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SEEING GOOD IN ALL

He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth…
(Surat as-Sajda: 5)
Indeed, all things We created with predestination.
(Surat al-Qamar: 49)

A person may erroneously think that during the course of
his day he experiences merely what he has planned for
himself. The fact is, however, he is only conforming to the
destiny determined for him by God. This being the case, even
if a person assumes that he has intervened in a situation and
thus changed the course of his destiny, he, in actuality, is yet
again experiencing another moment predetermined for him.
None of the moments that make up our lives happen beyond
fate. A person in coma who later dies does so because he was
destined to at that time. Another who recovers after months
in the same condition does so because it is his destiny.
For a person who has not truly grasped the significance
destiny, all events are the outcome of accident. He falsely
assumes that everything in the universe has an independent
existence. That is why, when afflicted by some disaster, he
refers to it as an "unfortunate" incident.
Nevertheless, the human being is limited in wisdom and
his faculty of discernment; moreover, he is confined to space
and time. On the other hand, all that befalls a person, without
exception, is planned by God, the possessor of "infinite
wisdom," Who is unbounded by space and time.

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. (Surat al-Hadid: 22)
Consequently, all a person needs to do is to submit
himself to the destiny determined by his Creator, remaining