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is god bound by time?

Logically we know that time is a product of creation. That God created space and time,therefore, he does not exist within time. But does God's final word verify this?

We find a number of verses in the Quran which speak about the Day of Judgement (a future event for us), yet God used the past tense, the following are examples:


[78:19]The heaven was opened (futihat) like gates.

[78:20]The mountains were removed (suyyirat), as if they were a mirage.



These two verses speak about events which will take place at the end of the world, yet they are written in the past tense, as if they already happened! Many translators changed this to the future tense, as if they are correcting God’s grammar! They do so because the do not understand the reasons why God uses the past tense in such verses! The reasons are:


For God there is no past, present and future! The concept of ‘Time’ is a dimension of the physical universe which we live in, but for God there is no ‘Time’ nor is God confined to the issue of ‘Time’ like we are (we cannot see the future). God uses the past tense at times and the future tense at other times to demonstrate to us that for God there is no ‘Time’.  So to God, everything already happened. 



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