GOD CREATES EVERYTHING
WITH A DESTINY

We have created all things in predestination. Our command is only one word, like the blinking of an eye. (Qur'an, 54:49-50)

Have they not reflected within themselves? God did not create the heavens and Earth, and everything between them, except with truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the meeting with their Lord. (Qur'an, 30:8)

Old Testament

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under Heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it... (Ecclesiastes 3:14)

EVERYTHING IS RECORDED IN A BOOK

You do not engage in any matter, recite any of the Qur'an, or do any action without Our witnessing you while you are occupied with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on Earth or in Heaven. Nor is there anything smaller than that, or larger, which is not in a Clear Book. (Qur'an, 10:61)

Old Testament

Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. (Psalm 139:16)

NOT KILLING SOMEONE WRONGFULLY

... [They] do not kill anyone God has made inviolate, except with the right to do so, and do not fornicate; anyone who does that will receive an evil punishment. (Qur'an, 25:68)

New Testament

... "Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother." (Mark 10:19)

Old Testament

You shall not kill. (Exodus 20:13)

O city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed. (Ezekiel 22:3-4)

... There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Because of this the land mourns... (Hosea 4:1-3)

FORNICATION

And do not go near to fornication. It is an indecent act, an evil way. (Qur'an, 17:32)

New Testament

He [Jesus] went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. All of these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'" (Mark 7:20-23)

Old Testament

You shall not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14)

AVOIDING THEFT

O Prophet! When believing women come to you pledging allegiance to you on the grounds that they will not associate anything with God, steal, fornicate, kill their children, or give a false ascription of paternity-making up lies about their bodies-or disobey you in respect of anything right, then accept their pledge and ask forgiveness for them. God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 60:12)

Old Testament

"Do not steal... Do not deceive one another." (Leviticus 19:11)

NOT BEARING FALSE WITNESS

[Believers are] those who do not bear false witness and who, when they pass by worthless talk, pass by with dignity. (Qur'an, 25:72)

O you who believe! Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for God alone, even against yourselves or your parents and relatives... (Qur'an, 4:135)

Old Testament

Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness. Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, and do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit. (Exodus 23:1-3)

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent-The Lord detests them both. (Proverbs 17:15)

Now let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery. (2 Chronicles 19:7)

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