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Just as a person cannot change his past, he
also cannot change his future. For this
reason, those who are stressed or anxious
about things that happen to them experience
anxiety and difficulty that result from their
not being in submission to their fate.

to God knows that everything he does is according to the will of God despite
the sense that he has done it himself. The other person mistakenly assumes that
he has done everything with his own intelligence and power.
For example, when a person who has submitted himself to God learns that
he has contracted a disease, knows that the disease is in his fate and he trusts
in God. He thinks that because God has put it in his fate, it will certainly bring

him great good. But he does not wait without taking any measures thinking
that if he is fated to get better he will get better. On the contrary, he takes all
possible precautions; he goes to a doctor, pays attention to his diet and takes
medicine. But he does not forget that the effectiveness of the doctor, the
treatment, the medicine, as well as whether or not he will get better are all in
his fate. He knows that all this is in God's memory and was present there even
before he came into the world. In the Koran, God reveals that everything that

human beings experience is written beforehand in a book:
Nothing occurs, either in the earth or in yourselves, without its being in
a Book before We make it happen. That is something easy for God. That

is so that you will not be grieved about the things that may have
escaped you or exult about the things that come to you. God does not
love any vain or boastful man. (Surat al-Hadid: 22-23)

For this reason, anyone who believes in fate will not be troubled or despair
about things that happen to him. On the contrary, he will have the utmost trust
and confidence in his submission to God. God has determined in advance

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