Freewill & Destiny | Mufti Abu Layth

[Music] where you three will free will all right this is it familiar face thinking crime watch this let's think it familiar face thing right so oh you are from with me that explains right so right so this is to start off with it's one of the most I

mean it's not a really a started question one of the most complicated questions that you could ever ask but within any I mean any discipline especially religion how do we explain predetermination in and then in light of free will in light of you adding to the equation the omnipotent sand the omniscience of Allah and how do I deliver so it's not simple people previously have struggled massively with this question and the general kind of

understanding that you have in textbooks is it in my I don't know this is my reading of a lot of the times it's almost a bit of gymnastics going on because they don't people don't know how to explain so how can you explain that just look at the complexity of what you're asking you're asking how can God be all you know I know this ties into the other kind of theodicy question as well but how can God be all powerful all willing and you have free will which clashes with the free will of the divine and you can cause harm and he can choose to

ignore it and he can still instruct that it doesn't happen and so all these kind of things how does this how does any of it make sense then what is the purpose of so there's a lot of huge ramifications I don't think I can just simply say well all these people came and struggled for you know even pre Islam but with Islam Islamic theologians and then here's the answer but what I would say is that in our recent times we have maybe somewhat of a I don't know if it's a clearer but maybe a step towards the answer we've

probably step more close to closer to clarity than they were in light of things like science and quantum physics and taking a look at things like this they actually offer a certain explanation through the laws of physics so you could see those of you here that are familiar with things like the the quantum eraser and the delayed choice kind of experiment things like this I explained this on my Monday nights with mostly this one just gone so you can watch that for more detail but I mean otherwise you can just YouTube just look up things like the double slit experiment how that works and then the

delayed quantum eraser choice and how I mean in in a very brief nutshell the quantum world upon observation collapses those of you you probably know that I mean anybody here studying physics physics okay so right here what's your what's your name Adrian right so Adrian's got it right there right so the thing is as you know upon observation the quantum world kind of collapses in its in its operation now there's different interpretations to that the

Copenhagen interpretation or the multiverse theory but the point is on experiments to see that even with the delay choice of observing what's going on it really happens to rewrite itself I mean you can just go on youtube and watch the things but obviously this is in in the quantum world with but not in to us we won't be able to observe this like to be using apparatus and using things like when photons are emitted and they record it but when so they're recording you but they're choosing not to observe it or they're not sure whether it will get observed I

mean very explaining in detail the Meccan is that once you choose to know it actually rewrites itself and that sounds crazy but I mean if you watch it the delayed choice experiment and you start to see that oh so this is it's really weird but time-space as as you're familiar with things like obviously Einstein had explained time-space is one it's not the way people had perceived them as separate phenomenon but time-space is not how we have been imagining it and multiple things are perhaps occurring definitely at a

quantum level simultaneously and upon choice one of them is manifesting now that is sounds crazy but this is actually tested data it's not something that you know to just so-so it brings us a step closer to understanding when scholars had explained that all things are a potential but which one manifests is what you eventually choose to do so the way I explain predestination is like

a computer game a video game so you could say well the game had to have been designed and all potentiality had to have been designed so whether you clock the game or you die in level one or you decide to take this route or that route or you get to stage three or you be extra powers along the way or whatever you do had to have been a potential somebody had to have they had to have been options but where you get to is up to the ability and the capacity of the player so you can't change the whole game all of a sudden but you can get to

different levels what manifests is your ability and in a similar obviously not identical but in a similar way that's well we believe that Allah would know God through His infinite knowledge would know the choice but you have freewill that is in my understanding the best way to look at this I know people have taken other proper brooches that we are just absolutely fixed now I know we are fixed in certain things predetermination even biologically your genes DNA determines certain things that you will always do your but you can can I mean you can have

interventions so a good example is like saying being left-handed any who's left-handed here so the thing is you see now being so for example that is biological being right-handed or left-handed but it already sets a trajectory it already sets a trajectory I mean they say 10% of the people are left-handed yet almost over 50% of significant people are always left-handed like people become leaders rule is disproportionate I mean are they pre-wired with certain capacities to

think in different ways I mean this so yes a certain level of biology has been predetermined by your DNA so we're not saying that predetermination doesn't but they can they can be interventions people can change they can enhance so these are complicated questions I think but we do have some people just had this understanding of we are fixed you know : Messiah Lima Lima holy Tala and they use that kind of Hadees to say well everybody's just fixed Allah created you to be in this way and Allah is doing everything and as opposed to saying Allah has set laws into motion and you

are adopting and making utilizing those laws that Allah is literally doing everything which then in my understanding throws a huge spanner in the understanding of of allah and what is the the purpose of the test and what is the purpose of trial and what is the purpose of reward what is the purpose of anything if it's on to just say well I've designed the whole thing rigged the whole thing and I'm just going to I mean to me doesn't really make much sense so that is best understanding that I would say that I've explained okay