This poem explores the theological and mystical concept of predestination (jabr). The speaker questions the burden of guilt for sins, arguing that since human actions, including sinning, were decreed prior to and independent of human existence ("decreed without us"), humans cannot bear ultimate moral culpability for them. This reflects a deterministic view where divine decree overrides individual agency, conceptually relieving the seeker of the agonizing "fear of sin" by attributing all occurrences to a preordained will.