The Helix is the best analogy of Time from an Islamic perspective. Not linear but directional. It is a spiral entropically descending into chaos.
"The best people are those of my generation, then those who come after them, then those after them"
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Not only from an Islamic perspective.
Time does not follow a linear path.
This is an expression of the fibonacci. The bases of Vortex mathematics. Vortex mathematics is the best representation of reality. Space time emerges from the creator Himself in a toroidal fashion. After it reaches apex expansion, it begins to collapse back to infinite density;that is to say, all that continues to exist will return to oneness with God.