What Exactly Does the God Do?
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478-79 Wherever you may be, death will find you, even if you are in fortified towers. If any good befalls them, they say ?This is from God,? and if any evil befalls them, they say ?This is from you!? Say ?All is from God;? what is wrong with these people, they barely understand any narrative! Any good that befalls you is from God, and any evil that befalls you is from yourself. We have sent you as a messenger to the people and God is enough as a witness.
Why does the god first tell us that It is responsible for both good and bad things and then go on to say that we're responsible for bad things while It is responsible for good things? That seems like a contradiction to me. Why do we just thank the god for the good things that happen to us, but not blame It for the bad things that happen to us if the god is indeed the one who does everything?
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Because it's meant as a kind of paradoxical response to their original accusation...
one to cause us to deeper question and consider the nature of Al Lah ....and to send the scoffers
off babbling amongst themselves again.(Say
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What I think is that God is trying to explore every mode of vibration concievable (hence the creation of everything else, not just man) and once he "knows" this knowledge then it would be feasible to create an eternal world. We must stick to the language of truth when describing this; it does not suffice to say "what if" because those "what ifs" will never be truthful in the same way there is no such thing as a square circle by definition.
Think about it. God is eternally just and merciful and he created/established the divine balance and it is ordained for us that we should uphold/observe the balance (557-. However some of that which is created with "truth" will evidently try to deny the truth because that is what it is made to do. However when "truth" is denied then things are set off balance. Evolution by natural selection already shows that "good comes from God", all "bad" creations are automatically weeded out and the balance is always restored. So in that manner, ALL is from God but at the same time, all good is intrinsically from God but for evil, which disturbs the balance, the evil is a property of the self, that particular configuration of energy. The evil still, is from God but also it is a result of the self. The good is also from God and from the self except that the framework for "good" to exist has been laid down by God and the rule that "from good comes more good" is a divinely ordained doctrine.
I like Bill Hicks' saying that "we are all one consciousness exploring itself subjectively" because it puts all of this into a single sentence (though it would take a couple of libraries to understand the meaning of the statement). A clear example of evil coming only as a result of the self is psychopathy. People whose brains express psychopathy are fundamentally blind to the pain of others, they are robotic humans lacking empathy and soul but they operate in the same way as the rest of us. They trail a path of inherent destruction and they themselves cannot help it because it is the core of their being. Interestingly psychopathic traits arise as a result of defects in the frontal lobe (9616!).
What I gather is that the universe is essentially an ocean of possibility interacting with itself. However as it evolves with time, possibilities that do not result in peace/balance are weeded out and they are forbidden to exist because of the new rules of the universe at the next moment (the one rule that everything follows/submits to willingly or unwillingly which we can call "Allah" forbids things by placing boundary conditions on the distribution of energy in the next moment of time).
I presume that heaven is the intended outcome and hell is the place where the forces of evil so to speak finally meet their equal and opposite force of chastisement to restore the divine balance. Heaven is described in the quran as permanently abiding whereas hell is only designed to endure as long as the universe endures. Entities deserving of the heaven have already established their balance and we know that once something is in balance, it perpetually stays in balance until it is disturbed again. There will be no disturbing the balance in heaven (5626).
I believe that modern physics has long proved the existence of THE god and we are in a position to weed out the wheat from the chaff. A fundamental rule is the conservation of energy, that is to say that nothing can be created or destroyed just as Allah says in the quran. How does this arise mathematically? If you assume that the physical rules of the universe are invariant with respect to a shift in time (i.e. t => t + dt), then energy conservation is the law that you will derive. Of course, God lies outside of the domain of time fundamentally. It is beyond our comprehension as to why the laws of physics are the way they are just as the quran says. How do you describe how laws that dictate the flow of time/matter emerge within time/matter? It is impossible.
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There is no contradiction in this ayat at all.
Allah SWT is first telling you that everything is from Him and then he goes on to tell you that the evil that befalls you is from your own doings which you have earned, even though it is all governed by Allah SWT.
For example Your employer is responsible for your wages, but how much you actually earn is dependant on the hours you put in. If you skip some hours, you will get paid less and if you do overtime you will get paid more.
Peace