ADNAN OKTAR: Complete submission to destiny and complete devotion to Allah. For example, you are now asking me questions, reading messages sent in by our friends. Every word and letter in them is pre-ordained in destiny, and they were written down before the writers were even born. The questions you are asking were written before you were even born. For instance, how much tea you drink, how you drink it, what you will do and what words you will use are all in destiny, as are the lime tea I am drinking, how much of it there is, and the little bit left in the bottom.

It is all in destiny, down to the finest detail, to the cubic millimeter. The number of cubic centimeters is fixed thereafter and never changes. This pencil here, for instance, the angle it makes and even its shadow are all appointed in destiny. Even the area taken up by its shadow is ordained in destiny.

ADNAN OKTAR: We must know about destiny and submission to Allah, but we must also work and pray. We must fear Allah and experience the love of Him. These things are all one whole. It cannot be broken down into separate parts, with destiny on one side and hard work on the other, or with hard work on one hand and destiny on the other. These things are a single whole. They are the letters in life, and put them together and you have life, the truth. Then people live by Islam. That is why they cannot be separated from one another. Such a thing is unthinkable.

PRESENTER: The reason why I asked is this. Some people may think of destiny and submission to fate like this: “Why should I bother working if something is written in my destiny? There is no need for me to strive.” They may expect to achieve success through worship alone.  That is my humble way of thinking, it is like going off to war unarmed, saying, “I will only die if I am destined to do so.”

ADNAN OKTAR: But it was also destined for that person to be that naive, to come to such an irrational conclusion.

ADNAN OKTAR: Of course. In other words, the conception a rational person will have of destiny is also predestined, as is that of an irrational person… They are all predestined. A man may say, “This is my destiny, and I shall not leave my home.” But how do you know it is your destiny not to leave your home? He says, “There is no need for me to work. Allah will give me my daily bread.” But then he has a terrible time. And he does all that because it is in his destiny.

ADNAN OKTAR: But no rational Muslim can ever come to such a position. Of course not.

ADNAN OKTAR: Of course, the destiny of the irreligious is also predetermined. That was Darwin’s destiny. Darwin had the task of serving like the antichrist (dajjal). If you bring him back to Earth he will again act as the antichrist.