Also, in many verses, five pillars of al-Imân are mentioned as well, other than the Divine Decree, but it (i.e., the Divine Decree) is mentioned in other verses as has proceeded.
"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 (𝑴𝒖𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒅) 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 (𝒔𝒐 𝒅𝒐) 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑬𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒉, 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒔, 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚, '𝑾𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔' - 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚, '𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒚. (𝑾𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒌) 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 (𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍)." [AI-Baqarah: 285]
Sometimes the Divine Decree is mentioned in separate independent texts, and these fundamentals are also mentioned in one context, but all of them are indicated by the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger (ﷺ) as found in the hadith of Jibril, the hadith of Abdullah bin Mas'ud, and if Allah wills, we will mention other proofs dealing with the Divine Decree at another point.
Thus [𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭] is from the foundations of the Sunnah which if anyone leaves any aspect of it, he has removed himself from Ahl As-Sunnah. Therefore, it is absolutely binding upon the believer to have firm faith and belief that the Divine Decree in its totality, the good and bad is from Allah.
𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙠𝙝 𝙖𝙡-𝙄𝙨𝙡â𝙢 𝙄𝙗𝙣 𝙏𝙖𝙮𝙢𝙞𝙮𝙮𝙖𝙝-𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙝, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝, 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙢--𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡-𝙌𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙖𝙡-'𝘼𝙦î𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙪 𝙖𝙡-𝙒â𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙮𝙮𝙖𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥: (𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭) 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡'𝐬 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥; 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡'𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.
Then Allah recorded that in a protected book. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬."
[Collected by Muslim, The Book of al-Qadar, hadith no. (2653)]
And the Messenger (ﷺ) said: "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭: '𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞!' 𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝: '𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞?' 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝: '𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫."
[Collected by Abu Dawud, The Book of Sunnah, hadith no.(4700); at-Timidhi, The Book of al-Qadar, hadith no. (2155); al-Albâni graded it to be authentic, and collected it in his as-Silsilah as-Sahîhah, hadith no. (133)]
"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 (𝑴𝒖𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒅) 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 (𝒔𝒐 𝒅𝒐) 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑬𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒉, 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒔, 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚, '𝑾𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔' - 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚, '𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒚. (𝑾𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒌) 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 (𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍)." [AI-Baqarah: 285]
Sometimes the Divine Decree is mentioned in separate independent texts, and these fundamentals are also mentioned in one context, but all of them are indicated by the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger (ﷺ) as found in the hadith of Jibril, the hadith of Abdullah bin Mas'ud, and if Allah wills, we will mention other proofs dealing with the Divine Decree at another point.
Thus [𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭] is from the foundations of the Sunnah which if anyone leaves any aspect of it, he has removed himself from Ahl As-Sunnah. Therefore, it is absolutely binding upon the believer to have firm faith and belief that the Divine Decree in its totality, the good and bad is from Allah.
𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙠𝙝 𝙖𝙡-𝙄𝙨𝙡â𝙢 𝙄𝙗𝙣 𝙏𝙖𝙮𝙢𝙞𝙮𝙮𝙖𝙝-𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙝, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝, 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙢--𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡-𝙌𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙖𝙡-'𝘼𝙦î𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙪 𝙖𝙡-𝙒â𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙮𝙮𝙖𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥: (𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭) 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡'𝐬 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥; 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡'𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.
Then Allah recorded that in a protected book. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬."
[Collected by Muslim, The Book of al-Qadar, hadith no. (2653)]
And the Messenger (ﷺ) said: "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭: '𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞!' 𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝: '𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞?' 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝: '𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫."
[Collected by Abu Dawud, The Book of Sunnah, hadith no.(4700); at-Timidhi, The Book of al-Qadar, hadith no. (2155); al-Albâni graded it to be authentic, and collected it in his as-Silsilah as-Sahîhah, hadith no. (133)]