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were a time moving from past to future, He does not inform us of our future
or give this information to our memories. The future is not in our memories,
but all human pasts and futures are in His eternal memory. This, as we said
before, is like observing a human life as if it were already wholly depicted and
complete in a film. Someone who cannot advance the film sees his life as the
frames pass one by one. He is mistaken in thinking that the frames he has not
yet seen constitute the future.

Past And Future Are News Of The Unseen

In the verses, God reveals that the only one who knows what is secret,
invisible, unseen and unknown is He Himself:

Say: "O God, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the
Unseen and the Visible, You will judge between Your servants
regarding what they differed about." (Surat az-Zumar: 46)

PAST FUTURE
PRESENT

Memory = Past Thought = Future
Memory = Past Thought = Future

A person's past is actually information located in his memory. If that person's memory were erased, his
past would be gone. The future is composed of human thoughts. We make plans for the future and think
about it, but if our thoughts were destroyed there would remain no concept of the future. If our memory
and our thoughts were taken from us, we would have only the moment of experience, or this particular
moment, left.