Page 241 - Learning from the Qur'an

EVERYTHING IS CREATED
ACCORDING TO A
PRE-ORDAINED DECREE

You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur'an or do
any action without Our witnessing you while you are occupied
with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on
earth or in heaven. Nor is there anything smaller than that, or
larger, which is not in a Clear Book. (Qur'an, 10:61)
When your sister went and said, "Shall I direct you to someone
who will take care of him?" that was how We returned you to your
mother so that she might delight her eyes and not be grieved. You
killed a man and We rescued you from trouble and tested you
with many trials. You stayed some years among the people of
Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-ordained time, Musa!
(Qur'an, 20:40)
No self can die except with Allah's permission, at a predetermined
time. If anyone desires the reward of this world, We will give him
some of it. If anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We will
give him some of it. We will recompense the thankful. (Qur'an,
3:145)
Then He sent down to you, after the distress, security, restful sleep
overtaking a group of you, whereas another group became prey
to anxious thoughts, thinking other than the truth about
Allah–thoughts belonging to the Time of Ignorance–saying, 'Do we
have any say in the affair at all?' Say, 'The affair belongs entirely
to Allah.' They are concealing things inside themselves which they
do not disclose to you, saying, 'If we had only had a say in the
affair, none of us would have been killed here in this place.' Say,
'Even if you had been inside your homes, those people for whom

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