 According to Aristotle, motion and time are not the same but time cannot be isolated from motion, and. if we are not conscious of any change, we are not aware of time. He tells of the men in the fable who slept with the heroes in Sardinia; when they awoke, to them no time seemed to have elapsed (Phys. IV.11, 218b21–25). Averroes read the story in the Arabic translation but he adapted it to the Islamic context, and those men became the “People of the Cave” mentioned in the Qur'an 18:9–26 (LC 178B T97). However, the SC keeps the Aristotelian example (SC 58: 10–11).