DO BOTH GOOD AND EVIL COME FROM ALLAH?

 DO BOTH GOOD AND EVIL COME FROM ALLAH?

A GREAT CONTRADICTION AND CONFLICT IN THE QURAN:

Does evil come from Satan, from us humans, or from Allah?

The Quran answers that everything comes from Allah.

Quran 4:78
"Say: Everything is from Allah."

Now the Quran contradicts itself by saying not everything comes from Allah.

Quran 4:79
"Whatever good happens to you is from Allah, but whatever evil befalls you is from yourself."

Quran 4:82
"Do they not reflect upon the Quran? If it had been from other than Allah, they would have found within it much contradiction."

Without a doubt, evil is part of "everything," and if "everything is from Allah," then evil also comes from Allah. The author of the Quran cannot absolve Allah from blame and lay it on others, as attempted in verse 4:79.

It’s intriguing that Muhammad would contradict himself in consecutive verses, then write, only three verses later, that contradictions indicate it is not from Allah.

But this topic doesn't end here.

Quran 38:41
"And remember Our servant Job, when he called upon his Lord: 'Satan has afflicted me with distress and suffering!'"

Now we have a third party joining the question of responsibility. Does evil come from us? Does it come from Satan? Or does it come from Allah?

Any two of these are contradictory, especially the first two (4:79, 38:41) which contradict the third (4:78), where Allah claims that everything comes from Him.

Indeed, the passages above are just the beginning of the problems mentioned in the Quran and Hadith on the subject of predestination, free will, and the responsibility for sin.

This is why I continue to say Allah did not create everything, and Allah is not the Almighty God.

Shalom,

Dr. Max Shimba for Max Shimba Ministries