Page 11 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

hat does the word "eternity" mean to you?
One always tends to associate the concept of eternity
with figures such as a thousand years, one million or
a billion years. Such a concept of time seems to sug-
gest an everlasting period. Similarly, what the concept of "infinite
distance" evokes in the mind is great distances, like a hundred thou-
sand or a million light years.
Nevertheless, even if you endeavor to think of the greatest figure
possible, you are still limited by the intellectual capacity of your
mind. An example would contribute to a fuller understanding of the
extraordinary extent of eternity: if a quadrillion of people spent all
their lives, lasting also a quadrillion years, doing nothing but count-
ing numbers, day and night without stopping, they would still fail
to arrive at eternity, since eternity as a concept has no beginning and
no end.
In the Sight of Allah, the Almighty, this concept of the "everlast-
ing" and accordingly absolutely incomputable, has already ended.
Eternity, which appears to be an unattainable concept for us, is ac-
tually just a single moment in the Sight of Allah.
This book presents to you unprecedented explanations of time-
lessness, spacelessness and eternity, and makes you confront an im-
portant fact: that eternity has already begun. The realization of this
fact will make you once again appreciate Allah, the Almighty and
Exalted, and His Creation. Meanwhile, you will find comprehensi-
ble answers to some frequently asked questions: Where is Allah?
What is the resurrection? What is the true nature of death? Is there
an endless life? And when will all these happen?
Yet, before proceeding with these issues, some concepts like "the
real nature of matter" and "timelessness," will be dealt with in detail
for a better comprehension of the above—mentioned subject.

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