Page 221 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

We can only understand as much as Allah reveals to us. We can
only know as much as He shows us. No doubt that it is an easy
matter for Allah to create time as a perception and to give rise to
past, present and future within a concept which actually does not
exist. That is because Allah is beyond time. He creates time, but is
not subject to it. All events we perceive as past or future already ex-
ist in the memory of Allah. They are all created in a single moment.
Therefore, all events belonging to the future have in fact been cre-
ated at the same moment, and exist now. But since we are subject
to time, we are as yet unable to see them.
All events we perceive as the past—as when you received a re-
port card from school or your first driving lesson—are also con-
tained within the infinite memory of Allah, and even a stone you
will trip over in the future as you walk along the road is deter-
mined in His memory. That is because Allah has created all events
within a single moment.
Canon David Brown makes this statement:

God is in fact outside time, so there’s no “before” for God. He’s pre-
sent with each bit of our temporal story . . . 139
Allah sees and knows every circumstance of every entity. It is
He Who creates them all. Every meter a person travels, the images
he encounters and the time to which he is subject are all known to
and controlled by Allah. In one verse, He informs us that:
You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur’an
or do any action without Our witnessing you while you are
occupied with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your
Lord, either on Earth or in heaven. Nor is there anything
smaller than that, or larger, which is not in a Clear Book.
(Surah Yunus, 61)

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