Muslims believe God sees everything, hears everything and knows everything regardless of time and place. He gave free will to humans, and through the revelations in the Qur’an, as well as the Torah and Bible, showed mankind how to live a righteous life (the straight path) and warned against its opposite, the path that leads one astray.
God orders humans to stay away from sins and to comply with the rules and regulations provided in the text of the Qur’an. However, humans are free to do whatever they want with the condition that each person will have to give accounts of his or her life on the Day of Judgment.
Since God knows the past and the future, He has already written everything that has and will happen in advance. He knows who will go to hell and who will go to heaven. But this does not keep humans from doing whatever they want. Muslims also believe that God sometimes helps and regulates what humans do as He wants through His encompassing will. This is the most complicated issue in Islam and is difficult sometimes for people to grasp it fully.
Good or bad, Muslims believe everything is created by God, but humans are asked to do only good and to stay away from the bad.
