The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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There are two points of view: very often people either believe in destiny or in free will. Those who believe in destiny do not believe in free will; it is a question of temperament, and it also depends upon the experience they had in their lives. Some people have worked and had some success and recognized it as the outcome of their work. Then they think, "If there is anything it is free will. What we have done shows it: we have achieved results." And there are others who have worked but did not succeed. In that case they begin to see that something is keeping them back from getting results, and then they think, "There is something destiny-which is holding us back." Many think, "It is a sort of laziness to be fatalist; after all it is a superstition." And others think, "Free will is just a name, a conception, an idea a person may have, but really it is all destiny."


 
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