Second Topic: Seven aspects concerning the compatibility of Divine Determining with the power of choice.
SECOND TOPIC
This is a minute and scholarly investigation addressing scholars in particular.1
I f y o u s a y : “How is Divine Determining compatible with the power of choice?”
T h e A n s w e r : In seven ways...
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1. This Second Topic is the most profound and difficult of the questions of the mystery of Divine Determining. It is held by the all learned scholars to be one of the most important and controversial questions of theology and belief, yet the Risale-i Nur has solved it completely.
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The First: The power of choice in terms of wisdom and justice.
The Second: The existence of the power of choice.
The Third: Divine knowledge, Divine Determining and the power choice.
The Fourth: Knowledge and the thing known; the definition of pre-eternity.
The Sixth: The creation of deeds and the responsibility of man.
The Seventh: The relation between man’s will and Divine will and man’s responsibility.
- First Topic: Divine Determining, the power of choice (partial free will); the creation of good and evil; the responsibility of man.
- The First: The power of choice in terms of wisdom and justice.
- The Seventh: The relation between man’s will and Divine will and man’s responsibility.
- Third Stopping-Place: The point of views of the people of misguidance and the people of guidance on the worldly life.
- The Second: The existence of the power of choice.
- First Question: Why did the Companions not discover the troublemakers with the eye of sainthood since they were superior to saints and why were three of the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs martyred?
- Tenth Point: The witnessing of the Qur’an for the eternal happiness and examples from verses about this.
- Seventh Matter which is the Seventh Booklet: It explains an important secret about Risale-i Nur students, the seven divine aids, in the following verse: “Say: ‘In the bounty of Allah. And in His Mercy,- in that let them rejoice’:... (Yunus, 10:58.)
- Second Station: It is a summary about the proof of oneness from the point of the Greatest Name.
- The Thirty-Third Word: It explains that there is a window opening to Almighty Allah in everything with thirty-three examples.
