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genetic make-up, do not mean confronting the destiny created by God.
On the contrary, in this way, mankind follows the developments created
for it by God, and explores and benefits from the information created by
God. If man lives 120 years thanks to these scientific developments, this is
surely a lifetime decreed for him by God, that is why he lives so long.
God reveals in one verse that every person's life is set out in a book
in His sight:
God created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made
you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with His
knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short without
that being in a Book. That is easy for God. (Qur'an, 35:11)
A student who fails university entrance exams for years before
getting in to the department he wants, a businessman who saves his
company from bankruptcy, people who escape a plane hijacking at the
last moment, and others doing similar things are all living out their
destinies. None of them can change that destiny, nor does anyone else
have the power to change their destiny for them.
In brief, utterances like "I cheated my fate," "I changed my destiny"
or "I intervened in my destiny" are the consequence of ignorance caused
by not knowing the facts about fate. On the other hand, a person's using
these expressions is also predestined; how, when and under which
conditions he will make these statements are all determined in the sight
of God. It is God who knows all.
God informed us that everything is recorded in a clear book in His
sight. We live what is written in that book, no more and no less.
Those who disbelieve say, "The Hour will never come." Say: "Yes, by my
Lord, it certainly will come!" He is the Knower of the Unseen, whom not
even the weight of the smallest particle eludes, either in the heavens or in
the earth; nor is there anything smaller or larger than that which is not
recorded in a Clear Book. (Qur'an, 34:3)
Nothing occurs, either in the earth or in yourselves, without its being in a
Book before We make it happen. That is something easy for God.
(Qur'an, 57:22)

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