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Quran. The verse, however, No leaf drops from a
states that: tree without the
Every day He is predestination and

(engaged) in some ordainment of that
affair. (Quran, 55: 29) Ruler of Fortune.
(Rumi, 2013, 1899, Vol. 3)
The apparent meaning of
the verse is not compatible Some of the most difficult
with theological doctrines of and controversial topics of

Abrahamic religions according theology are related to God’s
to which God is immutable infallible and changeless
and changeless. foreknowledge about the
Indeed, if the Arabic word material world and its
“yom” means instant, then particular events. One problem
the verse says that at every is that having such

instant God is (engaged) in knowledge apparently implies
some affair. assuming some changes in
At any rate, the question of God’s attributes, i.e., His
as to how this apparent knowledge. For the world is
meaning of the verse is continuously changing and so
compatible with the Abrahamic it seems that knowledge
doctrines is not the issue of about such world should

this paper; Rather the point is continuously change too.
that Rumi has taken the However, as we have
apparent meaning of the mentioned already, God and
verse and has not interpreted all His attributes are presumably
it differently mystically or any changeless and immutable.
form alike.