113قالوا لَبِثنا يَومًا أَو بَعضَ يَومٍ فَاسأَلِ العادّينَMuhammad AsadThey will answer: "We have spent there a day, or part of a day; but ask those who [are able to] count [time]..."1This part of the allegorical "dialogue" between God and the doomed sinners touches (as do several other verses of the Qur'an) upon the illusory, problematical character of "time" as conceived by man, and the comparative irrelevancy of the life of this world within the context of the ultimate perhaps timeless - reality known only to God. The disappearance, upon resurrection, of man's earth-bound concept of time is indicated by the helpless answer, "ask those who are able to count time".