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MR. ADNAN OKTAR'S
REMARKS ON DESTINY,
PREORDINATION AND
THE FACT THAT ALLAH IS
EVERYWHERE
ADNAN OKTAR: The subjects on
which people concentrate most are
those such as the existence of Allah,
death, what will happen in the Here-
after, and destiny. In other words, no
matter how much they try not to let on,
this is the subject that occupies their
brains day and night. That is because
every night, there is a film on the TV
about someone dying. Even if a person
sees a dead insect, it would remind
him of death, and when he thinks
about himself it reminds him of death
again.
People are very troubled when it
comes to destiny. There are still objec-
tions raised, even though I have talked
about it at such length, they are still
saying things. They say that Allah has
created destiny, of course. There is pre-
destination, but there is also partial
free will, they say, in other words a
very small power unique to us that
Allah—may Allah forbid—cannot con-
trol, which belongs to us. In other
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