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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

living events that are already over and done with, and will enjoy
the peace of mind that this imparts. Submission to destiny is a
great blessing for anyone who knows that all things are created to
be auspicious. Even events that may appear to be troubles or diffi-
culties are in fact positive and eventually result in great good.
When considering the concept of destiny, some people take
the fact that everything is predetermined to imagine that there is
no need for them to do anything. Yet this is a major distortion of the
concept of destiny. True, everything we experience is determined
in our destinies—before we experience them, those events have al-
ready taken place in the Sight of Allah and all its details are writ-
ten down in the Lawh al-Mahfuz (the Preserved Tablet) in His
Sight.
However, Allah gives every human being the feeling that they
are able to alter events and act in accordance with their own deci-
sions and choices. When one is thirsty, for example, one does not
sit down and wait, saying,“I will have a drink—if that is in my des-
tiny.” One gets up, takes a glass and drinks. In fact, of course, one
drinks the amount of water determined in one’s destiny. But one
nevertheless feels that one is doing this in accord with one’s own
wish. That feeling is experienced in everything we do throughout
our lives. The difference is that someone who has submitted to the
destiny created by Allah knows that despite the feeling he does
things of his own accord, he actually performs them by the will of
Allah. Others who have failed to grasp this fact mistakenly imag-
ine that they do everything with their own intelligence and
strength.
For example, a submitted person who learns that he has con-
tracted a disease will be resigned, since he knows that this is his
destiny. He will say, “Since Allah has created this in my destiny,
there must be an auspicious element to it.” He will not sit back
and do nothing saying “If I am destined to recover, I

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