Time owns but we do not

Time also veils the future. We do not know what will happen tomorrow, or next year. All we know is the present we live, the past we have already lived and the future which we do not know what will Allah judge in it.



Time owns us but we do not. None of us can live outside time; none can remain a child or a youth and never grows old. And no human can bring back time to correct his mistakes. If he committed a murder or an accident happened to him he could not bring back the past to avoid it.



As we have already said time owns man but he does not. That is the value of time in our life. But Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, is the Creator of time – to Him there is no time. There is no past beyond His Knowledge or a future outside His Decree or new arising events.



All the universe and whatever is in it until the Day of Resurrection and after it is encompassed within the Knowledge of Allah. Things He only reveals and does not initiate because He already possess knowledge of it.



When you read the Ayah saying what means:



[His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.] [Yâ Sîn, 82: 36]



You must pay attention to His Saying ‘it’, which means that this thing already exists within the Knowledge of Allah. He, all praise and glory is to Him, only reveals it to us by the Command ‘Be’ and the thing becomes apparent and known to us.



Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, wants us to realize that time is relative. Allah subjects whom He wills to it and does not subject whom He wills. There are certain stages where man is ruled out of time. This in order for us to grasp the true meaning of time and how it acts as a measure of events. When these events stop, our sense of time also stop and it loses its meaning.



When man sleeps and temporarily becomes still, the meaning of time for him stops. On awakening he does not know how many hours he has slept unless he slept and the sun was shining and he awoke to find it dark, or slept while it was dark and awoke to find the light of the sun everywhere. We all experience this: losing the sense of time during sleep.



But Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, out of mercifulness towards His servants, clarified to us that He can remove man out of time completely. That is to say, time no longer has control over man or acts as the measure of his life.



When you read the story of the People of the Cave you understand this sign. The People of the Cave were youths who believed in their Lord and sought refuge in the cave from the tyranny of the disbelievers, so what happened to them?



Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, says what means: [And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.] [Al-Kahf, 18: 25]



Which means that they remained sleeping within the cave for three hundred

and nine years. Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, covered up their sense of

hearing (causing them, to go in deep sleep), thus no noise could affect them

or the voice of a wild animal beside the cave might awake them, because the

ear is the summoning tool. If you wish to awaken a sleeping person you call

him loudly and he awakes. Also, if a person is sleeping and a loud voice is

produced near him he will wake up terrified.



Regards.

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