103 Preface يَتَخافَتونَ بَينَهُم إِن لَبِثتُم إِلّا عَشرًاYusuf AliIn whispers will they consult each other: “Yet tarried not longer than ten (Days);1Faced with eternity, they will realise that their life on this earth, or the interval between their sin and their punishment, had a duration which practically amounted to nothing. They express this by the phrase “ten days”, but their wiser heads think that even this is an over-estimate. It was but a brief day!