What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 32
( 32 ) murder from_ a murderer, and. impiety from impious persons. The blackness of our actions should · be attributed to ourselves, not to God. We believe that God has ordained two parallel laws · for the governance of this world. One is the law of Taqdir and the other_ is the law of Tadbir. -We may call them res- pectively, the law of determination and the law of freedom. As the Quran says, 'the two (i. e. the two laws) are separated by an inviolable boundary' (55 : 21). Their spheres lie apart. There is no occasion for a conflict between them. The law of Taqdir has its own orbit and the law of Tadbir its own. Events and incidents ordained unde. I. T aqdir are inevitable and inescapable. No Tadbir or action undertaken by a free human being can change the course of Taqdir. Similarly in matters in which human beings are free to act as they like, to look up to Taqdir or to rely upon it,