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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

mic intellect." What Barnett calls "the cosmic intellect" is the wis-
dom and knowledge of Allah, Who prevails over the entire uni-

verse. Just as we easily see the beginning, middle, and end of a ruler
and all the units in between as a whole, so Allah knows the time to
which we're subjected right from its beginning to the end, like a sin-
gle moment. People experience incidents only when their time
comes for them to witness the fate Allah has created for them.
At this point the false nature of the idea of destiny espoused by
some people needs to be clarified. This distorted understanding of
destiny presents the superstitious belief that Allah has determined a
"destiny" for every man, but sometimes that people can change
these destinies. For instance, speaking of a patient who's recovered
from a fatal disease, people make superficial statements like, "He
defeated his destiny." Yet no one is able to change his destiny. The
person who recovers is destined not to die then. Again, it's the des-
tiny of those people to deceive themselves by saying, "I defeated my
destiny" and maintain such a mindset.
In the verse "... no living thing lives long or has its life cut short
without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah." (Surah Fatir:
11), it is revealed that all these things are ordained in destiny. Be-
cause destiny is the eternal knowledge of Allah. And for Allah, Who
knows the whole time as a single moment and Who prevails over
the whole time and space, everything is determined and finished in
its destiny.
We also understand from what is related in the Qur'an that time

is one for Allah: some incidents that appear to happen to us in the
future are related in the Qur'an in such a way that they already took
place long before. For instance, the verses that describe the account
that people are to give to Allah in the Hereafter are related as events,
which already occurred long ago:
The Trumpet will be blown and those in the heavens and those in
the earth will all lose consciousness,except those Allah wills.Then

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