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94 TIMELESSNESS AND THE REALITY OF FATE

It can be seen in this verse that even if a person runs away from a task
in the way of Allah in order not to die, if his death is written in his destiny,
he will die anyway. Even the ways and methods resorted to in order to
escape death are determined in destiny and everyone will experience those
things that are written in his destiny. And in this verse, Allah reveals to
human beings that the purpose of the things created in their destiny is to test
them and to purify their hearts. In the Qur'an it is said that everyone's death
is determined in the Sight of Allah and that the conception of a baby hap-
pens with the permission of Allah.

Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made
you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with His
knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short without
that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah. (Surah Fatir: 11)
In the verses below it is revealed that everything a person does is writ-
ten sentence by sentence and what those in paradise experience are also
things that have already been experienced. As we said earlier, the real life of
paradise is for us in the future. But the lives of those in paradise, their con-
versations and feasting is in Allah's memory at this moment. Before we were
born, the future of humanity in this world and the next had been experi-
enced in Allah's Sight in a moment and is being kept in Allah's memory.
Everything they did is in the Books. Everything is recorded, big or small.