Time in the Qur’an: An Introductory Overview

Abstract

This essay is written with the aim of presenting, in an informative way, the main words of the Qur’ān relating to time or some aspect of time. The essay begins with a study of Qur’anic vocabulary on time done by Muḥammad b. Mūsā Bābāʻammī in his work Mafhūm al-Zamān fī-l-Qurʼān al-Karīm. However, in the essay we have sought to present the semantic richness of the vocabulary of the Qurʼān that relates to time. The essay can serve as a starting point for other philological, theological, and philosophical studies of the terminology of Islam relating to time. God created time (al-zamān).