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references describing its features and the physical pleasures to come. There are also
references to a greater joy--acceptance by God (ridwn). Mystical traditions in Islam place
these heavenly delights in the context of an ecstatic awareness of God.
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Predestination
In accordance with the Islamic belief in predestination, or divine preordainment (alqad wa'l
qadar), God has full knowledge and control over all that occurs. This is explained in Qur'anic
verses such as "Say: 'Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us: He is
our protector'...For Muslims, everything in the world that occurs, good or evil, has been
preordained and nothing can happen unless permitted by God. In Islamic theology, divine
preordainment does not suggest an absence of God's indignation against evil, because any
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