Is the marriage of a man and a woman predestined and preordained before their birth, and can it be a person's destiny not to marry as a trial from Allah?
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The texts of the Qur’an and indicate that everything that happens in the universe is by Allah's divine decree and destiny, and that this was before the creation of the heavens and the earth. In Muslim, it is stated: "Allah ordained the measures of the creation fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth." Accordingly, the marriage of a certain man to a certain woman, or their not marrying, is predetermined before the existence of the heavens and the earth.
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