Parapemikir

Free Will

God has given man the will to choose, decide, and resolve to do good or evil. He has endowed him with reason and various impulses so that by his own efforts he may strive and explore possibilities. He has also given him a just bias, a natural bias towards good. Besides this He has given him guidance through revelation and inspiration, and has advised him to return evil with good, to repel it with what is best

Hence if a man chooses to do good, it is because in giving him these benefits God has willed him to do so. He never changes the gracious benefits which He has bestowed on a people until they change themselves.

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The study of history

No less important for individuals and nations is the study of history. There is a measure and law in human society as much as in the whole cosmos. The life of every nation as a collective body moves in time and passes through rises and falls, successes and reverses, till its appointed period comes to an end.

For every living nation there are lessons in the history of the peoples that have lived in the past. It should, therefore, study the “days of God,” the momentous periods of history, the periods of divine favour and punish­ment, the periods of nations glory and decline.

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Theory of Knowledge

Man alone has been given the capacity to use names for things and so has been given the knowledge which even the angels do not possess. Among men those who are granted wisdom are indeed granted great good.

Understanding raises a man’s dignity. Those who do not use the intellect are like a herd of goats, deaf, dumb, and blind no better than the lowest of beasts. The ideal of the intellect is to know truth from error. As an ideal or basic value for man wisdom means the knowledge of facts, ideals, and values.

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belief in the Day of Judgment

God’s judgment is of the highest excellence, and belief in the Day of Judgment of extreme beauty. Of great excellence is the speech of the righteous that call to God, for they invite people to Him by beautiful preaching and say only those things which are of supreme excellence.

The Qur’an lays the greatest stress on the beauty of action. It exhorts mankind to do the deeds of high value, for God loves those who do excellent deeds. It wants men to return greetings with greetings of great excellence and repel evil with what is best, for in so doing they enhance the excellence of their own souls.

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God is all knowledge

He is the Truth. With Him are the keys of the un­seen, the treasures that none knows but He.  He witnesses all things,  for every single thing is before His sight in due proportion.  Verily, nothing on the earth or in the heavens is hidden from Him, not even as much as the weight of an atom. Neither the smallest nor the greatest of things are but recorded in a clear record.   On the earth and in the sea not even a leaf does fall without His knowildge.

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God and the world

To Him is due the primal origin of everything.  It is He, the Creator,  who began the process of creation  and adds to creation as He pleases.  To begin with He created the heavens and the earth, joined them together as one unit of smoky or nebulous substance,  and then clove them asunder.  The heavens and the earth, as separate existents with ail their produce; were created by Him in six days  (six great epochs of evolution).

Serially considered, a divine day signifies a very long period, say, one thousand years of our reckoning  or even fifty thousand years.

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