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Concepts of Fate in the Karma Belief System and in the Qur'an

creed, we need not do anything about it”, and in this way they try to
prove to themselves that it is impossible to believe in one's destiny.
This is a very shallow way of thinking. The reason people say this is
that it is part of their destiny to do so, although they do not realise this.
Allah has predetermined everyone's fate; with Allah, everyone's life

has already been lived through right to the end.
Allah, however, as part of the test He has created for us in this life
on Earth, has made it possible for us to experience everything we do
as being done by our own will. For example, if someone is writing a

book, the truth is that with Allah that book was already written and
completed before the writer was born and it had already been read by
those destined to read it. Even while the author is deciding what he is
going to write, everything about the book—every line, the beginning
of each paragraph, the headings, the colours and pictures used on the
cover, the number of pages, the position of each punctuation mark and

every other detail—is already present with Allah.
Let us suppose, however, that the author were to give up writing
it, saying to himself, "Since this book has already been written, if it is
fated that it should be so, I need not do anything at all”. This would
not make sense since the "if" in his argument betrays the fact that he

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