What Do Our Efforts Actually Get Us ? ( NOTE : THIS IS NOT WHAT I BELIEVE, BUT A THOUGHT THAT HAS BEEN DISTURBING ME LATELY AND I WANT TO RESOLVE IT ) THE ANALOGY : 1. I take my young child to a store filled with PS5s, Xboxes, massive screens running Forza, COD, and more — all playable, all vivid, all designed to captivate He never knew this world existed before I brought him here Now he wants it. Deeply. That desire is entirely something I created by bringing him here [We are created with a nature that seeks ever increasing pleasure, beauty, and ease — the very things paradise promises. And at the same time a nature that avoids suffering, hardship, and pain. ] 2. The Deal: I then tell him — "For one month, you will wake up at 5am every single day" "You will carry heavy bags of groceries, scrub the floor, run errands in the heat" "You will do this according to my exact rules. No breaks unless I allow them. No complaints." He had no say in being brought to the store. He had no say in the terms. [We are required to pray five times a day including Fajr before sunrise, fast through hunger and thirst, other things too. and remain patient through hardship — all under specific conditions and rules] 3. What does he actually get? After a month of physical exhaustion under my rules — he gets the console But he only wanted it because I showed it to him The desire was mine to create. The reward was mine to give. [The reward for a life of obedience is paradise — the permanent fulfillment of desires by the same God who designed them] 4. What if he refuses or fails? He doesn't just miss out on the console I beat him. He has no way to stop it, no exit, no appeal. [Those who fail face not just the absence of paradise, but eternal physical torment in hellfire — burning skin, boiling water, described in the Quran in vivid detail ] The Questions: 1* So my very first question is what did the efforts of my child actually get him? . [ Did His efforts get him bread from the bread seller and the same bread seller actually created hunger in him ? ] 2* If a human being did exactly this to another human being — what would we call it? 3* Was this really a "deal" — or just terms imposed on someone with no power to refuse? 4* How fair does this System feel from our moral standards ?

Some people out of hardship or being feared that they might end up in hell, Wished that they never exist in the first place. And there is this question, *Why did Allah created me when I don't want to exist?* One answer I heard is that, Allah asked everyone if they want to enter the test or be human beings. They said yes. But I never got reference for it. Closest thing I can get is a Hadith about Adam As taking responsibility, and a Quran ayah talking about > “Truly, We did offer al-amaanah (the trust or moral responsibility or > honesty and all the duties which Allah has ordained) to the heavens > and the earth, and the mountains, but they declined to bear it and > were afraid of it (i.e. afraid of Allah’s torment). But man bore it. > Verily, he was unjust (to himself) and ignorant (of its results) [al-Ahzaab 33:72]”. But in tafsir in ibn kathir. Choosing that whether to take amaanah or not is only given to Adam AS not to every human being. So in sort Adam As took the responsibility behalf of All human beings. **Which some people will argue as injustice,** So can anyone help me to find the answer?

My story will include magic; I've read others that said it's fine to write any kind of fiction since it's considered expression of imagination, but I've also read that magic is not permissible in any way shape or form in Islam. Is it alright if I write characters with magical abilities? I will not include religious aspects in my story, i.e. devils, pentagrams, etc. (unless you consider spirits to be religious). I will also refrain from having characters do things opposing Allah's teachings, i.e. zina, killing, etc. I'm suffering from addiction of porn, and I'm writing to distract me from watching it. It has been a really great distraction method so far. But I don't know if it can be justified that I write about magic (which is, to my current knowledge, a possible sin) to distract me from porn and masturbation.

Has God decided one's age? If so, has He decided how he will die and by whom he will be killed? Suppose one commits suicide, did God decide that earlier? If so, who is to blame really?

There are a number of questions regarding the free will vs. qadr juxtaposition on the site already (see e.g. this one on [whether humans have free will in faith](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/8933/is-there-free-will-of-faith-according-to-islam) , this one about [free will vs qadr](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/12167/are-humans-destined-to-do-things-or-human-do-things-cause-of-free-will) , again [free will vs qadr](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/18889/how-is-there-a-fixed-destiny-if-we-have-free-will) , the comments and answer to this one relate [free will vs qadr to "is Satan to blame for evil"](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/37733/is-attributing-evil-to-satan-heresy)) , as well as some pulling Allah's attribute of Justice into the mix (this question about [whether nurture overpowers free will's effect of justifying punishment](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/24103/how-is-free-will-justified-with-those-who-are-raised-in-a-bad-environment)) . The problem with all of these posts is that I am unable to understand what each of them means by "free will" or "qadr"; there seem to be different schools of thought on free will according to [this](https://islam.stackexchange.com/a/12174/17702) and [this](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/36657/is-disbelief-in-free-will-kufr) and some attempts at resolving ahadith that qadr can be changed by du'a [here](https://islam.stackexchange.com/a/571/17702) , but those answers do not seem to develop the notions very clearly to me, and the one on qadr seems contradictory. Any attempt at an explanation I have seen so far fails to address the question of "does Allah give creatures with free will a power to choose in themselves?". An answer of "creatures are given an independent power of chosing" seems to contradict the idea of "la hawla wa la quwatta illa billah" (with regard to quwatta there is mention of it in [18:39](https://quran.com/18/39) , I couldn't find a source for hawla), and an answer of "Allah creates their choices and their inclinations and decisions" makes the will not "free" in any sense I can discern and does not seem to be any kind of basis for punishment (this is where free will vs qadr collides with justice). To sum up, here are my questions: - **what understandings of "free will" exist in the schools of thought, and in what sense is will considered to be "free" here?** - **what understandings of "qadr" exist in the schools of thought?** - **how do the schools of thought resolve the juxtaposition of these with regard to Justice?** What the main orthodox schools of thought say is my main interest, but I'd also be interested in the opinions of extinct schools, e.g. the Muta'zilites, just in case someone happens to know. Due to the experiences I've had with people trying to explain this: I'm not interested in posts begging the question like "of course we have free will, how else could Allah be just?" and things like that; this is exactly the point of my question, I can't make sense of these concepts taken together. Analogies seem to be largely useless in this regard, e.g. [this answer (which I find pretty much useless in the context of my question) here](https://islam.stackexchange.com/a/7287/17702) completely ignores that Allah is the creator of everything created, while the analogy assumes "randomness" originating from somewhere else; similar criticism to the consistency (!) of what the answer says applies to the answer [here](https://islam.stackexchange.com/a/37740/17702) , and I expressed that criticism in the comments to it. I don't think more vague analogies will prove any more useful; I'm interested in precise attempts at explaining the points of friction I outlined above.

Assalamualaikum Brothers/Sisters, I need an ayath from the Quran which says that Allah is fair with every human being. Even the Non-Muslims. Jazakallahi Khair.

Allah is fair to all of his slaves however this life is a test for all of us yet we all don't have the same amount of time on this test (Earth). Some people get longer time and they live to an older age and some people have less time for the same test as they die at a younger age. I understand that having more time could also mean you are at risk of getting more sins if you do not use your time wisely but equally you have more time to collect good deeds and please Allah. What if in the last few years of your old age you change and decide to leave behind your haram life style and only please Allah? What if you are a non-Muslim and decide you want to revert? You may say because it is a test, but then what about children? Why are they brought to life on Earth if they will not really be tested because their life is taken away from them while they are a child? This means at this age they do not have any sins so will be granted Jannah. I mean personally if I had a choice of when to be taken away, I would have chosen a time in my childhood when I was considered an innocent child or even a baby because at this time I do not have sins and so will be granted Jannah. We all will have to die one day and that is for sure so a younger age would be better than going through the pain of trails.