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Originally Posted by Mynydd
I gather that it is some kind of acceptance of predestination of some kind, as in a divinely preconceived order in things:
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On a quick second thought, it does indeed look like an idea of predestinationism in the order in the Universe, to which everything and everyone would be submitted by God's own design: "I am a Muslim ... I had
no choice".
Just found it that he refers to masha'allah, which translates to God's Will. It is Islam's own idea of Jewish and Protestant (not all)
predestination, and it links to
submission.
I find predestinationism terrible and perverted. It is opposed to the teachings of the Catholic Church, by which God makes man free to choose between right and wrong, good and evil. It is ultimately man who chooses his own destiny. If everything has been planned by God in advance, as predestination religions assert, it doesn't matter if it is good or evil because it is God's own will that leads man to act.
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