The Majestic Quran

The theme of spiritual development is continued by revealing another divine principle: predestination. Whatever happens in the world, or to people, is all written down by God. Its purpose is to help people to persevere, endure difficulties and show patience at times of difficulty. The chapter ends with how God will reward the generous. The question of predestination The knowledge that whatever happened, had to happen - nothing could stop it from happening since God willed it - That’s His plan for us. This ought to enable us to face the reality of good and evil. This is predestination; Taqdeer , the relationship between God’s knowledge of human actions and human free-will. On the face they seem to be contradictory but that’s not so. God is the Knower, who has given humans free-will. But with this free-will He gave them the huge responsibility of being His representative ( Khalifa ). He gave them a moral choice: to be good or bad. God could have made all good or all bad, but He chose to give us free-will so we become masters of our destiny, so we can choose to do good. This now gives human life a meaning and a purpose, it is a probationary period, preparation to meet the Kind Lord. In addition to this moral discretion, He gave us the revelation to enable us to live “a good life”. Furthermore, He has blessed us with the ability to use natural resources. The best example of this is the Iron; the strength of the iron enables engineers to make vehicles, build one hundred storey buildings, weapons and tools of all kinds. How did the Iron come down? Interestingly, the Quran mentioned the scriptures were sent down, ‘ Anzalna ’ and so was the Iron. Traditional commentators translated this as “We made the Iron”, however, astrophysicists believe that