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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN
An example will contribute to a fuller understanding of these
facts: The gardens of Saba' that have been converted into "gardens
containing bitter-tasting plants and tamarisk and a few lote trees"
(Surah Saba': 16), as referred to in the Qur'an, are still in the Sight of
Allah. The state of the garden both before and after its destruction
remains in the memory of Allah. Thousands of years ago, in a re-
mote part of the world, the transformation of a beautiful garden in-
to a wheat field is in the Sight of Allah. A house built on this wheat
field after hundreds of years, as well as the collapse of this building
and construction of a workshop in its place are all present in the
Sight of Allah. Finally, the current state of this wheat field, now a re-
gion populated with ghettos, is also present in the Sight of Allah. All
the intermediary stages in between these views of the same area,
The states in which these areas were 1000
years ago or 500 years ago together with the
foundations, which will be built on in the fu-
ture, actually exist at a single moment.
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