Re: Allah is omniscient
^ **I **appreciate and agree with your previous post about this and the latest one. Your point of view is a clear reflection of your meritorious strong faith. Some religious scholars like Moulana Moududi has summed up this discussion with a note that it can not be understood because of human inability to understand metaphysical concepts. where as this belief that we should look nowhere but to Allah (SWT) for guidance , we have also been invited to “contemplate” within the guidance that has already been given to us. I just ask you one question, is there any harm in asking someone who has already been blessed with the guidance?
Peace IntelliPhant
The question is a dangerous one ... When I was younger I used to play a game ... I used to lay still in bed thinking for the moment when I should just get up, but I would hold myself back thinking about all the conscious effort required to get up, then I would urge the moment to come and draw back again and before long I would see myself going into an iterative process of steps in my mind before long I would just get up in a flinch without really thinking about it.
It is this reflex action I feel that dominates the decision making process towards a path of guidance ... unfortunately our intellects are negatively wired against our fitrah. The more we ponder the more we understand true enough, but the more we ponder the more we delay and force ourselves in to a resistance which is of trying to fathom the unfathomable. The state of submission is that we submit to the Word over our need to understand it. Though once we have submitted to it understanding it becomes important because it increases the level of conviction. We should analyse therefore after the act rather than before it, because if we try to evaluate the benefit of Salah for example from a distance then we are falling prey to judgementalism without the experience to support our conclusions.
The best way to demonstrate freedom of choice is to 'do' the best way to demonstrate God's Will is to try to do the impossible. The best way to live is to obey and submit to the Word - which is the Qur'an and the injunctions which go with it.
Furthermore those who are guided always tell us to avoid rationalising the Free Will - God's Will dichotomy.