and to testify that no one else has been entrusted with the ordering of deeds, and that people will ultimately end up where they were created to go and in accordance with what has been decreed. I then asked him, “Consider someone who acknowledges all of this yet says, ‘The choice is mine: if I wish, I will believe; and if I wish, I will not believe,’ citing the Almighty’s words, ‘Whoever wishes—let him believe; and whoever wishes—let him disbelieve’ (Q 18:29). What is his status?” He replied, “That is only his assumption. Have you not heard the Almighty say, ‘No indeed! It is but a reminder; so whoever wills may heed it—yet they will not heed unless Allah so wills’ (Q 74:54-56)?”