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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 109

Destiny
Time's variable relativity reveals a very important reality: A pe-
riod 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
understood 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 authenticity of destiny. However, events not yet
experienced are not yet experienced 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 intellect." 18 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 experience incidents only when their
time comes for them to witness the fate Allah has created for them.
It is also important to consider society's distorted understand-
ing of destiny. This distorted conviction presents the superstitious
belief that Allah has determined a "destiny" for every man, but