Our Lord's purpose in asking questions

[Emre_1974tr]

In the Qur'an we see our Creator asking His servants questions. Because of this, some people raise objections such as, "Doesn't Allah already know everything, why does He ask?"

Of course God Almighty knows everything. Even what will happen in the future.

The reason He asks questions is not to learn, but to give His servants what they deserve and to make them live.

A question is not necessarily asked to learn.

1- It is also asked in order to give that person an experience they deserve.

2- Questions are also asked to strengthen expression, to make one think, to give a message, etc.

Aside from that, Allah is already making us experience what we deserve and confronting us with ourselves in this 2-day summary test life. The afterlife itself is based on such "questions whose outcome is known to Allah". Because our Almighty Lord already knows very well what we would do if we were to live in this world forever, and He makes us live a 2-day sample test life that summarizes this. In my work titled "Destiny and Free Will", I analyzed this in the light of verses.

Al-Baqarah 260

Remember when Abraham cried out "My Lord, show me, how do you raise the dead?" "Did you not believe?" he asked. "I believed," he said, "but only to satisfy my heart..." Allah said "Take four of the birds and make them warm and accustomed to you. Then place a piece of them on every mountain. Then call them. They will come to you running. Know that Allah is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.

These are all experiences that serve the plan of making people face the truth and themselves. And questions are part of it. This way you have no right to object in the Hereafter.

Surah A'raf 12 Allah said "What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?" Iblis said "I am better than him, you created me from the fire, and you created him from mud."

Here again, our Lord gives His creation the experience it deserves.

He knew that Iblis was one of the evil ones and this had to be revealed. So far Iblis had been doing whatever he was told to do, but Allah knew that he would not do so if He confronted him with the option of prostrating himself to Adam, so Allah brought this test to him.

In other words, he was confronted with the evil in his heart and the necessary evidence against him was revealed.

Iblis realizes that he has been trapped and says the following

16. He said "I swear by You that You have tempted me, that I will be set upon Your straight path to lead them astray."

When Iblis says, "for you have tempted me," he is referring to this entrapment. Because Allah knew well what Iblis would not do with free will and where he would show his true face, Allah made sure that this Iblis would be put to the test where he would display his evil and show his cruelty.

In short, our Lord is not asking a question here to learn something, but rather to teach and make him experience something. In other words, He gives them what they deserve...

Saba-40. On the Day when He gathers them all together, He will say to the angels, "Were these the ones who worshipped you?

Saba-41. They said, 'You are the Exalted, our guardian (friend) is You, not them. No, they were worshipping the jinn. Many believed in them.'

Here again, Allah does not ask what He does not know, He knows best.

Again, He gives His servants the experience they deserve.

He also explains in these verses how jinns and devils mislead people disguised as angels, spirits, etc. and warns people against these tricks.

Surat al-Ma'idah 116 Allah also said "O Jesus son of Mary! Did you tell the people that they should take me and my mother as two gods besides Allah?" Jesus said "Glory be to You. It is not for me to say what I have no right to say. If I have said it, surely You know it. You know what is in me, but I do not know what is in you. For You, yes You, are the One who knows the unseen!"

In the same way, our Lord is not asking the Prophet Jesus here out of curiosity, He knows the answer, and He knows exactly what Jesus will answer.

Also examples of questions that our Creator asks to strengthen the expression and to make His servants think

ANBIYA
(30) Have not those who disbelieve seen that when the heavens and the earth were joined together, We separated them and created from water all that is alive? Will they still not believe?

SURAH FATIR

27. Have you not seen that Allah sends down water from the sky? With it We bring forth crops of various colors. Even the mountains have layers of white, red or colored layers. Some roads are black.

28. Likewise, people, animals and livestock are of various colors. It is for this reason that it is the scientists among His servants who honor ALLAH properly. ALLAH is Exalted, Forgiving

SURAH TUR
35. Or were they created without anything, or are they themselves the creators?

36. or did they create the heavens and the earth? No, they do not have access to the necessary knowledge!

37. or are the treasures of your Lord with them, or are they the owners of power and sovereignty?

As I have said, the fact that our Almighty Lord tests us in this world is actually a "confrontation of the servants with themselves", the outcome of which is known to Him. In this way, not only do the servants have no right to object in the Hereafter, but they also taste some small punishments and rewards in this world.

For a better understanding of the subject, you can also take a look at my study titled "fate and free will".

(My Turkish article translated with machine)

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