WHAT WAS THE CREATOR DOING BEFORE CREATION?
Suppose that I want to walk from one ploce to anither and it will take I hour for me to reach the deslination. But what if ride towards this destination by a bike? Let’s say it will take 30 mins. As much os my speed is foster time posses slower for me.
Now suppose that I travel by an airplane of a constant speed, if may take 20seconds. But if travel by speed of light which is the fostest speed in nature, then if would take me a millionth of a second.
So, such a speed is belonging to no one and nothing except Allah(swt).
_ ثُمَّ رُدُّوا إِلَى اللَّهِ مَوْلَاهُمُ الْحَقِّ أَلَا لَهُ الْحُکْمُ وَهُوَ أَسْرَعُ الْحَاسِبِینَ(6:62 Quran)
Then they His servants are returned to Allah, their true Lord. Unquestionably, His is the judgement, and He is the swiftest of accountants(Quran 6:62)
In this verse Allah(swt) chooses the word (اسرع) Means the swiftest.
Not swift or swifter but the swiftest. So, for Allah(swt) time is zero cause he is the absolute in speed, it means time is not passing for him. Or in other wards time is the creature of Allah(swt), and it is impossible for the creator to be bounded by his creature. It is we who feel the passage of time becouse we are bounded by time.
So, the wards (before, now or after) are all concerned with time and when there is no passage of time for Allah(swt) then there is no before or after for him. That’s why we cannot say “What was Allah(swt) doing before creation?”