Q&A: If Only God Guides, Why Call People to Faith? | Dr. Shabir Ally

welcome back now we'll take your questions if you have a question yourself send it to as ad and speaks calm dr. shreya the question today this is one part of it and we'll save the other part for later no Ryan says Allah guides whom he wants and if you make someone go astray you won't find a way for him so what is the point of Muslims going doing jihad or Dawa to convert people if only Allah can do it and this question is being asked someone said I'm an atheist okay first of all we shouldn't be doing jihad to convert people regardless of anything else that that's not the meaning of jihad that's a distortion but as for Allah guiding people so what's the point of doing Dawa giving them the message if it's only God that will guide them as well pray to God and say God guide a person and everything God didn't guide the person pray some more about the guide a person was the point of complete validation if it seems to be right in in pointing to a certain problem here and in the way in which things are commonly said but the background of this and the reality is that when the Quran tells us about what God is doing that does not exclude the fact that the flip side of that is that there is a human process or a natural process behind it so if we say for example God gave me this baby thank God but of course we notice a mechanism by which babies are born so they're saying that God gave me the baby is not contrary to applying all of the mechanisms and doing all of the right things to have a baby and it goes for the food we eat the water we drink we always thank God we give him the credit but there is a process so what what's the process here in terms of guidance if a person is seeking guidance he will get the guidance and we say that God guided the person but that doesn't mean that the person wasn't seeking the guidance himself or herself maybe somebody was reading a book maybe they spoke to somebody they watched a documentary and in all these different ways they've been guiding themselves so we can say that God guided them or we can say that the guided themselves and the misguidance is just the reverse of that a person is going into wrong things and seeking things that are contrary to the ways of God so that person is seeking miss guidance and we can say that God miss guides this person as well so nothing happens without God's will and permit but God allows a certain scope for human choice and freedom so when humans have applied their choice of their freedom of choice in either choosing good or bad we say that God is either guiding them or misguiding them it's like they're two sides of the same coin we look at it from one side and say that God is acting we can look at it from the other side and say that the human being is acting yeah so if we say god is acting we're not excluding the fact that the human being is doing it as well they're working in parallel so it's about both parties making doing their part exactly now the Quran of course is reminding us of that which we don't see we see the natural processes so the Quran does not actually tell us about the natural processes though sometimes it does but most of the quran emphasizes the divine action which we would not have thought about so much the quran is emphasizing that because that's the purpose of the divine revelation to reveal to us the secrets about god as much as would be beneficial for us here in this life at this point perfect thank you very much luxury you're welcome hey youtube we hope you benefited from this video if you liked it or if you did let us know in the comments below and if you're interested in learning more check out some of our other videos and don't forget to subscribe so you can get new videos every Monday Wednesday and Friday

Channel: Let the Quran Speak

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Keywords: Dr. Shabir Ally, Quran, Muhammad, Islam, Aisha Khaja, Let the Quran Speak, Koran, muslim, mecca, Allah, Islamic, Shabir, Imam, Mosque

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Length: 3min 33sec (213 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2017