Its owner is called Abd al-Dahr, and the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said, “Do not revile eternity, for God is eternity.

So he made eternity the identity of God, so those who said it were true in their words. And nothing destroys us except eternity, for no one destroys them except God, for they were ignorant in what they said. It is nothing but our worldly life. We die and we live, that is, we live in it, and then we die. And they were true in their saying after that: “And nothing destroys us except eternity,” so they believed, for eternity is God, and they were ignorant in their belief, for they only meant time when they said “time,” so they were correct in giving the name and wrong in the meaning, and they only intended the destroyer, so they were correct in the meaning. And they agreed with the legitimate name, by God’s grace, and they did not say time, or perhaps if they had said time, God would have called Himself “time” just as He calle