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Allah has embedded in the creation a law, Qadr, which is one of the beliefs of Al-Islam. It's not foreordainment or predestination leading one to believe that everything is being compelled to be they way they are by some prior writing from Allah. (that relates to his foreknowledge not ordainment otherwise free-will is irrelevant. The Matrix and the Oracle "Don't worry about that vase".)
The Qadr is the law of requital and reward (cite Arabic here) that operates in all of the creation. This law is in everything in creation from the smallest particles to the largest systems. In effect, this law operates like the keyboard of a computer. When you hit certain keystrokes that causes certain things to happen on the computer screen. So it is in life. Our actions are the keystrokes of our life. Those acts (including thoughts and feelings) interact with elements in creation and the results of that interaction is our lives.
Hadith: It is but your deeds that I reckon up and recompense you for so let him who finds good praise Allah and let him who finds other than that blame no one but himself.
