To put it simply No, free will is an illusion. we are biological machines created, influenced and shaped by the surroundings, which is shaped by its own surrounding and so on...and we don't know how far out this goes.
If I was born in your place at the same time with your genes with perfectly the same surrounding guess what! i'd not be similar to you, I'd BE you. that's how individual we really are... many and insignificant like grains of sand on a beach, with no control over anything.. we are just the universe itself observing itself.
but i'd rather go thinking I choose to do what I choose to do and not over complicate things... which again is the result of billions and billions of events preceding the moment where I know I don't have control over anything, yet keep the mentality that I do have control over at least some things, which I don't.
EXACTLY!
Game developer doesn't know what will the ending but acccording to Islam Allah knows our ultimate fate what we do is already decided ( maybe I am wrong about this but thats what I heard)
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Also, if god determines the outcome , what's the point. Back to square one , don't you think.
THIS!
I am always thinking. If GOD knows everything, (Since he's the God), what's OUR purpose? He already knows that what will happen next, regardless of what choice I make, he knows. So what's the WHOLE purpose?
Another thing, Person A, was born in a wealthy family. He had all the things he would need in this world. He decided to be really religious, and Islamic, and thankful to God, he devotes himself in the path of religion. But he still enjoys the luxuries gifted to him.
Person B is born in a needy family. He has 6 siblings, with 2 parents, all to take care of. Now everything is going against him, depending on the environment, he's NOT SO religious, he doesn't have time, and his stress doesn't allow him to do that. He's always thinking about his family. He doesn't pray, fast, and even has started to drink.
Person A goes to heaven. Let's suppose Person B also goes to heaven (Since he served his family), now they both stand on the same place. But isn't it
unfair for Person B who had a 10x more TOUGHER life than Person A, and in the end, they're both in the same place?