Islam Disciplines The Will

 

Islam is based on individual will. It considers man responsible due to this will.

Islam seeks the confirmation by the heart in the field of belief, sincerity in deeds and a disciplined will with morality. It is necessary to purify the ego for a disciplined will.

There is no compulsion in believing because compulsion in issues of belief wouldn’t be valid as it would not come freely from the person.

The specialty of man among other creatures is due to his free-will: Angels are conscious beings who have no power to do evil, they do everything Allah commands without rebellion or objection, they are created for service and worship.

On the other hand animals act instinctively, they cannot go beyond their own limits drawn for them and they are devoid of intelligence. Hence willpower cannot be valid for angels and animals.

Whereas, mankind and jinn are accountable for their actions and were created to be tested, for that they have been given intelligence and lower desires because of that they act voluntarily.

As we will see on the subject of destiny, the Creator of human actions is Allah Almighty. Not even a leaf falls from its branch without His will and creation (Al-Anam, 59.)

 However, although Allah’s will is present in everything -good and bad- based on the secret of testing, His consent is only in good.

Allah almighty knows the choices that man will make in advance. However, this reality doesn’t mean that man doesn’t have a partial will, and it doesn’t absolve the servant’s responsibility. Besides, the fact that a person has a partial will doesn’t mean that he can use this will in defiance of the will of Allah Almighty.

The fact that Allah Almighty asked man, “Am I not your Lord?” (Al Araf, 172) in the realm of spirits, is evidence for the existence of will even in his spirit.

Man is free to accept, believe and obey his Lord. As a result of this freedom, he will be among the people of Paradise if he uses his will correctly, and he will be among the people of Hell if he uses it wrongly. In other words,

whichever way a person uses his will while in the world, he draws to himself his final destination with his own hands. As a matter of fact, it stated in a verse; “Indeed Allah does not wrong people in any way; rather, it is people who wrong themselves.” (Yunus, 44)

A person is free enough to be held liable for the divine test. 


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