Page 71 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Time is a concept totally dependent on the perceiver. A
certain period of time can seem long to one person
while it seems very short to another. To understand
who is right, various devices such as a clock or a cal-
endar are needed. Without these, it is impossible to
make a precise reckoning about time.

The fact that this result only recently understood by science in the
20th century was communicated to man 1,400 years ago in the
Qur'an is, of course, one of the indications that the Qur'an is a reve-
lation of Allah, Who encompasses all of time and space.
The narration in many other verses of the Qur'an reveals that
time is a perception. This is particularly evident in the stories. For
instance, Allah has kept the Companions of the Cave, a believing
group mentioned in the Qur'an, in a deep sleep for more than three
centuries. When they were awoken, these people thought that they
had stayed in that state but a little while, and could not figure out
how long they 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 ques-
tion 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)
The situation told in the below verse is also evidence that time is
in truth a psychological perception.
Or the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin? He
asked, 'How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?' Allah
caused him to die a hundred years then brought him back to life.

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