All this happened in the fourteenth century. Time cannot be homogenized as easily as milk, and in those parts, until quite recently, the thirteenth-hundreds were still in full swing. But no, ends must not be permitted to precede beginnings and middles, even if recent scientific experiments have shown us that within certain types of closed systems, under intense pressure, time can be persuaded to run backwards, so that effects precede their causes. And Bilquis's prophecy came true, after all.
History is natural selection.
Only the mutations of the strong survive.