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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

The same thing holds true for all the events that took place and
the people who appeared on earth throughout history. Philoso-
phers in ancient Greece, those Sumerian people who invented
cuneiform writing, Cleopatra, the Egyptian Queen, artists of the re-
naissance period, scientists of the 19th century, dictators of the 20th
century and all other people, even your grandfather, his grand-
grandfather and you are, in reality, living at the same moment.
None of these events disappear; they continue to exist without
changing. The Crusades, the great migration, World Wars I and II,
though seemingly distinct historical events, are actually events
happening right at this moment and they will continue to do so for
all eternity. Likewise, Egyptian, ancient Mexican, Greek and Ana-
tolian civilizations all existed at the same moment.
The rain, which watered the field of a
man who earned his living as a farmer in
1000 BC in Mesopotamia, and the very
moment this farmer got wet in this rain

All construction stages of
these buildings as well as
their current state are in
the Sight of Allah. Every
deed engaged in by the
former dwellers of these
buildings is kept "right
now" in the Sight of Allah.

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