Do you believe in fate/destiny?
Do I believe in fate? 100%. But do I believe we have free will? Also, yes. Sounds like a contradiction, but it’s really not.
I’ve written about this before in my article Quantum Free Will: The Science of Fate, Probability, and the End Times, where I explored how quantum physics and Islamic belief actually align in strange ways. Science tells us that reality isn’t fixed—it’s probabilistic. Things exist in multiple states until an action is taken. And if you really think about it, isn’t that exactly how life feels?
Islam teaches Qadr—that everything happens by the will and knowledge of Allah. But that doesn’t mean we’re just coasting through life with no control. We make choices, we take action, and we’re accountable for those decisions. Yet at the same time, Allah already knows what we’ll do before we do it. That’s where people get stuck—thinking that if something is already known, it means it’s forced. But knowing something will happen is not the same as making it happen.
The way I see it, life is a path with multiple roads, and every choice leads us down a different one. But no matter which one we take, it was always written. And that’s the beauty of it—we still have to walk the path, make the decisions, and take responsibility for them.
So yeah, I believe in fate. I believe in free will. And I believe that no matter how much we try to control things, what’s meant for us will always find us.
The Narratives - Mohamed Miah 
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