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===Concerning predestination=== Approximately [[Islam by country|87–90%]] of Muslims are Sunni, and one of [[Iman (concept)#The Six Articles of Faith|six articles of faith]] in [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] Islam is belief in the existence of God's predestination due to God's omniscience, whether it involves good or bad. Based on [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] traditions, God wrote everything that will happen (in all of his creation) on a [[Tablet (religious)|''tablet'']] before creating the world. Thus it is asked: how can humans be punished for what God has determined they do? In this tradition, in [[Ashari]] thought, God created good and evil deeds, which humans decide upon—humans have their own possibility to choose, but God retains sovereignty of all possibilities. This still leaves the question of why God set out those people's lives (or the negative choice of deeds) which result in Hell, and why God made it possible to become evil. In Islamic thought, evil is considered to be movement away from good, and God created this possibility so that humans are able to recognize good.<ref>Reinhold Loeffler ''Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village'' SUNY Press {{ISBN|978-0-887-06679-5}} p. 110</ref> In contrast, [[angels in Islam|angels]] are unable to move away from good, therefore angels generally rank lower than humans as they have reached heaven because they lack the ability to perceive the world as humans do.<ref>Mohamed Haj Yousef ''The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos: Ibn Arabi's Concept of Time and Creation'' ibnalarabi 2014 {{ISBN|978-1-499-77984-4}} p. 292</ref>
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