Then Allah says,

فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا ﴿٨﴾

Then He showed it its Fujur and its Taqwa.

meaning, He showed him to his transgression and his Taqwa.

This means that He clarified that for it and He guided it to what has been ordained for him.

Ibn `Abbas said, فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا (Then He showed it its Fujur and its Taqwa).

"He explained the good and the evil to it (the soul).''

Mujahid, Qatadah, Ad-Dahhak and Ath-Thawri all said the same.

Sa`id bin Jubayr said,

"He gave him inspiration (to see what was) good and evil.''

Ibn Zayd said,

"He made its Fujur and its Taqwa inside of it.''

Ibn Jarir recorded from Abul-Aswad Ad-Dili that he said, "`Imran bin Husayn said to me,

`Do you think that what the people do, and what they strive for is a thing that is pre-ordained and predestined for them,

or is it a thing which is only written after the Message comes to them from the Prophet, when there will be an evidence against them'

I said, `Rather it is something preordained upon them.'

Then he said, `Is that an injustice'

Then I became extremely frightened of him (due to what he was saying), and I said to him,

`There is nothing except that He (Allah) created it and possesses it in His Hand. He is not asked about what He does, while they (His creation) will be asked.'

He (`Imran) then said,

`May Allah guide you! I only asked you about that in order to inform you that a man from Muzaynah or Juhaynah tribe came to the Allah's Messenger and asked him:

"O Messenger of Allah! Do you consider the actions of mankind and their struggles to be preordained for them and written for them from Qadr, or something written for them only after the Message came to them from their Prophet, when there will be an evidence against them''

He (the Prophet ) replied:

بَلْ شَيْءٌ قَدْ قُضِيَ عَلَيْهِم

Rather it is something preordained for them.

So the man said, "Then what is the point of our actions''

The Prophet replied,

مَنْ كَانَ اللهُ خَلَقَهُ لإِحْدَى الْمَنْزِلَتَيْنِ يُهَيِّئُهُ لَهَا، وَتَصْدِيقُ ذَلِكَ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ تَعَالَى:

Whoever Allah created for one of the two positions (Paradise or Hell), He makes it easy for him (to attain). The proof of that is in the Book of Allah.

وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا

فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا

(By Nafs, and Ma Sawwaha (Who apportioned it).

Then He showed it its Fujur and its Taqwa).)''

Ahmad and Muslim both recorded this Hadith.