Alhamdulillâh! If any person thanks any other person in any manner, for anything, at any place, at any time, all this thanks belongs to Allâhu ta’âlâ. For, He is the One who always creates, trains and develops everything, who causes every favor to be done, and who sends every goodness. He alone is the owner of strength and power. Unless He gives us thought, nobody can will or desire to do good or evil. After man receives the thought, he can will to do something, but unless Allah wills and gives strength and opportunity to that thought, nobody can do one bit of kindness or evil to anybody. Everything that man wants, happens when He wills and decrees it. Only what He wills happens. He sends us the thoughts of doing good or evil for various reasons. When His born slaves (men) whom He pities wish to do evil, He does not will or create it. Goodness always arises from such people. He, too, wills to create the evil wills of His enemies, with whom He is angry. Since these evil people do not wish to do something virtuous, evils always arise from them. In other words, all people are a means, a tool. They are like the pen in the writer’s hand. Only, using their
İâda-i juz’iyya (partial will) that has been bestowed upon them, those who will goodness earn blessings, while those willing evil to be created become sinful. Allâhu ta’âlâ willed in eternity to create the deeds of people through their will power. Creation of these deeds through people’s will power means that they are created by the eternal İrâda-i ilâhî (Divine Will).
May all prayers and blessings be upon Muhammad Mustafâ ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, who is His Prophet and the most beloved of His born slaves, and who is in every respect the most beautiful and the most exalted of all mankind that ever lived. May prayers and blessings also be upon the highest of people, his Ahl-i Bayt, on his Ashâb ‘ridwanullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în’ and on those who love them and follow them.
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Source: Endless Bliss (Se’âdet-i Ebediyye) by Hüseyn Hilmi Işık, Nineteenth Edition, Hakikat Kitabevi, 2014.
