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Roger Penrose, a guest on the same pro gram, drew the fol low ing con clu sion from the da ta pro vid ed:

So this means that in a sense, the present, past and fu ture are out there, and that al so gives us a very de ter -
min is tic view of the world. We have no con trol of what hap pens in the fu ture be cause it’s all laid out. 146

A hu man be ing wit ness es the des ti ny de ter mined for him through out the course of his life. Every
mo ment in the lives of ev ery one who has ev er lived, and who will ev er live in the fu ture are all pre vi -
ous ly ex pe ri enced in the Sight of Allah. All events writ ten in the des ti nies of all things, not just hu man

be ings, but the an i mals, plants, planets and oth er en ti ties—all exist in His “mem o ry,” con stant ly and
per ma nent ly. The work ings of des ti ny is one of the man i fes ta tions of Allah’s name of Al-Hafeedh (the
Preserver, the Guardian) and of His in fi nite might and great ness.
Fred Alan Wolf de scribes how some o ne’s past and fu ture have been de ter mined long be fore hand:

Although a his to ry de pends on our ob ser va tions of both the start ing and fin ish ing events, we re mem ber the
his to ry as if we were aware of it while it was tak ing place.

In oth er words, we seem to “live” the history as it happens. We make it a “liv ing” sto ry. We live in a riv er

of time in which the source of the riv er (our past) and its fi nal des ti na tion ahead of us (our fu ture) al ready
ex ist. 147

A per son is con stant ly un der the con trol of Allah, our Creator, and does what He has de ter mined for him. Allah re veals this
fact in a verse:
Nothing oc curs, ei ther in the Earth or in your selves, with out its be ing in a Book be fore We make it hap pen.
That is some thing easy for Allah. (Qur’an, 57:22)

Submission to destiny

You should be aware that you are in a state of un con di tion al sub mis sion to your own des ti ny. No
pow er oth er than Allah can al ter this. Everything that you have ex pe ri enced or will ex pe ri ence in fu -
ture is set out in the Sight of Allah, and you have no con trol over your fu ture. This book will leave yo-

ur hands in a while, wrin kles will ap pear on your face in a few years’ time, and all the de tails of a film
you will watch 15 years from now are all in clud ed in the knowl edge of Allah. The peo ple you will me-
et, how much mon ey you will earn, which ill ness es you will suf fer, what you will re joice over and how
and where you will die—all this has al ready tak en place in your own des ti ny.
The on ly rea son why you do not know these things is that they are not yet in your mem o ry.

Grieving over some thing that hap pens, there fore, won der ing “Why did it hap pen like that?”, har -
bor ing sor row and re gret and start ing with the words “If on ly . . . ,” and be com ing an gry, greedy or
im pa tient—all these ac tions are need less and mean ing less. That is because all events that give rise to

sor row or an ger are un der the con trol of Allah. It is Allah Who cre ates all of these with in a per son’s
des ti ny, and there can be no ques tion of any oth er pos si bil i ty out side a per son’s des ti ny.
If some one has a traf fic ac ci dent aft er turn ing in to the wrong street, it is mean ing less to com plain
about his mis take. Even if he could have his time over again, he would still turn in to the wrong street
and still have that ac ci dent. Saying things like, “If on ly I had my life to live over” are point less and

stem from a fail ure to un der stand this fact. Similarly, it is no so lu tion for some one whose wal let is sto -
len to say, “If on ly I hadn’t gone in to that shop,” or “If on ly I had kept my mon ey in my pock et.” That
per son had no al ter na tive but to go in to that shop, car ry mon ey in his wal let and have it sto len. That

per son’s des ti ny has been cre at ed to go in to a par tic u lar place at a par tic u lar time and for the mon ey
to be sto len. Even if he were to go back in time a thou sand times, the mon ey would still be sto len a
thou sand times.
A hap py event or a suc cess achieved are al so in the in di vid u al’s des ti ny. Those suc cess es and mo -
ments of joy will in ev i ta bly be ex pe ri enced, be cause they are ap point ed in des ti ny.

Some peo ple are re luc tant to ac cept this in sight. Roger Penrose de scribes them:

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