What is destiny? If everything in our lives is already written, why are we held responsible for our actions? Do we truly have free will, or are we just puppets playing out a script? Can we change our fate through our choices and prayers? In this video, we explore the concept of Qadar (destiny) in Islam, addressing common misconceptions and explaining the balance between Allah's infinite knowledge and human free will. Through relatable examples and thought-provoking explanations, you'll learn how belief in destiny brings peace, trust, and a deeper understanding of life’s purpose. Watch till the end to uncover the answers and clarify your perspective on destiny and free will.
Intro
Belief in destiny
Allah is the creator of time
The concept of - Free will !
Accountability
Seeing the existence of destiny around.
Evidence of destiny Deja
Different Decrees within the concept of destiny
Dua - The most beautiful aspect of belief
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Intro
Belief in destiny
Allah is the creator of time
The concept of - Free will !
Accountability
Seeing the existence of destiny around.
Evidence of destiny Deja
Different Decrees within the concept of destiny
Dua - The most beautiful aspect of belief
#Destiny #Qadar #DestinyExplained #QadarExplained #NoMoreConfusion #UnderstandingDestiny #SpiritualJourney #LifePurpose #DivineWill #PhilosophyOfLife #FateAndFreeWill #IslamicTeachings #SeekKnowledge #SelfDiscovery #SpiritualAwakening #Mindset #Motivation #Wisdom #Inspiration
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00:00If I'm destined to get hit by a car here, will I still get hit by that car no matter
00:04what I do?
00:06What if I take a step back?
00:10Everything that will happen in our lives is written in our destiny with all its details.
00:15So what is our role in this world then?
00:18Are we just puppets playing what has been already written?
00:22For instance, were you destined to watch this video right now?
00:24Or let's make the question even more difficult.
00:27If someone is already destined to go to hell, then what is the fault of that person?
00:32The belief in destiny is a concept that has been debated for many many centuries, and is
00:36perhaps one of the most difficult topics to understand.
00:40There have been many misunderstandings and disagreements on this issue, and as a result, serious disputes
00:45have come up.
00:46There have been people who completely denied destiny, and on the contrary, there were others
00:51who accepted it, but completely denied free will.
00:53In other words, both sides went to extremes and couldn't find the middle ground.
00:58But then, how should the middle ground be?
01:01What is the correct way of believing in destiny?
01:03Do you have the correct belief?
01:05Or are there some flaws that you haven't realized?
01:07If you want to find out the answers to all these questions, make sure to watch this video
01:10carefully until the end.
01:12Let's begin.
01:17Belief in destiny is to believe that, from the very beginning, Allah knows everything
01:21that will happen in the universe, and that he has written all of them in full detail even
01:25before creating them.
01:27But how can something be completely known and written before it even happens?
01:31It's normal for us to find this difficult to understand, because it has to do with timelessness.
01:36While we are living inside time, it's really hard to grasp the state of being timeless, existing outside of time.
01:42Now let's first define the concept of time in the most basic sense.
01:46The concept we call time is the creation of things from Allah's infinite knowledge, their
01:50emergence into the realm of existence, and then their withdrawal from the stage through
01:55death and annihilation.
01:57In other words, time is the sequence in which things are created.
02:00Allah created a different day yesterday, a different one today, and will create a different
02:05day tomorrow.
02:06It's as if time is like a rope, and all events that happen are lined up one after the other
02:10on that rope.
02:11But this sequence only applies to us.
02:14For example, let's say you have a 10-line poem in your memory.
02:17All these 10 lines exist in your memory at the same time.
02:21But when you start writing it on paper, you write it in a certain order.
02:24You start with the first line, then the second line, then the third line, and so on.
02:28While on paper, you write these lines one after the other in a certain order, in your memory,
02:33all these lines are present at the same time.
02:36Just like this, everything that has happened or will happen in the realm of existence is
02:41already present in Allah's knowledge simultaneously.
02:44But when he brings them into existence, he creates them in a certain sequence, and we call
02:48that sequence time.
02:50Let's make it even simpler.
02:51Allah is the creator of the concept of time, right?
02:54And as a rule, everything that he created in the universe is bound by time.
02:58So can this rule also be applied to Allah when he is the one who created that?
03:02Of course not.
03:03Since Allah is the creator of time, then naturally, he shouldn't be bound by it.
03:08And so if Allah is not limited by time, wouldn't it be normal for him to know the future?
03:13Now we are going to demonstrate this point with a very powerful example.
03:16I want you to pay really close attention to it.
03:18Let's imagine a camera in our hands.
03:20Then we draw a line on the table.
03:21The left side represents the past.
03:23The middle represents the present, and the right is the future.
03:26If I hold the camera in the center and close to the table, the camera only captures and
03:30sees the present.
03:31The higher we raise the camera, the more it captures the past and the future.
03:35And when we raise the camera to the very top, it encompasses and captures all these times
03:39at once.
03:40All of them can be seen simultaneously in that camera.
03:42Just like this, we are living on a certain timeline in the universe.
03:45We have a life that we live as the past, present, and future.
03:48Similar to the camera capturing the entire table from above, Allah being outside of time
03:53encompasses all of time, past, present, and future with his infinite knowledge.
03:58So being eternal means to encompass all of time at once.
04:02It doesn't mean to just be at the very beginning of the timeline or to be before everything.
04:06So as you see, it is very reasonable to think that Allah can know all times and all events
04:12and that he has written all of them into our destiny.
04:15Right at this point, we come across a very popular question.
04:18If God is beyond time and he knows and writes everything even before it happens, then where
04:23is our free will in this picture?
04:25In other words, are we just puppets?
04:32Having destiny and free will seem contradictory at first.
04:35But even if a person cannot figure out the connection between these two concepts, we know
04:39the existence of our free will very well.
04:42For example, in a study made by the Pew Research Center in 2012, Muslims around the world were
04:46asked whether they believe in destiny and whether they think they have free will.
04:50While 70-90% of the Muslims believe that destiny is predetermined by the Creator, they also believe
04:55in individual responsibility and free will.
04:58So how is it that having something written in our destiny doesn't force us to do that thing?
05:03Knowing something does not mean forcing someone to do that thing.
05:06The most common mistake we make is to confuse these two concepts.
05:10Knowledge is one thing and power is another thing.
05:13Knowing is one thing and forcing someone is another.
05:16Think of the different colors of the sun.
05:18Yellow is one of these colors and red is another.
05:21Similarly, Allah also has different names and attributes.
05:25One of his names is Al-Alim, the all-knowing, and the other is Al-Qadir, the all-powerful.
05:30So his knowing is different and his forceful intervention are two different attributes.
05:35So the fact that Allah knows everything does not mean that we don't have free will or
05:40that we do everything by force.
05:41There is a famous principle in the science of logic.
05:44Knowledge is subject to what is known.
05:46That is, knowledge about something is based on, dependent on the reality of that thing
05:51in the real world.
05:52In other words, knowledge doesn't create or change the reality of something, but instead
05:57it is dependent on and corresponds to how that thing actually is.
06:00There is a very good example that brings this close to mind.
06:03Let's say you are on top of a mountain and you see two trains coming towards each other.
06:07Feeling sorry for the people on the trains, you write on a piece of paper that these trains
06:12will crash in 8 seconds.
06:13And they actually do crash into each other in 8 seconds.
06:16Now in this situation, can we see something like, the trains crashed because you wrote
06:21that on the paper beforehand, therefore you are to blame.
06:24Of course not.
06:25The trains didn't crash because you wrote that on the paper.
06:28You knew that the trains were going to crash, that's why you wrote it.
06:31Just as even we can know when the trains are going to crash with our limited knowledge,
06:35Allah can surely know what we will do in our lives with his infinite knowledge.
06:39But as we said before, Allah's knowledge of events does not impose on or destroy our
06:44free will, but rather reflects the reality of those events as they are.
06:48The time of the sunrise is written on the calendar, right?
06:50But can that writing itself be a factor that forces the sun to rise at that specific time?
06:56Of course not.
06:57It was written like that based on the movements of the sun in the real life.
07:00Similarly, the fact that Allah knows what we will do, does not make us do these things.
07:05The things that are written in our destiny are there because we are actually going to
07:08do them.
07:09Knowledge doesn't change reality.
07:11It just conforms to it.
07:13At this point, we have to clarify that the concept of destiny is basically divided into two.
07:18One is involuntary destiny, qadar izrari.
07:21And the other is voluntary destiny, qadar ikhtiyari.
07:24Involuntary destiny is the type of destiny that is determined only by Allah, beyond our
07:28choice or control.
07:30We have no say in them.
07:32Voluntary destiny, on the other hand, refers to the actions that we decide to do freely.
07:36And this is where we are fully responsible.
07:38So the fact that Allah imposes his will on us in certain aspects does not mean that he
07:42won't ever hold us accountable for anything.
07:45He will hold us responsible for the actions we are able to choose with our own will.
07:49For example, let's think of an elevator.
07:52Someone using an elevator does not know anything about his mechanical system or the setup details
07:56of the entire unit, nor does he have any effect over them.
07:59The interior design and the general mechanical system of this elevator are completely independent
08:04of that person's will.
08:06But the choice of which floor the elevator will go to belongs to that person.
08:10It is up to him to go up to the 7th floor or down to the minus 7th floor.
08:14His will applies there.
08:16In this life, our situation is like this example.
08:19There are things we can intervene in, and there are others we cannot.
08:22We are responsible for some choices, but not for others.
08:26For example, we don't get to choose whether we are born male or female, our physical characteristics,
08:31who our parents are going to be, or the country we are born in.
08:34That's why we are not responsible for these things, just like the setup of the elevator system.
08:38So this is involuntary destiny.
08:41But for our deliberate actions that we choose to do, we are responsible.
08:44We can either do good deeds or bad deeds.
08:47So just like we can choose which floor to go to in the elevator, we can also make free
08:51choices in this world.
08:53And this is voluntary destiny.
08:54By the way, did you know that you can literally see the existence of destiny around you?
08:59I mean, destiny's existence is so obvious that it is actually spread throughout the universe,
09:04and is even visible to our eyes.
09:07But how?
09:12There is evidence of destiny in everything we see around us.
09:16Destiny basically means knowledge and planning.
09:18And when we look at every corner of the universe, we also witness that everything is functioning
09:22through knowledge and planning.
09:24Think of an apple tree that you come across while walking in the street.
09:27Isn't all the formation stages of that apple tree already written in its seed from the very
09:32beginning?
09:33Yes, it was programmed in it.
09:35There's a plan, a draft in the seed.
09:37Or think of a cute white rabbit.
09:39Or a little kitten.
09:40Or a newborn baby looking around with their deep blue eyes.
09:44For all of them, DNA is like a book of destiny, giving us the information of those creatures
09:48in advance.
09:49It tells us the physical characteristics of a baby to be born, even some of the diseases
09:54it is likely to suffer from in the future.
09:56So DNA is like a small version of the book of destiny.
09:59The fact that our eyelashes have a certain length, that our hair has a different growing
10:03pattern, that the lengths of our fingers are based on a certain measure and logic.
10:07All of them show that there is actually a plan, a program, and destiny for everything.
10:13Think about it.
10:14If something works in a very organized and calculated way, doesn't it show that there
10:17is planning behind it?
10:19There cannot be a plan functioning in something that happens randomly or spontaneously.
10:23In other words, when we look around us, the fact that everything, from atoms to the stars,
10:29is governed by a certain law.
10:31That the movements of the sun and the moon all follow a precise pattern.
10:34That the plans and programs of all living beings are already written in their seeds,
10:39in their DNA, shows us the obvious reality of destiny and proves its existence in the universe.
10:45Even the fact that there is something called deja vu can be given as proof of destiny.
10:49You know how sometimes we say, wait, I have lived this moment before, I'm sure this happened
10:53to you too.
10:54We actually feel this way because in the realm of the souls, Allah allowed us to see that
10:58specific event on a lawful mafuz, meaning the preserved tablet of destiny.
11:03This tablet contains the information of all the events, actions, and outcomes from the
11:07beginning of creation until the end of time.
11:10And so when that event actually happens, we feel as if we have experienced that thing before.
11:14How could we possibly know otherwise about something we have just experienced?
11:18This means our soul was shown that moment from our book of destiny.
11:22And very accurately, the name deja vu was given to this type of experience, which in French
11:27means already seen.
11:29So it shouldn't be irrational to think that all our physical and spiritual states and
11:33all the things we will experience are already written somewhere.
11:37Or if we look at the Quran, we can also find many proofs of destiny's existence.
11:42For example, the fact that Surat Al-Masad foretold that Abu Lahab and his wife were going
11:46to die as disbelievers is an incredible prophetic miracle.
11:49Allah also foretold in Surat Al-Rum that the Romans were going to defeat the Persians in
11:53the future, which seemed impossible at the time.
11:56This is also news from the unseen, prophetic miracle.
11:59And this prophecy came true as well, of course.
12:01So the fact that the Quran has these types of ayat that give accurate news about what's
12:05going to happen are great proofs that Allah also knows the future.
12:15There are different types of decrees within the concept of destiny.
12:18One is conditional decree, Al-Qadaa Al-Muallak, also known as suspended decree, and the other
12:24is absolute decree, Al-Qadaa Al-Mubram, meaning fixed destiny.
12:28So the first one is changeable and the second one is unchangeable.
12:31For example, let's say Allah has decreed a calamity for a person, but he has tied this
12:36calamity to whether he prays or not.
12:38In other words, Allah determined that if the person prays, the calamity will be lifted,
12:43removed from him.
12:44But if he doesn't pray, it will happen.
12:46So since there is a condition for this event to take place, it is called conditional decree.
12:51The hadith about Sadaqah being a barrier between the person and the calamity is a perfect
12:54example of this.
12:56In conditional decree, this type of situation is decided like this.
12:59If he gives charity, the calamity will go away.
13:03But if he doesn't, it is going to happen.
13:05But whether a person will eventually give Sadaqah or not, is already written in Al-Lawuh
13:09al-Mahfuz.
13:10Whereas the conditional decree is written in Lawuh al-Mahf wal-Ithbat, the tablet of erasure
13:14and affirmation.
13:15In other words, Al-Lawuh al-Mahfuz is set in stone.
13:19It is fixed.
13:20But Lawuh al-Mahf wal-Ithbat is like a board that can be erased and written on again.
13:24In short, Allah knows the final state of everything.
13:27But we don't, so our part is always to try our best and make dua.
13:39One of the most beautiful aspects of belief in destiny is that it creates a deep sense
13:43of peace and trust in the heart.
13:45The person lives his life with confidence and joy.
13:48When a calamity or hardship hits him, he doesn't panic, having the comfort that comes from
13:52believing in destiny.
13:54Because he knows for sure that everything is perfectly planned, down to its finest detail
13:59under the infinite knowledge and power of Allah.
14:02Think about it.
14:03Whatever happens to you, if you know that it's under control, wouldn't that create a perfect
14:07sense of confidence and peace of mind in you?
14:10Being in destiny, you would say, nothing in this world happens randomly or without purpose.
14:15Everything has meaning and wisdom behind it.
14:18And this faith makes you deeply feel that every moment, every second, Allah is taking care
14:23of you.
14:24Someone who believes in destiny thinks that he is constantly under Allah's protection.
14:28He puts aside all his concerns about the future and regrets about the past.
14:32In every situation, he says, my master is enough for me.
14:36After all, everything is under his command and continues his life with this comforting
14:41mindset.
14:42Believing in destiny also protects the person from arrogance and pride, because he knows
14:45that all his good deeds and successes are not a result of his own efforts, but a blessing
14:50that Allah granted him.
14:52So he turns to his Lord, not to his ego.
14:54But at the same time, he also realizes his responsibility for the bad things he does.
14:59He doesn't put the blame on his faith and say, I was meant to do this evil deed.
15:02It was already written.
15:03But rather recognizes that he has free will and accepts that he is responsible.
15:08Another important point is that Islam is the only religion that explains this concept
15:12of destiny in a way that appeals to both the mind and the heart.
15:16This deep and comprehensive understanding of destiny is another proof that Islam is the
15:21right religion.
15:22Now let's go back to the question we asked at the beginning.
15:24Was watching this video written in your destiny?
15:27Yes.
15:28But it was you who chose to click on it.
15:31One day, when you reach the finish line of this journey of life, whether you will end up
15:35in heaven or hell is already written in your destiny.
15:38But what will take you there will be the choices you make with your own free will.
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