Mokhtar Maghraoui – Al Qada wal Qadr – Divine Decree

About this lecture

In this lecture, Sheikh Mokhtar Maghraoui introduces the Islamic doctrine of Al-Qada wal-Qadr (Divine Decree) by first establishing a crucial intellectual framework: that Allah's attributes and actions must not be understood through the lens of human temporal and spatial experience. Drawing on examples from prophecy, dreams, genetics, and theoretical physics — including the fascinating analogy of two-dimensional creatures encountering a three-dimensional being — he helps listeners appreciate why questions of divine knowledge, will, and causality transcend our four-dimensional universe. This foundational session prepares the audience for a deeper engagement with Quranic and prophetic evidence on the subject.