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things for the better. But he will take comfort in his knowledge that all these things come to be according
to destiny and that God had determined the most beneficial things in advance. As an example of this, the
Qur’an mentions measures taken by Jacob for the security of his children. In order to make his sons be-

ware of people with evil intentions, Jacob advised his sons to enter the city by different gates but he re-
minded them that this would never influence the destiny determined by God.
He said, "My sons! You must not enter through a single gate. Go in through different gates. But I cannot
save you from God at all, for judgment comes from no one but God. In Him I put my trust, and let all those

who put their trust, put it in Him alone." (Surah Yusuf: 67)
People may do what they like, but they will never be able to change their destiny. This is revealed in

this verse:
Then He sent down to you, after the distress, security, restful sleep overtaking a group of you, whereas an-
other group became prey to anxious thoughts, thinking other than the truth about God—thoughts belong-

ing to the Time of Ignorance—saying, "Do we have any say in the affair at all?" Say, "The affair belongs
entirely to God." They are concealing things inside themselves which they do not disclose to you, saying,
"If we had only had a say in the affair, none of us would have been killed here in this place." Say, "Even if
you had been inside your homes, those people for whom killing was decreed would have gone out to their

place of death." So that God might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts. God
knows the contents of your hearts. (Surah Al 'Imran: 154)
It can be seen in this verse that even if a person runs away from a task in the way of God in order not
to die, if his death is written in his destiny, he will die anyway. Even the ways and methods resorted to in

order to escape death are determined in destiny and everyone will experience those things that are writ-
ten in his destiny. And in this verse, God reveals to human beings that the purpose of the things created
in their destiny is to test them and to purify their hearts. In the Qur’an it is said that everyone's death is

determined in the sight of God and that the conception of a baby happens with the permission of God.
God created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made you into pairs. No female be-
comes pregnant or gives birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut

short without that being in a Book. That is easy for God. (Surah Fatir: 11)
In the verses below it is revealed that everything a person does is written sentence by sentence and
what those in paradise experience are also things that have already been experienced. As we said earlier,

the real life of paradise is for us in the future. But the lives of those in paradise, their conversations and
feasting is in God's memory at this moment. Before we were born, the future of humanity in this world
and the next had been experienced in God's sight in a moment and is being kept in God's memory.

Everything they did is in the Books.
Everything is recorded, big or small.
The heedful are amid Gardens and Rivers,
on seats of honour in the presence of a Competent Sovereign. (Surat al-Qamar: 52-55)

We can understand from this way of speaking in the Qur’an that, in God's sight, time is a single moment
and for Him there is no past or future. As we see, some events that will be for us in the future, are understood
in the Qur’an as being long passed. This is because both the past and the future are created by God as a sin-

gle moment. Therefore, an event which is related to occur in the future, in fact, has already occurred, but, be-
cause we cannot understand this, we think of them as future. For example, in the verses where the account
to be given to God by human beings is described, it is understood as a long passed event.

And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth swoon away, save
him whom God wills. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting! And the earth
shone with the light of her Lord, and the Book is set up, and the prophets and the witnesses are brought,
and it is judged between them with truth, and they are not wronged. Every self will be repaid in full for

what it did. He knows best what they are doing. Those who disbelieve will be driven to Hell in companies
and when they arrive there and its gates are opened its custodians will say to them, "Did messengers from

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