Message #3862

[N. Truth Seeker]

Yet whatever we end up doing, that was actually all preordained.

Yes brother that's absolutely right but preordained on the basis of our own future merits.  and this capability to promote or demote our merits is itself a characteristic preordained by Allah in our own best interest and making us responsible for our deeds.  Therefor we are not locked up in one particular path of either good or bad.  But both lie before us.  If we choose the bad one, we bring upon ourselves our own doom and if we choose the good one, we reap the fruits of it through our own efforts.

Angels and all other living beings on earth (animals, birds, fishes, insects etc.) except humans and Jinns are not able to choose their path of behaviour.  With them it's only obedience to Allah.  Humans and Jinns can make this choice and that's why they are answerable to Allah.  But there's no such set of creatures who can't chose their actions because Allah has bound them only to disobedience.  Satan is the only creature on this path who has been obtracised by Allah because of his own wrong doing.  Definitely Allah knew the future of Satan's disobedient conduct beforehand and hence this was preordained by Allah, but on account of Satan's own actions.  Satan's disobedience was satan's own choice by which he failed the test when Allah commanded him to prostrate before Adam.  Therefor, Allah's condemnation of satan comes through satan's own act.  Satan wronged himself and became one of the owners of hellfire.  The concept and pattern is primarily the same with humans and other jinns as well.