There are always two ideas understood in general about the nature of existence. One is that there is some power behind, named God, Who creates beings and moves them according to His will. The joy, pain, riches, poverty, success, failure, all He makes previously and prepares for man at the formation of his soul, and afterwards He makes changes in accordance to man's good or bad actions which are given in man's power, he being made responsible for them. There is another idea that man makes his own fate, or mars his own fortune, and that there is no other power hidden behind which has any influence on his life.