You exalt whomever you will and you abase whom you will.

You exalt whomever you will and you abase whom you will. In Your hand is all that is good. No doubt you have power to do everything”. ( Surah Aale Imran , 3:26) “Surely Allah is the provider of everything and the possessor of Mighty Power”. ( Surah al-Zariyat , 51:58) “In the heaven is your providence and that which you are promised”. ( Surah al-Zariyat , 51:22) The Holy Qur’an quotes Ibrahim as having said: “He gives me food and drink. If I fall sick, He cures me.

He will cause me to die, and will bring me back to life”. ( Surah al-Shu’ara’ , 26:79 - 81) About the happy and the evil things the Qur’an says: “Say: Everything is from Allah”. ( Surah al-Nisa , 4:78) But these verses do not deny the intervention of the natural causes. Hence there is no contradiction between them and the other verses which clearly show that it is man himself who chooses the right or the right or the wrong path, acquires power and honour, and earns his livelihood.

For example, the Qur’an says: As for Thamud, We showed them the right path, but they preferred blindness to guidance, consequently they were bit by the humiliating punishment of a dreadful noise which they deserved because of their misdeeds”.

( Surah Fussilat , 41:17) Referring to the downfall of Pharaoh’s gang, the Holy Qur’an says: “That is because Allah does not withdraw the favour He has bestowed on any people unless they first change what is in their hearts, and that is because Allah is Hearer, Knower”.

( Surah al-Anfal , 8:53) Criticizing the predestinarian belief of the pagan Arabs, the Holy Qur’an says: “When it is said to them: Give in charity out of what Allah has provided you, the disbelievers say to those who believe: Are we to feed those whom Allah would feed if He willed? Surely you are in a clear error”. ( Surah Yasin , 36:47) Again the Holy Qur’an says: “Corruption has become rife in land and sea because of the misdeeds of the people”.

( Surah al-Rum , 30:41) The fact is, as already pointed out, that Allah’s Will, His Knowledge and His Decrees do not nullify the system of causation. Actually this whole infinite system springs from His Will and Knowledge and its effectiveness means the effectiveness of His Will. On this basis it is wrong to say which act is Allah’s and which is not His. Such a division is meaningless. If an act has been ascribed to some other being, it cannot be said that it is not Allah’s.

The division of work between the Creator and the created is wrong.