Dr. Rashad Khalifa
Muhammad did not know the future, so the many Hadiths narrating future events are personal predictions unrelated to the Quran.1, 2
God alone knows the future and when the world will end, but He reveals some aspects to chosen messengers, and Rashad Khalifa was blessed with unveiling the end of the world per 72:27.1, 2, 3
The Arabic text of the Quran is composed to remind the reader or memorizer of the next correct expression or verse, because God created us and knows the most efficient way to fix material in our memory.1
God fully controls every atom and even subatomic components everywhere in the greater universe.1
Each newborn receives a human soul from the depository, assigned by God according to His knowledge, and God alone knows which souls are good or evil, so our children come to us by His plan.1, 2
God granted Abraham guidance and understanding because He knew Abraham was a good soul who deserved to be guided.1, 2
Our lives and everything around us are pre-recorded, and God fully knows each person's decisions and who will go to Heaven or Hell, even before birth.1, 2
Predestination is a fact from God's point of view but not from ours, since we remain totally free to side with God's absolute authority or with Satan's polytheistic views.1
The verses saying God guides or misleads whomever He wills mean that God, based on His knowledge, assigns our souls to the circumstances we deserve.1
The meat of pigs is prohibited but not their fat, so using lard in baked goods and other foods does not make those foods prohibited.1
God never forgets, and to Him belongs the past, present, and future.1
God alone knows the future and permits no one to unveil it, except that He reveals future and past events through the messengers He chooses.1
God reveals the time of the end of the world before it happens, and 15:87 gives that time.1
God, the Creator of this world, knows when it will end, and the sequence of verses 15:85 to 15:87 moves from the certainty of the end to its time.1
God alone ends each life and knows who deserves Heaven or Hell, so a wicked person whom God knows does not deserve Heaven will not die before 40.1
Satan rules his small kingdom far from God's physical presence, yet with God's full knowledge and control.1
God alone knows the future and reveals specific news of past and future only to a messenger He chooses, to ensure the messengers deliver their Lord's messages.1, 2, 3
God told the angels He was placing a representative on earth before Adam was created because He knew humans would break His law and be sent down from Paradise.1, 2
Angels know only what God has taught them, as they said they had no knowledge except what God taught them.1
God takes some people just before forty because He knows that if they lived longer they would be swept away by their circumstances.1, 2, 3
It was not Abraham's intelligence that led him to God; God granted him understanding because God knew Abraham deserved the high heaven.1, 2, 3
When Satan's blasphemy occurred billions of years ago, some of us were swept along with the crowd, God knew this, and so we deserved the chance to come here to be redeemed.1, 2, 3
God guides whomever He wills, which makes sense because He knows everyone's deep convictions and who is worthy of guidance.1, 2, 3
Muhammad did not know what would happen to him or others, simply followed what was revealed to him, and possessed no power even for himself except by God's will.1, 2, 3
It was not Abraham's intelligence that led him to God; God granted him understanding because God knew Abraham deserved the high heaven.1, 2, 3
God knows everything in the heavens and earth, everything we conceal and declare, and our innermost thoughts, and is aware of every single creature.1, 2, 3
Changes in living beings over time are designed by God, who knows the needs of every individual He creates.1, 2
Those who deserve guidance and wish to go straight accept this heavy information, while those destined for hell cannot be made to understand, and only God knows who goes where.1, 2, 3, 4
These verses are written in the past tense in Arabic because God witnessed what will take place in our future and tells us what happened between the idols and their worshipers.1, 2, 3
God runs everything, nothing is hidden from Him, and as sovereign of the universe He guarantees His believers freedom from grief and worry.1, 2, 3, 4
If deceased loved ones deserved better, God would have seen that they received the correction; one good case may be understood by God but cannot be generalized.1, 2, 3
Satan does not know what is in your mind; only God knows your innermost thoughts, including future secrets.1, 2, 3, 4
Children are not as innocent as we think, since God knows in advance which souls are good and which are bad, as with Hitler, who was a cute child.1, 2, 3
When parents do not follow God's commandments they take their children out of God's protection, and God assigns to their homes souls that deserve whatever happens.1, 2, 3, 4
God answers a believer's prayer at the time best for him, not necessarily when he wants, while angels around us may rush to fulfill our statements.1, 2, 3
No three people meet in secret without God being the fourth, nor five without Him being the sixth, and God knows everything in the heavens and the earth.1, 2
The words no less than this and no more in the verse about secret meetings cover the whole range of numbers of people meeting.1
God does not need the test to know anything because He already knows everything; it is humans who need it so they have no excuses on the Day of Judgment.1, 2, 3, 4
God is fully aware of our innermost thoughts and knows every leaf that falls, so nothing can be hidden from Him.1, 2, 3
God tells us about future events such as the Day of Judgment in the past tense to emphasize that they will certainly happen, since God already knows the future.1, 2
The design and provisions of the earth were done first, and the word then in 2:29 does not mean a time sequence, because for God there is no time.1, 2, 3