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Do all minor matters, such as the falling of tree leaves, the purchase of animals, the effect of a knife in cutting, in addition to thanking people, fall under Allah's divine decree (Qadaa' and Qadar)?

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Everything that happens in the universe, be it small or large, is by Allah's divine decree and destiny (Qada' and ), as indicated by texts from the Quran and , such as His saying, the Almighty: "Indeed, everything We created by [definite] measure" and "And He created everything and determined it with [precise] determination." Allah wrote the destinies of creations fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth. Thus, everything is by [divine] measure, even helplessness and cleverness. This includes the falling of leaves and the purchasing of things; all of that is decreed and written in the Preserved Tablet, for His saying, the Almighty: "And with Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but that He knows it. And no grain is there within the darknesses of the earth or [anything] fresh or dry but that it is in a clear register."

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