(vii. 186-188.)


PREDESTINATION.

LVI.

A soul cannot die unless by permission of God, according to a writing of God, definite as to time.

(iii. 139.)

LVII.

They say [whose companions were slain at the battle of Oḥod], ‘If aught of the affair had been submitted to us we had not been slain here.’[155] Say, Had ye been in your houses, those of you who were decreed to be slain had gone forth to the places where they lie.

(iii. 148.)