1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:08,320 A Summary of the Concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah 2 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,320 Allah, Glorified and Exalted, has two wills. 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:16,000 First, the legislative will. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,399 This refers to His commands, Glorified and Exalted, 5 00:00:18,399 --> 00:00:23,000 and His legislative obligations which He loves and is pleased with for His servants. 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,399 This is the will described as ease, 7 00:00:25,399 --> 00:00:27,399 as Allah, the Most High, said: 8 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:31,800 “The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Qur'an, a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the Criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present, let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, (let him fast the same) number of other days. Allah desireth for you ease; He desireth not hardship for you; and (He desireth) that ye should complete the period, and that ye should magnify Allah for having guided you, and that peradventure ye may be thankful.” (2:185) 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:33,329 Second, 10 00:00:33,530 --> 00:00:36,829 the cosmic, decree-based will. 11 00:00:36,829 --> 00:00:41,229 This is Allah's decree and His predestination which He ordains in the universe. 12 00:00:41,229 --> 00:00:45,229 What Allah ordains may be legislatively willed, 13 00:00:45,229 --> 00:00:47,630 or it may not be. 14 00:00:47,630 --> 00:00:51,030 As in the case of the existence of disbelief in reality. 15 00:00:51,030 --> 00:00:52,729 Allah, the Most High, said: 16 00:00:52,729 --> 00:01:00,329 “If ye are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if ye are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what ye used to do. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).” (39:7) 17 00:01:00,329 --> 00:01:01,729 So, the summary is: 18 00:01:01,829 --> 00:01:03,630 The legislative will 19 00:01:03,630 --> 00:01:07,930 is what Allah wills from us, and He loves and is pleased with. 20 00:01:07,930 --> 00:01:09,829 And the cosmic will 21 00:01:09,829 --> 00:01:12,230 is what Allah wills for us. 22 00:01:12,230 --> 00:01:15,829 And it is not necessary that He loves it and is pleased with it legislatively. 23 00:01:15,829 --> 00:01:19,730 Rather, He may forbid it and detest it religiously and legislatively. 24 00:01:19,730 --> 00:01:24,030 He only willed it by His wisdom and justice for trial, 25 00:01:24,030 --> 00:01:26,129 and for purposes we do not know, 26 00:01:26,129 --> 00:01:27,930 though He knows them. 27 00:01:28,030 --> 00:01:31,730 This is summarized by a dialogue, by allusion and implication, 28 00:01:31,730 --> 00:01:34,930 that took place between a Mu'tazilite who denies predestination 29 00:01:34,930 --> 00:01:37,750 and a Sunni who affirms Allah's decree. 30 00:01:37,750 --> 00:01:39,549 The Mu'tazilite said: 31 00:01:39,549 --> 00:01:42,750 Glorified is He who is far removed from indecency. 32 00:01:42,750 --> 00:01:48,250 He means by this that Allah does not decree evil and sins. 33 00:01:48,250 --> 00:01:49,849 The Sunni said: 34 00:01:49,849 --> 00:01:54,650 Glorified is He whose dominion is not enacted except by His will. 35 00:01:54,650 --> 00:01:59,379 He means that both good and evil are by Allah's decree. 36 00:01:59,379 --> 00:02:01,379 So the Mu'tazilite asked: 37 00:02:01,379 --> 00:02:04,480 Does our Lord love to be disobeyed? 38 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,079 The Sunni silenced him with his saying: 39 00:02:07,079 --> 00:02:11,270 Is our Lord disobeyed while He is compelled? 40 00:02:11,270 --> 00:02:14,770 A summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah.