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“Whatever Will Be, Will Be”
Ahmad ZahirGlobal FusionsStudio · Other
Whatever Will Be, Will Be — the fatalist acceptance of the future's unknowability, a Western pop standard that Ahmad Zahir made resonate with Persian poetry's own tradition of tawakkul (trust in fate).
About This Recording
Doris Day's number from Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, taken up as one more sign of how wide his formation ran. Its shrug at the future — whatever will be, will be — lands close to the Persian idea of tawakkul: trust the plan, let go of the need to steer.
Heard now, it carries a weight the original never could. The man who sang about accepting an unknowable future would be dead at 33, killed before the future he couldn't have foreseen had fully arrived.
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