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NielsJacob:
Hi

I am wondering. Is God almighty?

If God is almighty, do we then have our own free will?

Who determines our fait God or our selves?


Peace.

NOMAD:
Salaam my Brother NILS O0 :sun: hope you in Peace and Blessing of Allah


We got freewill, but Creato Leads the ones that want to be leaded, and ones want to fall astray Allah will made them fall astray. I do not have AQ verse right now, but ill find and post, inshAllah ;)

Salaamto Denmark :peace:  :sun:

Ahmad Bilal:
The concept of god being "almighty" doesn't have anything to do with free will. You're speaking of omniscience, or the state of being all-knowing... If, according to the accepted scriptures, God actually knows the future, then "free will" doesn't exist - since that implies that your future, including all of your currently-unmade decisions and actions, is already predetermined, and there's nothing that you can specifically do to change the outcome of your life. You're, in a sense, just going along with what's written down of you, consciously or not. If God isn't all-knowing, though, then your future isn't predetermined, and you're actually "freely" plotting your life according to your own actions and judgements.

In the end, it all depends on your personal characterization of God. Many people see him/her/it in many different ways...

youssef4342:
Peace be upon yuo guys as well.
God Almighty has given us some freedoms.

Some of our fait is determined by us (e.g steal and you might get caught and go to jail)
while other things are not by us (e.g we are bound to die)

Zulf:

--- Quote from: Ahmad Bilal on May 10, 2012, 01:20:50 AM ---The concept of god being "almighty" doesn't have anything to do with free will. You're speaking of omniscience, or the state of being all-knowing... If, according to the accepted scriptures, God actually knows the future, then "free will" doesn't exist - since that implies that your future, including all of your currently-unmade decisions and actions, is already predetermined, and there's nothing that you can specifically do to change the outcome of your life. You're, in a sense, just going along with what's written down of you, consciously or not. If God isn't all-knowing, though, then your future isn't predetermined, and you're actually "freely" plotting your life according to your own actions and judgements.

In the end, it all depends on your personal characterization of God. Many people see him/her/it in many different ways...

--- End quote ---

Peace!

Or you can see it as Allah is beyond time as we can think of it. (We cannot really understand Allah anyway). So you can see it as us going through life with free will, having real choices at every step... but we are trapped within time, while Allah is not bound by time, and therefore is able to know the future and all that will happen. To US it has not happened yet, and we make it up as we go, but to Allah, all of time/history/future is like a painting which Allah is outside of, or at least not bound by. Allah can "see" all of time from outside of time. We are talking about two different perspectives. That's at least my current and meager attempt at combining free will and omniscience.

 :laugh:

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