The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 335
10. DIVINE DECREE AND DETERMINATION. It should be remembered that though everything has been determined by Divine decree, yet this does not exclude science and knowledge as everyone has to acknowledge that the use of appropriate medicines, through the grace and mercy of God Almighty, benefits the patient. In the same way everyone who is bestowed comprehension of the Divine has to acknowledge as the result of experience that prayer has a relationship with acceptance. This is a mystery which has been demonstrated through the experience of millions of the righteous and our experience has demonstrated the hidden reality that our prayers have a magnetic quality which attracts the grace and mercy of. God, though we may not be able to convince others of this verity through logical reasoning. [Ayyām-uş-Şulḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, pp. 240-241]. It is not within the power of man to transcend the bounds of Divine decrees and scheme of things. [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya, Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 3]. Man is subject to Divine decree. If a human design should not be in accord with the design of God, no amount of effort can succeed in putting it into effect; but when the time of the design of God arrives, that which had appeared most difficult becomes easily available. [Brāhin-e-Aḥmadiyya, Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 3] 335