AHLUSSNNAH WAL JAMA:”AH
Answering Objections On Holy Quran In Regard to Divine Will/Intention /Omnivolence.By Ahlussunnah Val Jama:”ah Answering Objections on Divine Omnivalence HUSAM
Two objections of Nates Talks To You are Replied.
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Answering Objections On Holy Quran In Regard to Divine Will/Intention /Omnivolence.By Ahlussunnah Val Jama:”ah There are ten objections on Holy Qur’a:n on the You tube. Two of them are refuted in this response. Insha:’Allah others shall be refuted soon . See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GfdojyLwGw
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{uploaded by NateTalksToYou on You Tube} Will or Intention is one of the Essential Attributes Of Divine Essence=Deity. According to some It is Identical to the Per Se Subsistent Essence of Deity and according to some It is Identical to Divine Essence that is ,It is the very Divine Essence Itself. It is the First and Ultimate Cause of all Contingent Existents. Divine Essence Acteth by this Divine Will/Intention and not by the Necessity of the Nature of Divine Essence that is Identical to the very Per Se Subsistent Essence Itself. In series of Causes Divine Intention/Will is the First Cause. Divine Will/Intention doeth not Have any Cause. According to the Maturidi School of Thought Divine Intention/Will is the Ultimate Cause and the Per Se Necessary Condition for the existence of secondary ,contingent and inferior Causes. The Inferior and Secondary Causes are fixed by the Will/ Intention of Per Se Subsistent Divine Essence That is an Essential and Absolute Attribute of That Essence. So if there is no Divine Intention/Will no Contingent Law, No Contingent Act and No Contingent Existent Exist. There Existence is Per Se Absurd and Logically Absurd since if the Per Se Necessary Condition ceaseth to exist then every thing that is Conditioned by It Ceaseth to Exist. There are two types of Causes. 1] “Illah Bidh: Dh:a:t [Per Se Cause] and Per Quod Cause [ “Illah Bil Ghair/ “Illah Bil “Ard:]. Divine Will/ Intention Proceedeth from the Contingent, Secondary, Inferior and Created Causes that are fixed by the Divine Essence as an act of Divine Will/Intention for the proper conservation of Order and non occurrence of Chaos. So the Divine Will/Intention is the Ultimate and First Cause of all Contingent Things where they be Essences,Substances,Attributes,Qualities, Acts and Events. So the existences of secondary causes do not deny that the Existence of the First Cause that is the Divine Will/ Intention. Page 2 of 6
Page 3 of 6 In this case all the Secondary Causes are the Effects of the Primary Cause. So the Effects of Secondary Causes may be ascribed to the Primary Cause that is the Necessary Prime and Prime in Itself. So in comparison to Prime Cause the First and the Ultimate Cause any effect may be ascribed and when it is ascribed all the secondary causes become insignificant and neglectable. In some other sentence; it is sentences as follow:= The Mediate, Secondary, Inferior ,Subsidiary Contingent and Non Eternal Causes are dropped from discussion when their respective Effects are referred to the First, Primary,Ultimate, Supreme and Necessary Cause ‘ The Divine Will/Intention. According to Maturidiah the Supreme and Prime Cause the Divine Will/Intention Acteth through the Secondary, Inferior and Mediate Causes. [And Secondary Imperfect Causes do not act with out Divine Essence and cannot become independent from Divine Intention/Will.] Mu”tazilites however believed that once Divine Essence =Deity Created a Mediate Cause then the Prime and Ultimate Cause Does that is Divine Essence Doeth Not Act through them. So their effects cannot be reffered to the Divine Will/ Intention.But the very idea limits the Divine Will/ Intention and implieth that Divine Will/Intention is Not Eternal. Willingly or Unwillingly they were compelled to accept the conclusion. The result was that the believed that Divine Will/Intention is neither an Essential nor an Absolute Attribute of Divine Essence=Deity but either an active or a relative Attribute of It. But ‘Ahlussunnah Maturidiah provided the solution that Divine Attribute of Will/Intention is Essential , Absolute ,Eternal and Infinite. It worketh and acteth through Contingent , Finite and Relative Causes. This does not contradict Sciences like Physics, Aerodynamics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Fluid Mechanics etc. The laws of sciences whether prescriptive or descriptive are contingent and creation and Divine Will/Intention worketh and acteth through them. Suppose that a piece of paper is burned by fire. The fire is the cause of the Act or Event of Burning.According to Mu”tizilite View the Divine Will/Intention does not act through the Contingent and Mediate Cause, It acts by itself.According to Maturidite View the Divine Will/Intention Acteth through the Fire , as the Prime Cause acteth through the Secondary Causes whatsoever they may be. The only thing which may be ascribed to Mu”tazilites safely is that If Deity=Divine Essence doeth Will/Intent the Subsidiary Cause may be Annihilated. But if they exist they are independent of Divine Will/ Intention the Prime Cause and the Ultimate Cause. But according to Maturidites if Divine Will/Intention doeth not act through Non Divine Causes these Causes do become inactive, inert and cease to be Causes even if Not Annihilated (If the Divine Will/Intention is not to Act through them but not to Annihilate them ). Yet if Divine Will/Intention is to Annihilate them they Cease to Exist. The Divine Will/Intention is the Per Se Necessary Condition for the existence of any Contingent Thing and for the occurrence of any Contingent Event. Page 3 of 6
Page 4 of 6 Logical Absurdity. If Divine Will/Intention is an Essential Attribute Of Divine Essence then it is Logically Impossible that any Secondary and Relative Cause may act with out the Ultimate,Primary and Absolute Cause. Thus it is necessary that it Necesarity Acteth through Subsidiary and Secondary Causes other wise in Ceaseth to be the Ultimate, Absolute ,Supreme and Perfect Cause. Any Contingent Thing Ceaseth To Be A Contingent Cause If the Divine Will/Intention Doeth Not Act through It.
Now we study the two verses of Holy and Noble Qur’a:n on which some objections are made. The verses are: 1) Do they not see the birds held (flying) in the midst of the sky? None holds them but Allah …… (16:79)
2) It is your Lord who drives the ship for you through the sea that you may seek of His bounty. Indeed, He is ever, to you, Merciful. (17:66)
Birds fly in air and Ships float in Oceans [Waters]. Divine Will/Intention is the First,Prime, Ultimate,and Supreme Cause of the Flight of the Birds in air and Floating of Fleets and Ships in waters. As the Will/Intention of Divine Essence is Absolute Cause and the Non Divine Causes are Relative Cause any effect can be ascribed to the Divine Will/Intention in Primary Meaning and to the Mediate and Secondary Causes in the Secondary Meaning. So in Primary Meaning Divine Will/Intention is the cause of even things made by men and machines since men and machine are secondary Causes. It may be questioned that If Will / Intention of Divine Essence is the Primary, Ultimate and Supreme Cause then all Sciences like Aerodynamics, Physics , Quantum Mechanics etc become in vain and they all become nothing. Since they have Laws and theorems etc. The answer to This objection is that As Secondary and Mediate Laws and Causes also exist these sciences do exist and do not contradict the Primacy, Ultimacy,Supermacy,and Infinity of the Divine Will/Intention. Page 4 of 6
Page 5 of 6 It is asked that Can Divine Essence not make a Single bird that cannot function on its own. The answer is that Will of the Divine Essence is the Supreme ,Ultimate,Prime and Infinite Cause , so it necessarily acteth through each and every Contingent and Created Cause and Thing what so ever. if it acteth .So any thing which implieth negation of this nature of the Essential Attribute of Divine Will /Intention of Divine Essence is Logically Impossible. Divine Will/Intention is Essential Attribute of Divine Essence and the Intrinsic Nature of a Divine Attribute is that nothing can be independent of it. So to Create some thing self sufficient such that it is partially or totally independent of the Essential Attribute is a Logical Absurdity and Contradicts the very nature of the Essential Attribute of Will/Intention and that is Logically Absurd. This very nature of the Essential Attribute is Absolutely Identical to the Attribute. Similarly the act/event of floating of Ships and Fleet is according to the Divine Will/Intention. If there is no Divine Will all Natural Laws and Physical Laws Suspends rather Do Annihilate Immediately and Simultaneously . The Divine Will/Intention is the Prime,First,Ultimate,Perfect and Supreme Cause It doeth not Contradicteth Secontary,Relative ,Mediate and Imperfect Causes not they Contradict It as long as it funtioneth, Acteth and Effecteth Through Them. So those who look and observe the secondary causes and disbelieve in this Supreme, Ultimate and Uncreated Divine Will/Intention the Omnivolence’ they think that to ascribe all events and Contingent things to the Divine Will/Intention is to deny all Sciences and its all branches. But those who see Divine Attribute of Will/Intention/Omnivolence acteth through them it is certainly not the case that Science is denied in the least meaning/sense . So if it is asked whether Divine Essence Can Create a Living Organism or a Living Life Form which can function on its own , one must ask what does the asker means. If the asker means that after being created Divine Will/ Intention and Divine Omnipotence Do not act through it and it functions without any Divine Attribute and becomes independent just after its Creation then this implieth that Divine Attributes of Omnipotence and Omnivolence are neither Essential nor Absolute but they are Relative and Active . It is a Logical Absurdity to believe that Divine Attributes of Omnipotence and Omnivolence are Essential and Absolute yet they do not Act Through Created Things, Causes ,Events,and Occurrences. An other objection which is made in this video is that “Why to make a Bird [An Animal] which cannot act on its own i.e Which Cannot act without Divine Essential Attributes Of Will/Intention/Omnivolence and Omnipotence. The answer is that Divine Essence is the Freest of all Agents That Worketh and Acteth not by His Very Nature but by the Will/Intention. So it is the Intrinsic Freedom and there is neither any Cause of the Divine Will/Intention Since It is the Uncaused Cause nor It Hath any Reason since it is the Unreasoned Reason.Divine Omnivolence is the Supreme Reason as well as the Ultimate Reason. To suggest a reason for it is to make it a lesser reason. That is Logically Absurd if it is the Uncaused Cause and Unreasoned Reason. So the Objection Maker Who so ever the Objection Maker may be must not be a believer in the Absoluteness and Essentiality of Attributes of Divine Essence like Omnipotence and Omnivolence.The word WHY enquires either about a Cause or About a Reason, but this cannot be uses for any thing that is Unreasoned and Ultimate Reason Of All Mediate Reasons and Uncaused Cause and Ultimate Cause of All Page 5 of 6
Page 6 of 6 Mediate Causes. So any answer to the question is that it is the Intrinsic Nature of the Essential Attribute. It is Natural to Essentially Eternal and Eternally Essential Attributes of Omnivolence and Omnipotence. The Interrogative Sentence with the word Why in it cannot be used for the Ultimate Intention/Will since it can only be used or Mediate Causes and Mediate and Intermediate Reasons.The Will/Intention of Divine Essence is Supreme, Ultimate, Prime, Absolute, Eternal, Infinite and PerfectCause and Reason. It is the Uncaused Cause and Unreasoned Reason. The Inferior,Mediate, Secondary,Relative,Non Eternal,Finite and Imperfect Causes and Reasons are Different from Cause of Causes and Reason of Reasons. So the question why the Ultimate Reason and Ultimate Cause Did a Thing is fallacious. It is like a Question “Who Created the Uncreated”. Since Either there is No Uncreated Existent or there is an Uncreated Existent. In Either case the Question is Wrong and Invalid. An other question of this type is as follow: Why all the four sides of a Squire are NOT Equal? This is a fallacious question since all the four sides ofIt does appear that one who asks “Why Divine Essence Did This or That?“, is making a fallacious question, or he believes that Divine Will/Intention is not Ultimate , Absolute, Perfect , etc. It Must be noted that Divine Power is Omnipotence and Divine Will/Intention is Omnivolence. This objection is either made by an atheist or a theist who believe that Divine Essence and Essential Divine Attributes are Finite,Limited, Relative[in the meaning Not Absolute] and Not Eternal. One who either does not believe that Divine Will/ Intention acts through Secondary Causes or does not believe in Divine Essence or Believes in Finiteness of Divine Will/Intention. Or he believes that Divine Will/Intention is not only Limited and Bounded but also Mutable and Changeable.
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