Why Did Allah Create People Who Would Go To Hell?
The underling issue in your question is a misconception of Allah’s character. He is Merciful and Benevolent, but He is not only just Merciful and Benevolent. He is also Just (16:90), He is Vengeful (3:4) and He is a Giver of stern punishment (85:12). The truth is, Allah’s is overflowing with love, forgiveness and mercy for those who submit to Him or are in some error and He hopes that they will in time come to Him. He, however, has no soft spot for His enemies i.e anyone who openly rebels against Him and continue to rebel against Him until they die. Such people will be called to a harsh account by Him and that is the thing, you ask why Allah didn’t prevent this , the truth is, because Allah does want to seize the Rebellious, He values justice more than any of us. He’s the King of Kings, no rebel can offend His majesty and then can happily walk away freely, He will indeed, at least make them stand for Judgment even if He does ultimately choose to withdraw His warning of eternal Hell. As for those who do submit to Him and sin or make error time to time but ultimately seek His forgiveness, He is Merciful and Benevolent to them . As for the one who is His enemy, He created them, they choose their path of rebellious out of their free will and now He’s going to punish them because their life has served as evidence against them. This differentiation between the Obedient and the Rebellious is the major part of His Justice. If He lets go the rebellious (by not creating them) just like He lets go the obedient, then Justice suffers.
What it sounds like isn’t important. What is important is that Allah is Just in His terms, the terms He has informed us in His revelations, these terms are not based on one’s personal wishes (68:35-40), the terms that He is merciful to the obedient and He is not merciful to the rebellious (32:18). This differentiation between obedient and rebellious is what makes Him Just, that good will receive good (55:60) and evil will receive evil (6:160), it does not make Him All-Loving though which is an misconception, that He will love even those that rebel against Him(25:37), no, that is not the case according to Qur’an. The one who does not murder and one who does murder are not the same (40:58). Justice demands that the Judge will treat one differently from the other. The point that I am made is that you cannot expect Allah to be merciful to rebellious. He has made it painfully clear that He does not love His enemies (3:32). He created mankind solely for them to succeed and enter His Jannah out of free will. Everyone was given the choice to enter this test (33:72) and get this chance, those who do good out of free will, will be rewarded, those who do evil out of free will, must be punished, for going against Ahd-e-Alast (7:172). Again, this differentiation, this different attitude of God towards the two category is what makes Him Just(59:20). He will reward those who were loyal to Him and He will question those who betrayed Him (33:7-8). Can it be said that Allah is cold-hearted towards the criminals in the Afterlife (63:6, 7:50, 9:80, 44:25-29), yes, that is the weight of His warning (38:85, 11:119). A group of people will keep His Love and a group of people will potentially lose it (75:22-25). Whether Allah does fulfill this warning of eternal Hell for rebellious in the end remains to be seen (48:14, 11:106-107), He could let them go but not without some questioning, not at the cost of injustice but ultimately it is a serious concern that weighs on every God-fearing person’s mind (65:10), the potential of losing the favor of God because there is a type of person He does not show mercy to, a person who chooses to die rebellious (9:84). So we try to die in a state of obedience, not rebelliousness (3:102). This is how Allah will judge and one should prepare for it because clearly He is prepared to question the rebellious, that is His final decision (21:23, 91:14-15, 42:7, 15:92, 29:4, 10:53, 6:134).
Thank you for your swift response. I am trying to convey the point that did Allah only create the rebellious so that he could punish them? He knew beforehand they would reject guidance.
So Allah has already decided he will create rebellious people and then punish them, because he is not bound by any law or morality?