Page 733 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

When con sid er ing the con cept of des ti ny, some peo ple take the fact that ev ery thing is pre de ter -

mined to im ag ine that there is no need for them to do any thing. Yet this is a ma jor dis tor tion of the
con cept of des ti ny. True, ev ery thing we ex pe ri ence is de ter mined in our des ti nies—be fore we ex pe ri -
ence them, those events have al ready tak en place in the Sight of Allah and all its de tails are writ ten
down in the Lawh al-Mahfuz (the Preserved Tablet) in His Sight.
However, Allah gives ev ery hu man be ing the feel ing that they are able to al ter events and act in

ac cord ance with their own de ci sions and choi ces. When one is thirsty, for ex am ple, one does not sit
down and wait, say ing,“I will have a drink—if that is in my des ti ny.” One gets up, takes a glass and
drinks. In fact, of course, one drinks the amount of wa ter de ter mined in on e’s des ti ny. But one nev er -

the less feels that one is do ing this in ac cord with on e’s own wish. That feel ing is ex pe ri enced in ev ery -
thing we do through out our lives. The dif fer ence is that some one who has sub mit ted to the des ti ny cre -
at ed by Allah knows that de spite the feel ing he does things of his own ac cord, he ac tu al ly per forms
them by the will of Allah. Others who have fail ed to grasp this fact mis tak en ly im ag ine that they do
ev ery thing with their own in tel li gence and strength.

For ex am ple, a sub mit ted per son who learns that he has con tract ed a dis ease will be re signed, sin-
ce he knows that this is his des ti ny. He will say, “Since Allah has cre at ed this in my des ti ny, there must
be an aus pi cious el e ment to it.” He will not sit back and do nothing saying “If I am des tined to re cov -

er, I will.” On the con tra ry, he will take all the req ui site pre cau tions. He will go to the doc tor, be care -
ful what he eats and take med i cine. However, he will not for get that the doc tor he vis its, the treat ment
ad min is tered, the drugs he takes, and how ef fect ive these will be—in short, ev ery sin gle de tail—are all
in his des ti ny. He knows that all these events were al ready in the mem o ry of Allah, long be fore he ev -
er came in to the world.

Allah has re vealed this in vers es:
It is He Who cre at ed you from clay and then de creed a fixed term, and an oth er fixed term is spec i fied with
Him. Yet you still have doubts! (Qur’an, 6:2)

. . . Allah’s com mand is a pre-or dained de cree. (Qur’an, 33:38)

Not just hu man be ings have a des ti ny in the Sight of Allah, but the Sun, the Moon, moun tains, tre-
es and all things and en ti ties. A cen tu ries-old an tique vase that is bro ken, for ex am ple, breaks at the

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