Since the house I live in is close to the ring road and the city is at the crossing point of important touristic places, the vehicle traffic on the ring road is quite busy during the summer months.
A few days ago, while I was preparing my article on my laptop, I was startled by a hard and painful brake sound. At first, I thought that someone who was speeding was pressing the brakes hard to slow down.
Some time after I prepared and published my article, I received a notification about the local news. It was a notification about an accident that occurred after a brake sound. When I checked, I saw that a light commercial vehicle had lost control after speeding and had run off the road, first hitting the barriers and then the reclamation wall. Fortunately, the driver of the vehicle and the person next to him survived the accident with minor injuries.
The fact that I only heard the harsh and bitter braking sound of an accident caused me to think that life is a thin line and the rope that connects us to life can break at any moment.
Was it really so? I don't know the answer to these questions, but I believe in fate. Death is the most painful reality that all living beings will taste. Destiny is our spiritual belief that shapes our whole life.
I can criticise the people who caused the accident for driving fast, but what if it was something that they were destined to experience! Maybe he was a person who obeyed the rules and did not speed at all, and the need to catch up after a news he received gave him the feeling that he had to speed. Maybe a great favour he did caused him to survive such a big accident with minor injuries. Maybe he was warned by God. It is possible that all this is a result of his fate, but we can never know the exact reasons.
Death comes and finds us somehow. Maybe as a result of an accident, maybe illness, maybe a heart attack, maybe someone else's mistake. Afterwards, all kinds of comments can be made. He would not have died if he had not been speeding, he would not have had a heart attack if he had eaten carefully, he would not have died if he had not been there at that moment. As it is, death will come one day one way or another and we will face the truth. When this happens, instead of looking for reasons, wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that this is a providence of Allah and that destiny is manifested?
But providence and precaution should not be confused with each other. To accept fate and live without taking any precautions is to mock fate in the first place. The phrase "first precaution, then providence" explains this sufficiently, but because of the difference in interpretation and understanding, fate and precaution are confused with each other.
Regardless of which faith people adhere to, in every faith there is the idea of "Let it be right from Allah". Destiny is a product of this idea. The good or bad things we do can accelerate or delay the manifestation of fate. Negativities that happen to someone at an early age do not mean that he is a bad person and suffers punishment. The values he believes in may be testing him. If we go back to the moment of the accident when I started this article, the accident in which two people escaped with minor injuries and its causes may contain secrets that these two people can understand. It may be a warning or a test they have to pass by the values they believe in. It involves a mystery that only they can solve. The sooner they understand it, the more smoothly they can go on with their lives.
One way or another, our beliefs are our spiritual values that bind us to life. Differences of interpretation are a part of our lives. But let us know that no matter how good we are, no matter how we follow the rules, accident and trouble will come and find us when the time comes.
And, there is no one who will not be visited by the Grim Reaper.
Being able to leave a trace while we are alive increases the number of those who remember us and pray for us after life. When the trace we leave behind mends hearts instead of breaking them, man becomes immortalised.
