The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Time is a relation and does not exist in itself .]

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Know that time is a relative, it does not exist in itself, and people have talked at length about its essence, so what we mentioned came out of the content of their words, which is that it is a relative and that it occurs with the occurrence of the question when, so names are given to it with the occurrence of the question such as when, when, and if, and the conditional letters are all names of time, and the noun is a nihilistic matter like a word. Nothingness, for it is a noun that is named and has no meaning, provided that the ruling is rational for it. Let us exemplify so that he understands what we have mentioned. It is said: When Zaid came, the answer is when the sun rose, for example, and if the sun rises, and when the sun rises from the west, when God permits it to do so, and if God permits it, and whatever God permits it to rise, in the answer: Will it rise? The sun rises from the west and returns to the rising, so this and others like it will be his answer, and it will be


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