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this time. So be steadfast. The best end result is for those who do their duty. (Surah Hud: 49)
This is news of the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were not with them when they decided what to do
and devised their scheme. (Surah Yusuf: 102)

God gave the Prophet Muhammad (may God bless him and grant him peace) information about
some things that had not yet happened which was news of the unseen about the future. For example, the
taking of Mecca (Surat al-Fath: 27) and the victory of the Greeks over the pagans (Surat ar-Rum: 3-4) were
revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (may God bless him and grant him peace) before they happened.

The Prophet's (may God bless him and grant him peace) sayings about the signs of the day of resurrec-
tion and the end times (which were news of the unseen to people of that time) show that God taught
these things to him.
The Qur’an explains that news of the unseen is given to prophets and some devout believers. For ex-

ample, it was revealed to Joseph that the trap set for him by his brothers will come to nothing (Surah
Yusuf: 15), and to the mother of Moses it was revealed that her son would escape the cruelty of Pharaoh
and become a prophet. (Surat al-Qasas: 7)
Finally, all that we call past and future is news of the unseen hidden in the sight of God. God gives

some of this knowledge to the memories of those He chooses, at a time He chooses, thus making them
aware of some of the unseen. The events which become visible and observable are characterized by
human beings as being past events.

The Importance Of Submission To Destiny

The fact that past and future are already created in God's sight, and that everything has happened

and is present at God's sight, demonstrates a very important truth. Everyone is in complete submission
to his destiny. Just as a person cannot change his past, so he cannot change his future, because, like the
past, the future has already happened. Everything in the future is determined—when and where events
will happen, what he will eat, who he will talk to, what he will discuss, how much money he will earn,
what diseases he will get, and when, where and how he will die. All these things are already in God's

sight and already experienced in His memory. But this knowledge is not yet in a person's memory.
Therefore, those who are sorry, upset, outraged and worried about the future, are anxious in vain.
The future they are so worried and anxious about has already happened. And no matter what they do,

they cannot change these things.
At this point it is very important to point out that it is necessary to avoid a mistaken understanding
of destiny. Some people misunder-
stand and think that what is in their
destiny will happen anyway so

there is nothing they can do. It is
true that everything we experience
is determined in our destiny. Before

we experienced an occurrence, it
has been experienced in God's sight
and is written in all its details in the
Mother of the Book (Lawh Mahfuz)
Just as a person cannot change in God's sight. But God gives
his past, he also cannot change everyone the sense that he can
his future. For this reason, those
who are stressed or anxious change things and make his own
about things that happen to them choices and decisions. For example,
experience anxiety and difficulty when a person wants to drink some
that result from their not being in
submission to their destiny. water, he does not say "If it is my
destiny I will drink", and sit down

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