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When couples disagree about balancing trust in divine timing with taking action during fertility struggles

My spouse and I are struggling with fertility and we keep going back and forth between trusting in Allah's timing and taking medical action, and we're not aligned on when effort becomes a lack of faith versus when faith requires us to use the means available to us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between surrendering to qadar and exercising human agency creates different responses that can divide rather than unite a partnership.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Islamic qadar and divine time?”

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