future, existed in His unlimited knowledge from all eternity, but so far as human experience is concerned, it was new (muḥdath), and we have to speak in terms of human experience. Nothing is new in the sight of God, whenever done, but according to our conception of things, the revelations given to Adam and to Noah and to all other prophets were new when they were granted. The Holy Qur’ān itself is explicit on this point: “There comes not to them a new (muḥdath) Reminder from their Lord but they hear it while they sport” (21:2). In this sense, the Holy Qur’ān was also a new reminder, though it was there in the knowledge of God from all eternity. But things cannot be said to be eternal and uncreated, simply because they are in the knowledge of God from eternity.