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ISLAM AND KARMA

doctor, doing everything he says and following his advice. As long as
he has confidence in the doctor's professional abilities, he will not
search for different medicines and different treatments for himself.
Both these examples show how we place confidence in other peo-
ple and surrender ourselves to them because of their special abilities.

Being able to rely on someone we trust gives us a welcome feeling of
peace of mind and confidence. However, trusting in Allah and surren-
dering ourselves to Him is an incomparably greater and more signifi-
cant matter than this.
If we surrender ourselves to Allah, we willingly accept every-

thing He sends us throughout our lives—every event, every image,
every conversation. No matter what happens, we never ask, "What's
going on?” When we have experienced difficulty, we never say, "If
only this or that had not happened”, because we know that everything
that happens to us has been sent to us by our Lord Allah, to Whom we
have confidently surrendered ourselves and in Whose justice, kind-

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