Re: Why make Dua when everything is pre written??
peace dear psyah, I am saying things after study of things over several decades of my life. You have yet to get out of trap of mullaism. It is true that mullahs have misinterpreted and misrepresented quranic concepts. The question is, did they do it out of ignorance or deliberately? I think basically to begin with they did it out of ignorance but as they discovered the ways to use the revelation as a tool to gain edge on others, things took off in that direction and they kept on going that way so we ended up where we are today. All this because mullahs did not educate themselves about realities of real world and tried to interpret the scripture through their make beliefs. The result is ample contradictions within their ideas and within their ideas and real world realities. The evidence is all the religious discussions on this forum and on other similar forums. No one of religious people knows why in their religion any particular creed is adopted but rest of people know that they have adopted them to trap people into their nonsense and it is a big business for them. For rulers it keep the road clear and the same goes for money lenders. This is why all rest of people want religions kept out of social, political and economic issues. This is what separation between religion and state is all about. So long as mullahs are getting what they want, they also want to keep religion out of state business. If you are unaware of what is written about religion by various people then it will be good idea for you to get familiar with it so that you have proper context in mind when you speak about religion in general. My problem with mullahs is that they have misinterpreted the message of Allah and misrepresented it to mankind.
If you have read the quran, it tells us Allah is full of love and mercy for his human creatures as well as he does not inflict people with cruelty, the question is, why did mullahs tell people they should fear Allah if Allah is full of love and mercy and that he does not inflict mankind with cruelty? Is Allah a monster or something that people should be afraid of him? Simply telling people to fear Allah because he is big has serious negative connotations. It means we should be fearing things bigger than ourselves or more powerful than us. Can you or any of your mullahs explain away this contradiction?
Coming to predestination we have same problem. No where Allah tells us in the quran that he knows what we are going to do because he has already decided for us what we are going to do. So where did the idea of God making people do things came from when he has stated clearly that it is people who do what they like because they have been granted ability of choice and that they are held responsible for their actions therefore they are made to face consequences of their actions in this world as well as in the next?
Let us look at the real problem in this case which is, is knowledge of God perfect in each and every sense that there is no possibility of change in what God knows and as he knows it already? The answer is, no that is not the case. It is because if God always knew he was going to do something then it was not possible for God not to do it. Why not? Because if there comes about any change in doing anything at all by God then that will mean he did not have the prior knowledge of it. You see you either have choice or perfect knowledge, you cannot have both. Having ability to choose one thing instead of the other eliminates prior knowledge. If God always knew he was going to create this world then if he did not create it due to his ability to choice then what will that mean regarding him having prior knowledge? This is why the idea that mullahs pushed forth about predestination was wrong. No such idea is put forth by the quran. The quran intead tells something else which I explained in the provided link for those who are not slaves of mullahs because they are interested in learning and questioning what makes no sense to discover better and better explanation of things. This is what science is all about. This is why it is said, follow the evidence not make beliefs or dogmas particularly when those make beliefs or dogmas are very harmful and destructive for mankind. This is the reason madraasas are becoming very dangers places because they instead of raising hufaaz of the quran and hadith and educating children to become critical thinkers to meet challenges that face ummah are raising senseless fanatic slaves of mullahs whom they indoctrinate with doctored indoctrination.
Mullahs have created make beliefs and then interpreted the quran and hadith to justify them. This is what they have been teaching masses and that is why people like you and others first go back to your make beliefs and then try to explain things in that context using the quran, the hadith and the fiqh. Mullahs came up with make beliefs with help of people who came to islam from other already existing religions whom people of deen of islam failed to educate properly as to what actual deen of islam was after the messenger of Allah passed away. Therefore instead of they becoming proper muslims were able to turn muslims their kind of people save odd bits and pieces. This is why what we have today is not pure islam but an adulterated form of it. This is the adultery the quran equates with shirk ie mixing truth with falsehood. Religions and sects come about due to mixing of truth with falsehood.
Similarly mullahs have misinterpreted and misrepresented many terms used in the quran and they covered up the actual contexts in which the quran talks about things. You are not going to know all this till you study things from different angles which you have not done yet as is clear from your posts on this forum. This is not your fault but that is the way world works ie we learn from our own environments wherein we are born. Some of us are lucky that we came across other people or that they came among us so interaction made us better aware of things which forced us to readjust our positions to more comfortable foundation because human mind does not accept what it feels uncomfortable with as the truth when it knows better. I know people here do not know many things about which I talk because I have a different life experience than them in some respects.
I myself hold same make beliefs as others regarding things about which I have failed to learn in my life time. It is part of natural scheme of things so there is nothing wrong with being ignorant about things but once someone brings better understanding of things to us about some of the things we must do all we can to learn that and keep adding to our knowledge because it is better to know about things than remain ignorant about them. We are born knowing nothing at all but gradually we learn load of things, some more than others. This is what we should keep doing to the best of our abilities. If we do not let each other speak because we do not like what others tell us then world is doomed because humanity then becomes trapped by its own making. This is why this ummah became stagnant and regressed instead of developing and growing by making progress. We should be part of solutions not problems.
regards and all the best.