In Baghdad, the ruler's favorite vizier came running to the palace one day, sweating blood. "My sovereign, let me ride to Samarkand immediately. I saw Azrael in the marketplace and recognized him immediately and he stared at me. I am sure he has come to get me, but we still have a lot of work to do."

The ruler, who loved and trusted his vizier very much, did not break him and gave him one of his fastest horses. The vizier quickly sets off for Samarkand.

Curious about the situation, the ruler changes his clothes and goes down to the marketplace. There he sees Azrael and immediately recognizes him. He goes up to him and asks: "This afternoon you stared at my favorite and youngest vizier and frightened him, why?"

-I didn't want to frighten him. I didn't look at him with a look that would frighten him. We came together by chance in the crowd in the square, I wasn't looking for him. But I was surprised when we suddenly met and I couldn't hide my astonishment as I looked at him. What he saw in my eyes was only astonishment...

- "Why are you so surprised?" asked the ruler.

-I never thought I would see him here in Baghdad. I thought he would be in Samarkand, because our rendezvous with him is in Samarkand this evening at dusk...

"Man often meets his fate on the road he has chosen to avoid." Says La Fontaine, is it possible to escape fate?

We have what Carl Gustave Jung calls "archetypes", images encoded in the human psyche from millions of years ago, recorded, organized, shaping models designed like a flash disk in the human psyche since then. These archetypes are loaded into us the moment we are conceived through DNA, like a kind of flash disk, and they are passed on from us to future generations. For this very reason, the information and records of millions of years of the past, of what has been lived, what has been thought, what has happened, are preserved in the material plan. These Akashic Records are written in a book called "Levh-i Mahfuz" in Islam where everything is recorded. All the information of what has happened and what will happen is recorded here. Nothing is lost and everything is recorded.

Even when one day the body disappears, even when the soul gives up the body, the knowledge is never lost or destroyed. It is only the physical body that disappears. The soul is immortal and eternally imperishable.

It is believed that everything that will happen in the universe before the creation event is written down on the Levh-i Mahfuz. According to Abu Hanifa and Abu Mansur Maturidi, the destiny of all human beings is written here in general outlines, although not in concrete events, and the events that human beings have experienced and will experience are realized according to this general destiny. In other words, while our destiny is shaped in moments of decision, the way it is shaped can be realized through one's own efforts, but it cannot be changed because the general situation of what is happening and what will happen is predetermined. It is just like this. Your destination is Ankara. The time and date you have to be there is fixed. You can choose to go by plane, by bus, by train or even by horse. Or, you can even set off from Denizli and go there from Antalya, Izmir, Antalya, Izmir, Istanbul. You can rest as much as you want, you can make the journey as long or as short as you want, this is your choice. But the choice of destination, date and time is not yours. This is pre-selected by the Creator.

"Destiny does not give the whole path, only the crossroads. The route is clear, but all the twists and turns belong to the traveler. So you are neither master of your life nor helpless in the face of it." Says Shams al-Tabrizi.

Indians define this with the philosophy of karma. You are given a photo frame, you are free to put any picture you want in this frame, that's all. You can use any picture you want in any quality and color you want, but only as much as will fit in the frame and only as much as will fit. It is the Divine power that determines and determines destiny. "We were making our own plans, but we forgot that fate also has plans," Dostoevsky once said of fate, which works like a clock that never fails.

Almost all religions and mythologies, whether gnostic, syncretic, pagan or divine, have a belief in fate. In Islam, the belief in fate is a fundamental element and, like good and evil, accident and destiny come from God. The Qur'an says, "Allah created you and all that you do" or "Only by Allah's will can they will anything". Destiny is defined in verses such as "If Allah willed it, all those on earth would believe" and "If Allah willed it, they could not do it". This is like an indication that even if we are unlimitedly free in our will and actions, the general results cannot happen outside of destiny, and it makes one feel the deep peace of adapting to the general flow and the flow of life, of taking everything as it comes. Because it is futile to be disturbed by fate, to resist something that can never be stopped or prevented. Moving from life to death is a necessity of existence. The number of beats of the heart is limited by fate. Just like Shiller says... The beating of the heart is the sound of destiny...

Let me end this article with my favorite quote of Shams that I always use: "Instead of resisting the changes that God brings you, surrender to them. Let life flow with you, not in spite of you. Don't worry that "my order will be disrupted, my life will be turned upside down". How do you know that life won't be better than what is underneath?"

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber