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was shown clearly to him, he said: "I know that Allah has power over all
things." (Surat al-Baqara: 259)
The above verse clearly emphasizes that Allah Who created time is
unbound by it. Man, on the other hand, is bound by time that Allah ordains.

As in the verse, man is even incapable of knowing how long he stayed in
his sleep. In such a state, to assert that time is absolute [just like the materi-
alists do in their distorted mentality], would be very unreasonable.

Destiny

Time's variable relativity reveals a very important reality: A period of
time of apparently billions of years' duration to us, may last only a second
in another dimension. Moreover, an enormous period of time - from the
world's beginning to its end - may not last even a second, but just an
instant in another dimension.
This is the very essence of destiny's reality - one that is not well under-
stood by most people, especially materialists, who deny it completely.
Destiny is Allah's perfect knowledge of all events, past or future. Many, if
not most, question how Allah can already know events that have not yet
been experienced, and this leads them to fail to understand the authentic-
ity of destiny. However, events not yet experienced are not yet experi-
enced by us only. Allah is not bound by time or space, for He Himself has
created them. For this reason, the past, the future, and the present are

all the same to Allah; for Him, everything has already taken place
and is finished.
In The Universe and Dr. Einstein, Lincoln Barnett explains how the
Theory of General Relativity leads to this insight. According to him, the
universe can be "encompassed in its entire majesty only by a cosmic intel-
lect." 34 What Barnett calls "the cosmic intellect" is the wisdom and
knowledge of Allah, Who prevails over the entire universe. 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 single moment. People experi-
ence incidents only when their time comes for them to witness the fate

180 Relativity of Time and the Reality of Fate