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In the verses, Allah reveals:

Your Lord knows you best. If He wills, He will have mercy on you, and,
if He wills, He will punish you. We did not send you to be their guard-
ian. My Lord knows best everyone in the heavens and Earth. . . . (Surat
al-Isra', 54-55)

One day in the future, if people's lives are extended through direct
intervention in their genes, this does not mean that they interfered in
their own destiny. What it means is that Allah created them with long
life spans, and the production of the gene map is the means whereby
their lives can be lengthened. The fact that the person is living at a time

of technological advances in genetics, and the prolongation of life
through medical means are all a part of destiny: Everything is deter-
mined in the sight of Allah long before the person even comes into the
world.
Similarly, someone with a potentially fatal disease who is cured as
a result of medical discoveries lives his destiny as well, because being
cured is also in his destiny. The production of the human gene map and
the means of intervening in humanity's genetic makeup do not oppose

the destiny created by Allah. On the contrary, humanity is following the
course created for it, using information created by Him. If, thanks to
these scientific advances, someone lives to the age of 120, that is the age
appointed beforehand by Allah, and that is how long the person will
live.
In one verse, Allah reveals that everyone's life span is determined
in a book in His Sight:

Allah 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 Allah. (Surah Fatir,
11)