You-azwj Grown them a growth and Settled them in Your-azwj skies...

You-azwj Grown them a growth and Settled them in Your-azwj skies, and You-azwj Honoured them with Your-azwj vicinity and Trusted them upon Your-azwj Revelation, and Kept them away from the disabilities, and Saved them from the afflictions, and Purified them from the sins.

And had it not been for Your-azwj Strengthening, they would not have been strong, and had it not been for Your-azwj Affirmation, they would not have been affirmed, and had it not been for Your-azwj Mercy, they would not have obeyed, and had it not been for You-azwj, they would not have come into being. But they are upon their places from You-azwj, and their obeying You-azwj, and their status with You-azwj, and the scarcity of their heedlessness about Your-azwj Command.

Had they witnessed what is hidden from them from You-azwj, they would have belittled their own deeds, and faulted upon themselves, and they would have known that they have not worshipped You-azwj as is the right of worshipping You-azwj. Glory be to You-azwj, Creator and Deity! How excellent is Your-azwj Trial with Your-azwj creation!’’[5] Amir Al-Momineen-asws was asked about the Pre-determination.

It was said to him-asws, ‘Inform us about the Pre-determination, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws!’ So, Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Do not investigate it’. It was said to him-asws for a second time, ‘Inform us about the Pre-determination, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws!’ He-asws said: ‘A deep ocean, do not dive into it’. It was said to him-asws, ‘Inform us about the Pre-determination’.

He-asws said: ‘Whatever Mercy Allah Opens to the people, so there is none to withhold it, and whatever He Withholds, there is no sender to him from after Him, [35:2]. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! But rather, we are asking you-asws about the capability by which we are standing and sitting’.

He-asws said: ‘Do you possess capability with Allah-azwj or besides Allah-azwj?’ The people were silent and did not respond an answer, so he-asws said: ‘If you were to say that you are possessing it with Allah-azwj, I-asws will kill you, and if you say, besides Allah-azwj, I-asws will (still) kill you!’ They said, ‘How should we be saying, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws?’ He-asws said: ‘You are possessing it by which He-azwj Made you to possess besides you all, so if He-azwj Supports you with it, that would be from His-azwj Gifts, and if He-azwj were to Withdraw it, that would be from His-azwj Afflictions.