Describing them the Qur’an says...

Describing them the Qur’an says: **“** Such people when warned to fear, those who are gathered against them, (the threat of danger) increased their faith and they cried: Allah is sufficient for us! Most excellent is He in whom we trust!”. (Surah Aale Imran, 3:172) “So they returned with grace and favour from Allah, and no barm touched them. They followed the good pleasure of Allah, and Allah is of infinite bounty”.

(Surah Aale Imran, 3:173 - 174) From the foregoing it is clear that there is a vast difference between a belief in fate and destiny based on the Qur’anic teachings and a materialistic belief in it in accordance with the materialistic theory of causation. All that a materialist believes is that the more efforts he puts to achieve his objective, the better results he is likely to obtain.

But a Muslim having faith in destiny believes that the world has been so arranged that the whole system of causes and effects will come to his aid if he whole-heartedly exerts himself to serve the cause of his creed. His power naturally increases thousands of times when the energy stored in the world comes to his aid. Previous…