Precious Star
Junior Member
How do you balance acceptance of Allah's will for you, vs making dua for your circumstances to change?
Aren't the two concepts contradictory??
Aren't the two concepts contradictory??
Is this meant because Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala has already written our destiny that dua is really for ourselves to be witness to the changes in our or other's life when we make dua and our dua is answered and to teach us patience and understanding when they are not answered or answered immediately since our destiny has been determined, Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala already knew what we were going to make dua for so the answer was already predetermined, we just don't know what the answer will be and this is when we trust Allah knows best?
well sis, Allah knows best, i most agree. but what we should know in mind and then believe is Allah always answers our prayers. if we talk about destiny, nothing is with full of certainty, as certainty is only to Allah's will. what Allah has already destined us even before we were born is when our life will finished. how will we live our lives, it's all in our hands. as Allah gives the full rights to us. i cannot say that Allah is dogmatic, but it's true. but how we address what Allah gives us is freedom, but He gives us choices and consequences in that freedom He gave. He always answers our prayers, trust me, just the answers not fill our needs in our sides. for the easiest example, we pray for getting job in certain company that we really want or dream of, but we failed. it doesn't mean that Allah doesn't answer our pray, but the answer is NO. but we always try to deny this, and blame to ourselves and worse, Allah. The answers are always Yes or No, but we always want the Yes as the answer of all our prayers. this is how we could address 'Allah knows best'. Those are not for no reasons, but for our truly own good. Allah loves us in His own ways, and we just don't understand it yet. so we need just to understand how the way He loves us.
My understanding coming into Islam which I may have misunderstood is our destiny everyday has already been written and this why I struggle with understanding about our free will, but there is much to learn and Islam is a very deep in thought and soul religion of faith.
Mash'Allah Sister, thank you for helping me understand. My understanding coming into Islam which I may have misunderstood is our destiny everyday has already been written and this why I struggle with understanding about our free will, but there is much to learn and Islam is a very deep in thought and soul religion of faith. Insha'Allah the more I study the more I will come to understand. JazakiAllah Kharian
Our destiny HAS been written. That has nothing to do with our free will. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala just already knows what's going to happen to us.