Then said the Khalif'Where is the philosopher？'whereupon one came forward and said to Taweddud'What is Time？'Time，'
answered she'is a name applied to the [lapse of the] hours of the day and nightwhich are but the measures of the courses of the sun and moon in their several orbitseven as God the Most High telleth uswhen he saith'And a sign to them [is] the nightfrom which we strip off the dayand beholdthey are in darknessand the sun runneth to a fixed abode[appointed] to it；this is the ordinance of the Sublimethe All-knowing.'