Page 106 - Eternity Has Already Begun

ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

The Life of an Animal Is Also A Single Moment

By the time life came into existence on earth, all phases an animal
went through had been retained in the Sight of Allah. For instance,
the birth, death, the first hunt of a penguin, which lived at the south
pole and died 250 years ago, exist currently in the Sight of Allah and
will continue to exist forever. By the same token, all these incidents
are happening just at this moment.
This also holds true for animals we never saw. A camel, which
lived and died 700 years ago, a crocodile in the Amazon in 5 BC, a
snake that will crack the shell of its egg in the year 2200, or a kanga-
roo in Australia today. As a matter of fact, all these details and inci-
dents pertaining to the animals mentioned above, as well as of all
other animals of all times, occur simultaneously, that is to say, right
at this moment. Every moment of this camel, including the moment
it was born, the moment it carried a load in the desert and the mo-
ment it drank water are all retained in the Sight of Allah. Just now,
the camel in question, however, is still drinking water, and is still car-
rying its load… All the camels that have ever lived throughout world
history and each moment they spent in this world are still alive.

Every moment of a pet an animal lover possessed
in his childhood remains in the Sight of Allah. The
moment he played with it, the moment he caressed
it, the moment it died in an accident, in brief, each
moment whether he remembers it or not…

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