Allah’s judgment related to the creation is called kaza -administration of justice-. The judgment is His knowledge. Knowledge also only belongs to the creator.
In short, the knowledge of Creation is a knowledge that is fixed at the level of Allah and all knowledge about the creation is called kaza.
Rabb also has limited possession of knowledge of the creation fixed at the level of Allah. The knowledge of creation is constant at the level of Allah and Rabb has limited possession of this knowledge.
This is the kaza of all material and matter. Each creation’s constant knowledge in its nafs is its gem. While Rabb commands on creation, material and matter, it does so by staying loyal to their essence and without changing it.
It realizes creation and formation by staying loyal to their Constant Forms. It cannot know their constant forms and cannot change their essence.
And this is the fate of all constant formation that was formed in the first creation. The kaza of one event doesn’t contain time. It has a constancy that is created by cause.
Time is determined by fate. For example, the occurrence of an earthquake in an earthquake zone is a kaza. It is definitive and constant. The earthquake is inevitable due to the region’s geology and settlement.
This is the kaza of that region. In other words, it is a fixed truth. However, the timing of the earthquake is the fate of that region. Now, when humans escape the area due to a worry that an earthquake is imminent, this changes neither the fate nor the kaza.
Their living with the constant worry of an earthquake does not change the fate. Only the judgment determines the timing of the earthquake and this authority belongs to Rabb and the divine names alone.
Because everything happens in line with law and order; when the constant kaza state will transform into fate is determined by the energy of time. Ibn ‘Arabi says, ‘Kaza is the Truth of each particle, each creation, at the level of Allah and even the being of Truth has limited knowledge of this.’
The command of Truth, realizes creations by staying loyal to this secret Truth. Kaza is a cause that is previously fixed and the energy of time is included in this; fate is the result of command of Truth over the energy of time and creation.
In this section, Ibn ‘Arabi divides the wise into two: those in the top rank and those in the bottom rank; also, those that understand fate in summary and those that understand fate in detail. He explains that those who know it in detail hold a higher rank.
For, to know the details, one must attain knowledge of the constant forms. This information about the constant forms, that even Rabb only has in a limited way, is found at the level of Allah.
Ibn ‘Arabi indicated that only the wise that are closest to the level of Allah have this knowledge.
All creation from before time to eternity, each formation, has emerged and reflected from its own constant form.
The constant form means plurality and is located between Rabb and humankind. The Constant Forms on the other hand are a secret at the level of Allah.
When the wise one reaches his own truth, he only reaches his truth in constant forms. His reach of his truth in Constant Forms at the level of Allah indicates the wise one has attained a very high rank.
At this stage, let’s touch upon Ibn ‘Arabi’s opinion of wishes to be granted. The immediate granting of wishes and desires, or their delay, is a result of fate.
If the energy of time intersects with space it means its fate is realized and hence when a human being wishes something it immediately becomes real.
However, if in his/her constant the kaza is formed yet the time for fate to be formed has not come, the wish is not granted immediately.
One is kept waiting until its time comes. Ibn ‘Arabi says when its time comes, the fate is realized in any way possible and it will definitely be realized even if one is in the physical plan or in the life to come.
Also, there are things granted to people without them having asked for them. Ibn ‘Arabi explains this as follows: The demand of a human can be verbal or it can be determined in its private life plan.
His verbal request can be realized, or it can be a realization of something in his life plan regardless of whether he asked for it or not.
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