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people can change these destinies. For instance, speaking of a patient
who's recovered from a fatal disease, people make superficial statements
like, "He defeated his destiny." Yet no one is able to change his destiny.
The person who recovers is destined not to die then. Again, it's the destiny
of those people to deceive themselves by saying, "I defeated my destiny"
and maintain such a mindset.
Destiny is the eternal knowledge of Allah. And for Allah, Who knows
the whole time as a single moment and Who prevails over the whole time
and space, everything is determined and finished in its destiny.
We also understand from what is related in the Qur'an that time is
one for Allah: some incidents that appear to happen to us in the future are
related in the Qur'an in such a way that they already took place long
before. For instance, the verses that describe the account that people are to
give to Allah in the Hereafter are related as events which already occurred
long ago:
And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all
who are in the earth swoon away, save him whom Allah willeth.
Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting!
And the earth shineth with the light of her Lord, and the Book is set
up, and the prophets and the witnesses are brought, and it is
judged between them with truth, and they are not wronged... And
those who disbelieve are driven unto Hell in troops... And those
who keep their duty to their Lord are driven unto the Garden in
troops... (Surat az-Zumar: 68-73)
Some other verses on this subject are:

And every soul came, along with it a driver and a witness. (Surah
Qaf: 21)
And the heaven is cloven asunder, so that on that day it is frail.
(Surat al-Haqqa: 16)

And because they were patient and constant, He rewarded them
with a Garden and (garments of) silk. Reclining in the (Garden) on
raised thrones, they saw there neither the sun's (excessive heat) nor
excessive cold. (Surat al-Insan: 12-13)

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