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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 93

REMEMBERING ALLAH’S WILL WHILE
SPEAKING ABOUT THE FUTURE

Allah created man as a being bound by time and space,
while He is unbounded by them and encompasses them, since
it is He Who created them. By his very nature, man is con-
fined to time and space, but Allah sees time and space both
from within and without and holds them under His control.
This means that Allah sees and knows the beginning, end
and duration of everyone’s life simultaneously. For Allah,
there is no lapse of time between the beginning of the uni-
verse and the Day of Judgment; yet, man perceives this as an
infinitely long period. But just as we can see the beginning and
end of a yardstick, Allah can see the beginning and end of the
universe all at once.
Thus, the past, present and future are all part of a destiny
that Allah has predetermined. Allah has revealed this to us in

the Qur’an through the concept of destiny. Man can never
escape his destiny. In brief, the future of man can be shaped
only in the way Allah predetermines it. Therefore, in the
Qur’an Allah commands people to say “If Allah wills” while
expressing their plans in the future. For no matter what a per-
son may expect to take place, nothing happens except what
Allah wills. Muslims have faith in the fact that only what Allah
wills will occur, so believers never speak with certainty about
the future, even about the next moment. Instead, they say,
“In-sha-Allah,” which means, "If Allah wills."
Never say about anything, ‘I am doing that tomorrow,’
without adding ‘If Allah wills.’ (Surat al-Kahf; 23-24)