The Limited Memory of Man and the Endless Memory of Allah.
“We rely on our five senses to live. We perceive only what our senses allow and we can never succeed in stepping out of the boundaries of our senses. The time and space we live in is similarly perceived. If our brain cannot detect a being through our five senses, we simply say that that being has “disappeared.” Accordingly, for us, events, images or sensations, which are stored in our memory, exist, i.e., they are alive, while those that are forgotten no longer exist. To put it another way, beings and events, which are not in our memory, become past events for us; they are simply dead and non-existent. Yet, this holds true only for human beings; that is because it is only human beings who have a limited memory. The memory of Allah, on the other hand, is superior to everything. It is boundless and eternal. Yet one point deserves mention here: the concept “the memory of Allah” is used only for clarification purposes. It is definitely unlikely that any comparison or similarity could be drawn between the memory of Allah and the memory of a man. Allah is surely the One Who creates everything from nothingness and Who knows everything down to the last detail.
Allah introduces Himself in His book through His attributes. One of them is al- Hafiz (The Preserver), “He Who preserves all things in detail”. Behind this attribute, there are very important hidden mysteries.”
