Classical Conditioning

**Everything in this world is a curtain or cover for the Qudra or power of Allah.

Behind all the means of this world is God’s infinite power doing everything. The cover is there to test you. Will you believe in what you see and perceive or what you’re told by Allah.

Ima’an is to negate basar and to affirm khabar, to negate what you see with your own eyes and affirm what Allah informed you in the Quran.

Take for example how we believe that medicine cures. This is met with the verse in the Quran where Allah informs us. And he alone heals me when I am sick. We believe that medicine cures, but Allah tells us he cures. So which is it? And if Allah cures, then what’s the role of medicine?

Many Muslims, in my humble opinion, have the role and purpose of Allah creating asbab or the means of this world confused. Not because they’re bad or even mistaught. Although many Muslims haven’t received a proper education in theology where these matters are usually discussed, the real reason for the confusion is due to what scientists call classical conditioning.