Evil In The Absence Of Good
This is exactly the same as my lying question. God has the power to actualise all possibilities. The kalaam answer would be God’s actions are of a specific type. They are based on justice. And justice is goodness. So God can’t be have some actions good and some bad. Because his actions must be of a specific type to remain unchanging and to remain necessary.
No the possibility of evil can’t exist in God. I came up with something. Like what I had in mind was confirmed by me reading a bit of Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra yesterday. I would go with that same argument of mine regarding layers and layers of ghayb. Both horizontally and vertically. And so basically, it is these layers thar make evil appear evil to us. (I also have to add on something. Issues like these are not for the عوام الناس. Now arguing with someone regarding sharr being non existent could lead to the same old reasoning of ‘then if Everything happens by Allah’s will, what is my fault?’). The reason why im mentioning this is directly related to the Ilm e Kalam part that you mentioned. Ilm e Kalam frankly, could be a bit dangerous to handle. What you say, could go off at a tangent very easily). And then one could name it ‘imagination’ as obviously you don’t have conclusive proofs to support your theory/philosophy. Nonetheless like they say ‘absence of proof is not the evidence of absence.’ But to reduce ilm e kalam down to imagination only is very degrading (in my humble opinion).