Back to search
The question

What is the wisdom behind God's creation of the disbelieving human, and what is the purpose of His creation of Hell, while the heavens and the earth and all the great creatures within them obey Him and prostrate to Him?

Share this answer

Source: FtawySummarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
The answer

The wisdom behind the creation of disbelievers and Hellfire can be summarized in several points:

1. To demonstrate the perfection of Allah's power in creating opposites, such as good and evil, and night and day. 2. To manifest the effects of His compelling names, like "The Irresistible" (Al-Qahhar) and "The Avenger" (Al-Muntaqim), as well as His names that encompass forbearance and forgiveness. 3. To show forth the effects of the names pertaining to wisdom and expertise, for Allah places things in their appropriate positions. 4. To realize diverse forms of worship that cannot be achieved except through the existence of disbelief and disobedience, such as the worship of jihad, repentance, and opposing Satan. 5. To display Allah's signs and the wonders of His creation that emerged due to the disbelief of oppressors and the stubbornness of deniers. 6. That the creation of opposing causes expresses the perfection of divine Lordship, power, and wisdom. 7. Indeed, the existence of partial evil leads to a greater good, just as the cosmic causes that inflict some harm contain great good. 8. Questioning why not all creatures are supplied with guidance is ignorance, for wisdom lies in the differentiation among existing things.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

Read the full answer on Ftawy