What does this even mean? I was sexually abused as a teenager. I went to my parents for help and they did nothing. After it happened, what was the solution, how do you “solve” solve that?
It means that the experiences you went through are something you can bear through. I do have sympathy for you if you feel like you were helpless in that situation but I saw in your other comment that it was something that happened in the kitchen when you were a waiter. Did you complain to your boss? Who was the person that did it and how did they do it? Did you call the authorities if it was something illegal done onto you? I would need more details on that. As for abandoning your parents, that was uncalled for. Maybe they were unhelpful or maybe they didn’t think it was that big of a deal because you were making too much of a fuss about it. Regardless, the solution to that is not excommunicating your parents. If your parents couldn’t do anything about that, how is that their fault. You could’ve switched jobs if you didn’t like it. Or like I said, called your boss or the authorities if it was something illegal.
These are opposites. He can’t have a planned destiny and give people free will.
These are not opposites. Free will has to do with the choices you make. Destiny has to do with the outcome/results of your choices. Allah gives you the free will to make your choices. You can choose to submit and live life according to His guidance or you can follow your own desires. Allah is not forcing you to believe because had He wanted, He could’ve made all the people in the world believers. Just because Allah knows who will believe and who won’t doesn’t mean He is forcing you. If your teachers know that you will score good on an exam, are they forcing you to do well on that test? No, because you chose to study and do well. Your teachers knowing that you will do well is not them forcing you to study and do well. Same goes for bad students. If a teacher knows a student will perform poorly on that test, it is the student’s fault for not studying. The teacher knowing who will perform good or bad is not forcing anyone. Allah guides whoever He wills, and He knows best who are the guided ones.
Right… So that would make him a bad person. If a parents punished his kids without telling them why, he’s a bad parents. If a parent leaves a child to get hurt, that’s a bad parent. This just supports my point that even if your God is real, he’s the bad guy and doesn’t deserve to be praised.
But God is not punishing those that are innocent? You can’t tell if something that happened to you is a punishment from God or God saving you from something even worse. You can only assume that if you were sinful that this is punishment from God and if you were righteous then this is a test from God. You always seem to want to try to paint God in a bad light but never once tried to understand why things happen the way they do. If you can’t understand God’s plan, then isn’t that your problem. If you don’t believe in God in the first place, then your argument about God being evil is meaningless because you don’t even understand Him. How can you claim some person is doing something evil if you don’t even know what they are doing?
It means that the experiences you went through are something you can bear through. I do have sympathy for you if you feel like you were helpless in that situation but I saw in your other comment that it was something that happened in the kitchen when you were a waiter. Did you complain to your boss? Who was the person that did it and how did they do it? Did you call the authorities if it was something illegal done onto you? I would need more details on that. As for abandoning your parents, that was uncalled for. Maybe they were unhelpful or maybe they didn’t think it was that big of a deal because you were making too much of a fuss about it. Regardless, the solution to that is not excommunicating your parents. If your parents couldn’t do anything about that, how is that their fault. You could’ve switched jobs if you didn’t like it. Or like I said, called your boss or the authorities if it was something illegal.
These are not opposites. Free will has to do with the choices you make. Destiny has to do with the outcome/results of your choices. Allah gives you the free will to make your choices. You can choose to submit and live life according to His guidance or you can follow your own desires. Allah is not forcing you to believe because had He wanted, He could’ve made all the people in the world believers. Just because Allah knows who will believe and who won’t doesn’t mean He is forcing you. If your teachers know that you will score good on an exam, are they forcing you to do well on that test? No, because you chose to study and do well. Your teachers knowing that you will do well is not them forcing you to study and do well. Same goes for bad students. If a teacher knows a student will perform poorly on that test, it is the student’s fault for not studying. The teacher knowing who will perform good or bad is not forcing anyone. Allah guides whoever He wills, and He knows best who are the guided ones.
But God is not punishing those that are innocent? You can’t tell if something that happened to you is a punishment from God or God saving you from something even worse. You can only assume that if you were sinful that this is punishment from God and if you were righteous then this is a test from God. You always seem to want to try to paint God in a bad light but never once tried to understand why things happen the way they do. If you can’t understand God’s plan, then isn’t that your problem. If you don’t believe in God in the first place, then your argument about God being evil is meaningless because you don’t even understand Him. How can you claim some person is doing something evil if you don’t even know what they are doing?