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Everything Happens by the Will

of Allah

People's plans can only become reality
if Allah wills it. Believers are fully aware of
this fact, and so their behavior and conversation reflect this

reality. Allah reminds believers not to speak in absolute terms
about anything, but to state that they intend to do something
only if Allah wills it. For example:
Never say about anything: "I am doing that tomorrow,"
without adding "If Allah wills." (Surat Al-Kahf: 23-24)

The Gospel says something similar:
Now listen, you who say: "Today or tomorrow we will go to this
or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make mon-
ey." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and
then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say: "If it is the Lord's will,
we will live and do this or that." (James, 4: 13-15)
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny[]? Yet not one of
them will fall to the ground apart from the will of
God.(Matthew, 10: 29)
Allah reveals in the Torah the fact that every-
thing always happens by the will of Allah as fol-
lows:

Many are the plans in a man's
heart, but it is the Lord's purpose
that prevails. (Proverbs, 19: 21)

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