103يَتَخافَتونَ بَينَهُم إِن لَبِثتُم إِلّا عَشرًاMuhammad Asadwhispering unto one another, "You have spent but ten [days on earth]...."1As in several other places in the Qur'an (e.g., in 2:259, 17:52, 18:19, 23:112-113, 30:55, 79:46, etc.), this and the next verse touch upon the illusory character of man's consciousness of "time" and, thus, upon the relativity of the concept of "time" as such. The number "ten" is often used in Arabic to denote "a few" (Razi).