Soru 150: Yüce Allah, Kitabında, Elçisinin diliyle ve Sıfatları aracılığıyla bize bildirmiştir ki, O, sadaka verenleri, takva sahiplerini ve sabredenleri sever; iman edip salih amel işleyenlerden razı olur. Kâfirlerden ve azgınlardan hoşlanmaz ve kulların küfründen ya da fesadından hoşnut olmaz. Bütün bunlar, yine de yalnızca Allah'ın Dilemesi ve İradesi ile gerçekleşir; O'nun İradesi olsaydı bunların hiçbiri vuku bulmazdı, çünkü O'nun Mülkünde, O'nun İzni ve İradesi olmadan hiçbir şey meydana gelmez. Öyleyse, "Allah'ın, hoşlanmadığı ya da istemediği şeyi dilediği ve irade ettiği nasıl kabul edilebilir?" diyene verilecek cevap ne olmalıdır?
Q 150: Allah the Almighty informed us in His Book, on the tongue of His Messenger, and through His Attributes that He loves the charitable, pious and patient ones and that He is pleased with those who believed and observed good deeds. And that He dislikes the disbelievers and the transgressors and He does not satisfy Himself with the disbelief of His slaves or their mischief. Though all this is only done by the Will of Allah and His Wish and that had it been His .Will, nothing of these would have been done as nothing can be observed throughout His Dominion without His Consent and Will. So, what should the answer be to the one who says: How can it be heeded that Allah wills and wishes what He dislikes or does not want?
A--- Bilinmelidir ki nasslarda geçen "İrade" iki anlamdadır:
A--- One should know that "the Will" mentioned in the texts is of two meanings:
(a) Evrensel Takdir İradesi: Allah'ın sevgi ya da hoşnutlukla ilgisi olmayan, ancak küfrü, imanı, itaat amellerini, günah amellerini, hoşnut edici amelleri, sevilen ve sevilmeyen şeyleri vb. kapsayan İlahi iradedir. Bu tür "irade"den ne mümin ne de kâfir kaçabilir; bu kaçınılmazdır. Yüce Allah şöyle buyurur: {Allah kimi doğru yola iletmek isterse, onun göğsünü İslam'a açar; kimi de saptırmak isterse, göğsünü daraltıp sıkar}. (En'am, 125)
(a) A Universal Pre-ordainment Will: which is the Divine Will that has no correlation with love or pleasantness, but, it implies disbelief, faith, deeds of obedience, deeds of disobedience, satisfactory deeds, what is beloved, and what is disliked, etc. This type of "Will" can not be escaped by anyone - believer and disbeliever -; it is inevitable. Almighty Allah says: {And whomsoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his breast to Islam; and whomsoever He wills to send astray, He makes his breast closed and constricted}. (Al-An' am, 125)