since you know your drugs well - would you say penicillin has saved lives? or just saved those that weren't chosen to die?
Saved lives? Sure. But by Allah swt's will. Penicillin also kills ~400 people per year in the US due to anaphylactic reactions. The point is not to undermine the importance of the wonder drug but to show that it's just a man-made thing and it has no super powers to change God's will. This is where faith comes in which some of us have in God. And I quote the Quran: "Where ye are, death will find you, even if ye are in towers, built up strong and tall".
and not because they believe it could prolong their life? the whole bit about drugs and medical procedures saving lives etc..
interesting point though - about it going against survival instinct.. one'd think survival instinct would be another unnecessary thing in a world where time of death is predetermined.
Sure that too, but how is a person to know whether their time is really up or whether their god is just testing them? So off to the doc and take all the groovy drugs. If they don't work, then oh well your time was up. It's not the method so much as the date that people tend to be fatalistic about.
Maybe the survival instinct is requisite in making us to want to live, if that want is absent then death, and everything therein, loses its power.
Facetiousness aside, I don't really subscribe to it but can partly see why others would. We have far less control over our lives than we like to believe or acknowledge, it becomes easier to accept things if we believe there is at least someone in control and has decided things which are ultimately in our best interests.