Aslam

Praise be to Allah.Fatalists

are those who think that a person has no choice in what he does and is

compelled to do it, and that his actions are like the actions of a tree

which is moved by the wind. Their opposites are those who think that a

person creates or initiates his own deeds. The Ahl

al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah (Sunni Muslims who follow the way

of the Prophet

` (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)) follow a

middle path between these two extremes and believe that man has a free

will but that this will is subject to the Will of Allaah. A person does

not initiate his own deeds, neither is he compelled to do what he does; he

can decide for himself, within the framework of the Will of Allaah. And

Allaah knows best.