[4.114] There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in  his) who enjoins  charity or goodness or reconciliation between people; and whoever does this seeking Allah's pleasure, We will  give him a mighty reward.

Dec 27, 2011 -- 7:51AM, visio wrote:

Dec 19, 2011 -- 11:46AM, Ibn wrote:

[33.72] Surely We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to be unfaithful to it and feared from it, and man has turned unfaithful to it; surely he is unjust, ignorant.

This is quite an interesting verse as far as I am concerned.  Reconciling it with Fussilat 41 : 11 :   Then ALLAH rose over (Istawa) towards the heaven when it was smoke, an dsaid to it and to the earth: "Come both of you willingly or unwillingly."   They both said:  "We come willingly."  Then the two verses underlines more clearly ALLAH^swt Idea/Purpose in the creation of Man, Jinn and Angels and all the living creatures.  And that we slave/servants to fulfill this ALLAH^swt Eternal Will.   All matters Finally return to ALLAH^swt.  So it will for all of ALLAH^swt's slaves, servants, messengers.

The issue in each verse is different. In case of 33:72, it is Amanah (Trust or Goodwill) that depends on man to make choices AFTER the creation. But in case of heavens and earth coming into existence (41:11) at the time of their creation from a state of smoke (believed to be of hydrogen), it is actual creation. It illustrates that heavens and earth came into existence with Will of Allah (SWT) and they had no choice (come willingly or unwingingly was the Command and they had no choice but to come).

It seems as if only man and jinn had accepted Amanah and are subject to Judgment for their actions. Everything else has no freewill, even the angels because hell is going to be filled with jinn and men.

[11.118] And if your Lord had pleased He would certainly have made people a single nation, and they shall continue to differ.
[11.119] Except those on whom your Lord has mercy; and for this did He create them; and the word of your Lord is fulfilled: Certainly I will fill hell with the jinn and the men, all together.

Allah (SWT) could have made us all a single nation if He wanted to but He knew that we would still differ in making choices (because of freewill) even if we were all one nation. The word of our Lord that went forth was when Adam made a mistake on prompting of Iblis (a jinn) mentioned in Al-A'raf.

[7.12] He said: What hindered you so that you did not make obeisance when I commanded you? He said: I am better than he: Thou hast created me of fire, while him Thou didst create of dust.
[7.13] He said: Then get forth from this (state), for it does not befit you to behave proudly therein. Go forth, therefore, surely you are of the abject ones.
[7.14] He said: Respite me until the day when they are raised up.
[7.15] He said: Surely you are of the respited ones.
[7.16] He said: As Thou hast caused me to remain disappointed I will certainly lie in wait for them in Thy straight path.
[7.17] Then I will certainly come to them from before them and from behind them, and from their right-hand side and from their left-hand side; and Thou shalt not find most of them thankful.
[7.18] He said: Get out of this (state), despised, driven away; whoever of them will follow you, I will certainly fill hell with you all (jinn like Iblis and men who follow them).

[8.2] Those only are believers whose hearts become full of fear when Allah is mentioned, and when His communications are recited to them they increase them in faith, and in their Lord do they trust.

[13.28] Those who believe and whose hearts are set at rest by the remembrance of Allah; now surely by Allah's remembrance  are the hearts set at rest.

[3:92] [But as for you, O believers,] never shall you attain to true piety unless you spend on others out of what you cherish yourselves; and whatever you spend - verily, God has full knowledge thereof.

23:99-102

[AS FOR THOSE who will not believe in the life to come, they go on lying to themselves] until,  when death approaches any of them, he prays: "O my Sustainer! Let me return, let me return  [to life], so that I might act righteously in whatever I have failed [aforetime]!"

Nay, it is indeed but a [meaningless] word that he utters: for behind those [who leave the world]  there is a barrier [of death] until the Day when all will be raised from the dead!

Then, when the trumpet [of resurrection] is blown, no ties of kinship will on that Day prevail among them, and neither will they ask about one another. And they whose weight [of righteousness]  is heavy in the balance - it is they, they who will have attained to a happy state.