The famous physicist Albert Einstein proved with his theory of relativity that time is relative. Einstein’s theory says that, as an object gets closer to the speed of light, time slows for that object.6 A single ray of light traveling through space is in an eternally present moment with no past or future. If we were to somehow enter into a wave of light, time would stop. This is why whenever we sincerely connect to the presence of Allah, who is known as “The Light of the heavens and the earth,” time begins to expand (24:35).
