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those who keep account." He will say: "You stayed not but a
little, if you had only known!" (Surat al-Muminun, 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. Verily 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 unto Him in a day the
measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years. (Surat al-
Ma‘arij, 4)
He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth. Then it
will again ascend to Him on a day whose length is a thou-

sand years by the way you measure. (Surat as-Sajda, 5)
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 was communicated to man 1,400 years ago in the
Qur'an is an indication of the revelation of the Qur'an by Allah, Who
encompasses the whole 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 in-
stance, 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:
Then We draw [a veil] over their ears, for a number of
years, in the Cave, [so that they heard not]. Then We raised
them up that We might know which of the two parties