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sight of God. God gives some of this knowledge to the memories of those He
chooses, at a time He chooses, thus making them aware of some of the unseen.
The events which become visible and observable are characterized by human
beings as being past events.

The Importance Of Submission To Fate

The fact that past and future are already created in God's sight, and that
everything has happened and is present at God's sight, demonstrates a very
important truth. Everyone is in complete submission to his fate. Just as a
person cannot change his past, so he cannot change his future, because, like the
past, the future has already happened. Everything in the future is
determined—when and where events will happen, what he will eat, who he
will talk to, what he will discuss, how much money he will earn, what diseases

he will get, and when, where and how he will die. All these things are already
in God's sight and already experienced in His memory. But this knowledge is
not yet in a person's memory.
Therefore, those who are sorry, upset, outraged and worried about the
future, are anxious in vain. The future they are so worried and anxious about
has already happened. And no matter what they do, they cannot change these
things.

At this point it is very important to point out that it is necessary to avoid a
mistaken understanding of fate. Some people misunderstand and think that
what is in their fate will happen anyway so there is nothing they can do. It is
true that everything we experience is determined in our fate. Before we
experienced an occurrence, it has been experienced in God's sight and is written
in all its details in the Mother of the Book (Lawh Mahfuz) in God's sight. But
God gives everyone the sense that he can change things and make his own
choices and decisions. For example, when a person wants to drink some water,
he does not say "If it is my fate I will drink", and sit down without making any

move. Instead, he gets up, takes a glass and drinks the water. Actually, he drinks
a predetermined amount of water from a predetermined glass. But as he does
this, he senses that he is acting according to his own desire and will. He senses
this throughout his life in everything that he does. The difference between a
person who submits himself to God and to the fate created by God, and
someone who cannot grasp this reality is this: the person who submits himself

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