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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

That is because what happens is part of one’s destiny, and hu-
man beings have no power to change this. However, people
must still learn from destined events and, by seeing the wisdom
and goodness in them, turn to our Lord, Who creates their desti-
nies and Who is infinitely Merciful, Affectionate and Just, and Who
preserves and protects His servants.
The form people assume while still an embryo, their state
when they first learn to read and write and the fitness they display
on their 35th birthday and when they retire are already determined
in the book in the Sight of Allah. Human beings can neither expe-
rience nor do anything that is not appointed in their destiny.
People heedless of this major truth spend their lives in a state of
anxiety and fear. For example, they constantly worry about their
children’s futures, which school they will attend, what jobs they
will have, their state of health and the kind of lives they will lead.
In fact, however, everything from a person’s existence as a single
cell to the time when they first learn to read and write, from the an-
swers they give in exams to what job they will do in which compa-
ny, how many times they will sign their names, and how and
where they will die—everything is predetermined in the Sight of

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