You Will Only Because Allah Willed for You to Have a Will - Ousama Alshurafa

Subscribe for more! https://www.youtube.com/@muslimi?sub_confirmation=1 You do not will unless Allah wills. Most of us know that translation. But there is a deeper reading that changes everything. Ousama Alshurafa shares a reflection from scholar Hamza Al Bakri on a verse most Muslims have heard countless times. The standard translation is clear. Your will is subordinate to Allah's will. But the deeper reading of the same verse carries something even more profound. You will only because Allah willed for you to have a will in the first place. That distinction is not just linguistic. It is liberating. For Ousama, hearing it for the first time solved questions that had been sitting unresolved in his mind for years. If Allah simply overrides your choices at every turn, what is the point of accountability? Why would judgment make sense on the Day of Judgment? The answer is embedded in the verse itself. Allah gave you genuine free will. He willed for you to have it. The choice is really yours. And because the choice is really yours, the accountability is real too. And yet even that free will, even the capacity to choose, is itself a gift from Allah. The act of choosing ultimately belongs to Him in the sense that He is the One who granted you the ability to choose at all. That is not a contradiction. It is the most honest description of the human condition in the Quran. #Muslimi #OusamaAlshurafa #FreeWill #Qadar #IslamicTheology