Harun Yahya

The Fact of Timelessness

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With what we have already described, the fact we never have direct experience of the original of a "3-dimensional space" and that we spend all our lives in a space in our minds becomes crystal clear. Asserting the contrary would be to profess a superstitious belief removed from reason and scientific truth, for it is not possible to have direct contact with the original of the external world.

The Perception of Time


The Scientific Explanation of Timelessness



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All events that seem to have taken place in the past, or which will take place in the future, or are taking place in the present, have actually already taken place and ended in the Sight of Allah, Who is not bound by time or place. In the same manner, eternity has also been experienced and ended in the Sight of Allah. Just like the concurrent existence of the shots in a reel of film.

But since our brain is accustomed to a certain sequence of events, the world does not operate as related above. We assume that time always flows forward. However, this is a decision reached in the brain and is, therefore, completely relative. If the information in our memories were set out like a reel of film being played backward, then for us the passage of time would be like it is in films. In that event, we would start perceiving the past as the future, and the future as the past, and living in a state that is the exact opposite of what life is now.
These words of Einstein's show how we are completely conditioned to think that time flows forward.
As Barnett wrote, Einstein showed that, "space and time are forms of intuition, which can no more be divorced from consciousness than can our concepts of color, shape, or size."13 According to the Theory of General Relativity: "time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it."

In a World Where Time Flew Backwards, Past Would Be Future

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In the same way, the way that the speed of the passage of time is perceived differently be everyone depending on the circumstances proves that time consists of a psychological perception. For example, a 10-minute delay while waiting to meet a friend may seem a very long time to you. Or an extra 10 minutes sleep may seem very long to someone waking to go to school or work after a sleepless night, and he may actually imagine he has had a full night's sleep because of it. Under some  circumstances, the opposite may apply. As you will remember from your student days, a 10-minute break after a lesson lasting 40 minutes, or seeming to last a century, may go by very quickly.
That relativity of time is a scientific fact, also proven by scientific methodology. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity shows that the speed of time changes depending on the speed of the object and its distance from the center of gravity. As speed increases, time is shortened—compressed—and slows down until it approaches to the point of stopping entirely.
Einstein himself gave an example. Imagine two twins, one of whom remains on Earth while the other goes into space at a speed close to the speed of light. On his return, the traveler will find that his brother has grown much older than he has. The reason is that time flows much more slowly for the person who travels at near-light speed. The same example may be used for a father travelling into space on a rocket at 99% of the speed of light, and his son who remains on Earth.

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1- 30 years ago

2- Today

One twin sister takes a space trip at a speed close to the speed of light. When she returns thirty years later, the sister who stayed on the Earth will be much older compared to the sister who went into space.

This relativity of time is caused not by clocks slowing down or running fast. Rather, it's the result of the differentiated operational periods of the entire material system, as deep as sub-atomic particles. In such a setting where time stretches out, one's heartbeat, cell replications, and brain functions all operate more slowly. Thus, the person continues with his daily life and does not notice the slowing of time at all.
These facts revealed with the theory of relativity were subsequently confirmed many times over by a great many scientists. Isaac Asimov said this about the theory:


Relativity in the Qur'an

The conclusion to which we are led by the findings of modern science is that time is not an absolute fact as supposed by materialists, but only a relative perception. The important fact on this matter, undiscovered until the 20th century by science, was imparted to mankind in the Qur'an 14 centuries ago. There are various references in the Qur'an to the relativity of time.

On the day We gather them together – when it will seem if they had tarried no more than an hour of a single day – they will recognize one another…(Surah Yunus: 45)

Some verses reveal that time passes faster than people imagine.



They ask you to hasten the punishment. Allah will not break His promise. A day with your Lord is equivalent to a thousand years in the way you count.. (Surat al-Hajj: 47)

These verses are all manifest expressions of the relativity of time. The fact that this result only recently understood by science in the 20th century was communicated to man 1,400 years ago in the Qur'an is, of course, one of the indications that the Qur'an is a revelation of Allah, Who encompasses all of time and space.

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Time is a concept totally dependent on the perceiver. A certain period of time can seem long to one person while it seems very short to another. To understand who is right, various devices such as a clock or a calendar are needed. Without these, it is impossible to make a precise reckoning about time.








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Every existing thing is created with a destiny. Even before a vase is manufactured, it is determined in Allah's Sight who will make it and in what style, who will buy it and from where, in what house and in what corner it will be placed, and on what day, in what moment and why it will fall and be broken.

At this point the false nature of the idea of destiny espoused by some people needs to be clarified. This distorted understanding of destiny presents the superstitious belief that Allah has determined a "destiny" for every man, but sometimes that people can change these destinies. For instance, speaking of a patient who's recovered from a fatal disease, people make superficial statements like, "He defeated his destiny." Yet no one is able to change his destiny. The person who recovers is destined not to die then. Again, it's the destiny of those people to deceive themselves by saying, "I defeated my destiny" and maintain such a mindset.
In the verse "... no living thing lives long or has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah."(Surah Fatir: 11), it is revealed that all these things are ordained in destiny. Because destiny is the eternal knowledge of Allah. And for Allah, Who knows the whole time as a single moment and Who prevails over the whole time and space, everything is determined and finished in its destiny.

The Trumpet will be blown and those in the heavens and those in the earth will all lose consciousness,except those Allah wills.Then it will be blown a second time and at once they will be standing upright, looking on. And the earth will shine with the Pure Light of its Lord; the Book will be put in place; the Prophets and witnesses will be brought; it will be decided between them with the truth... (Surat az-Zumar, 68-69)
Those who disbelieve will be driven to Hell in companies... (Surat az-Zumar, 71)
And those who fear [and respect] their Lord will be driven to the Garden in companies ... (Surat az-Zumar, 73)

Some other verses on this subject are:

Every self come together with a driver and a witness. (Surah Qaf: 21)
And Heaven will be split apart, for that Day it will be very frail.. (Surat al-Haqqa: 16)
And the Blazing Fire will be displayed for all who can see.. (Surat an-Nazi'at: 36)
So today those who believe are laughing at the kuffar. (Surat al-Mutaffifin: 34)
The evildoers will see the Fire and realize they are going to fall into it and find no way of escaping from it... (Surat al-Kahf: 53)



The Worry of the Materialists

The facts discussed in this chapter, namely the truth underlying matter, timelessness, and spacelessness, are extremely clear indeed. As expressed earlier, these are not some sort of philosophy or way of thinking, but crystal-clear scientific truths, impossible to deny. On this issue, rational and logical evidence admits no other alternatives: The universe—with all the matter composing it and all the people living on it—is an image, a collection of perceptions that are experienced in our minds and whose original reality we cannot contact directly.
Materialists have a hard time in understanding this.
One main reason why materialists cannot comprehend this is their subliminal fear of the implication they must face if they comprehend it. Lincoln Barnett tells of the fear and anxiety that even "discerning" this subject inspires in materialist scientists:
Any reference to the fact that we cannot make contact with original matter, and that time is a perception, arouses great fear in a materialist because these are the only notions he relies on as absolutes. In a sense, he takes these as idols to worship; because he believes in the deception that he has been created by matter and time, through evolution. (Allah is beyond this.)
When he feels that he cannot get to the essence of the universe he lives in, nor the world, his own body, other people, other materialist philosophers whose ideas he is influenced by—in short, to anything—he feels overwhelmed by the horror of it all. Everything he depends on and believes in suddenly vanishes. He feels the despair which he, essentially, will experience on the Day of Judgment in its real sense as informed in the verse"On that Day they will offer their submission to Allah and the things they invented will abandon them."(Surat an-Nahl: 87)
Allah states that the fears of the unbelievers will be intensified in the Hereafter. On the Day of Judgment, they will be addressed thus:

On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who associated others with Allah, 'Where are the partner-gods, for whom you made such claims?' (Surat al-An'am: 22)

In the Hereafter, unbelievers will bear witness to their possessions, children and close friends leaving them and vanishing. They had assumed themselves to be in contact with their originals in the world and associated them with Allah. Allah stated this fact in the verse "See how they lie against themselves and how what they invented has forsaken them!" (Surat al-An'am: 24)

The Gain of Believers

The facts—that matter is not absolute and that time is a perception—alarm materialists, but for true believers, just the opposite holds true. People with faith in Allah feel gladness to have perceived the secret behind matter, because this reality is the key to every question. With this, all secrets are unlocked, and one can easily understand many issues that normally seemed hard to grasp.
Grasping this secret is the greatest gain in the world.

Mr. Adnan Oktar's Remarks On Destiny,
Preordination and The Fact That Allah is Everywhere
Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
Adnan Oktar: The subjects on which people concentrate most are those such as the existence of Allah, death, what will happen in the Hereafter, and destiny. In other words, no matter how much they try not to let on, this is the subject that occupies their brains day and night. That is because every night, there is a film on the TV about someone dying. Even if a person sees a dead insect, it would remind him of death, and when he thinks about himself it reminds him of death again.
People are very troubled when it comes to destiny. There are still objections raised, even though I have talked about it at such length, they are still saying things. They say that Allah has created destiny, of course. There is predestination, but there is also partial free will, they say, in other words a very small power unique to us that   Allah—may Allah forbid—cannot control, which belongs to us. In other words, Allah does not know what we will do, or He knows, but only vaguely (Surely Allah is beyond that). And when we do something Allah shows us two paths, but cannot know which we will go down. We choose that path with our own free will (Surely Allah is beyond that). And that comes up as a surprise information, may   Allah forbid, for Allah. That is to say something emerges that He encounters for the first time, and Allah thus tests us, and He understands accordingly (Surely Allah is beyond that). There is no such thing at all. Both preordination and partial free will are created by Allah Himself.
Look, there exists just one single moment. What does a single moment in time mean? It means an infinitely short space of time. What we call "an instant" is an infinitely short time.    Allah has created and completed infinite before and an infinite after within that infinitely brief moment. There is nothing to be done. There is nothing one can do. So how is that partial free will of yours not part of destiny? Consequently, such egocentric people who regard themselves—may Allah forbid—as divine, cannot get over this point one way or another. The fact that Allah has created preordination and also partial free will disturb them for some reason. The second thing that disturbs them is the fact that   Allah is everywhere. They want Allah to be up in the sky. They want Him to be in one specific point in the sky. Not everywhere in the sky, just in one specific location there. That means, relative to infinity that makes it a place that can count for nothing. That is because compared to infinity, no matter how large something in a given place is, anything covering a given volume—may Allah forbid, we do not carry such a belief—is still infinitely small. Isn't it? It is infinitely small. It exists but is very small.
Why do they say it has to be like this, why do they believe in this, I really don't understand. It means that when such people are asked if Allah is here, they would say He is not. Where is Allah? Up in the sky, but Allah is not here, they would say. Consequently, they would say Allah is not on earth (may Allah forbid), right? They would say Allah is up in the skies but He is not here. They say only His knowledge can reach us, but not Him. They say: "we are the absolute beings, Allah is but a shadow".
I used to hear that in my childhood. Prove that Allah exists, they used to say. And then they would say; "Can you show a TV image, or a radio sound, or your own mind? Can you show us the inside of your mind?" Then they used to say since you can't show your own mind, you can't show Allah, either, that was their explanation. It is true that Allah cannot be seen or touched, and is not an object. He is not an entity with time and space. He is outside time and space. But these people's real aim in that is very different. For instance they say there was a young girl, and the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) came by. He asked "Where is Allah?" She replied "He is in the sky." "You are right", said the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). They show this as a proof and believe that Allah is in the sky. Alright, Allah is in the sky. When a child points upward, she points to the skies and she is in Arabia. Someone at the North Pole raises his hands to the sky and prays to Allah, or at the South Pole. Someone at the Equator raises his hand. People all around the whole globe point their hands upwards. Other entities on Mercury or Uranus and all other planetary systems also point upward. In that event, a state of affairs arises that actually covers the whole voids of space, doesn't it? Since everyone everywhere raises his hand, and since the sky is everywhere. For example, for someone on Mercury, the skies is also the Earth, and when he points upward he is pointing toward the Earth. And when someone on Earth raises his hands to the skies he would be pointing to another planet. For that reason, the result is a situation covering the whole 360 degrees.



11. Francois Jacob, Le Jeu des Possibles, University of Washington Press, 1982, p.111
16.  Isaac Asimov, Frontiers

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