The slave’s will follows the Will of Allah. Allah the Exalted Said: ﴿وَمَا تَشَاءُونَ إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّـهُ﴾

English Text By Jul 01, 2015

The slave’s will follows the Will of Allah. Allah the Exalted Said:

﴿وَمَا تَشَاءُونَ إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّـهُ

[which means] “You do not will unless Allah Wills.” This verse is among the clearest evidence of the misguidance of the group of Amin Shaykhu because they say that if the slave wills to be guided, then Allah will Guide him, and the if the slave wills to be misguided then Allah will Misguide him. What would they say about this verse [which means]: “Whomever Allah Willed to Guide, He Expands his chest towards Islam,”? It is explicit in showing that the Will of Allah has precedence over the will of the slave.  In this verse Allah attributed the Will to Himself and he did not ascribe it to the slave. As if those people are saying, “Whoever the slave willed that his chest would be expanded to Islam, then Allah will expand his chest.” Furthermore, when He Says [what means], “Whomever Allah Willed to Misguide, then Allah Makes his chest tight, there is no way to return the pronoun in “He Wills” back to the slave, because this would make the expression in the Qur’an weak, and the Qur’an is the pinnacle of eloquence; there is no eloquence above the eloquence of the Qur’an.

By this their deep ignorance and strong stupidity becomes clear, and according to the implications of their talk, the meaning of the verse [which means]: “Whomever Allah Willed to Guide, He Expands his chest to Islam,” would be that the slave who wills that Allah would Guide him, then Allah would Expand his chest to the guidance, and this is opposite of the expression that Allah Revealed. This is the necessary conclusion of what their creed dictates: that if Allah and the slave willed that Allah misguides him, then Allah Makes his chest tight, and this is not correct.

This a perversion of the Qur’an, because it takes the Qur’an out of the proper modes of the Arabic language, those modes of the Arabic language according to which it was Revealed. The Companions understood the Qur’an according to the rules of the Arabic language, and the proof that the they understand the Qur’an differently than this group understands it is the unanimous agreement of the Muslims, their Salaf and the Khalaf, about saying, “Whatever Allah Willed to be shall be, and whatever Allah did not Will to be shall not be.”