Man’s freedom of choice within the determinate circuit of...

Man’s freedom of choice within the determinate circuit of destiny and fate This point in particular is the major complex of the research, if ever it is solved and clarified every thing prior or postal to it will be clarified too.

Man – as his conscience and the Holy Quran reveal – owns his absolute freedom to choose and act, his hesitation to make a choice proves his free choice; furthermore his responsibility for his deeds, his remorse or relief in choosing what is right or wrong certify his freedom of choice. Conscience is a strong evidence that authenticates this fact.

At a previous place of this research we saw that Al Quran in a great number of verses states man’s free choice, we are not concerned here to prove this fact further. Man’s choice often or always brings him at a cross way, and any way he chooses gains its decisiveness and finality within the circuit of destiny and fate that is powerfully designed which we have already explained. Man has no way to get away from the circuit of destiny and fate, or to get rid of its punctual predetermined grip.

Man is doomed to live, move, act and choose within this circuit as we have already stated. But he always (or frequently) has an absolute freedom to choose either of the various ways laid in front of him, and his decision is made with definite knowledge and consciousness. If an ill man really cares for his illness, referring himself to a physician, taking the right medication, he will gain recovery; if he neglects his disease, it will turn worse.

If a student makes his best he will pass successfully, and if he turns lazy neglecting his lessons he will fail, if a worker moves himself doing his best in the bazaar, Allah will enrich him, if he gives up searching for a job he will turn poor. Man too, in keeping company with the corrupted will only attain their corruption.

All these results are connected to destiny and unavoidable fate that can not be suspected, for a man who does his best seeking knowledge will necessarily turn knowledgeable, he is destined to this, the knowledge he attains will be connected to the field in which he has worked regardless of other fields; here, it is (destiny) that has decided; the amounts of efforts he has exerted, the amount of study he has made are his (fate).

Man’s free choice always concerns the dogmas, the factual statutes (which we have dedicated to destiny and fate) show themselves in the results.