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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

unbound by it. Man, on the other hand, is bound by time that Allah
ordains. As in the verse, man is even incapable of knowing how long he
stayed in his sleep. In such a state, to assert that time is absolute [just like
the materialists do in their distorted mentality], would be very
unreasonable.

Destiny

Time's variable relativity reveals a very important reality: A period of
time of apparently billions of years' duration to us, may last only a second
in another dimension. Moreover, an enormous period of time—from the
world's beginning to its end—may not last even a second, but just an
instant in another dimension.
This is the very essence of destiny's reality—one that is not well
understood by most people, especially materialists, who deny it
completely. Destiny is Allah's perfect knowledge of all events, past or
future. Many, if not most, question how Allah can already know events
that have not yet been experienced, and this leads them to fail to
understand the authenticity of destiny. However, events not yet
experienced are not yet experienced by us only. Allah is not bound by time
or space, for He Himself has created them. For this reason, the past, the
future, and the present are all the same to Allah; for Him, everything has
already taken place and is finished.
In The Universe and Dr. Einstein, Lincoln Barnett explains how the
Theory of General Relativity leads to this insight. According to him, the
universe can be "encompassed in its entire majesty only by a cosmic
intellect." 408 What Barnett calls "the cosmic intellect" is the wisdom and
knowledge of Allah, Who prevails over the entire universe. Just as we
easily see the beginning, middle, and end of a ruler and all the units in
between as a whole, so Allah knows the time to which we're subjected
right from its beginning to the end, like a single moment. People
experience incidents only when their time comes for them to witness the
fate Allah has created for them.
It is also important to consider society's distorted understanding of
destiny. This distorted conviction presents the superstitious belief that
Allah has determined a "destiny" for every man, but sometimes that

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