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The Basic Tenets of Islam: Allah created everything according to a fixed decree

Contents
  1. Preface
  2. There is no god but allah
  3. Allah encompasses everything
  4. Allah is near to man
  5. Allah created everything according to a fixed decree
  6. Allah has power over everything
  7. Allah sees and knows everything
  8. All beings are subjected to allah
  9. False beliefs about allah
  10. Faith in allah free of idolatry
  11. Assessing allah with a just assessment
  12. Allah's infinite greatness and power
  13. Love of allah and fear of allah
  14. The qur'an is a guide
  15. Belief in the books revealed by allah and belief in his messengers
  16. Faith in the angels
  17. The temporary nature of the life of this world
  18. It's a magnificent blessing to love allah with passion
  19. Man is being tested
  20. Death is not the end
  21. Belief in the hereafter
  22. Faith in the day of judgment
  23. The resurrection
  24. The day of judgment
  25. Paradise and hell
  26. Everything is positive in paradise, and everything is negative in hell
  27. The aim is to attain the good pleasure of allah
  28. Sin and repentance
  29. Scrupulousness regarding religious observances
  30. The morality of religion is in conformity with the natural inclination of mankind
  31. Believers must be together and cooperate
  32. The last word

We have created all things according to a fixed decree.

Surat al-Qamar: 49

Destiny is part of Allah's perfect creation and all events, past and future, are known to Him as in a timeless "single moment."

It is Allah Who created matter. What we call time is the motion of matter. Time is a dimension which is relative only to man. Only man perceives the passage of time; a human being can recognize his own existence only as it exists in time. Allah, however, is not bound by time, for it is He Who created it. In other words, Allah is independent of the flow of time; Allah does not need to wait to see what will happen in the future. Allah is truly exalted above all such deficiencies. Allah knows of a future event (future for us) before it happens, because Allah, the First and the Last, is not bound by time, and because He is the Absolute and the Infinite. Not bound by time, Allah is aware of an event which, from our perspective, will take place thousands of years later. In fact, it is He Who willed, determined and created it. This truth is revealed in a verse as follows:

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 Allah.

Surat al-Hadid: 22