The philosophers have discussed this issue of time and place widely because they are things that are always connected with us. Is it not strange that the truth about this is unknown to us as well as the philosophers?
Some feel that place means this world where our bodies find succor. The need for place emanates from physical existence and every physical being is dependent about it.
One group feels that it means “a space empty of everything” and is a fictitious distance and normally if there is no body there is no place. This interpretation is after the place of other bodies and not before it. When we study and compare two bodies and see how they rest then we will find them separate. This is the not the place to discuss place under various ideologies. It is ascertained that which ever of the two meanings we adopt it will prove that there is no fixed place for God.
According to the first interpretation place exists before the body and can there is any place before God? According to this idea bodies are dependent on space is it possible that the Necessary Being be dependent on anything? According to the first interpretation the idea of pace or station is impossible for God who is needless of anything and from whom everything emanates. According to the second interpretation we will first have assume an equal for God and then compare so that a place can be ascertain while we have already discussed under Tawhid that he has no similitude and equal.
A place cannot be imagined without limitation because we have to take two bodies separately to compare them. So the philosophers of this ideology believe that there is no place for this universe because there is nothing beyond this universe to be measured or compared. Place is needed for material bodies. Reflect.
If God has a body then He must have parts because the different parts have separate places, like one part is above the other, one is on the right and the other is on the left. If God is a creation composed then we have to create dependence amongst the parts and this is not permissible because He is the Necessary Being.
The arguments about time are the same. They say that time is like a container and was created first; the material creations came later into existence and were placed in it. In such a situation it is certain that God has no time because it will lead to dependency and He is above all needs and dependence.
The term “time” is a definite flowing or passing existence that was created before every material being and will exist after everything is destroyed. So it is clear that there can be no time for God because otherwise it will mean dependence and He will above all need.
According to the modern philosophy “time’ may be defined as the movement of atoms but still it will not be acceptable for God because he is complete in every sense and there is no scope to attribute movement to Him, therefore, there will be no time for him.
