Taqdir (the Fate)

There are two types of Fate:

1. Azal (Already Decided Fate)
2. Mu’allaq (Indecisive Fate)

Some people inquire, ‘Why need we make an effort for the sustenance when it is already written in the fate?’ Makhdoum Jahaniya replied, ‘Making efforts for obtaining the sustenance is also written in the fate.’

For example: A flower vase has been placed for you on the roof (this is Taqdir-e-Azal). In order to get the flower vase, you have to climb up through the stairs on to the roof (this is Mu’allaq), which is your choice. It is for this conditional part that there will be reckoning on the Day of Judgement, and not in relation to what was destined in Azal. When you would climb on to the roof, you would collect what was written down for you and would obtain your fate. If you were lazy, and did not get up to the roof, then you would be deprived of it. On the other hand, if someone else, in whose fate there is no flower vase, manages to get on to the roof by the stairs or by some considerable effort, then he would still be deprived of it.

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