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Besides this are the numerous instances of the expansion of time experienced by the saints, con­structed on this truth. It is related that some of them did a day's work in a single minute, and others per­formed a year's duties in an hour, or recited the whole Qur'an in the space of a minute. Such vera­cious people of truth would never knowingly stoop to lying. There can be no doubt that they experi­enced this fact of the expansion of time,2 which is thus numerously and unanimously reported.

One sort of it is experienced in dreams and is con­firmed by everyone. Sometimes a day of the waking world, or many days, would be needed to experience all the happenings, words, pleasures, and pains expe­rienced in a minute-long dream.

In Short: For sure man is transitory, but he was created for immortality and to be a mirror to the Eternal One. He is charged with duties which pro­duce enduring fruits, and is given a form whereby he manifests the impresses of an Eternal One's eternal names. In which case, man's true duty and happi­ness lie in clinging with all his powers and faculties to the names of that Eternally Enduring One within the bounds of those things that please Him; it is to be turned towards Him, and to go to Him. As man's tongue utters "the Eternal One, You are the Eternal One!" so his heart, spirit, mind, and all his subtle faculties should declare:

"He is the Eternal One! He is Pre-Eternal and Post-Eternal! He is the Everlasting, the Perpetual One! He is the One who is Sought, Beloved, Wished For, and Worshipped!"

Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed, You are All-Knowing, All-Wise!3
O our Sustainer! Do not take us to task if we for­get or do wrong.4
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2. The verses, "Said one of them: 'How long have we stayed [here]?' They said, 'We have stayed [perhaps] a day, or part of a day"'(\%:\9), and, "So they stayed in their cave three hundred years, and [some] add nine [more]"'(18:25) point to the traversing of time, while the verse, "Verily a day in the sight of your Sus-tainer is like a thousand years of your reckoning"'(22:47) points to the expansion of time.
3.Qur'an,2:32.
4. Qur'an, 2:282.
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