Did Allah Created Evil? NO!! Here's Why
Source : Forwarded Email
Article rewritten based on memory
One of the most popular question about God is why He created evil. As we know, everything there is, is created by Him. So that raise the question, why He created criminals, war, and satan himself. Allow me to explain.
First of all, the mind of people asking this question is flawed to begin with. They believe in duality, meaning there is good and evil, there is hot and cold, there is good god and evil god. This is WRONG!!!! Duality is WRONG!!
The truth is, there is no good and evil. The only things exist is just good, not so good, and not good at all. Let me give you an example. In physics, heat is proven to exist and measurable, but there is just no such thing as coldness. We can have superheat, megaheat, or no heat which is -273.15 Celcius (this is where theoretically atom stops vibrating), but we can't go to any temperature below this. Why? simply because there is no such thing as coldness. If not, it will be able to go below the -273.15 Celcius.
Coldness is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold because cold is not an entity like heat, it's just the absence of heat.
I tried to use air condition as an example, but I found the explanation is a bit more complicated, so let me just highlight other examples that may clear things up
- Light exist, given out by the sun, but there is no such thing as darkness existing. Darkness is only a word to describe the absence of light
- Noise exist, we hear them all the time, but there is no such thing as silence. Silence is only a word to describe the absence of noise.
In the Holy Quran also stated, that at one time, Iblis was the holiest of all creatures. But due to his pride not wanting to accept Adam as Khalifah, he turns bad. And that he himself swear to corrupt mankind for all eternity.
All this explained already 1400 years ago.
We watched too many tv. That's why the concept of duality is very familiar in us. One of my favorite tales are those involving Zeus, Hercules etc. There are good gods and evil gods. They are so fun to watch with all the adventure. A more recent tv series would like Charmed, where there is even one character know as "The Source of All Evil". If that's not evil, I don't know what is hehe. (For the record, I love Charmed so much.. ok now you can hate me :p)