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He will say: "How many years did you tarry on the earth?" They will say: "We tar-
ried there for a day or part of a day. Ask those who keep account." (Surat al-
Muminun: 112-113)

On the Day He calls you, you will respond by praising Him and think that you
have only tarried a very short time. (Surat al-Isra: 52)
Allah creates our perception of time. Allah, the Creator of time, is by no means depen-
dent on it. This is a crucial fact and it provides the answer to a crucial question asked by
many people: what is destiny?
The majority of people experience difficulty in understanding the meaning of the
concept of destiny.
Destiny is the eternal knowledge of Allah, Who is independent of time and Who pre-
vails over the whole of time and space, about all occurrences and situations of all the
beings that are dependent on time. Allah is the Creator of all these actions and situations
just as He is the Creator of "time." In the same way as we easily see a ruler's beginning,
middle, and end, and all the units in between as a whole, Allah knows the time to which
we are subject to as if it were a single moment right from its beginning to its end.
No doubt, this is certain. Allah, Who is not bound by the relative time-frame within
which we are confined, encompasses everything time-related. Despite this obvious fact,
the majority of people have a distorted understanding of destiny. They assume that they
can step out of the boundaries of destiny, "overcome their destiny" or they can live a life
separate and independent from destiny. However, as stated earlier, our destinies are in
the eternal knowledge of Allah and Allah knows all incidents in the past, present and
future, as a single moment. It is unlikely that human beings, who are subject to time, can
exceed the boundaries of this single moment and change anything or manage it by their
own will. To claim the contrary would be irrational.
We are again face to face with an irrefutable fact: it is implausible that one can change
or divert one's own destiny. Surely, the existence of every moment of one's life is depen-
dent upon the exercise of the will of Allah and man cannot do anything, even he cannot
think, without the will of Allah.

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