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| Time, Barakah and Energy: An Islamic and Quantum Perspective on the Speed of Time in the End Times |
The Acceleration of time: A Spritual, Scientific, and Psychological Exploration
1 – The Acceleration of Time: A Spiritual, Scientific, and Psychological Exploration
Human beings across history have sensed that time does not always feel constant. Sometimes a single night feels like an entire week, especially when a person is in pain. Sometimes we look back and feel that years have passed “in the blink of an eye,” as though yesterday was 2018 and suddenly today is 2025. This subjective stretching and shrinking of time is not random — it is deeply connected to spiritual reality, psychological states, neurological processing, and possibly even energetic conditions within the universe.
This sense of time speeding up is also directly mentioned in the sayings of
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. He foretold that in the end times, human beings would
experience an acceleration of time:
“A year will feel like a month, a
month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the
flicker of a flame.”
(Narrated in
Musnad Ahmad)
For many of us, this phenomenon is already happening. We see decades collapsing into what feels like moments. This raises the question: Why is time behaving like this? And what is happening in the deeper spiritual, psychological, and energetic layers of existence?
To explore this, we must enter three interconnected worlds: the spiritual reality of Barakah, the scientific understanding of time perception, and the human experience of emotional intensity.
The Concept of Barakah: Divine Expansion of Time
In Islamic understanding, Barakah is not merely blessing; it is expansion. When Allah places Barakah in something, it increases, stretches, multiplies, and becomes more beneficial. When Barakah is removed, things shrink, tighten, and collapse.
Time itself is no exception.
This is why Muslims begin actions with Bismillah, and end them with Alhamdulillah — these words create spiritual alignment. If the “internal energy” of the action is positive and sincere, Barakah enters that moment, and time feels expanded, calm, and rich. If the energy is negative — sin, heedlessness, stress, or disconnection — Barakah fades away, and time begins to contract.
This contraction is not metaphorical. It is experiential, psychological, and even measurable. Without Barakah, months feel like days, days like hours, and years vanish without memory, meaning, or substance.
In this sense, time dilation is not only a scientific concept — it is also a spiritual experience.
Energetic Perspective: Positive and Negative Vibrations Affecting Time Perception
“If the energy of the world tends towards the positive, Barakah increases.
If
the energy tends towards the negative, Barakah decreases — and time
collapses.”
Though spiritual concepts operate beyond the equations of physics, the idea of “vibrational influence” on time experience has parallels in:
Quantum energy states
Human neurological frequency patterns
Stress hormones and neurotransmitters
Collective psychological fields
When humanity drifts away from spiritual grounding, moral clarity, gratitude, and conscious living, the world becomes filled with distraction, artificial stimulation, and emotional exhaustion. In such an environment, subjective time collapses faster because:
The mind is overstimulated
Attention is scattered
Memory formation
is weak
Present-moment awareness decreases
Routine and stress
flatten perception
This aligns with the Prophetic prediction of time speeding up — not as random chaos, but as a reflection of the world’s “energetic and spiritual condition.”
The Experience of Pain and the Expansion of Time
There is another dimension to time: its expansion under emotional intensity.
A person suffering through a night of severe pain often feels that the night stretches into days. Every hour becomes long, deep, and heavy. Every minute is felt fully. This experience is so real that it raises philosophical questions: Did time actually expand for that person? Is this spiritual examination? Does Allah reward the suffering person for enduring each stretched moment?
In Islamic understanding, the answer is yes.
When a person is in pain, fear, grief, or hardship, the experience places them in a direct connection with Allah. Every moment of that pain becomes a spiritual elevation. The Prophet ﷺ said:
“No pain afflicts a believer, even the prick of a thorn, except that Allah
wipes away sins because of it.”
(Sahih Bukhari)
If a single thorn-sting is rewarded, then a long, painful night — one that feels like a week — surely carries tremendous reward. The hardship itself becomes a spiritual tunnel through which the person moves closer to divine mercy.
In this sense, time does not only “dilate” scientifically; it dilates morally, spiritually, and experientially.
Time as a Divine Exam
When time expands during hardship, it becomes a kind of examination. When time contracts during heedlessness, it becomes a warning. Both are signs.
The long nights of pain = sabr examination
The fast years of heedlessness
= barakah removed
The speed of time in the end days = prophecy
unfolding
The feeling of lost years = spiritual misalignment
The
collapse of memory = neurological overload
The compression of personal
timeline = psychological acceleration
Together, these create a unified picture:
Physical time (physics),
psychological time (brain),
and spiritual
time (Barakah)
are all interconnected layers of the same reality.
2 – The Acceleration of Time: Psychology, Neuroscience & Spiritual Energy
The experience of time “speeding up” is not merely an illusion; it is a layered reality that sits at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, spiritual principles, and the metaphysical laws Allah has placed in the universe. A person often feels that years pass like months, and months pass like days—especially in this age. This sensation has been directly mentioned in the Hadith, and modern science today unknowingly confirms the same phenomenon from another dimension.
The Prophetic Prediction: Time Will Pass Faster in the End Times
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Time will pass quickly. A year will feel like a month, a month like a week, a
week like a day, and a day like an hour.”
(Musnad Ahmad, Tirmidhi)
This Hadith describes a psychological, spiritual, and cosmic compression of time—an era where human perception loses the ability to feel the depth of time. The modern world is literally experiencing this: people everywhere feel like 2018 was yesterday and years are disappearing like minutes.
This is not coincidence. It is exactly what was foretold.
The Neuroscience Behind the Speed of Time
Psychology teaches that when life becomes repetitive or overly fast, the brain stops marking memories distinctly, causing entire months or years to merge into a single mental file. This process is called:
Memory Compression
Temporal Acceleration
Subjective Time Collapse
In such conditions, the brain perceives time not by the clock on the wall, but by the number of meaningful “markers” in life. When a person’s days are filled with:
Repetition
Stress
Overthinking
Screens
Disconnected
routines
the brain stops capturing time richly. The result is a frightening yet real sensation:
You look back and feel that five or seven years have passed in one blink.
This psychological mechanism perfectly matches the Hadith’s description of the end times.
The Role of Energy: Positive and Negative Vibrations
From an Islamic-spiritual perspective, the flow of Barakah is deeply connected to the energy Allah allows to enter a person’s life. When a person begins an action with Bismillah, a divine vibration is activated—an unseen blessing that expands time, increases productivity, and softens hardship.
When this divine energy is absent, or when a person falls into environments filled with:
Negative emotions
Screens and endless
dopamine cycles
Disconnection from
Qur’an
and dhikr
Sin
Anxiety and depression
then the “Barakah field” collapses. This collapse results in:
Decreased emotional presence
Decreased mental clarity
Shrinking of
subjective time
Fast, empty days
Spiritual numbness
From a physics perspective, even though science avoids spiritual terms, we know that energy fields affect perception, and perception affects time interpretation. So the absence of spiritual alignment leads to a real subjective acceleration of time.
The Pain Effect: Why Hard Nights Feel Very Long
An important example: a person who is sick, in pain, unable to reach a doctor during the night, and waiting anxiously for morning. That night feels like a week.
Why?
Because pain slows subjective time, while comfort speeds it up.
This phenomenon has multiple layers:
Psychological layer:
When suffering increases, the brain
becomes hypersensitive. Every minute is deeply felt, recorded, and magnified.
Neurological layer:
Pain increases the brain’s internal
“clock-rate,” making seconds feel longer.
Spiritual layer:
When a believer suffers and is
helpless, his heart automatically connects to Allah. This connection expands
the emotional weight of the moment—making that time spiritually rich and
heavy.
Divine layer:
Yes, this is an examination from Allah.
And
yes, Allah synchronizes the time of suffering with reward.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“No pain, illness, sorrow, sadness, harm or distress befalls a believer—even a
thorn—except that Allah erases sins through it.”
(Bukhari & Muslim)
So the believer’s heavy night is not meaningless—
It is a night where
divine energy flows, sins fall, and reward increases.
Synchronization Between Human Feeling & Divine Reward
When a believer suffers through a single night that feels like a week, Allah rewards him not for “the hours on the clock,” but for:
the weight of that night on the heart
the depth of that patience
the
intensity of that struggle
the degree of connection that suffering
generated between the servant and His Lord
This is why a painful night feels extended:
time expands spiritually
because reward expands spiritually.
And this matches the Qur’anic principle:
“Indeed, with hardship comes ease.”
(Surah ash-Sharh 94:6)
Hardship increases the density of time; ease increases the speed of time.
This
is exactly what the Prophet ﷺ foretold.
3 – The Spiritual–Scientific Architecture of Time, Barakah, Energy, and Human Perception
The Spiritual & Scientific Convergence — Human Experience of Time as a Divine Test
In the previous parts of this series, we explored how time can compress and expand, how barakah rises and disappears, and how energy states influence human perception. We also examined how Relativity, Qur’anic concepts, and Prophetic teachings converge to reveal a far deeper, multidimensional nature of time. Now, in this final part, we bring everything together — focusing specifically on the human experience of time during hardship, and how such moments become divine examinations and sources of immense reward.
The Human Experience of Time Under Suffering — When One Night Feels Like a Week
Every human being has lived through this phenomenon:
A person is suffering in the middle of the night.
The world around him is
silent.
There is no help available.
No doctor, no transport, no
phone, no comfort.
He is alone with his pain, waiting for dawn.
Physically, he is living through a single night — but emotionally and psychologically, it feels like a week.
Why does this happen?
Because time is not merely measured by clocks.
It is measured by:
consciousness,
emotion,
intensity,
burden,
and the weight
of the moment.
Thus:
A painful minute feels like an hour.
A joyful hour feels like a minute.
When suffering deepens, the inner self becomes hyper-aware of every passing second. This amplified awareness stretches subjective time.
In physics, this phenomenon aligns with psychological time dilation.
In
spirituality, it is known as
Imtihaan
— a divine test.
In metaphysics, it is understood as energetic resonance
with suffering.
And in Islam, the Prophet ﷺ summarized it beautifully:
“Patience is light.”
— Sahih Muslim
Light expands.
Pain stretches.
The soul becomes intensely aware.
Thus,
the night grows longer.
Is This “Long Night” a Divine Test? Yes — Absolutely.
The person suffering is not experiencing only biological pain, nor just psychological stress, nor simply a subjective distortion of time. Rather, he is undergoing a spiritual synchronization between:
his heart,
his soul,
his pain,
his consciousness,
and the
divine decree written for him.
Every second of that extended night is counted as worship.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“No fatigue, nor illness, nor anxiety,
nor sorrow, nor harm,
not
even the prick of a thorn befalls a believer,
except that Allah expiates
some of his sins through it.”
— Sahih Bukhari & Muslim
If even a thorn brings reward,
then imagine the reward stored for a
suffering believer
who spends an entire night in pain — holding on to
patience, hope, and faith.
That “long night” is not merely an exam.
It is a divine elevation.
What Actually Happened in That Night?
The Spiritual Formula Behind Time Expansion**
Let us break this down, theologically and scientifically:
-
Divine Intention
Allah allowed the night to become a test for the believer. -
Pain → Heightened Consciousness
Pain sharpens awareness, which makes time feel slower. -
Energy Distortion
Suffering changes a person’s emotional and energetic frequency,
altering the “felt speed” of time. -
Barakah Shift
In ease, time flies because barakah is lifted.
In hardship, time expands because barakah transforms into reward. -
Angelic Recording
Every extended moment of patience is recorded as multiplied reward. -
Divine Mercy
When the believer whispers even once,
“Ya Allah, help me…”
it is written. -
Spiritual Promotion
By the time morning arrives,
the believer is not the same as he was the night before —
he is spiritually elevated.
The Reward for Experiencing Expanded Time
When time expands through hardship, something extraordinary occurs:
Your reward expands with it.
Imagine:
A physical night of 8 hours
Felt like 7 days inside the soul
You remained patient.
You remembered Allah.
You endured.
You
hoped for relief.
Then:
Your reward is measured by the depth of your suffering —
not by the hours
on the clock.
Allah multiplies:
intensity of patience,
sincerity,
felt duration,
and the weight
on the heart.
Thus:
Your long night was not only difficult —
it was divinely valued.
The Same Principle on the Day of Judgement
Observe the parallel:
On Earth:
A painful night feels like a week
→
psychological + spiritual time dilation
On
the Day of Judgement:
A single day = 50,000 years
→ divine + metaphysical time dilation
And the Prophet ﷺ revealed the contrast:
“For the believer, the Day of Judgement will feel like the time between Zuhr
and Asr.”
— Musnad Ahmad
For the sinner, it will feel like 50,000 years.
Why?
Because time expands or compresses based on inner spiritual energy.
The Divine Synchronization of Time, Energy, and the Human Soul
In Islamic metaphysics, human consciousness and divine decree interact so deeply that:
Pain expands time
Joy compresses time
Sins drain time
Worship
fills time with barakah
Hardship increases reward
Patience
transforms suffering
Dua opens spiritual frequency
Gratitude
accelerates ease
Stress collapses memory
Barakah structures and
slows time
Qiyamah expands time to its cosmic limit
Jannah
compresses time into pure bliss
This is the hidden architecture of time.
رَبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا
“My Lord, increase me in knowledge.”
(Qur’an 20:114)
اَللّٰهُمَّ أَرِنَا الْحَقَّ حَقًّا وَارْزُقْنَا اتِّبَاعَهُ،
وَأَرِنَا الْبَاطِلَ بَاطِلًا وَارْزُقْنَا اجْتِنَابَهُ،
وَلَا تَجْعَلْهُ مُلْتَبِسًا عَلَيْنَا فَنَضِلَّ
“O Allah, show us the truth as truth and grant us the ability to follow it. Show us falsehood as falsehood and grant us the ability to avoid it. Do not make it unclear to us, lest we go astray.”
اللّٰهُمَّ اجْعَلْنَا مِنَ الَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ كَمَا أَمَرْتَ،
وَكَمَا صَلَّى نَبِيُّنَا مُحَمَّدٌ ﷺ
وَارْزُقْنَا الْخُشُوعَ وَالْإِخْلَاصَ فِي الْعِبَادَةِ.
🌸 Jazakumullahu Khayran for reading.
🌙 May peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you.
السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
✍️ Written By:
Rizwan Ibn Ali Abdullah
Student of Islam and Science | Researcher | Thinker | Against Sectarianism |
Reviving Ummah | Qur'an and Sunnah
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