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 "Thou wilt not find folk who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and
His messenger, even though they be their fathers or their sons or their brethren or their clan. As
for such, He hath written faith upon their hearts and hath strengthened them with a Spirit from
Him, and He will bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide.
Allah is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him. They are Allah's party. Lo! is it
not Allah's party who are the successful?" - Al-Mujadila (The Pleading Woman) 58:22 (emphasis
added) See also the following passages: 18:29, 55; 37:91-96
o Allah predestines those who are led astray.
 "I will mislead them, and I will create in them false desires."
 "Whomsoever Allah guides, he is the rightly guided one, - An-Nisa 4:119a and whomsoever He
causes to err, you shall not find for him any friend to lead (him) aright." - Al-Kahf 18:17b
 "Now Allah leaves straying those whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases; and He is
Exalted in power, full of Wisdom." - Ibrahim 14:4
 "Whom Allah doth guide, he is on the right path; who See also the following passages: 4:88,
142; 16:93; 35:8; 74:31. He rejects from His guidance, such are the persons who perish." - Al-Araf
7:178
o Allah predestines our wills.
 "Let any who will, keep it in remembrance! But none will keep it in remembrance except as
Allah wills: He is the Lord of Righteousness, and the Lord of Forgiveness." - Al- Muddathir (The
Cloaked One) 74:55-56
 "This is an admonition: Whosoever will, let him take a (straight) Path to his Lord. But ye will not,
except as Allah wills; for Allah is full of Knowledge and Wisdom." - Al-Insan (Man) 76:29-30
 "Unto whomsoever of you willeth to walk straight. And ye will not, unless (it be) that Allah
willeth, the Lord of Creation." - Al-Takwir (The Overthrowing) 81:28-29
o Man is held accountable for what Allah has willed for him since man must will to believe.
 "Say: 'All things are from Allah.' But what hath come to these people, that they fail to understand a
single fact? Whatever good, (O man!) happens to thee, is from Allah. But whatever evil happens to
thee, is from thy (own) soul. And We have sent thee as a messenger to (instruct) mankind. And
enough is Allah for a witness." - An- Nisa' (Women) 4:78-79 (emphasis added)
 "Had Allah willed He could have made you (all) one nation, but He sendeth whom He will astray
and guideth whom He will, and ye will indeed be asked of what ye used to do." - An-Nahl (The Bee)
16:93 (emphasis added)

• The Traditions complicate matters even further.
o Two men discuss the matter of preordination based on one of Muhammad's teachings. One determines
that man's fate is preordained, to which the other asks whether it would be an injustice to punish a man
for something he is incapable of changing. This idea creates a great disturbance in the first man who
eventually concludes that Allah's ways should not be questioned.92
o Muhammad claimed that everyone has a "destined place for which he has been created."93
o Muhammad stated that before an infant is born, his deeds, the time of his death, his means of
livelihood, and his religious status are already written for him by an angel. That person is unable to
change what is already written for him, no matter how hard he tries.94
o "Allah has written for the son of Adam his inevitable share of adultery whether he is aware of it or not."95
o Moses blames Adam for his sin which resulted in mankind being thrown out of Paradise. Adam retorts
that he cannot be blamed for "action which Allah had written in my fate forty years before my creation".96
o F. Muhammad tells Aisha that Allah creates those destined for Heaven or Hell "while they [are] yet in
their father's loins."97 See also the following Hadith passages: Muslim 1:1, 6; 33:6421-22
• The conclusion of Islamic scholars on predestination.

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