 This concept has also been mentioned in the Quran as the "Decree" of Allah.In Islam, "predestination" is the usual English language rendering of a belief that Sunni Muslims call "" ( ).As per the Sunni understanding, the phrase means "the divine decree and the predestination"; "al-qadr" more closely means "(divine) power", deriving from the root ق د ر ("q-d-r"), which denotes concepts related to "measuring out, aiming, calculating, preparing, being able, and having power".