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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
multaneously will make it easier to com-
prehend this issue.
In the Sight of Allah, everything has
already taken place and finished.
Some people hold the superstitious
belief that Allah created the universe
and granted man a certain lifetime
and waits for them to be tested (Sure-
ly Allah is beyond all that). And He
will wait until the end of the universe.
Yet, this is surely impossible. Waiting
is a weakness peculiar to man and
Allah is surely not bound by such
weakness. Allah's attribute, the al-Qud-
dus (The Holy), with which Allah pre-
sents Himself to us in the Qur'an,
means "free from all error, incapabili-
ty and from any kind of defect". That
is why Allah knows the past and fu-
ture of all people, as well as their ex-
periences, in great detail. But man,
in this life, the arena of this test,
assumes time to be linear with
a beginning and an end. Yet,
as stated earlier in this sec-
The human being in the picture
is being born "right now"; he is
fishing, he is receiving his dip-
loma, getting married and even
having children and grandc-
hildren "right at this moment."
Furthermore, he is dying now
and likewise, he is being jud-
ged in the Sight of Allah.
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