SPIRIT OF ISLAM JULY 2O18

18 Spirit of Islam Issue 67 July 2018 much about this. But someone who reads all that they have written is likely to get very confused. Man seeks a clear answer on this issue, but he does not find it in the enormous corpus of writings on this subject. This is because, ordinarily, people veer to one or the other side of the issue. They either think that it is total freedom that prevails or that we are totally predetermined. This one-sided thinking approach is not proper. If a writer argues for total freedom, the reader is left thinking that he has ignored the element of predetermination. If the writer says that everything in life is preordained, the reader feels he has ignored man’s freewill. And this leads to total confusion in the reader’s mind. As has been suggested here, life is evenly balanced between both freewill and divine will, between freedom and fate. If you reflect on both aspects, your confusion will end and you will arrive at a definitive answer to this question. o Life is evenly balanced between both freewill and divine will, between freedom and fate.