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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Craig Paul)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Predetermination and free will.
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Date: 30 May 90 11:26:18 GMT
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>This appears to bring up the basic question of fate -- do human beings have
>any 'control' or are they predestined.
>Especially in 2:30 onwards (Al Baqarah, discussion on Adam) it appears that
>one of the main distinguishing features of humans is that they do have a will
>and they can make their own decisions (this is one of the features that
>distinguish them from Angels -- for this reason, Abdullah Yusuf Ali suggests
>that Iblis was not really an angel but a jinn -- I don't know what the other
>scholars say).

>From the Qur'an, there is this...

God
  - gives humans free will 36:67

I can't really comment upon the belief systems that encompass
"predestination" at that time in the Arabian peninsula. Would someone
else care to?