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                 "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.
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