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Relativity of Time and The Reality of Destiny 83

"We stayed a day or part of a day: but ask those who keep account." He will
say: "You, stayed for only a little while – if you had only known!" (Surat al-
Mumenoon, 112-114)

In some other verses it is stated that time may flow at different paces in
different settings:
Yet they ask you to hasten on the Punishment! But Allah will not fail in
His Promise. Truly, a day in the sight of your Lord is like a thousand years
of your reckoning. (Surat al-Hajj, 47)
The angels and the spirit ascend to him in a day the measure of which is
like fifty thousand years. (Surat al-Maarij, 4)

These verses are all manifest expressions of the relativity of time. The
fact that this result, only recently understood by science in the 20th century,

30 YEARS AGO

TODAY

One twin sister takes a
space trip at a speed close
to the speed of light. When
she returns thirty years
later, the sister who stayed
on the earth will be much
older compared to the sister
who went into space.