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Harun Yahya 81

Destiny is Allah’s apprehension of all events past or
future as if they were “a single moment.” Most people ques-
tion how Allah can already have knowledge of events that
have not yet been experienced, and this leads to their failing
to understand the authenticity of destiny. However, “events
not yet experienced” are only so for us. Allah is unfettered by
time or space, for He Himself has created them. There is no
concept of time in the Presence of Allah. For this reason, past,
future, and present are all the same to Him; for Him, every-
thing has already taken place and is finished.

96. People cannot change the destiny
determined by Allah.
There is a distorted understanding of destiny which is
prevalent in our society. For instance, people make superficial
statements about a patient who returns from death’s door,
such as “he defeated his destiny”. No one is able to change
his destiny. The person who returned from death’s door, did-
n’t die precisely because he was destined not to die at that
time. It is, ironically, the destiny of those people who deceive
themselves by saying “I defeated my destiny” that they should
say so and maintain such a mindset.
Destiny is the eternal knowledge of Allah and for Allah,
Who perceives time as a single moment and Who prevails
over the whole of time and space; everything is determined
and finished as a matter of destiny. We also understand from
what He relates in the Qur’an that time is one for Allah: occur-
rences that are going to take place after our death (from our
point of view) are related in the Qur’an as past events already
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