Ijma' as-Salaf fi al-I'tiqad - Al-Kirmani - (41)

• Allah’s knowledge (1)—mighty and majestic is He—prevails over His creation by His own will. From the first moment our Lord (2), blessed and exalted, was disobeyed until the Hour is established, He has known the disobedience of Iblis and of every other sinner, and He created them for that disobedience; and He has known the obedience of the people of obedience (3) and created them for it. Thus every one of them (4) acts according to that for which he was created (5) and will unfailingly arrive at what has been decreed for him and already known of him (6). No one among them (7) can overstep Allah’s decree and will, and Allah is the Doer of whatever He wills (8).

• Whoever (9) claims that Allah (10), blessed and exalted is He, willed good and obedience for those servants who nevertheless disobeyed Him, while the servants themselves willed evil and disobedience for themselves and then acted on their own will, is in fact claiming that the servants’ will outweighs (11) the will of Allah—blessed and exalted is He—

(1) Supplied from the T and H manuscripts. (2) Omitted in T and H. (3) T and H read: min ahl al-ta‘a (among the obedient). (4) T reads: wa-kull (and every). (5) Present in T and H; the Q manuscript has: bima yukhlaqu lahu (according to what he is created for). (6) Absent from H. (7) T reads: la ya‘du wahid (does not go beyond one); H reads: la ya‘du ahad (does not go beyond anyone), without the conjunction. (8) T reads: wa-Allah al-fa‘il lima yurid, al-fa‘‘al lima yasha’ (and Allah is the agent of what He wills, the doer of what He wishes). (9) T and H read: wa-man (and whoever). (10) Missing in T; H adds: subhanahu (Glorified is He). (11) T reads: aghlaz (harsher).

* وعِلمُ الله [عَزَّ وَجَلَّ] (١) ماضٍ في خلقه بمشيئة منه، قد عَلِمَ من إبليس ومن غيره ممن عصاه -من لدن أن عُصي [ربنا] (٢) -تبارك وتعالى- إلى أن تقوم الساعة- المعصيةَ وخلقهم لها، وعلم الطاعة من أهل طاعته (٣) وخلقهم لها، فكل (٤) يعمل لما خُلق (٥) له، وصائر إلى ما قُضي عليه، [وعُلم منه] (٦) ، ولا يعدو أحد (٧) منهم قَدَرَ الله ومشيئته، والله الفعّال لما يريد (٨) . * فمن (٩) زعم أن الله [تبارك وتعالى] (١٠) شاء لعباده الذين عصوه الخير والطاعة، وأن العباد شاءوا لأنفسهم الشر والمعصية، فعملوا على مشيئتهم، فقد زعم أن مشيئة العباد أغلب (١١) من مشيئة الله -تبارك وتعالى-

(١) من (ط) و (ح). (٢) لا توجد في (ط) و (ح). (٣) في (ط) و (ح): من أهل الطاعة. (٤) في (ط): وكل. (٥) من (ط) و (ح)، وفي (ق): بما يخلق له. (٦) لا توجد في (ح). (٧) في (ط): لا يعدو واحد، وفي (ح): لا يعدو أحد بإسقاط الواو. (٨) في (ط): والله الفاعل لما يريد، الفعال لما يشاء. (٩) في (ط) و (ح): ومن. (١٠) لا توجد في (ط)، وفي (ح): سبحانه. (١١) في (ط): أغلظ.