Effort Vs Fate – Taqdeer And Tadbeer – Quran 53:39
The example you used about your life experiences is unrelated to to the Quran reference you quoted from 53:39. The key thing to understand is that this world is created on the principle of test. Things don’t always pan out here on the basis of merit or how much effort one puts in something. With this complexity in mind, there’s no objective formula to determine when to change the course. We should make our best effort, evaluate the results, and decide whether we could improve upon our effort or move to a different objective. Since the main subject matter of religion is the life in the hereafter, it does not categorically address our life on earth. Here, we learn from our experiences and tweak our lives based on our learnings. Hopefully the videos I shared above will help understand the concept of fate in a greater detail.