Time Capsule

Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al- Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing.

[AL-ISRA’ Ch.17:V.1]

          Alhamdulillah, thank to Allah as we are still in Ramadhan. But let’s us take a few minutes in our daily life to pray for our brothers and sisters in Gaza, for their safety. It is great to be back here and write another entry. Maybe we cannot involve in the battle, but we can do other things such as boycott, pray for them, gives donation to them and so on. So this is one of my battle fields to spread the knowledge, insyaAllah.

          Today I am going to continue the journey with the continuation about time. Last entry I already discuss about “time”, and I just realised that there are something that I not mentioned in the earlier part. So I will continue a bit more in order to explain that “time” is one of unique creatures that Allah created. There is nothing before Allah and there will be nothing after Allah, as Allah is not dependent on “time”. He is not in the system of “time”. There will be some more proves today about this.

          In the Quran, there are a lot of stories about the people of the Book and also about people that lives before. It is not just stories, not just a story telling, but incidents or events that we need to take lessons to learn. Allah described the stories not in detail but just the important point for us to remember and learn. There are few examples of verses below.

And [recall] when Moses said to his people, "O my people, indeed you have wronged yourselves by your taking of the calf [for worship]. So repent to your Creator and kill yourselves. That is best for [all of] you in the sight of your Creator." Then He accepted your repentance; indeed, He is the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful.

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.54]

And [recall] when Moses said to his people, "Indeed, Allah commands you to slaughter a cow." They said, "Do you take us in ridicule?" He said, "I seek refuge in Allah from being among the ignorant."

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.67]

And [mention, O Muhammad], when Abraham was tried by his Lord with commands and he fulfilled them. [ Allah ] said, "Indeed, I will make you a leader for the people." [Abraham] said, "And of my descendants?" [ Allah ] said, "My covenant does not include the wrongdoers."

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.124]

          We can say that, the majority stories in the Quran tell about the Bani Israel. That is one of the reasons the name of Prophet Moses came out so many times in the Quran. There are also stories about other prophet in other chapter such as Prophet Yusuf, Prophet Jesus, and so many more. It will take some time to list all those names and it will make this entry longer. In the example above there are also about Prophet Abraham.

          We say that Allah is omniscient (Maha Mengetahui), so He knows what happened in the past, present and also in the future. When we read the verses telling stories about the past events, maybe we not feel it is weird or miracle or impressed with it. This is because the nature of Allah to know it. So maybe most of us will take it easy and not care it too much. Most of us just read it, without an understanding about it. So we just feel it just like story telling.

          Today’s topic is “time capsule”. I already brought you to the past with a few verses and now I am going to bring you to the future with a few verses also. With the nature of Allah I mentioned above, still some of us thing that there is no need to feel weird or what if Allah can tells story in the future. Maybe some can say that, there are people also can predict what happen in the future. But there are no one can predict it as accurate as Allah. Let’s take a look on the verses.

And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally.

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.25]

If you could but see when the criminals are hanging their heads before their Lord, [saying], "Our Lord, we have seen and heard, so return us [to the world]; we will work righteousness. Indeed, we are [now] certain."

[AS-SAJJADAH Ch.32:V.12]

          In the beginning of this entry, I put the verse about isra’ mikraj. The event that Prophet Muhammad goes to the heaven to receive prayers duty from Allah. In that event, Allah shows to him a few things such as heaven and hell. Our prophet saw people being punish for their fault that they did during their lives on the earth. Now the question is, how can there are people in the hell and also in the heaven as the world is not destroy yet? The doomsday still not coming, it means that if people die they should still in the grave and waiting to be back alive in the day after to be judge by Allah.

          This is incredible for me. There are few verses in the Quran telling about the people in the hell, they ask Allah to give them chance so that they can repent and not enter the hell. There are also about people in the heaven saying they get the food same like they got during their lives. Things are not happen yet, but the stories are there (for us). Actually, alongside of Allah all things are already happen.

          For Allah, it just a movie. He can play it at the “time” He wants. He can bring it forward and also backward the movie. If He wants to show to His prophet, He can just select the “time” and views to him. In the Quran, it is just like a movie trailer. The movie already complete, just wait for the “time” to publish it. In the mean “time”, Allah shows a few examples so that we can take it as lessons to learn and to avoid the bad things.

          So the conclusion is, we need to read the Quran with understandings. Hope we can improve it in this remainder of month of Ramadhan. There are a lot of people can tell you about this more interesting than I did, still a lot more to learn.

And We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear. Those are like livestock; rather, they are more astray. It is they who are the heedless.

[AL-A’RAF Ch.7:V.179]

~Pray for Gaza~

~Do the best in Ramadhan~

~Wallahua’lam~