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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

had no choice in dropping the stone; the splash is already there in
the future, and so we lose all free will. 145

Roger Penrose, a guest on the same program, drew the follow-
ing conclusion from the data provided:
So this means that in a sense, the present, past and future are out
there, and that also gives us a very deterministic view of the world.
We have no control of what happens in the future because it’s all laid
out. 146
A human being witnesses the destiny determined for him
throughout the course of his life. Every moment in the lives of ev-
eryone who has ever lived, and who will ever live in the future are
all previously experienced in the Sight of Allah. All events written
in the destinies of all things, not just human beings, but the ani-
mals, plants, planets and other entities—all exist in His “memory,”
constantly and permanently. The workings of destiny is one of the
manifestations of Allah’s name of Al-Hafeedh (the Preserver, the
Guardian) and of His infinite might and greatness.
Fred Alan Wolf describes how someone’s past and future have
been determined long beforehand:
Although a history depends on our observations of both the starting
and finishing events, we remember the history as if we were aware
of it while it was taking place.

In other words, we seem to “live” the history as it happens. We make
it a “living” story. We live in a river of time in which the source of the
river (our past) and its final destination ahead of us (our future) al-
ready exist. 147
A person is constantly under the control of Allah, our Creator,
and does what He has determined for him. Allah reveals this fact
in a verse:
Nothing occurs, either in the Earth or in yourselves, with-
out its being in a Book before We make it happen. That
is something easy for Allah. (Surat al-Hadid, 22)

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