Allah Created You and What You Do

So wa kullu shayʾin yajrī fī al-kawni innamā huwa bi-qudratihi wa mashīʾatihi: not just by some power He gave to it before, but with His mashīʾah, with His will, each time. Khāliqu kulli shayʾ: Allah says He is the Creator of everything.

Wa khalaqa kulla shayʾin fa-qaddarahu taqdīrā: He created everything, and He also allotted for it different allotments.

Wallāhu khalaqakum wa mā taʿmalūn: Allah created you and what you do. Allah created you and your actions. In shāʾ Allāh, these aspects are dealt with in a bit more detail when the discussion of taqdīr and destiny comes; that discussion is best not spoiled here.

Wa mashīʾatuhu tanfudh, which basically means that whatever He wills comes into being. His will is fulfilled: anything He wills comes into being. He just has to will it. We will a lot of things. There is the account of an individual who came up to a shaykh with a dilemma: he had made half the preparation for his marriage. Asked why, then, he did not get married, he explained that he had made half the preparation; he had done everything on his side; now she just had to say yes. He had this will — this irādah, this mashīʾah — but nothing was happening, because the other side had to agree. With Allah (swt), anything He wills comes into being.

Then comes point 25:

Article 25. Lā mashīʾata li-l-ʿibādi illā mā shāʾa lahum, fa-mā shāʾa lahum kāna, wa mā lam yashaʾ lam yakun: His servants are without volition except what He wills for them.

This means that His servants do not have a will except what Allah willed for them. Thus, what He willed for them will be, and what He does not will for them will not be.