Perbuatan

Excerpt from Reliance of the Traveller (Nuh Ha Mim Keller) ;

" a1.3

...the mind is unable to know the rule of Allah about the acts of those morally responsible except by means of His messengers and inspired books.

For minds are in obvious disagreement about acts. Some minds find certain acts good, others find them bad. Moreover, one person can be of two minds about one and the same action. Caprice often wins out over the intellect, and considering something good or bad comes to be based on mere whim. So it cannot be said that an act which the mind deems good is therefore goods in the eyes of Allah, its performance called for and its doer rewarded by Allah ; or whatever the mind feels to be bad is thus bad in the eyes of Allah, its nonperformance called for and its doer punished by Allah

a1.4

...the good of the acts of those morally responsible is what the Lawgiver (syn. Allah or His messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace)) has indicated is good by permitting it or asking it to be done. And the bad is what the Lawgiver has indicated is bad by asking it not to be done. The good is not what reason considers good,nor the bad what reason considers bad. The measure of good and bad, according to this school of thought*, is the Sacred Law,not reason"

*Ash'aris


- something to walk upon...