Page 107 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

This may seem to be beyond the grasp of the human mind, when
one considers that there have been trillions of animals living on the
planet. Yet, a mystery of the might of Allah is hidden here. Allah,

the al-Alim, is the All-Knowing. Allah surely knows everything
about each being, whether it is living, inanimate or dead. This re-
markable fact is related in the following verse:
He has counted them and numbered them precisely. (Surah
Maryam: 94)
The death of animals is no different from that of human beings.
As is the case with human beings, the moments of an animal's life do
not vanish after its death either. At the sudden death of one's pet, —
for instance, a bird,— one feels sorry. That bird, however, is not
dead; it is retained in the memory of Allah in its best state. The time
this bird spent in its egg, the day it came one's house and the time it
struggled to fly as a young bird are entirely in the memory of Allah.
Alternatively, in the Sight of Allah, each moment of a dead dog's past
life and the moment it died are known. The image of its death is a
single frame. All moments pertaining to the dog's past life; while it
was still a puppy, while it barked, walked, drank water and all its
other states unknown to its owner are available in the Sight of Allah.
The same reasoning applies to all animals. The birth and death of
the dog mentioned in Surat al-Kahf, and each moment it spent in
front of the cave is in the memory of Allah. Likewise, the camel

brought by the Prophet Salih (pbuh), and the moment his people
slew the camel, though clearly prohibited by Allah, are in His mem-
ory. Alternatively, the moment a beast is killed by being trodden up-
on remains in the Sight of Allah. The death of the beast lasts only a
moment and, like all other beings, it is only an image and each im-
age of it remains in the Sight of Allah. That we do not see anything
pertaining to the beast after it has died does not mean that it disap-
pears. The death of an insect is in a single frame and every image
regarding its life remains without changing. That we do not see any-

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