Page 227 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

ers to whom Allah refers in the Qur’an, were kept in a profound
slumber for around 300 years. When He later woke them, these
people thought that a very short period of time had elapsed, and
were unable to estimate for how long they had slept:
So We sealed their ears with sleep in the cave for a number
of years. Then We woke them up again so that we might
see which of the two groups would better calculate the
time they had stayed there. (Surat al-Kahf, 11-12)

That was the situation when we woke them up so they
could question one another. One of them asked, “How
long have you been here?” They replied, “We have been
here for a day or part of a day.” They said, “Your Lord
knows best how long you have been here.” . . . (Surat al-
Kahf, 19)
In the following verse, Allah also reveals an important proof
of the fact that time is essentially a psychological perception:

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