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Are Muslims fatalists?

Question: 7216

Are Muslims fatalists?

Answer

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

Fatalists are those who think that a person has no choice in what he does and is compelled to do it, and that his actions are like the actions of a tree which is moved by the wind. Their opposites are those who think that a person creates or initiates his own deeds. The Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah (Sunni Muslims who follow the way of the Prophet ` (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)) follow a middle path between these two extremes and believe that man has a free will but that this will is subject to the Will of Allah. A person does not initiate his own deeds, neither is he compelled to do what he does; he can decide for himself, within the framework of the Will of Allah. And Allah knows best.

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 Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr

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