Prof Muhammad Al-Massari : Definition of Time and Predestination - مفهوم الزمن والقدر

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Definition of Time and Predestination
0 - unlike Descartes' philosophy (I think therefore I perceive my existence), the reality is that you exist and hence perceive
2m - Kant - and the need more than epistemology, such as nature or space, i.e. a necessary existent
6m - time: we have a beginning and end
13m - Brahman is Hinduism's concept of the eternal infinite universal principle
20m - 3 degrees of freedom
22m - Al-Razi at-Tabib (the medic) struggled with the concept of time
26m - Hawkins tried to hide behind quantum fluctuations and four dimensional space
30m - Aristotle and past events
32m - predestination - Ashari and Mu'tazila understandings
35m - the scope of divine knowledge in the Quran and Hadith has been often misunderstood.
37m - Hadith mentions muqaddar, i.e. the proportions of the universe and it's expressed by a pen and a preserved tablet Al-Lawh Al-Mahfooz. It is not an actual tablet and pen, per further Hadith.
41m - Quran as the dhikr. Allah says he is the time and expression of my will. The universe's proportions and dimensions of 3 degrees (or more degrees per models of grand unification in physics, and the large hadron collider)
45m - freewill and freedom has been misunderstood thinking that spontaneous decisions in the necessary existent being are not possible, i.e. thinking that everything that has events within itself must have a beginning in time itself.
52m - the Quranic revelation gives a consistent understanding of time
54m - the universe is structured by Allah for freewill that exists with openness of the future, else it contradicts freewill, e.g. Al-Arabi incorrectly says everything is known in advance ("established in nothingness")
57m - Q: can Allah not know everything in advance and allow it to happen? There are possibilities known by Allah, not set beforehand, e.g. per Surah At-Tawbah that after the battle of Tabuk some people of the army stayed back with no excuse, they then admitte..