A date with Allah tonight perhaps ? ...Yes, please !

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Mar 19, 2007 at 19:10

Hi , dhimmi no more !

Thanks a lot for your elucidations! I always appreciate the way you can clarify things in Islamic terms.

> What our dear al-mu3tadil does not get is that based on the defective islamic theology, we have the doctrine of al-qada' qa al-qadr or pre-destination (there is no free will in Islam) which means that everything you or I do is pre-planned by Allah period and there is no free will. So if you or I go on a date next time think of it this way: Allah planned it !

A curious theological problem might arise in this context - can a Muslim(a) ( or a kaffir(a) ) have a date with Allah ? If Allah planned this particular date tonight , then couldn't He theoretically plan a date for himself next evening just for fun of it , to show He can all even such improbable things as dating ? ... If e.g. a pious Muslim(a) would like to have a date with Him after the evening prayer ? What's wrong about a love-making Allah ? A pious Moslem can't even imagine such things but Allah ? Allah's imagination is capable of everything after all , isn't it ?

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