Answer: Shall We Perceive It

'Things Happen for Reasons', it is this blog's name. It is named to symbolize the efforts to understand the qada' and qadar from Allah. It is absolute, and always will be absolute, that is why it is fundamental for servants like us to understand its essence, so that we could complete our level of iman, which is jihad. This blog, this entry happen for reason, with hope I guess, whatever will it lead I hope it would be something good. But remember, the only certain and assured good is Jannah. Do not deviated from any path that would lead you to it. But be brave to take a distinct path from others. Who knows your destiny might be out of your equations.

Today lets talk about answer. 'Answer'. According to Oxford University Press, answer as a noun is something said, written, or done as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation. While the second definition said it is the solution to a problem or dilemma. That is a citated written definitions of answer but for me I personally take it as a guidance, hidayah or ilham from Allah. In our life there is a lot of questionable issues arise from our daily life. Sciencetifically or methaphysically we have a lot of uncertainties, that we wish to be fullfilled with answers. Question is also a form of hidayah. As we know questions arise from our hearts, it is trigger by doubt, uncertainty, and interest which lead to inquiries, and Allah has absolute control of our hearts. So questions and answers actually are ways of Allah conveying messages or knowledge to us. Where we would ask, acquiring answers and implementing the knowledge that we gained from the answers to become better human and servant to Allah.

So why suddenly I have the idea to talk about this, a week ago, I tweeted,

“@syahidshokri28 Oct

Evry question that u asked, there must b an answer. Bcoz, Divine answer is for Divine question. Xkn terfikir manusia perkara di luar kmmpuan”

meaning

“For every question that you asked, there must be an answer to it. Because, Divine answer is for Divine question. And shall human never think what is beyond his capabilities.”

makna dalam Bahasa Melayu,

“untuk setiap setiap soalan yang kamu tanya, mesti ada jawapan untuk soalan tersebut. Kerana jawapan KeTuhanan hanya boleh menjawab soalan keTuhanan. Sesungguhnya tidak akan manusia terfikir akan sesuatu yang diluar kemampuan mereka.”

Here what I wish to say is if you have a question, it is aswerable. Why? Because you are a human. Human can and must think things that is within human's capabilities. As we are created by Allah with certain capabilities. Capabilities are range of possibilities. Say here if we could give a question then we might find the answer because we are not meant to ask about something that is beyond our capabilities.

Not every question we could provide an answer, as Allah's knowledge is absolute. Yes, Allah's knowledge is absolute. Allah could answer everything, Divinely or Humanly questions. As Allah is the one who created the questions thus also Allah is the one who has the answers. But shall we ever ask of something as it is in the scope of only Allah's knowledge? No. Of course not. So here, any question arised by human is answerable by human. Let me provide a application comparison, human actually is like a bridge. Given a bridge that could only withstand a load of 500GN. If vehicle which its load more than 500GN go through the bridge, the bridge structure will experience a failure. The bridge is us, created with 500GN limitation of loadings. So the vehicles allowed to move on the bridge must have load lower than 500GN. The bridge is us, the vehicle is question, and the vehicle passing through the bridge is the answer. For the bridge, the limitation is controlled by human, the creator of the bridge, and we humans our limitation of course are controlled by our Creator, Allah.

What kind of answer would we have? An answer but not an absolute answer. What does it means anyway? Well it means our answers are not as perfect as God's answers. But we would still have our answers and our questions answered by not an absolute answers. For example,

● What would be the best way to travel to another continent?

-In the year of 1887 the answer would probably will be by steam ship

-In the year of 1987 the answer would probably will be by aeroplane

The answer would vary from time to time. So there is no absolute answer from us. But still we could provide a suffice answer to answer the question at that particular time. I once told by a lecturer,

“when we do a calculation to our problem, there is no exact answer, only an estimation, that estimation would be suffice to solve our concern, Allah has made the world so mysterious, without the exact answer. If the exact answer is achievable in the world, then there will be no fun living in this world, but in the hereafter, we shall know the absolute answer”

Allahu a'lam. So from here I have understand that, mystery has drive the desire to live, to answer our expectations. So if absoluteness of answer is achievable in this world, life would be meaningless, because we will achieve a level of accomplishment and satisfaction, then there will be no drive to continue living in this life.

“Though I have think of a question, and I have work hard to get the answer, I still didn't perceive the solution, I dont expect a Divinely answer of course, Im a human so it is humanly question which humanly answer would be sufficed to answer the question, but still, even humanly answer, it is not achievable,,”

now how would I answer to this kind of expectation? Yes of course, your question is answerable and might be answered by yourself, or might not be by yourself. It could be by others. So expecting an answer, one must consider two factor which is

1. Time

2. Capabilities of human

Time for instance, when you are conducting an experiment in the laboratory, you didn't know the result of the experiment not until you have finished the experiment. But still you would wait until the end of the experiment because you will know the result after the experiment ended. So when you started the experiment, you believe that there is an answer. Because after some times there will be a development from the experiment. So time is a crucial aspect to find a solution. We should be patient in finding answer. We have to believe that we shall perceive the answer. Might not be now, might be later. But for sure there will be an answer. Capabilities of human is a wide scope of topic to be elaborated. Insya Allah if we are given opportunities one day we shall elaborate it but here we shall consider an aspect of capabilities of human in answering. A situational example would be helpful to understand it,

“there is two man who are given same exact complex mathematical problem, and they are required to solve the problem, one of the man is provided with scientific calculator”

So the man with scientific calculator would have better capability to solve the problem. Capabilities of human would be with regard to his physical condition, the knowledge that he acquired and the advance of technology during his time. Every human are not created with equal capabilities and obstacles. That is why we have different level of hell and heaven.

So answer is achievable, via many situations, as long it is questioned by us. But for most important, if it is allowed by Allah, then it will happen. We shall perceive the answer. Things happen for reasons. And I believe that, one of the reason why there is a question, that is because, there is an answer, and it is a must that the answer will be unveiled, maybe not to everyone, maybe not now, but one day and someone will for sure.

Allahu a'lam. Selamat menyambut Tahun Baru Islam, Awal Muharam.