IS PREDESTINATION TRUE AND WHAT IS THE WISDOM BEHIND IT?....... First of all, a Muslim must believe in predestination (Qadr) as a prerequisite of faith in Islam. It is a cardinal principle intertwined in Sharia legal systems. This belief simply means that Allah already knows anything that will happen, and nothing happens unless it has been willed (Irad) by Allah. That means, nothing happens by itself haphazardly outside the will (Irad). But this does not mean that the choices people make are not