I know that this question of destiny comes up part of the problem is that let the public promise
language right words words come pre-loaded with an idea that we have attached to it so if I say
destiny right we with that word destiny comes a pre-loaded concepts that pre-loaded concept
is like it's inevitable product of fate that you can't escape yeah okay and you know I think it's
very important to remove those concepts okay and if you want to understand the Islamic concept of
of Kadir well kadhai which is the correct Arabic terminology for it okay then again you need to
study one of the essential concepts and they're very simple I'll go through it very quickly and
you know maybe this is more for the benefit of the Muslims right just a few things number one
Allah number one Allah knows everything that's the first thing a loss of how Allah caused everything
to be written down fifty thousand years before the creation everything that was going to happen
was written down so Allah knows it Allah caused it to be written down the third thing is that
Allah has power over everything and nothing can happen unless Allah allows it to happen unless he
decrees it unless he commands it to happen unless he creates it and he allows it to happen so this
is important this is the this is the the power of Allah Subhan Allah Tala right so nothing happens
unless he allows it and he has created everything and he's created everything that we do right one
of the things that Allah has allowed us allowed to happen his he has allowed us to choose whether
we should obey Him or disobey Him of course you can't obey God unless he allows you to obey Him so
you're obeying him is still under his permission for you to obey him or disobey him so he he allows
you to obey Him and he allows you to disobey him that doesn't mean that Allah compelled you
to sin or compelled you to obedience Allah God gave you the choice he gave you the choice to
obey or disobey based upon the choice that you make whether you obey or disobey you will be
judged and you'll be judged accordingly whether you obeyed or when you disobeyed because that's
the choice that you made and he allowed you to make that choice now the mistake that people
make is equating God's knowing everything with his they you presume that there's an equivalence
between God knowing something and God writing it and you doing it but that's a fallacy even
by human standards we know that I'll give you a simple example right and I'm not comparing us
to God I'm just giving you a conceptual example to show how conceptually this can exist amongst
us so even more so it could be true about God right so for example imagine I'm your t-shirt
right okay and you are my students and based upon my observing you and my observation of you right
and my knowledge of you and how you behave in your academic capabilities I write down and I predict
the grades that I think you are going to get now here's the question there's mine knowing that and
writing that force you to get those grades yes or no is that is there a connection between my
writing those down and you get in those grades yes or no no it's still ultimately your choice
right I mean I if my knowledge was more and my insight was greater my prediction will be more
accurate but that doesn't mean I forced you in any way shape or form to obey or to disobey or
to pass or to fail that's the mistake that people make it's still your choice to obey
God or disobey God but his knowledge is perfect and knowledge of you is perfect so based upon
that perfect knowledge he wrote down what was going to happen but it's writing it down does
not mean that he forced you into obedience or disobedience that's still your choice