E.g.:
The hadeeth of istikhara, whereby the Muslim asks for
Allahs guidance in a certain affair saying
"O my Lord, I ask your guidance due to your
knowledge and appeal to you to help me (give me power)
due to your ability, and ask you from your great favour,
for you are able and I am not, you know and I don't and
you know all hidden matters. 0 Allah if you know that
this matter (and you name it) is good for me in my deen,
my livelihood,, the aftermath of my matter (also for my
life in the Hereafter) its long term and short term then
decree it for me, make it easy for me and bestow
blessings in it for me. And if you know that this matter
is bad for me in my deen, livelihood, the aftermath of my
matter, its long term and short term, then keep it away
from me and turn me away from it and for me the good
wherever it is and then content me with it."
(Bukhari).
The
slave of Allah needs to know what benefits him in his
livelihood. Is he able to achieve it? is it going to be
easy or not? Certainly Allah taught him from what he
taught man. So the knowledge is His. The slaves ability
is from Allah, otherwise he is weak, making matters easy
is also from Allah. If He does not make things easy for
His slave they will turn out difficult. The prophet
directed the Muslim to the essence of Uboodiyah. Asking
guidance from the one who is All Knowing about the Mter
math of every task, its details, its good and its bad;
seeking the help and Ability from the All Able, Asking
His favour by making the matters easy for him. If Allah
guides him due to his ability and makes it easy for him.
If Allah guides him due to His knowledge, helps him due
to his Ability and makes it easy for him due to His
favour, then he needs Allahs help to preserve his
guidance and to bestow blessings in it, so that his
matter (what he asked for) becomes firm and grows. The
person requests that Allah makes him content with His
choice, otherwise Allah may choose what the person
dislikes not knowing that it is good for him. Abdullah
ibn Umar said, "The person asks Allaah for guidance
and Allah gives him. However he turns angry on His Lord,
only to look at the aftermath and find that Allah indeed
has chosen (what is good) for him."
The
maqdoor (what shall happen according to Allahs divine
decree) is sheltered by 2 things:
1. Istikhara, before (i.e. before the maqdoor is
manifested) and
2. Ridha
(content) after (i.e. after its manifestation)
Part of the success which Allah bestows on His slave is
to guide him to Istikara before the manifestation of the maqdoor and to
contentment after it happens. Part of Allah's humiliation of His slave is
when he does not make Istikhara before the maqdoor occurs and does not become
content with it after it happens.
2. AL KITABAH-THE WRITINGS
A. Fifty Thousand Years Before The Creation of
the heavens and the Earth
Al Kitabah means that Allah wrote everything about the
creation. He has written what He says and what He does and all that comes to
existence due to His actions and sayings. All is written in Umm ul kitab (lit:
the mother of the book) known also as (al-Lauh al-Mahfoudh) The preserved tablet
and (Ad dhikr) the original book of records. Allah says which means):
"Do not you know that Allah knows All that
is in the Heaven and on earth? Verily, it is all in the
book. Verily! That is easy for Allah"(22:70)
The prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) explained that
"Allah had written the ordained measures (and due
proportions) of the creation, fifty thousand years before
the creation of the heavens and the earth and His Arsh
was on the water" (saheeh Muslim v4 pg. 1397)
Allah
ordered The Pen (Al-qalam) to write the records of all
preordained measures and qualities unit; the hour is
established.
Narrated
Abee Hafsah: Ubaadah bin saamit said to his son: "Oh
son! You shall not get the true sense of eemaan until you
know that what has befallen you was not going to miss you
and what missed you was not going to befall upon you. I
heard the prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) saying: