Knowledge is not what you cram but it have to do with the power
of the mind in reminding of facts after the abiding element disappears. This is
not a narrow issue but it is indeed a broad topic that one have to address with
care and a broad mind with critical thinking and reasoning beyond the box in
order to reach at the truth.
There are several important factors that can affect a human
such as environment, education, propaganda, social culture and without doubt,
the thoughts of a person. Sometimes, even one’s economic position can provide a
motive for why a human being acts a certain way.
It is true that the holy Quran is a complete book and the
religion of Islam is pure clean and peaceful. But the challenge faced by Islam
in the 21st century is due to the so-called Islamic intellectual and
scholars who uses God to address all issues being good, bad or evil which is a
threat to peace and the Islamic religion.
I am quite sure of the fact that both true believers in the
diving books and the holy religions of Islam and Christianity believe that
there is only one God who is the master of the universe.
Socrates was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher
credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic
figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, he himself
acknowledge the fact of the existence of one Deity (God).
In addressing the issue that Gambian people put Barrow in to
office not God one have to comprehend the meaning of destiny and
predestination.
"Predestination" applies this to the salvation, and
refers to the belief that God appointed the eternal destiny of some to salvation
by grace, while leaving the remainder to receive eternal damnation for all
their sins, even their original sin.
Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events
have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual
soul. Explanations of predestination often seek to address the "paradox of
free will", whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free
will.
The Arabic word qada (قُضِي) means literally "carrying out or fulfilling". In
Islamic jurisprudence it refers to fulfilling or completing those duties that
one may have missed due to some reason or other. It can also mean qadee, a
court judgment or the art of adjudication.One of the issues which is directly related to the issue of
the justice of the Creator is the question of predestination or free will.
According to the fatalists (those who believe in
predestination), a human being has no choice whatsoever in his or her actions, behavior
or words and the movement of his organs are just like the predestined movements
of the parts of a machine.
Thus, the question arises, how does this opinion relate to
Divine Justice? And perhaps because of this, the previously-mentioned group of
the Ash’arites, deny intellectual good and evil and have accepted predestination.
Their belief in predestination is a denial of justice. Why? Because when one
accepts predestination, justice makes no sense.
In order to further
clarify this point, we are obliged to study several subjects with care:
Why Believe in
Predestination?
The Main Error of the
Fatalists
The Social and
Political Factors for Belief in Fatalism
Reasons for Belief in
Free Will
The Holy Qur’an and
Free Will
God’s Knowledge
It is a clear testimony that there is a Paradise and Hell.
Therefore through one’s effort on earth on doing and following the teaching of
Islam as per the scriptures will lead him to paradise.
The question one might asked to those people like Ebrihima
Mbowe, the Deputy Amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in the Gambia. Who said
and quote from the holy Quran that . “Say, O Allah Lord of Sovereignty, Thou gives Sovereignty to
whomsoever Thou pleases, and Thou fakest away sovereignty from whomsoever Thou
pleases. Thou exactest whomsoever Thou pleases and Thou a basest whomsoever
Thou pleases. In Thy hand is all good. Thou surely has power to do all things.”
(3:27 Thou givest to whomsoever Thou pleasant without measure.” (3:28)
If we are to go by this revelation it’s mean that there is no
need to pray, fast neither to do good as per the teaching of Islam since God
have written before we were born that what will happen to the person after
death being in hell or in heaven.
The truth is though Good have written everything before birth
which known deny the fact, but still the
same God give us the free will to decide either to do good and follow the
teaching of the holy scriptures to earn us heaven or to do the opposite to lead
us to hell.
It is high time we realize the truth and understand the concept
and the meaning of religion and stop accusing God for no reason.
According to the Qur'an, certain people go to hell because
they chose to do bad deeds, and others to heaven by doing good deeds and even
if Allah had chosen to guide them to the truth they themselves would choose to
reject the faith:"And if Allah had known any good in them He would
have made them hear, and if He makes them hear they would turn back while they
withdraw. "Qur'an, Sura 8 (Al-Anfaal), ayat 23.
A hadith reports that Muhammad SAW said about Qadr: Ali
narrated that one day the Messenger of Allah was sitting with a wooden stick in
his hand with which he was scratching the ground. He raised his head and said,
“There is none of you, but has his place assigned either in the Fire or in
Paradise.” They (the Companions) inquired, “O Allah’s Messenger! Why should we
carry on doing good deeds, shall we depend (upon Qadar) and give up work?”
Muhammad said: “No, carry on doing good deeds, for everyone will find it
easy (to do) such deeds that will lead him towards that for which he has been
created.” Then he recited the verse: “As for him who gives (in charity) and
keeps his duty to Allah and fears Him, and believes in al-Husna, We will make
smooth for him the path of Ease (goodness) (Surah al-Lail 92:5-7). Sahih Muslim.
In spite of the fact that the issue of free will is a general
human sense, why do some people follow the school of the fatalists?
Therefore through the freewill given to The Gambian by God
lead those to decide to vote for Adama Barrow and not God put him to office. In
other words, Allah uses the citizens as Shabab to bring about the change. We
had to do campaigns, form a coalition and then go to the polls on Election Day
for Barrow to be elected.
Many of the despotic and selfish politicians in order to
extinguish the fire of revolution among the deprived and in order to assure the
continuation of their illegal rule (for every rule of regime which oppresses
the people and denies people their rights is illegal from the point of view of
Islam) convinced the people through all the means available to them that they
have no free will, that predestination and predetermination of history holds
our destiny in its hands. If one group rules and another is ruled, this is a
rule of fate and the destiny of history!
It is clear how this kind of thinking can silence people and
aid the policies of colonialism whereas according to our intellect and our
Divine Law, destiny and fate lies in our own hands and fate and destiny in the
sense of predestination and predetermination does not exist. Divine fate and
destiny is determined through our action, desire, willpower, faith, effort and endeavor.
NB: If any Islamic scholar disagree I am ready for
debate as per the above subject matter.
To be continued………….
By: Saidina Alieu Jarjou
Activist/Blogger/Watchdog.