First, we would like to stress that the unseen (ghaib) is defined as everything that cannot be perceived by man’s senses, including those things that remain secret from man and are only known by Allah the All-Aware, as well as those things that man has knowledge of due to his being informed of them by Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shinqiti, Director of the Islamic Center of South Plains, Lubbock, Texas, states the following: “The principle is: Allah’s knowledge has no limit. Allah says: “And all what you have been given from knowledge is just little.” (Al-‘Isra’ 17: 85)
Nobody can count the things that only Allah knows. The rule is: we don’t know any thing expect what Allah has allowed us to know. This applies to Prophets and Angles, although they were allowed the knowledge of certain unseen things. Allah says: “He (alone) knows the Unseen, nor does He make anyone acquainted with His Mysteries. Except a Messenger whom He has chosen: and then he makes a band of watchers march before him and behind him. That he may know that they have (truly) brought and delivered the Messages of their Lord: and He surrounds (all the mysteries) that are with them, and takes account of every single thing.” (Al-Jinn 72: 26-29)”