{"id":5570,"date":"2019-11-01T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2019-11-01T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:00:19","slug":"why-did-allah-create-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/why-did-allah-create-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Allah create evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of this is a wrong question bc Allah doesn&#8217;t create full evil __i.e: all His actions are good yet the evil happens bc of our sins<\/p>\n<p>You must be certain that evil is not from Allah but uses it to warn you if you are Non Muslim and forgive your sins if you are Muslim<\/p>\n<p>Allah says<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut whenever good came to them, they said: \u2018Ours is this.\u2019 And if evil afflicted them, they ascribed it to evil omens connected with Moosa (Moses) and those with him\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[al-A\u2019raaf 7:131]<\/p>\n<p><strong>So evil is punishment of sins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shaykh Ibn \u2018Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:<\/p>\n<p>Allaah says :<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if some good reaches them, they say, \u2018This is from Allaah,\u2019 but if some evil befalls them, they say, \u2018This is from you (O Muhammad \u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645).\u2019 Say: \u2018All things are from Allaah\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[al-Nisa\u2019 4:78],<\/p>\n<p>Prophet Muhammad of course says<\/p>\n<p>By the One in Whose hand is my soul, no worry or grief or hardship befalls a believer, not even a thorn that pricks him, but Allaah will expiate some of his sins thereby.\u201d End quote. Tafseer al-Qur\u2019aan il \u2018Azeem (2\/361-363).<\/p>\n<p>\u2698 Then in the next verse He says : \u201cWhatever of good reaches you, is from Allaah, but whatever of evil befalls you, is from yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Qataadah said:<br \/>\n\u201cWhatever of good reaches you, is from Allaah, but whatever of evil befalls you, is from yourself\u201d [means] it is a punishment, O son of Adam, for your sins. And he said: We are told that the Prophet of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo man is scratched by a thorn, or stumbles, or has a twitching in a vein, except for a sin, and what Allaah forgives is greater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2698And as Allaah says ;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd among mankind is he who worships Allaah as it were upon the edge (i.e. in doubt): if good befalls him, he is content therewith; but if a trial befalls him he turns back on his face (i.e. reverts to disbelief after embracing Islam). He loses both this world and the Hereafter\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[al-Hajj 22:11]<\/p>\n<p><strong>So let&#8217;s return to Allah and then he will treat us as this Ayah says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7:96) And if the people of the towns had believed and had the Taqwa (piety), certainly, We should have opened for them blessings from the heaven and the earth, but they belied (the Messengers). So We took them (with punishment) for what they used to earn (polytheism and crimes, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Therefore the only solution is repentance to Allah not disbelief or blaming Allah<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f33f;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f33f;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f33f;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f33f;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f33f;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iblees the father of evil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>satan refused to prostrate in honor to Adam<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f447;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n39. (Iblis) said: &#8220;O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,-<\/p>\n<p>40. &#8220;Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>41. (Allah) said: &#8220;This (way of My sincere servants) is indeed a way that leads straight to Me.<\/p>\n<p>43. And verily, Hell is the promised abode for them all!<\/p>\n<p>44. To it are seven gates: for each of those gates is a (special) class (of sinners) assigned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Absolute evil is not by Allah at all.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_4ay8 _3kkw\">&#x25aa;\ufe0e<\/span><span class=\"_4ay8 _3kkw\">&#x25aa;\ufe0e<\/span><span class=\"_4ay8 _3kkw\">&#x25aa;\ufe0e<\/span><span class=\"_4ay8 _3kkw\">&#x25aa;\ufe0e<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another answer from the angel of Al Qadar Predestination<\/p>\n<p>Qadar is the 6th pillar of faith and ALL Muslims have to believe in them Is devided into two parts<\/p>\n<p>1- Absolute evil and purposeful evil<\/p>\n<p>2- Absolute evil does not befit Allah.<\/p>\n<p>Allah will never permit absolute or pure evil from Him on earth, no way!<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s zero per cent goodness\/ Good ordainment. And WHAT WE CONSIDER AS bad evil<\/p>\n<p>It is the purposeful evil<\/p>\n<p>Allah will put you to test to raise your rank<\/p>\n<p>Think of Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<p>His teacher said his exams were full of errors but later got Nobel Prise 1921<\/p>\n<p>Think of<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Edison was expelled from the school because teachers thought that \u201che was too stupid to learn anything.\u201d Later, he invented many things such as light bulb,<\/p>\n<p>registered more than 1000 patents. His overall schooling is 3 Months<\/p>\n<p>Think of poor scientists who became so rich afterwards<\/p>\n<p>Nutshell<span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f447;&#x1f3fb;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Allah DOES not cause pure\/absolute evil<\/p>\n<p>But purposeful evil<\/p>\n<p>Though you see something bad even the death of your son at a young age .<\/p>\n<p>In that is goodness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f380;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f380;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f380;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f380;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f380;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Look at the story of Khidr with Moses in Surat El Kahf<\/p>\n<p>In that are many lessons to learn<\/p>\n<p>Al khidr did crimes in the eyes of Moses but they were benefits in the eyes of Allah<\/p>\n<p>As Allah knew That son would have become rough and tough a criminal who would spoil the land and would have render his parents disbelievers<\/p>\n<p>Al khidr<\/p>\n<p>1. Killed a son .<\/p>\n<p>2. Caused a ship to dive<\/p>\n<p>3- Didnt accept hosting of the people<\/p>\n<p>4- Worked with no wage<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f30f;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f30f;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f30f;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a story in Surat Cave which brings 3 types of destiny<\/p>\n<p>They all look evil for us but in them is the good that only Allah knows<\/p>\n<p>1. known fate:<\/p>\n<p>After it happens you realise it&#8217;s not evil but it was good for u<\/p>\n<p>2. Unknown fate:<\/p>\n<p>You will never know why<\/p>\n<p>3. The third fate will never known by anybody except Allah<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f447;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f447;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f447;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f6a9;<\/span><\/span>Ayah 79<span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x2198;<\/span><\/span> is the destiney welfare that Allah showed to Moses<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Ask A Muslim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of this is a wrong question bc Allah doesn&#8217;t create full evil __i.e: all His actions are good yet the evil happens bc of our sins You must be certain that evil is not from Allah but uses it to warn you if you are Non Muslim and forgive your sins if you are &#8230; <a title=\"Why did Allah create evil?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/why-did-allah-create-evil\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why did Allah create evil?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-allegations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Site Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/author\/admin2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":46,"uagb_excerpt":"First of this is a wrong question bc Allah doesn&#8217;t create full evil __i.e: all His actions are good yet the evil happens bc of our sins You must be certain that evil is not from Allah but uses it to warn you if you are Non Muslim and forgive your sins if you are&hellip;","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcT0IL-1rQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5667,"url":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/what-does-islam-say-on-slave-rape\/","url_meta":{"origin":5570,"position":0},"title":"What does Islam say on slave rape?","author":"Site Admin","date":"12\/02\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"First of all slavery takes place only during war Shaykh al-Shanqeeti (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The reason for which people may be taken as slaves is if they are kaafirs who are waging war against Allaah and His Messenger. 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