RLG204Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fitra, Ayah, Jinn
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Qadar: root meaning is to determine sizeor quantity, the measure of a thing. God determines each thing through measuring out specific qualities * and indistinct quantities) associated with the divine names. Human beings have been measured all the divine names as character traits. Things were measured out in amounts of things aswell and particular qualities even within that. Talking about how human beings have all the names. If they change their character traits to jealousy then theyre going towards ugly. Only human beings have this; animals, inanimate, jinn have certain qualities of the divine names. Reading the signs in the horizons and souls means observing the measure of things in the world and in yourself. Divine names as signs in the world as a ayat; sign. Sign offers guidance, tells us what to do and what not to do and explain our goals as human beings. How does qadar work? (look at the slide)
