Here, to make the matter more readily understandable, we...

Here, to make the matter more readily understandable, we explain it through an example:ِ We may say, if a man eats a certain kind of poison, he shall immediately die. But we also know that there is antipoison for that to nullify its effects, and by serving it the poisoned will be saved. The whole event which is related to the said poison and antitoxin has its record in the temporary and changeable board or book .

Now if we [ 349 ] consider the death of the poisoned with all its cause and effect, such as eating the poison and having no access to the antitoxin, the death here is certain, and it will be recorded in the fixed board or memory of God's knowledge. In other word the knowledge of God works in two stages of fixed and unfixed which is on condition.

IMAM SAJJAD (AS) has said:ِ I could inform you of all the past and future events, if, there was not one verse in the Qura"n, (S13:39) which says:ِ Allah blots out and cancels what He wants and confirms what He wills, and with Him is the mother of the book. ***** RAM & ROM (The above reasoning of his holiness Ayatullah-al-Ozma" Maka"rim, reminds me of the two kinds of RAM and ROM memories which are used in our present generations of computers.

These are in use for methods of accounting and control of all sorts of Data Processings. Ram is the abbreviation for Random Access Memory, which is a storage device, or a direct access recording board. It is possible to alter or replace the words and letters that are written upon the RAM. There is also the ROM or Read Only Memory which is a record of data or instructions that cannot be altered or replaced easily in the normal use of the computer. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE) WHAT IS BADAA?

One of the hottest disputes that has always gone on between the Shiite and Sonni, the two main sects of Islam is over the subject that they technically call it BADAA. Literally it means; appearance, and clearness. It is also known as penitence and remorse for appearing due to a sudden change of mind, and coming of a sudden to a new conclusion or decision.

But such apparent meanings and denotations do not apply to [ 350 ] God, because nothing is hidden from Him to be evident and to cause His change of mind. So also God never makes a mistake to be needed for a correction. If we attribute mistakes and neglect to God's All-knowing All-mighty Essence; we have blasphemed, and spoken in irreverent way about Him.