I am Râşid Efsûn. I am one of the hundreds of names interrogated because of a social event. I did not choose this name, which means “the spell that reveals the truth.” It was already prepared when I was born. After birth, it became my destiny. Do you believe in the relationship between names and destiny? In ancient times, millions of people did. For example, in Mesopotamian culture, a name was seen as a stamp given by the gods. It was believed that a person’s name determined their life path and their fate after death. In Christian and Islamic traditions, remember that in order to deal with disturbing abstract entities believed to affect a person, their names had to be known. To know a name was a way of controlling it. In medieval texts, knowing the names of evil spirits was important in exorcism rituals. The Islamic tradition is the same. Knowing the names of jinn serves as a key to summon and banish them. In the Hebrew tradition, a change of name was perceived as a change of destiny. In other words, a name was God’s tool to rewrite fate. In Eastern mysticism such as Hinduism and Buddhism, it is considered an energy key that calls upon divine guidance and heals the soul. In Hurufism, a name is not only a word but also interpreted with the numerical values of its letters (abjad), seen as a code that determines spiritual identity and destiny. I think I have now explained better the relationship between my name and myself.