Allah says in the Qur’an:
﴿وَيَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِالْعَذَابِ وَلَن يُخْلِفَ اللَّهُ وَعْدَهُ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ﴾
(Surah Al-Sajdah, 32:28)
و همچنین:
﴿وَيَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِالْعَذَابِ وَهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا وَنَرَهُ قَرِيبًا﴾
(سوره المؤمنون، 23:112–114؛ اشاره ضمنی به تجربه متفاوت زمان)
Translation (Conceptual Meaning):
“And they urge you to hasten the punishment, while to them it seems distant, but to Us it is near.”
The Qur’an frequently mentions that time for humans is relative compared to God.
Modern physics, through Einstein’s theory of relativity, shows that time is not absolute:
• Time moves differently depending on speed or gravitational field
• A person traveling near the speed of light or near a massive object experiences slower passage of time relative to someone far from such effects
In the Qur’an, the concept of “a day of God being like a thousand years of human reckoning” (Surah Al-Hajj, 22:47) expresses a relativity of time:
﴿وَيَوْمَ عِندَ رَبِّكَ كَأَلْفِ سَنَةٍ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ﴾
(Surah Al-Hajj, 22:47)
This aligns remarkably with modern understanding that time is experienced differently depending on perspective, centuries before the scientific formulation of relativity.
