Re: Why make Dua when everything is pre written??
Wa’alaikumuSalam brother vroom
These subjects are best dealt with by people who are experts in aqeedah, ilm ul kalam, etc … The way I have been taught about qadr is that it is being constantly written … and since for Allah (SWT) past, present and future is indifferent hence He Knows what is to be written and what is being written in the same way as He Sees what was written in the past.
Free Will is the effect of Allah (SWT) facilitating our choices and Qadr is when all choices converge to the same event. Not all choices converge … and du’a will avert the Qadr in an amazing way. Let’s say a certain person has something destined for him, he supplicates, then Allah (SWT) changes this Qadr, but then Allah (SWT) Knew that would happen, thus an alternative configuration occurs, but then the person supplicates, the paths are changed but that was always known by Allah (SWT) and so on … Since we are finite beings even if we make a thousand choices in thousand different alternative realities - Allah (SWT) being Inifinite can easily account for all of them and Know them all.
So Qadr can also be the possible world as well as the necessary world … In short we believe in full freedom of will and full qadr in the sense that they seem to play off each other or are in a state of tension with each other … that is acceptable for us … we can live with tensions not contradictions, and since there is a viable explanation in two different thought models then it means they should be treated separately and not conflated … The claim that these are in contradiction is not true - they are in a state of flux … imagine a ball bouncing between two positions very fast … they are in concurrent equilibrium - call it a tension or a balance … but not a contradiction.