Page 85 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

n the section related to timelessness, we mentioned
that all our information is in the memory. All the de-
tails pertaining to one's life, everything one sees,
hears, knows or feels are bits of memorized infor-
mation. So are our sensations about time. Now, we will deal with
the concept of memory more fully.

The Limited Memory of Man and the Endless
Memory of Allah

As mentioned in the preceding pages, we rely on our five senses
to live. We perceive only what our senses allow and we can never
succeed in stepping out of the boundaries of our senses. The time
and space we live in is similarly perceived. If our brain cannot de-
tect a being through our five senses, we simply say that that being
has "disappeared." Accordingly, for us, events, images or sensa-
tions, which are stored in our memory, exist, i.e., they are alive,
while those that are forgotten no longer exist. To put it another way,
beings and events, which are not in our memory, become past
events for us; they are simply dead and non-existent.
Yet, this holds true only for human beings; that is because it is on-
ly human beings who have a limited memory. The memory of
Allah, on the other hand, is superior to everything. It is boundless
and eternal. Yet one point deserves mention here: the concept "the
memory of Allah" is used only for clarification purposes. It is defi-
nitely unlikely that any comparison or similarity could be drawn be-
tween the memory of Allah and the memory of a man. Allah is sure-
ly the One Who creates everything from nothingness and Who
knows everything down to the last detail.
Allah introduces Himself in His book through His attributes.
One of them is al- Hafiz (The Preserver), "He Who preserves all
things in detail". Behind this attribute, there are very important hid-
den mysteries.

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