Pride Belongs to Allah Alone
When Allah, all praise and glory is to
Him, said “Descend” He gave us its reason in His Saying, “It is not for you to
be arrogant therein”. It means that Satan was puffed up with pride and
arrogance and Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might, loves not the
arrogant. Whoever was taken by pride and wrongly believe that he himself, by
his own power, can achieve anything independent of the Power of Allah, all
praise and glory is to Him, will incur upon himself the Wrath of Almighty
Allah…. why?
Because action in this universe belongs
solely to Allah, The Exalted and Ever Majestic, no one has the power of doing except
Allah. For every action there is an adverb of time and place to happen and you
neither possess the time nor the place. No one has the power to keep himself
alive for a moment and no one has the power to move from one place to another
except by the Leave and Will of Allah. Man may even die before he stirs or he
may fall sick and lose his ability to move, so how can man or any creature of
Allah be proud, when he neither has might nor power except by the Will of
Allah.
Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
expelled Satan from the place or status he once occupied because he acted
arrogantly and insolently and imagined that he possesses self-given power.
Therefore, the Truth, Blessed and Exalted is He, said, “Get out; indeed, you are
of the debased.” It means that had you any power of your own then stay where
you are, but you will get out humiliated and disgraced. You will get out
against your will and you cannot stubbornly contend nor claim that you have a
power that will defend you or make you act contrarily to the Command of Allah,
you will get out abjectly in disgrace.
When Satan realized that pride that
swelled within his soul was fake and that in reality he, on his own, is worth
nothing his heart was filled with malice against Adam. He believed that he is
the cause of all what has happened to him: his expulsion, his sinking to the
lowest of the low and the Divine Wrath he incurred upon himself. The spite and
malice that filled the heart of Satan pushed him to the attempt of taking
revenge on Adam and his offspring. Just as his rejection to submit to Allah’s
Command of prostrating to Adam cast him into Hellfire, he wants to drive Adam
and his offspring to Hellfire, a revenge for what befell him. And just as Satan
was expelled from Allah’s Mercy, he wants to expel Adam and his offspring from
Allah’s Mercy. He wants to avenge himself on Adam for being the cause of all
what befell him, from damnation and expulsion, him and whoever follows him. He
does not want to enter Hellfire alone! But he wants to cram therein whomever he
can lead astray from mankind.
Therefore, when Satan got out abjectly
disgraced from the place he once dwelt, he addressed Allah, all praise and
glory is to Him, saying as narrates the Noble Qur’an, what means:
“[Satan] said,
‘Reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected.’” (Al-A’râf, 7: 14)
Thus, Satan returned to servility,
asking Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, to keep him alive till
Resurrection Day, after being blown-up with pride. Had this pride been real and
not fake and had he really possessed a power of his own he would not have asked
Allah to keep him alive till Resurrection Day and he would have kept himself
alive, but he neither has power nor might except by the Will of Allah, thus he
turned to Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, to grant him his request.
But why did Allah, Blessed and Exalted
is He, respond to the call of Satan when He could have destroyed him instantly?
Why did Allah, Whose Majesty reigns Supreme, says what means:
“[Allah] said,
‘Indeed, you are of those reprieved.’” (Al-A’râf, 7: 15)
Also in Surah Al-Hijr:
“[Allah] said, ‘So
indeed, you are of those reprieved, until the Day of the time well-known.’”
(Al-Hijr, 15: 37-38)
Allah answered his demand – though he
is the one outcast from His Mercy – because only with it the wisdom behind
creating worldly life is complete. Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
created worldly life as an abode of trial and the Hereafter as an abode of
recompense. Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might, wants to test His
servant in the life of this world, to put them to trial before being requited.
Recite the Saying of the Truth, Blessed and Exalted is He, which means:
“Or do you think
that you will enter Paradise while Allah has not yet made evident those of you
who fight in His cause and made evident those who are steadfast?” (Âl-‘Imrân,
3: 142)
And His Saying, all glory is to Him,
which means:
“So that Allah
might test what is in your breasts and purify what is in your hearts. And Allah
is Knowing of that within the breasts.” (Âl-‘Imrân, 3: 154)
Had Allah, all praise and glory is to
Him, willed to create all His creatures compelled to obey as the angels, He
would have easily done it. And had Allah willed that all the people of the
earth obey His Law and that all of them be glorifiers and worshippers again He
would have easily done it. But Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might,
has chosen creatures that come to Him compelled, as angels and others from His
creatures, and has chosen mankind and jinn exclusively to come to Him willingly
out of love. They are both capable of sinning, but they forbear because they
love Allah. And they are both capable of disobedience, but they obey to draw
near Allah. Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, wants creatures who comes to
Him willingly and lovingly in a period of trial limited by the lifetime of
every person.
After death we will be compelled to
submit to the Will of Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, because while
dying man’s power of free will completely ends, and he loses even his willpower
over his own body. Volition is in worldly life only; at the hour of death and
during the life of Barzakh [the grave as the barrier or the intermediate realm
that separates between this world and the other world from the time of death
till the time of Resurrection ], and on Resurrection Day, none will have a will
of his own. The disbeliever shall be driven to the Hellfire and he will try to
stop his legs from walking but they will not. He will try to push away the fire
by his hands but they will not push. He will try to escape from standing before
Allah, and to flee from torment but he will not be able to. All the might and
power he once had in worldly life will end. The Noble Qur’an depicts this
picture saying what means:
“If those who
disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their
faces or from their backs and they will not be aided....” (Al-Anbiyâ’, 21: 39)
No comments:
Post a Comment