In reply, it is said to him:

It has already been explained that the rigorous scholars among Ahl al-Sunnah say: [Indeed,](1) will is of two kinds: the will pertaining to creation and the will pertaining to command.(2) The will pertaining to command means that He wills the person commanded(3) to do what He has commanded, while the will pertaining to creation means that He Himself wills to create what He brings into being, whether the acts of His servants or anything else. A command necessarily entails the first kind of will, but not the second.

In this sense, Allah Most High commanded the unbeliever to do what He willed from him—namely, that which(4) He loves and with which He is pleased—and forbade him the disobedience that He did not will from him [that is, He neither loves it nor is pleased with it in this sense],(5) for He does not approve disbelief for His servants and does not love corruption.

Allah Most High says:

“as they conspire by night to say things that do not please Him.”

[Surah al-Nisā’: 108]

The will(6) pertaining to creation is the volition that necessarily entails the occurrence of what is willed. This will applies only to what comes into existence: whatever Allah wills comes to pass, and whatever He does not will does not come to pass. There is a distinction between His willing to perform an act Himself—which inevitably comes to pass because He is able to do whatever He wills, for when(7) will and power are combined, what is willed must necessarily come into existence—and His willing that another person perform an act(8) himself. The latter(9) does not require Him to assist that person in doing it.