Al-Bāqī - The Everlasting One

Al-Bāqī is the existent whose existence is necessary by means of His essence.
But when the human mind thinks of Him in terms of the future, He is called the everlasting One, and when it thinks of Him in terms of the past He is called the pre-eternal One. The absolute Al-Bāqī is the One whose existence in the future cannot be conceived of as coming to an end, and this is expressed by the term abadī, and the absolutely pre-eternal One is the One whose existence in the past cannot be extended back to a beginning, and this is expressed by the term azalī. Therefore, that which is above change and movement is not included in time and (subsequently) has no past and future, and there is no separation in respect of the apposition of past and future.

We have (a past and a future) only when certain events have occurred to us and in us and (other) events will be repeated. There must be (certain) events happening one after another in order that they might be divided into a past that has ceased to exist and is concluded, into the present time and into that of which the renewal is anticipated afterwards. When there is no renewal and no termination there can be no time. And why should it not be so since God Most High existed before time? Since He created time not a thing pertaining to His essence has changed; before He created time it could have no relevance for Him, and after He created time He remained as He existed before.