paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Craig Paul) (05/30/90)
>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?