Page 65 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

PAST PRESENT FUTURE
All events that seem to have taken place in the past, or which will take place
in the future, or are taking place in the present, have actually already taken
place and ended in the Sight of Allah, Who is not bound by time or
place. In the same manner, eternity has also been experi-
enced and ended in the Sight of Allah. Just like the
concurrent existence of the shots in a reel of
film.

And in reality, we never can know how time flows—or even
whether it flows or not! This is because time is not an absolute fact,
but only a form of perception.
That time is a perception is also verified by Albert Einstein in his
Theory of General Relativity. In his book The Universe and Dr. Ein-
stein, Lincoln Barnett writes:

Along with absolute space, Einstein discarded the concept of ab-
solute time—of a steady, unvarying inexorable universal time flow,
streaming from the infinite past to the infinite future. Much of the
obscurity that has surrounded the Theory of Relativity stems from
man's reluctance to recognize that sense of time, like sense of col-
or, is a form of perception. Just as space is simply a possible order
of material objects, so time is simply a possible order of events. The
subjectivity of time is best explained in Einstein's own words. "The
experiences of an individual," he says, "appear to us arranged in a

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