The Divine Knowledge of the acts and deeds of the beings...

The Divine Knowledge of the acts and deeds of the beings having freedom of will does not mean compulsion at all. It means just the opposite. Men must enjoy the freedom of will with which they have been endowed. He was right who said that it is height of ignorance to regard Divine Knowledge as the cause of sinning. All this was about Divine Knowledge from the angle of its being eternal and prior to every happening.

It is this aspect of Divine Knowledge which the Qur’an has called the Book, the Protected Tablet, the Pen etc. Anyhow it should be remember that while all things in this world and its entire system of causation are known to Allah, they at the same time constitute His Knowledge also. This world and all its systems are Allah’s Knowledge as well as known…