Page 108 - Eternity Has Already Begun

ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

The butterflies and
flowers, in short, all
the details you see in
a garden which you
pass by are preserved
in the Sight of Allah.

thing connected with it does not mean that it has disappeared. It has
merely vanished from one's memory. In the Sight of Allah, if the im-
age belonging to that insect is animated again, and presented to our
five senses, we may see it again.
The same is true of a colorful butterfly seen by a man during the
period of the French Revolution. It is quite possible that the man felt
sorry for this beautiful butterfly when he saw that it had become a
prey for a bird. However, that butterfly, with all its symmetric beau-
ty and colors, is right now in the Sight of Allah. Every moment of the
butterfly, every time it opened its wings, every time it closed them,
every flower it visited are known in the Sight of Allah. Furthermore,
this butterfly is doing all these deeds just now. Just now, this but-
terfly is flying, right now it is eating and right now, it is dying… Af-
ter all, this butterfly is alive, and it will remain alive for all eternity.
The feelings of the man who felt sorry for the death of this butterfly,
and moreover, each and every moment of this man's life exist for-

ever.
This fact is stressed in the following verse:
Certainly there is no hidden thing in either heaven or earth which
is not in a Clear Book. (Surat an-Naml: 75)

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