمُوسَى، فَقَالَ لَهُ مُوسَى يَا آدَمُ أَنْتَ أَبُونَا خَيَّبْتَنَا وَأَخْرَجْتَنَا مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ‏.‏ قَالَ لَهُ آدَمُ يَا مُوسَى اصْطَفَاكَ اللَّهُ بِكَلاَمِهِ، وَخَطَّ لَكَ بِيَدِهِ، أَتَلُومُنِي عَلَى أَمْرٍ قَدَّرَ اللَّهُ عَلَىَّ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْلُقَنِي بِأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً‏.‏ فَحَجَّ آدَمُ مُوسَى، فَحَجَّ آدَمُ مُوسَى ‏"‏ ثَلاَثًا‏.‏ قَالَ سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِثْلَهُ‏.‏ Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 6614 In-book reference : Book 82, Hadith 20 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 8, Book 77, Hadith 611 Adam says I'm not responsible for my actions because it was pre-determined. I'm more than happy not to believe in these stupidities, being a Hindu.

[@addtyu6176]

But doesn't Allah control everything?

[@carimaelfarrah7800]

Yes, of course. This means that Allah is making all things to unfold as they unfold, and HE has power and control over everything. Things could be one way or another, and althought we feel we are acting, we are still under HIS control. No one would deny that Allah is able to stop us in our tracks if HE so chooses. So our will is limited to His will. There is a Sahih hadith about a man from the polytheists who saw the Prophet PBUH sleeping under a tree with his sword beside him. The polytheist saw the opportunity and went to him, grabbed his sword, and held it over the Prophet PBUH who then woke up. The man said to him, " who will save you from me?The Prophet PBUH said Allah, three times. The sword fell from the disbeliever's hand, whereupon the Prophet took it and said: "And who can protect you if I want to kill you?" The man replied: "Return evil with good." The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Would you bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I am the Messenger of Allah?" He replied in the negative, but pledged not to fight the Prophet again or join people who fight him. So, the Prophet released him, and he came back to his companions and said: "I have just been with the most excellent among people." I think this hadith describes this idea of us having free will, but it is limited to God's Will, and we are utlimately powerless before Allah and His plans, try as we may to get our way, we ultimately only get what Allah writes for us. That said, Allah knows our hearts and intentions and He allows people of good to do good, and if HE wants he allows evil by the evil doers.

[@HeyAsif]

Assalamualaikum Want lecture on Dajjal

[@NGabriel88]

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[@HeyAsif]

@@NGabriel88 Shukriya . Jazaak Allah Khair

[@volleymaster2849]

this does not make sense. it's still determinism. the only argument is - it's Allah's will. it can be descriptive, but if any of it is wrong, Islam fails. So it has to be prescriptive anyway, nothing will change. determined.

[@carpedm5107]

So God knows what your going to do. But he's not forcing you to do it, but he knew it would happen... but you still have free will??? I've watched a movie so many times I know what is going to happen. That does not mean I'm God, and that also does not mean the characters in the movie have free will.

[@Beesaida9278]

God transcends time. God knows the past, present, and future so God knows what the outcome of our lives will be because he knows the future. Plus, we are not hired as actors in a movie where there’s a script that we HAVE to abide by or else get fired from the movie. Like he said, it’s descriptive not prescriptive. He’s not saying people will follow a certain script, he’s just saying he knows what choices we’ll make in real time because he knows the future.

[@carimaelfarrah7800]

The truth is our free will is limited. Because God's will is greater than ours. I'm.writing this comment from my own limited free will, but at any moment God could render me incapable of typing, or the message incapable of sending (happens to me all.the time when I try to posts replies, they just won't post, no matter how many times I try, until I give up). So HIS will is above our will. IN addition to that He knows every decision we will make and every possible outcome to those decision, and He is constantly decreeing everything as it unfolds. We feel like we are the one's deciding and indeed we are, and that's what matters. We choose our deeds, be they good or bad. But GOD already knows how it's all going to go down, and that's how it has been written. Here's an example the devil. God created the devil with free will. THE DEVIL despite being among the angels and faithfully worshipping God, was enraged when God created Adam, and commanded him to bow down in a show of respect to Adam. The devil fueled by arrogance, disobeyed God, and considered himself better than Adam. So God because of his disobedience punished him, and cast him out. The devil requested respite until the last day, and swore to misguided the sons of Adam. GOD allowed it. SO now ask yourself, did God know the devil would disobey? Yes. Was it part of God's plan? Yes. So was the devil just following a script or did he actually feel rage and make the choice to disobey? It would not be fair for God to punish someone for something God wrote for him to do, with no responsibility of his own. So the decision was completely the Devil's, but God knew He would.do it, and it was infact part of God's plan. Hope that makes sense.

[@deepakkapurvirtualclass]

I don't know about humans but I think God does not have free will... 1. You can choose to cease to exist by committing suicide (God forbid!)...but God can never cease to exist...come what may... So, how can God be called free? 2. You can choose to leave the path of goodness and start doing bad deeds...God can never ever even wish to do bad deeds.. So how come God has total free will??

[@Beesaida9278]

You don’t cease to exist if you kill yourself, your human form ceases to exist but your soul is still present. It’s also not that God can’t do bad deeds, it’s that he won’t do bad deeds. Plus, what really is good or bad?

[@raaya351]

1. He is free because He wills for it to be so. God has power of all things and wishes do so as he was the original reason for being. 2. He does have free will in doing what he has to. He does not oppress. God always does good to the people but it might not seem good to us. He can act as He pleases.

[@deepakkapurvirtualclass]

@@raaya351 I am sorry to say that you haven't got my point... God has free will and He 'always' loves and 'never' does wrong. So, why He does not give the same free will to human beings also. Then, we will also 'always' love and will 'never' do anything wrong. What is the problem in giving such kind of free will to us so that we never commit evil acts and retain our free will also (just like God has free will but he 'never' does anything wrong)?

[@HA-ij5zw]

​@@deepakkapurvirtualclassBro, bcoz this land is for tests and trials, we can't have freewill like this- to do always good, and refrain always from bad. This is God's attribute currently. Doing always good, sticking to it is itself a choice and freewill. God makes easy for us to be always good, and prevent bad deeds. It is in paradise, that we'll have similar God's attribute- that we'll never sin, and do always good(love)forever; after this life's tests are over. Not before it.

[@Infinitenothingness180]

The “Islamic” free will is the most extreme form of determinism. Yet they call it free will 😛

[@salmi_azrinparentsonly863]

The Mufti explained it in a simple way, but off course it is not the full picture. In comes down to that In Islam, we affirm that we have both free will, and God controls everything as well.

[@JawadKhan-dn8ip]

​@@salmi_azrinparentsonly863so it cuz of god we sin

[@salmi_azrinparentsonly863]

@@JawadKhan-dn8ip In simple words it is a second order of Allah's will that we sin. Allah is the most merciful

[@gelidium8478]

That's so poorly explained and with so many holes

[@sammblkf6920]

Totally agree

[@mdmudhussain]

This is one of the poorest explaination on this topic. His explanation is that "Allah knew what we will do with our free will thus he writes the same in his divine tablet." This is so dumb because it breaks the purpose of writing. So Why is Allah writing in his divine tablet if he already knows what we will do with our free will. Isn't it waste of time for Allah 🤣. It is like we are controlling Allah what he will write 😂. This explanation completely goes against hadith & quran that Allah has decreed everything & nothing happens without his will. And if he already knows bad people will do bad things then why let them born in the first place? It looks Allah just let them born so they can harm society & go to hell for eternity. This makes Allah look like villain! It means Allah knew Hitler was about to kill millions of Jews in gas chambers yet he didn't see any issue with it. To make it clear it's like a Jailer allowing a child rapist go free from jail despite knowing he will hurt children with his free will. This explanation makes no sense at all !!

[@arham1283]

"why is allah writing in his divine tablet if he already knows what we will do with our free will " Allah is omniscient means that he already knows the future what's gonna happen but the future that is going to happen is not bcoz allah wants it to but we are the one who choose that path , allah just knew from the beginning what we'll choose . For example if allah let born 40 people , 20 who will become evil and choose evil path , and 20 who will take the right path and brings peace. Allah already know this ..but According to you allah should've gone for the only 20 good people and didn't have to create the 20 bad people .....sounds good right, but here's the problem the 20 good people will each have diff mentality, diff opinion, everything diff and it's the human nature that everybody defends his opinion , and if someone disagree with someone opinion which resulting in fights(be it small or big) , and fight become war ......and boom evil came again in the society 😧 . My point is as long as we are living in a society there always be a amount of Evil be it small or big . This is human nature . And if ur thinking that allah failed to eradicate the evil and evil came in the society no matter what So what ur saying is allah should us make a perfect human being with no evil . But this violates the free will , bcoz a perfect being and free will Cant coexist And to ur question that isn't allah wasting his time , just put us in hell or heaven, .......allah is doing this all so that he can show us in the day of judgement of our wrong and right doings (If I'm wrong somewhere I am open for critisizm and discussion)

[@mdmudhussain]

@@arham1283 Looks like Allah is a sadist because he created human only to make him suffer. Humans suffer with poverty, hunger & other problems. If he knows everything what will happen why to create humans & evil in the first place? If he had not created this universe or evil, angels, Humans then there would never be the people who will go to hell or any people who suffer in this world with poverty, hunger etc.

[@arham1283]

@@mdmudhussain" why allah create evil " to ...."why allah create humanity" 😂 For this I don't have any particular answer but a different approach ,I think that ..... Suppose allah created angels and they are doing their work according to allah , one angel came and ask I want a higher position than these other angels I want to do what i personally want not orders ......allah then ask him if you've given free will for some years would you follow my orders and if you follow my orders having free will and evil in the society I would give you a higher authority than these angels and after that you can do whatever you want(as in paradise) . This one angel discussed it with other angels and some of the angels agrees to do so while some didn't agree and boom humanity came into existence for test of our free will Basically I'm saying(i personally think) that we are the one who choose to be born as human beings i think this exact same thing Zakir Naik said and gave evidence of verse of quran

[@mdmudhussain]

@@arham1283 What you personally think dosen't matter because it's not written in that way. It is Allah decides & writes what evil things humans will do & also it is Allah who sends them to hell. Allah's writing always preeceds. Zakir Naik won't show you or refer these Hadiths which completely breaks the foundation of islam that "This is all a big test". Everything is predestined by Allah which is called Qadr. Zakir Naik & other scholars only cherry pick verses & Hadiths to salvage the honour of islam. Here is authentic hadith: Bukhari 6594 Narrated `Abdullah: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), the truthful and truly-inspired, said, "Each one of you collected in the womb of his mother for forty days, and then turns into a clot for an equal period (of forty days) and turns into a piece of flesh for a similar period (of forty days) and then Allah sends an angel and orders him to write four things, i.e., his provision, his age, and whether he will be of the wretched or the blessed (in the Hereafter). Then the soul is breathed into him. And by Allah, a person among you (or a man) may do deeds of the people of the Fire till there is only a cubit or an arm-breadth distance between him and the Fire, but then that writing (which Allah has ordered the angel to write) precedes, and he does the deeds of the people of Paradise and enters it; and a man may do the deeds of the people of Paradise till there is only a cubit or two between him and Paradise, and then that writing precedes and he does the deeds of the people of the Fire and enters it."

[@arham1283]

@@mdmudhussain what i understand with this hadith that u quote and other videos on free will is .......for allah we are pre destined and for us we have free will .....we should do good deeds with our knowledge as allah told us to do in quran and restrict ourselves from evil . For allah , he knew what we are going to end with (heaven or hell) but for us we don't know the future and should do good deeds as per quran .