Predestination or free will?
Predestination or free will? By: A. Muhammad We read in the Quran that every detail of our lives as well as everything that will ever take place in every corner of the universe is already recorded with God in the "Lawh al-mahfooz" (Preserved Tablet) from before the whole universe was created: He is the Knower of the unseen. Not an atom's weight escapes Him, be it in the heavens or the earth, nor what is smaller than that or larger. All are but in a clear Record . 34:3 With Him are the keys to the unseen. None knows them except Him. He knows what is on land and in the sea. No leaf falls without Him knowing thereof, nor is there a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything wet or dry that is not recorded in a clear Book . 6:59 We have kept count of everything in a Record . 78:29 No disaster falls in the land, or to yourselves that is not already contained in a Record before We bring it into existence . This is easy for God. 57:22 Man...