Page 109 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

These explanations provide explicit answers to some frequently
asked questions, such as, "Do animals have a spirit?" or "What will
be their end?" These living beings are in the memory of Allah and

this is the point that really matters. As long as the information about
any animal is recorded in the Sight of Allah (remember that by the
time it is created, it is destined to eternity), it is alive. Yet, what is
meant by "alive" here is Allah's creating it in the form of a sensation.
In this sense, none of the other living beings bear any similarity to
Allah's attribute, the al-Hayy (The Ever-Living). In that sense, the re-
ally important thing is not whether the animal has a spirit or not, but
whether it is created in the memory or not. If Allah wills, this living
being exists in our memory; if not, it does not. If Allah takes back the
image of an animal from one's memory, this means that it has died.
If, however, He gives it back to the memory, this means that it has
become alive. It must be borne in mind that this animal remains in
the memory of Allah forever, since Allah is not bound by time. In
timelessness, it is not possible to talk of past, present and future. It
is all a single moment.

Flowers Never Fade, Fruits Never Disappear…
Allah is the One Who retains the knowledge of everything. As
stated in the verse above, since the Creation of the universe, all the
leaves, and the different states they go through during their life
span, are all known by Allah. For instance, the information about a

tree which grew in Babylon—down to a single leaf of this tree, is all
kept in the Sight of Allah. Furthermore, all stages of this leaf per-
taining to its fall from the tree are individually kept in the memory
of Allah. Sitting under this tree in Babylon, a man watching the leaf
falling, too, unknowingly remains there. None of the seconds he
spent in watching this leaf disappeared or remained in the past.
Most probably, the fall of a single leaf from a tree might be per-
ceived as an insignificant incident. Nevertheless, the fall of all the

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