Imagine you are watching a pre-recorded movie. You know exactly how the plot unfolds because you've seen it before. However, your knowledge of the plot doesn’t influence the characters’ actions-they’ve already acted according to their script. Now, imagine you’re also the director who wrote the script and determined every scene. In this case, the characters have no real freedom; they are only acting out what you’ve decreed. So is Allah more like the viewer or the director? If He is both, can true free will exist?
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.” If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right? Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@@Poltergeist7814 Every possible path is written by Allah and you choose which one you follow, Allah knows what you will choose because he knows your heart. For example,the propjet says everyone has a place in jannah and hell , so your choice determine where you end. Also the story of musa and khidr, if khidr has not done those things another possible reality already written will occur.
There is so much misinformation in this topic in our communities unfortunately. Especially in South Asia even in the country where I am living in the Maldives 🇲🇻
@smiletojannah 24 years back my islamic teacher explained it the best till date. He said, it’s like a cricket match where God has seen the match live and we are seeing recording.
Say, "O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allāh. Indeed, Allāh forgives all sins.[1] Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful."
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.” If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right? Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@poltergeist7814: Did you have only this theory for all comments in this chat? You wanna be the gamechanger? start now and do right deeds for your own life and dont try effect peoples life in a negativ way…You cant, because Allah knows everything in a perfect way…
In college I took a physics class that discussed dimensions and how every being in the different dimensions would look like and be limited by. Humans, as 3-dimensional beings are bound by time. This is what prevents us from time travel. Brings in higher dimensions exist outside of time and can see us as an infant, adult, and old man all at once. It's mind-boggling really.
the points which i wanna take form this video are making choice or deciding to do something good or bad is in our hand but the results are in Allah's control believing in destiny also protects a prsn from arrogance and pride bcz he know that all the good deeds and success are not a result of his own efforts but a blessing that ALLAHSWT granted him after putting all our efforts in something still the results are not in our control if ALLAH swt want then only hewill grant us that thing alhamdulliah
This is the best explanation and comprehensive about the topic of destiny. We don't have a choice Where we are going to live (born) or When we are going to die. But we have a choice on How we are going to live whether to follow the Right path (Islam) or other path. And we are given time until our unknown appointed time to depart this world.
This video was amazing! I’ve been waiting for someone to break it down so well! This topic has caused serious distance in my Imaan, and today you helped me get closer again ❤️
This concept was stuck in my head not completely solved years back then, But i understood it, However this video made it way simpler and more understandable than ever
@ before you're born, when you don't exist can you make a choice between vanilla and chocolate ice cream? you cannot, can you? meanwhile God, Always exists God Alone knows All God Alone who decides to Force you to exist, God Alone who decides to Force you to be born in the modern age where there's ice cream for you, God Alone who decides to Force the ice cream inventor to invent the ice cream for you you will know that free will is logically incoherent when you realize that God Alone who decides to Force you to exist while fully knowing every choice you haven't even made it yet, you haven't even made a choice between chocolate and vanilla ice cream, the ice cream hasn't even been invented yet meanwhile God, Alone knows All God Alone who decides to Force All to exist, everything is enslaved by his Absolute knowledge so you don't really make a choice, at all.
Imagine you are watching a pre-recorded movie. You know exactly how the plot unfolds because you've seen it before. However, your knowledge of the plot doesn’t influence the characters’ actions-they’ve already acted according to their script. Now, imagine you’re also the director who wrote the script and determined every scene. In this case, the characters have no real freedom; they are only acting out what you’ve decreed. So is Allah more like the viewer or the director? If He is both, can true free will exist?
So glad I came across this, really love this video. My perception and perspective of time are a bit different. From my understanding, I always thought that Allah gave us free will so we have a choice in our actions. It is through our actions we learn from the tests of life Allah gives us. From my understanding I always thought Allah knows every outcome, including the ones we didn’t take. With the all knowing Allah knows the paths we chose and didn’t choose. Perhaps the paths we have taken are a constant reminder that Allah continues to take care of us and we are unaware. It would explain Allah is there with you when no one else is and all he asks is for your own faith in Allah.
0:07 ohhh my God... Your video's content and editing is going better and best day by day ma sha Allah. ❤❤❤ This type of islamic content creation is the need of the day...
I was born and raised a "Roman Catholic"!! At 82 years of age, and with a knowledge of the "philosophy" of "Buddhism", all my questions! have been answered! Thank you!💯
I am trying my best to practice Islam every day. I was kinda out of religion for a long time but now I am desperate to be changed and trying back to Allah. I am continuously seeking his guidance through prayer. I want to change. I don’t want dusty dark life. I want Islam desperately in my life. May Allah be pleased with me and everyone who has faith in him.
Actually, the fact that you are trying your best to practice Islam is the best thing that Allah SWT grant to you. Maybe, just maybe, Even after struggling and praying, your life condition is not improved, it means your condition is the best state for you that always pull you closer to Allah SWT. We don't know our life will be end, but Allah SWT knows. Who knows it is near. So Allah SWT put us in our best state even if we think it's not ideal so He will welcome us as a muslimin and muttaqin at the moment of our death.
The hadith that describes Allah getting closer when we reach out to Him is often attributed to Abu Hurairah, where the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "Allah says: 'Whoever comes closer to Me a span, I come closer to him a cubit; and whoever comes closer to Me a cubit, I come closer to him a fathom; and if he comes to Me walking, I come to him running.'". This hadith is considered authentic and is found in both Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
And, it's true too... I'm sure anyone who tried this really see and feel Allah(swt)'s presence. I myself witnessed this in my life... Insha'Allah you will too. May Allah( swt )guide us all to the right path
The way I always understood it or made it make sense was, imagine there's 5 doors or X amount of doors, the freewill comes into play based off of our choice of door we choose. But Allah already has a written out chain of life events for you for each door. And Allah knows best
Allahu Akbar ❤ the last question about "is watching this video written in your destiny" gat me, cause I downloaded this video long time ago, i thought I've watched it, now I was just playing arround and I clicked it and it explained all what I'm going through currently and encourage me to have faith in Allah more 15:49
to those who are atheists..... Time needs Space , Space needs Matter, Matter needs a beginning/creation, God creates from nothing and/or from things previously created. Where does God begin? what was before God? who 'started' God? God is ever present, without a beginning and without an end and is nothing like you know. Look up the 99 attributes of Allah. Best wishes.
.....btw..... Jesus did preach to worship the OneGod/TheCreator and not anything else, and so did his followers, peace be upon them all. This unsettled the Roman Empire because this idea of Monotheism went against their pagan beliefs where the emperor was both emperor and god. They persecuted the followers of Jesus and even attempted to kill Jesus, even a Roman Empire servant Saul of Tarsus was out to kill Jesus. Saul never managed to meet Jesus in real life but after Jesus was taken up to Heaven Saul said he saw a dream and said he will now preach the teachings of Jesus. Saul of Tarsus is also known in todays christianity as Saint Paul, so todays christians are actually on the teaching of ''Saint'' Paul which brings in trinity and godhead figure of Jesus and rejects Monotheism. -Jesus was commanded to preach Monotheism, which he did and early followers were Monotheistic (Islamic) believing people, which later changed with the Roman Empires paganism spreading -Jesus was commanded to preach ONLY to the Israelites, which he did, but after him Saul of Tarsus aka ''saint Paul'' started to preach to the Gentiles, which is the foundation of todays christiandom. -Jesus was commanded to rule for the circumsicion which he did, but it was taken out after he left -Roman Empire in 325 AD held a council, with empire alligned 'scholars'' to decide and VOTE on whether Jesus was to be worshipped or not, they VOTED that Jesus be accepted as god (in aliagn with the pagan beliefs of the Roman traditions) and ever since the trinity became the 'christian way' (not what Jesus preached), and sinc that time the Church has chronicled how many times the ''Bible'' has been changed, verses removed and verses added to SUIT this altered idea of trinity! Best wishes, life is short.
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.” If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right? Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@@Poltergeist7814As the video explains at 6:39 "Allah's knowledge of events doesn't impose or destroy our free will, but rather reflects the reality of those events as they are." Allah's knowledge of reality doesn't change it but confirms it. The video gives an example at 6:47 for a better understanding. What that simply means is that destiny is what Allah has written for each one of us since he knows how we will live our lives. Having knowledge of what we do doesn't take away from our free will as stated at 6:39. Knowledge doesn't change reality, it just confirms to it. Now, destiny is divided in two types. Watch the video from 7:19 as it clarifies Voluntary Destiny and Involuntary Destiny. Involuntary destiny is when Allah decides for us and we don't have a choice (no free will). Voluntary destiny is when we do have a choice (free will) and for which we will be held accountable on the day of judgement. As for "can destiny be changed?" is explainable in two parts (refer to 12:16 in the video). There is Conditional decree aka Suspended decree and the other is Absolute decree aka Fixed destiny. It is important to watch the full video and understand the concept of destiny because your example and comment lets me to believe that you haven't fully grasp the difference between destiny and free will.
Jazakallah Khair for strengthening my belief in destiny! The content, the effects and the lil animations, altogether make the video amazing (just as any other TOWARDS ETERNITY vid). May Allah reward you!
subhanallah i am so sleepy but still alhamdullilah i choose to click on this video even i am not a consistent viewer of you but donnno why i click on this video and i am glad that i did watching your video is a blessing may Allah swt grant us the ability to believe in destiny and free fill in a way that it should be
Masallah brother, it's the best description of this topic I have ever heard. I know so much hard work and research has been done for this project. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
I recommend trying to truly understand this video, and go to any local masjid you have, just make sure it is a Sunni masjid, it’s not good to separate into sects but Sunni Islam is true Islam, Shias are misguided and may Allah guide them.
@@noticks1961 I'm not sure how much doubt it will clear but you can try reading the essays of Ikram Hawramani in his website of Predetermination and Free Will
Honestly it's a simple concept, But it has many misunderstandings by people that's why people get lost, Even Muslims i see them confused about this topic, It's completely normal brother take your time and search
A suggestion, sir, you should start a sereis on correct Aqeeda from the Quran and sunnah and clearing misconception its a must need of this generation. JazakAllah khair
This is the best explanation of destiny I have ever watched. It is a complete and clear explanation with good examples but it is short in duration. Thank you very much!
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.” If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right? Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@Poltergeist7814 The analogy is flawed because it compares Allah's perfect knowledge to a human teacher's limited understanding. Allah knows your choices because He is beyond time, but His knowledge does not force your actions-you still have free will. Islam emphasizes effort, and your actions determine your outcome. Misusing such analogies creates confusion and misunderstands Islamic teachings. So dont make confusion in peoples mind okh
@@FirdausAhmad-jm6et Yes Allah has knowledge, but our destiny is "prewritten". Allah has written our destiny based on his foreknowledge about how we humans will use our free will. My question is can a person go against what Allah has written (based on the knowledge he encompasses)? If no, then that is not true free will.
@@Poltergeist7814 Allah is All-Knowing and knows everything about our past, present, and future, but His knowledge doesn’t mean He forces us to act in a certain way. There’s a big difference between knowing and forcing. Example: Imagine you’re standing on a hill and see two trains on the same track coming toward each other. You know they will crash because of their speed and direction, so you write down, “The trains will crash in a few minutes.” When the crash happens, did it happen because you wrote it? No, it happened because of the trains’ own paths and actions. Similarly, Allah knows everything we will do, but His knowledge doesn’t force us to make those choices. We act with free will, and He simply knows the outcome because His knowledge is beyond time and human understanding. If we didn’t have free will, accountability and judgment wouldn’t make sense in Islam. Bro if you have more confuion re watch the video
Excellent explanation. Ma sha Allah.. My all doubts are cleared by listening to this invaluable channel. May Allah grant you and your precious team more and more knowledge. ❤❤❤
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.” If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right? Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
the student would not be able to do more than that. He choose to study hard or not so it was he’s choice(free will) but he got that grade and Allah knew it in advance(destiny). He would have gotten the same if he did not study because he had knowledge about the topic or something like that.
@esse-Hot Allah knowing in advance is not destiny. That's called foreknowledge, you're confusing the two. Predestination is what Allah has already written based on his foreknowledge and hence you cannot go against it
@@Poltergeist7814if Allah can’t give you free will but also determines your destiny then that dosent make Allah all powerful. He is so all powerful that for Allah both can be true.
Masha Allah, this video is amazing! It needs to be watched more than once to fully understand the knowledge and experience it contains. It was an interesting topic that everyone needs to know about. I gained a lot from this 15-minute video
One thing to add, sometimes Allah controls our thoughts and makes us choose the chosen one by him. This is because, He knows which one is righteous for us. Oh Allah, mercy on us and show us the right path.
It was really outstanding, I was looking for answering this question such a logical way..And I have got it..Alhamdulillah, May Allah grant you Jannat❤❤
Asalamu alaykum wa rahmatou'Allah, jazak'Allah khayr, brothers thank you for this video - my tunderstanding/take is that what Allah swt has recorded are the actions of our free will, past, present and future, He has not determined them for us. Only major events have been determined for us, such as our time,place and type of death, amongst other such events - we have free will for most things, insha'Allh
Whether I can make sense of it or not, I already know that I have free will, I have consciousness, regardless of I am being able to understand it with rationales. What I struggle with is this: How can there be something happened without Allah's own and only action? How can free will even exist? Only the eternal being (Allah) should be able to act, nothing else, everything else should be just the effects of his actions and initialization. If I do something, I don't understand how I am doing it by my own, cause there are a lot of things that's happening for me able to do it. For example, If I want to walk, every cells of my leg have to able to act in harmony and in a certain way, the wind, the place, the space, the gravity, everything has to be in a specific position for me to be able to walk. And everything is here in this position is because of how the past was in an exact order. There couldn't anyhow else the position be that it is right now because of how the past was. So It all starts with the initialization of the eternal being (Allah), if everything is how it is because of the past, than only the beginning of the events is responsible for how it is right now. But my senses don't agree with that, cause I can feel my consciousness outside of being a puppet in the events.Than the other option can be applied here which is, there are actions that can occur outside of the eternal being (Allah)'s action, but that shouldn't be the case, cause in that case those outside action doers will be also eternal beings or something, how can something happen outside of Allah's boundary, that's not possible, Subhanahu, Allah is the most perfect. I cannot think of more than one central eternal being that can be responsible for the chain of events, where the events are totally in harmony with each other. If there are more than one central being in this stage, than the question would how did they got generated in the first place, if multiple beings are there, they have to come from a central point, a central point must be one, multiple things cannot be the center, and without a center, things cannot happen in harmony. Pardon me for my ugibugi understandings, but it really confuses me. I can think of only two options, but neither of them make sense to me, and there is no other option logically (according to my brain). In the end, I just think, I don't have to understand this thing, it seems impossible to comprehend, not this or that make sense to me. That's why we make sujud, we lower our brain than the heart in the prostration, cause our brain cannot encompass everything that we experience. Rabbi audhubika min hamajatish-shayatin.
Thanks to Towards Eternity. It is still a complex subject. I'll have to watch it several times to fully understand. But I can say surely 'Destiny' is something beyond the understanding of human brain. Like Time travel, Origin of Universe, Existence, Infinity ect. 😀
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This is the best video I've seen on this topic
Imagine you are watching a pre-recorded movie. You know exactly how the plot unfolds because you've seen it before. However, your knowledge of the plot doesn’t influence the characters’ actions-they’ve already acted according to their script. Now, imagine you’re also the director who wrote the script and determined every scene. In this case, the characters have no real freedom; they are only acting out what you’ve decreed.
So is Allah more like the viewer or the director? If He is both, can true free will exist?
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.”
If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right?
Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@@Poltergeist7814
Every possible path is written by Allah and you choose which one you follow, Allah knows what you will choose because he knows your heart.
For example,the propjet says everyone has a place in jannah and hell , so your choice determine where you end.
Also the story of musa and khidr, if khidr has not done those things another possible reality already written will occur.
There is so much misinformation in this topic in our communities unfortunately. Especially in South Asia even in the country where I am living in the Maldives 🇲🇻
@smiletojannah 24 years back my islamic teacher explained it the best till date. He said, it’s like a cricket match where God has seen the match live and we are seeing recording.
Say, "O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allāh. Indeed, Allāh forgives all sins.[1] Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful."
@ An-nass
the Quran is for the djins and humans
does that message apply to iblees, who's a djin as well?
apparently iblees is finished, permanently.
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.”
If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right?
Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@@Poltergeist7814 you didn’t watch the video, did you
@ Of course i did, and what he mentioned was Allah knows what we will do with our free will, he has already forseen it then destined it
@poltergeist7814: Did you have only this theory for all comments in this chat? You wanna be the gamechanger? start now and do right deeds for your own life and dont try effect peoples life in a negativ way…You cant, because Allah knows everything in a perfect way…
In college I took a physics class that discussed dimensions and how every being in the different dimensions would look like and be limited by. Humans, as 3-dimensional beings are bound by time. This is what prevents us from time travel. Brings in higher dimensions exist outside of time and can see us as an infant, adult, and old man all at once. It's mind-boggling really.
This channel is what our generation needs the most right now. Thank a lot Towards Enternity !!
the points which i wanna take form this video are
making choice or deciding to do something good or bad is in our hand but the results are in Allah's control
believing in destiny also protects a prsn from arrogance and pride bcz he know that all the good deeds and success are not a result of his own efforts but a blessing that ALLAHSWT granted him
after putting all our efforts in something still the results are not in our control if ALLAH swt want then only hewill grant us that thing
alhamdulliah
This is the best explanation and comprehensive about the topic of destiny.
We don't have a choice Where we are going to live (born) or When we are going to die.
But we have a choice on How we are going to live whether to follow the Right path (Islam) or other path.
And we are given time until our unknown appointed time to depart this world.
This video was amazing! I’ve been waiting for someone to break it down so well!
This topic has caused serious distance in my Imaan, and today you helped me get closer again ❤️
Watch it multiple times to understand this deep concept. Masterpiece vedio
this cleared out so many doubts i had FOR YEARSSS
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You may be in confusion again. I understand it every day, confuse every day.
@@rashedashfaq Idk what that means but whatever
This concept was stuck in my head not completely solved years back then, But i understood it, However this video made it way simpler and more understandable than ever
Finally, the concept of Destiny got its justice in my brain! Beautiful explanation.
You all are doing great work! I love this channel.
@ before you're born, when you don't exist
can you make a choice between vanilla and chocolate ice cream?
you cannot, can you?
meanwhile God, Always exists
God Alone knows All
God Alone who decides to Force you to exist,
God Alone who decides to Force you to be born in the modern age where there's ice cream for you,
God Alone who decides to Force the ice cream inventor to invent the ice cream for you
you will know that free will is logically incoherent when you realize that God Alone who decides to Force you to exist while fully knowing every choice you haven't even made it yet,
you haven't even made a choice between chocolate and vanilla ice cream,
the ice cream hasn't even been invented yet
meanwhile God, Alone knows All
God Alone who decides to Force All to exist, everything is enslaved by his Absolute knowledge
so you don't really make a choice, at all.
In short it's like a test the harder it is little marks matter most, all those things are leveled up with the rules of Allah@@aiya5777
Imagine you are watching a pre-recorded movie. You know exactly how the plot unfolds because you've seen it before. However, your knowledge of the plot doesn’t influence the characters’ actions-they’ve already acted according to their script. Now, imagine you’re also the director who wrote the script and determined every scene. In this case, the characters have no real freedom; they are only acting out what you’ve decreed.
So is Allah more like the viewer or the director? If He is both, can true free will exist?
@@Poltergeist7814 God forcefully created everything, the Absolute
free will doesn't exist
@ So basically you are against islam itslef, which according to this video and most scholars says that humans do have free will
Amazing video Allahumebarik.May Allah bless you all!
So glad I came across this, really love this video. My perception and perspective of time are a bit different. From my understanding, I always thought that Allah gave us free will so we have a choice in our actions. It is through our actions we learn from the tests of life Allah gives us. From my understanding I always thought Allah knows every outcome, including the ones we didn’t take. With the all knowing Allah knows the paths we chose and didn’t choose. Perhaps the paths we have taken are a constant reminder that Allah continues to take care of us and we are unaware. It would explain Allah is there with you when no one else is and all he asks is for your own faith in Allah.
0:07 ohhh my God...
Your video's content and editing is going better and best day by day ma sha Allah. ❤❤❤
This type of islamic content creation is the need of the day...
I was born and raised a "Roman Catholic"!! At 82 years of age, and with a knowledge of the "philosophy" of "Buddhism", all my questions! have been answered! Thank you!💯
Please read the life of Prophet Mohammad peace be upon him
What were your questions?
Finally I was talking with my sister a month ago about this and we were so confused. Now I understand jazkallah
I am trying my best to practice Islam every day. I was kinda out of religion for a long time but now I am desperate to be changed and trying back to Allah. I am continuously seeking his guidance through prayer. I want to change. I don’t want dusty dark life. I want Islam desperately in my life. May Allah be pleased with me and everyone who has faith in him.
Actually, the fact that you are trying your best to practice Islam is the best thing that Allah SWT grant to you. Maybe, just maybe, Even after struggling and praying, your life condition is not improved, it means your condition is the best state for you that always pull you closer to Allah SWT.
We don't know our life will be end, but Allah SWT knows. Who knows it is near. So Allah SWT put us in our best state even if we think it's not ideal so He will welcome us as a muslimin and muttaqin at the moment of our death.
@ I've been in your place as well
while you're still breathing,
just. Keep. On. trying.
The hadith that describes Allah getting closer when we reach out to Him is often attributed to Abu Hurairah, where the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said:
"Allah says: 'Whoever comes closer to Me a span, I come closer to him a cubit; and whoever comes closer to Me a cubit, I come closer to him a fathom; and if he comes to Me walking, I come to him running.'".
This hadith is considered authentic and is found in both Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
And, it's true too... I'm sure anyone who tried this really see and feel Allah(swt)'s presence. I myself witnessed this in my life... Insha'Allah you will too. May Allah( swt )guide us all to the right path
The way I always understood it or made it make sense was, imagine there's 5 doors or X amount of doors, the freewill comes into play based off of our choice of door we choose. But Allah already has a written out chain of life events for you for each door. And Allah knows best
Allahu Akbar ❤ the last question about "is watching this video written in your destiny" gat me, cause I downloaded this video long time ago, i thought I've watched it, now I was just playing arround and I clicked it and it explained all what I'm going through currently and encourage me to have faith in Allah more 15:49
to those who are atheists.....
Time needs Space ,
Space needs Matter,
Matter needs a beginning/creation,
God creates from nothing and/or from things previously created.
Where does God begin? what was before God? who 'started' God?
God is ever present, without a beginning and without an end and is nothing like you know.
Look up the 99 attributes of Allah.
Best wishes.
.....btw.....
Jesus did preach to worship the OneGod/TheCreator and not anything else, and so did his followers, peace be upon them all.
This unsettled the Roman Empire because this idea of Monotheism went against their pagan beliefs where the emperor was both emperor and god. They persecuted the followers of Jesus and even attempted to kill Jesus, even a Roman Empire servant Saul of Tarsus was out to kill Jesus.
Saul never managed to meet Jesus in real life but after Jesus was taken up to Heaven Saul said he saw a dream and said he will now preach the teachings of Jesus. Saul of Tarsus is also known in todays christianity as Saint Paul, so todays christians are actually on the teaching of ''Saint'' Paul which brings in trinity and godhead figure of Jesus and rejects Monotheism.
-Jesus was commanded to preach Monotheism, which he did and early followers were Monotheistic (Islamic) believing people, which later changed with the Roman Empires paganism spreading
-Jesus was commanded to preach ONLY to the Israelites, which he did, but after him Saul of Tarsus aka ''saint Paul'' started to preach to the Gentiles, which is the foundation of todays christiandom.
-Jesus was commanded to rule for the circumsicion which he did, but it was taken out after he left
-Roman Empire in 325 AD held a council, with empire alligned 'scholars'' to decide and VOTE on whether Jesus was to be worshipped or not, they VOTED that Jesus be accepted as god (in aliagn with the pagan beliefs of the Roman traditions) and ever since the trinity became the 'christian way' (not what Jesus preached), and sinc that time the Church has chronicled how many times the ''Bible'' has been changed, verses removed and verses added to SUIT this altered idea of trinity!
Best wishes, life is short.
Alhamdulillah Well explained
Saul and Paul same?
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.”
If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right?
Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@@Poltergeist7814As the video explains at 6:39 "Allah's knowledge of events doesn't impose or destroy our free will, but rather reflects the reality of those events as they are." Allah's knowledge of reality doesn't change it but confirms it. The video gives an example at 6:47 for a better understanding. What that simply means is that destiny is what Allah has written for each one of us since he knows how we will live our lives. Having knowledge of what we do doesn't take away from our free will as stated at 6:39. Knowledge doesn't change reality, it just confirms to it. Now, destiny is divided in two types. Watch the video from 7:19 as it clarifies Voluntary Destiny and Involuntary Destiny. Involuntary destiny is when Allah decides for us and we don't have a choice (no free will). Voluntary destiny is when we do have a choice (free will) and for which we will be held accountable on the day of judgement. As for "can destiny be changed?" is explainable in two parts (refer to 12:16 in the video). There is Conditional decree aka Suspended decree and the other is Absolute decree aka Fixed destiny. It is important to watch the full video and understand the concept of destiny because your example and comment lets me to believe that you haven't fully grasp the difference between destiny and free will.
These are matters of Allah and we should not think about it just make duas and have Higher hope for Allah 😊
Jazakallah Khair for strengthening my belief in destiny! The content, the effects and the lil animations, altogether make the video amazing (just as any other TOWARDS ETERNITY vid). May Allah reward you!
The Bestest 😍video I have ever seen on destiny, it has removed my all confusions . Allah bless you ❤(Ameen)
subhanallah i am so sleepy but still alhamdullilah i choose to click on this video even i am not a consistent viewer of you but donnno why i click on this video and i am glad that i did
watching your video is a blessing
may Allah swt grant us the ability to believe in destiny and free fill in a way that it should be
I couldn't control myself , after watching the thumbnail ! Great work by the editors team 👍🏼
Thanks!
❤❤❤Allah hu Akbar... La ila he illallah ❤❤❤
What a masterpiece ❤
Took me years to find such a video. But it was destined, so here I am. ✨✨
Masallah brother, it's the best description of this topic I have ever heard. I know so much hard work and research has been done for this project. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
This is one of the biggest things stopping me from accepting Islam I think. With that in mind, great video
I recommend trying to truly understand this video, and go to any local masjid you have, just make sure it is a Sunni masjid, it’s not good to separate into sects but Sunni Islam is true Islam, Shias are misguided and may Allah guide them.
@@noticks1961 I'm not sure how much doubt it will clear but you can try reading the essays of Ikram Hawramani in his website of Predetermination and Free Will
Honestly it's a simple concept, But it has many misunderstandings by people that's why people get lost, Even Muslims i see them confused about this topic, It's completely normal brother take your time and search
Study it and accept it for your own good. We don't know when we will die.
Please watch this video again & again, step by step, take pauses and think.
La Hawla Wala Quwwata Illa Billah🤲
Inshallah, we will be the ones end up in Heaven ❤❤❤
A suggestion, sir, you should start a sereis on correct Aqeeda from the Quran and sunnah and clearing misconception its a must need of this generation. JazakAllah khair
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Jazak-Allah-Khairan brother
Alhumdulillah very beautifully explained thank you.
This is the best explanation of destiny I have ever watched. It is a complete and clear explanation with good examples but it is short in duration. Thank you very much!
ماشاء الله تبارك الله بارك الله فيكم ❤
Lots of love from Kashmir ❤❤❤❤to all Muslims and humanity ❤❤❤
Subhan Allah Amazing!
I was destined to click on this video and watch within one minute of its upload ❤
One of the best video in this channel... Jazakallahu khairan akhi
SubhanAllah
mashallah best way to explain without making confusion mashallah
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.”
If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right?
Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
@Poltergeist7814 The analogy is flawed because it compares Allah's perfect knowledge to a human teacher's limited understanding. Allah knows your choices because He is beyond time, but His knowledge does not force your actions-you still have free will. Islam emphasizes effort, and your actions determine your outcome. Misusing such analogies creates confusion and misunderstands Islamic teachings.
So dont make confusion in peoples mind okh
@@FirdausAhmad-jm6et Yes Allah has knowledge, but our destiny is "prewritten".
Allah has written our destiny based on his foreknowledge about how we humans will use our free will. My question is can a person go against what Allah has written (based on the knowledge he encompasses)? If no, then that is not true free will.
@@Poltergeist7814
Allah is All-Knowing and knows everything about our past, present, and future, but His knowledge doesn’t mean He forces us to act in a certain way. There’s a big difference between knowing and forcing.
Example:
Imagine you’re standing on a hill and see two trains on the same track coming toward each other. You know they will crash because of their speed and direction, so you write down, “The trains will crash in a few minutes.” When the crash happens, did it happen because you wrote it? No, it happened because of the trains’ own paths and actions.
Similarly, Allah knows everything we will do, but His knowledge doesn’t force us to make those choices. We act with free will, and He simply knows the outcome because His knowledge is beyond time and human understanding.
If we didn’t have free will, accountability and judgment wouldn’t make sense in Islam. Bro if you have more confuion re watch the video
Alhamdulillah for ISLAM ☝️
Excellent explanation. Ma sha Allah..
My all doubts are cleared by listening to this invaluable channel.
May Allah grant you and your precious team more and more knowledge. ❤❤❤
A teacher tells a student, “I know exactly how you’ll perform on this test because I know everything about you. Based on this, I’ve already written your grade.”
If the grade is already written, can the student truly change the outcome, no matter how hard they try? Does the student genuinely have a choice, or are they just proving the teacher right?
Now replace the teacher with Allah and the grade with destiny. If Allah has already "written" your destiny based on foreknowledge of your behaviour, can you ever act differently? If not, where is your free will?
the student would not be able to do more than that. He choose to study hard or not so it was he’s choice(free will) but he got that grade and Allah knew it in advance(destiny). He would have gotten the same if he did not study because he had knowledge about the topic or something like that.
@esse-Hot Allah knowing in advance is not destiny. That's called foreknowledge, you're confusing the two.
Predestination is what Allah has already written based on his foreknowledge and hence you cannot go against it
@@Poltergeist7814if Allah can’t give you free will but also determines your destiny then that dosent make Allah all powerful. He is so all powerful that for Allah both can be true.
Very good explanation of destiny and free will. Indeed the Almighty God is beyond Time
Solid video, MashaAllah
Masha Allah, this video is amazing! It needs to be watched more than once to fully understand the knowledge and experience it contains. It was an interesting topic that everyone needs to know about. I gained a lot from this 15-minute video
This video needs more views. Amazing explanation!
The first time I saw the template, I didn't click it, but the second time I clicked it. Good at explaining free will vs destiny.
Subhanallah. Alhamdulillah I saw this video. Jazakallah khoiron katsiron
this needs to viral
One thing to add, sometimes Allah controls our thoughts and makes us choose the chosen one by him. This is because, He knows which one is righteous for us. Oh Allah, mercy on us and show us the right path.
It was really outstanding, I was looking for answering this question such a logical way..And I have got it..Alhamdulillah, May Allah grant you Jannat❤❤
Nicely explained✨️
মাশা-আল্লাহ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Best video I’ve ever watched. Will pray for you
I was literally scared at the beginning. May ALLAH Bless this teacher with all goodness and happiness in this life and hereafter 😇 who explained this
Finally finally Alhamdulillah, This Video Cleared All my Doubts, Jazakallahu Khair for this Beautifully Explained Video, Love From India,Karnataka 🤍
Jazakallah khair❤
I was thinking about this in the masjid after Salah today and SubhanAllah this video came up randomly before I was planning to go to sleep.
Thank you so much for creating this video. So helpful and exactly what I needed.
Masha'Allah I will share this with my students.
Jazakum'Allah Khair 💙
Outstanding explanation.. Jazakallahu khairan
Thanks I got my answer. I really needed to hear that ❤
SubhanAllah! I was just thinking about this whole concept and had a whole debate about it yesterday before I opened my RUclips.
Allah is the greatest ❤
SubhanAllah beutifull explanation jazakAllah tabarakAllah
Sir I'm seriously very inspired by your words and thoughts🤔💭.... Please make more contents like this
AllaahuAkbar!!!
Keep up the good work.
May Allah bless you
سبحان اللہ
Asalamu alaykum wa rahmatou'Allah, jazak'Allah khayr, brothers thank you for this video - my tunderstanding/take is that what Allah swt has recorded are the actions of our free will, past, present and future, He has not determined them for us. Only major events have been determined for us, such as our time,place and type of death, amongst other such events - we have free will for most things, insha'Allh
Masha Allah..
Quite deep subject..
A PDF on this would do bring better understanding..
Big thanks to the whole team behind this ❤🙏
May Allah accept your Dawah...
Allah akbar , this video is very very important for alot of muslims and none muslim , jasak allah kheiran
May Allah bless you.. Allahumma Ameen
Beautiful explanation
May Allah protect this channel coz it very impactfull and help us to have rational believing
May Allah bless us and make our faith on Islam so strong that shaitan can't misguide us.Ameen.🤲🇧🇩
I liked you by my free will 😂 love you all keep going ❤❤❤
Whether I can make sense of it or not, I already know that I have free will, I have consciousness, regardless of I am being able to understand it with rationales.
What I struggle with is this:
How can there be something happened without Allah's own and only action? How can free will even exist? Only the eternal being (Allah) should be able to act, nothing else, everything else should be just the effects of his actions and initialization.
If I do something, I don't understand how I am doing it by my own, cause there are a lot of things that's happening for me able to do it. For example, If I want to walk, every cells of my leg have to able to act in harmony and in a certain way, the wind, the place, the space, the gravity, everything has to be in a specific position for me to be able to walk. And everything is here in this position is because of how the past was in an exact order. There couldn't anyhow else the position be that it is right now because of how the past was.
So It all starts with the initialization of the eternal being (Allah), if everything is how it is because of the past, than only the beginning of the events is responsible for how it is right now.
But my senses don't agree with that, cause I can feel my consciousness outside of being a puppet in the events.Than the other option can be applied here which is, there are actions that can occur outside of the eternal being (Allah)'s action, but that shouldn't be the case, cause in that case those outside action doers will be also eternal beings or something, how can something happen outside of Allah's boundary, that's not possible, Subhanahu, Allah is the most perfect. I cannot think of more than one central eternal being that can be responsible for the chain of events, where the events are totally in harmony with each other. If there are more than one central being in this stage, than the question would how did they got generated in the first place, if multiple beings are there, they have to come from a central point, a central point must be one, multiple things cannot be the center, and without a center, things cannot happen in harmony.
Pardon me for my ugibugi understandings, but it really confuses me. I can think of only two options, but neither of them make sense to me, and there is no other option logically (according to my brain).
In the end, I just think, I don't have to understand this thing, it seems impossible to comprehend, not this or that make sense to me. That's why we make sujud, we lower our brain than the heart in the prostration, cause our brain cannot encompass everything that we experience. Rabbi audhubika min hamajatish-shayatin.
Brother that was amazing. May Allah protect you and all muslims.
Beautifully explained
A masterpiece of a video.
whatever evil befalls upon its only because of your hands and whatever good happens to you it is from Allah!
Jazakallah
Jazakallah khair
Jazakalla haira for this . Spot on
Jazakum'Allah Khair
Thank you so much for such a beautiful explanation ❤❤❤
Jazakallahu khairan for making such beneficial videos for the ummah. I love your content. So beautifully done so organised and well thought of.
Literally life changing thoughts.
Very great video the kind of videos why i love to spend time at youtube more than any other app.
Barak alah bikom 🙏🙏
Thanks to Towards Eternity. It is still a complex subject. I'll have to watch it several times to fully understand. But I can say surely 'Destiny' is something beyond the understanding of human brain. Like Time travel, Origin of Universe, Existence, Infinity ect. 😀
One of the best videos i have ever seen
جزاك الله خيرا وبارك الله، اخي
Qader is a collaboration of Allah and servant. Allah guides and makes the road but walking is your part.