Anyway, coming back to the topic of fate in “Amantu”[1]where “bil qadari” denotes the reality referenced by the letter B… Fate is embedded within the program of creation, it is not dictated by an external force.
One can’t have faith in fate if one doesn’t know what it means. He will only have faith in the word fate. For if one doesn’t know what is denoted by a word then having faith in it won’t go beyond having faith in the word alone.
So in this light let us now explore this universal reality to which we are asked to have faith in:
No calamity befalls you on earth (on your physical body and outer world) or among yourselves (your inner world) that has not already been recorded in a book (formed in the dimension of the knowledge) before We bring it into being! Indeed, for Allah, this is easy.
We inform you of this in order that you do not despair over your losses or exult (in pride) over what We have given you, for Allah does not like the boastful and the arrogant![2]
Think! What are these verses calling our attention to? This is profound information that requires some contemplation and effort for proper discernment. It reveals the dimensionality within the single frame picture. It explains how the domain of Names are expressed in the world of acts, for those who understand…
The following verse reveals how the system is formed and executed:
Set your face (consciousness) as a Hanif (without the concept of a deity-god, without making shirq to Allah, i.e. with the consciousness of non-duality) towards the One Religion (the only system and order), the natural disposition (fitrah) of Allah (i.e. the primary system and mechanism of the brain) upon which Allah has created man. There is no change in the creation of Allah. This is the infinitely valid system (deen al-qayyim), but most people do not know.[3]
Say, “Everyone acts according to his own creation program (natural disposition; fitrah)”[4]
Each servant is under the ruling of its Rabb! As confirmed by the following verse:
There is no animate being that He does not hold (program with the Name Fatir) by its forehead (brain) (i.e. subjugate to His command)... [5]
That is, the program formed by the composition of names in one’s forehead, or brain, which drives one to be a certain way, is one’s Rabb. In other words, his being is the direct result of the composition of names which is his Rabb.
The Rasul and final Nabi of Allah (saw) in whom all Muslims must believe, explains the Sunnatullah to us with the following verses:
You cannot will unless Allah wills (your will is Allah’s will)![6]
The doer of what He wills![7]
He is not questioned (called to account) for what He does![8]
While it is Allah who created you and all your doings![9]
No calamity befalls you on earth (on your physical body and outer world) or among yourselves (your inner world) that has not already been recorded in a book (formed in the dimension of the knowledge)before We bring it into being! Indeed, for Allah, this is easy.
We inform you of this in order that you do not despair over your losses or exult (in pride) over what We have given you, for Allah does not like the boastful and the arrogant![10]
[1]Comprises the six fundamentals of belief in Islam. It consists of belief in Allah, His angels, His books, His Rasuls, Doomsday [life after death] and destiny [qadar], that all good and evil are from Allah.
[2]Quran 57:22-23
[3]Quran 30:30
[4]Quran 17:84
[5]Quran 11:56
[6]Quran 76:30
[7]Quran 85,16
[8]Quran 21:23
[9]Quran 37:96
[10]Quran 57:22-23