THE VOICE

Can someone argue that is Allah's will?

Imam W. Deen Mohammed:

Let me think about it for a second or two, Muhammad the Prophet (PBUH) said to us, "Surely Allah's only good and He accepts from you only good? You can do bad but He won't accept it, Allah does not accept any bad, He is Good and He accepts nothing bad, that's what Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) told us of Allah. And Allah in the  Quran says, "What reaches you of good is from Me and what is not good is from yourself."

There is Allah's will and His permission

So I can agree with you there that this is the will of Allah, we know everything or nothing can happen except it is the will of Allah, but the will of Allah is to be seen in two descriptions. The will of Allah is what He wants for us and it is also the freedom that He gives us and His will is also our freedom. So we have two ways of expressing the will of Allah in Al Islam, we say, "I will do that if it is Allah's will" and we also say, "Yes I will do that if Allah permits."

So Allah permits things that He does not want, He permits us freedom and our freedom will bring things that Allah does not want, but we can't say that was originally in Allah's will. But it's in Allah's will all the time that human beings are free. But we can't say that He wants the things that we do that are bad or that it was His will that all these bad things happen. Whatever has permitted to be in His plan, He also has a way of making it respect Him, He's Allah.