Living Links: The Precious Pearl, 13 of 21

Content Outline:
0:0:14 Du’a/Asalaamu Alaikum (Faraz Khan)
0:01:00 Allah is the Creator of All: Act and Effects (I)
0:05:20 Allah is the Creator of All: Act and Effects (II)
0:09:05 Human Acquisition (Kesp)
0:13:00 The Divine Promise and The Divine Threat
0:14:42 Allah Cannot Break A Promise
0:17:34 Can Allah Break His Threat
0:21:56 The Divine Threat to Sinful Believers: Asharis
0:26:11 The Divine Threat to Sinful Believers: Maturidis
0:30:20 Where do the Asharis and Maturidis Differ
0:33:31 The Happy and the Damned
0:37:35 Current State vs Final State
0:41:30 Allah Knew and Willed
0:45:11 The Servant Owns His Own Actions
0:51:41 The Action
0:56:35 Freedom vs Will
01:01:44 Divine Grace and Divine Justice
01:03:33 The Problem of Suffering
01:08:08 Paradise by Allah’s Mercy Only

Comments, Questions and Answers

01:10:25 Question 1: The Maturidi position regarding one person having to go to Hell, does that violate the law of non contradiction?
01:13:28 Question 2: Regarding the categories of the obedient believers, disbelievers and sinful believers, why didn’t the Asharis see all the categories as they saw the last category?
01:18:35 Question 3: Why for the ayah saying Allah does not forgive shirk, it is an absolute as for other threats there is an implicit “If I Will.”?
01:22:02 Question 4: Lets say Someone intended to do an act to please Allah, then later they talk about it later, did their intention change?
01:23:57 Question 5: If Someone wanted to negate a bad action how would one go about that?
01:27:10 Question 6: We know that tawbah washes away our bad deeds, what about the case with the Muslim being in the obedient servants group?
01:28:20 Question 7: Somebody said that a perfect being is in need of nothing but the Quran say that Allah has ‘wants’. How do we reconcile this?
01:30:26 Question 8: Does everyone in this day and time get the message of Allah’s oneness or are som excluded since our master Muhammad SAW came over 1400 years ago?

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