I wonder what is 'forever'.
When people say: a day in the hereafter is like a 1000 years on earth, I just can't compute that. My weak logic and limited knowledge does not equip me with the ability to grasp the meaning of this.
So how long is our lives, really?
1 year= 365 days= 365 000 years in akhirah
Average lifespan= 78 years
So a human lives and dies in the span of= 365 000 x 78= 28,470,000= 28.47 million akhirah years.
For me, I am approaching 29 years old, which is equivalent to 10.585 million akhirah years.
Wow, that makes me feel even older. But still, these numbers are so empty, I still can't imagine forever.
Taking it further, if we are to die for a year, we are already inside barzakh for 365,000 years. Blessed or tortured for all those years. But when the time come for Qiamat, we feel that we are only in the grave for a short time.
Now, consider the theory of Einstein's relativity: the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. Even while typing this I feel a kind of fear. It is as though we are actually moving through time at a pace that is slower than anything! Anything that can move through space fast enough will see us moving through our lives as though in slow motion.
OK, back to the calculations: 1 day has 24 hours and this translates to 1 hour akhirah ~ 1000/ 24= 41.67 earth years.
1 hour has 60 minutes so 1 minute ~ 0.7 years.
You know what this means right? Our whole lives, if we take the number of years, can fit into just approximately 2 hours in akhirah. Subhanallah.
I've always wondered, at Mahsyar, how can I stand waiting for all people to be judged. Furthermore, they say each of us will be made to witness what have done in our years on earth. So, wouldn't there be ample time to look at others?
But now, evidently there is no time. Even time does not make sense there because everything that takes place in Akhirat is already way beyond our laws of physics. Everything would happen at a rate that is unimaginable. Even our lives can be fit into just two hours (yes, provided that hours exist there...this is just facilitate our understanding). Like a researcher studying the locomotion of snails, nothing occur at surprising speed right? So every little thing is noted, nothing is missed because we are now dealing with things at a whole new different level.
So we only have two hours to make it or break it, and this is assuming that we live until 84 years old... The length is just like the time to complete a short exam. Considering all this, do we still have time for little things, feeding our egos as though we are the most important in the universe? Our time is running out and we don't even realize it.
All of this somehow reminds me of bacteria. I've always been fascinated by them, how they evolve and grow at exponential rate. Ever wonder how is the time concept in bacteria world? Just imagine, 24000 generations after just 11 years. In our years, that would mean we are just fresh into our teens while the bacteria maybe has a rich history of love and war, continuing its will to survive generation after generation.
Dear friend, this is reality. Our concept of time is just a way for us to manage our lives, breaking it into small manageable parts. In truth, everything is so far beyond us. So with this, until the day comes when we are blessed with illumination of knowledge and the realization of how small and insignificant we are compared to the universe, I guess we should all go do the best we can in this mere minute of our life. Nothing will escape judgment, this I am sure.
Imagine you are the researcher looking at a snail moving, you don't miss anything right?
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