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Combining the statement of Allah the Exalted: "In a day whose measure is fifty thousand years" with His statement: "And a day with your Lord is like a thousand years"

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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: I hope to reconcile these two verses: the saying of Allah the Exalted: and
the extent of which is fifty thousand years.كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
[Al-Ma'arij 70:4]
and a thousand years of what you count

Answer:
These two verses are among the difficult issues for the scholars. Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned opinions on reconciling them, stating that fifty thousand years is the distance from the lower earth to the Throne. This is fifty thousand years.
Fifty thousand years. A thousand years is the distance from the upper earth, the upper layer of the earth, to the lowest of the heavens. Between them is a thousand years. Between the back of the earth and the lowest heaven is a thousand years. As for what is between the lower layer of the earth and the Throne above the heavens, that is fifty thousand years. This is one reconciliation.
Another reconciliation is that this is according to the speed of travel. Travel varies, so fast travel is a thousand years and slow travel is fifty thousand years. Some scholars suspended judgment. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [279] الجمع بين قوله تعالى : "في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة" وقوله: "وإن يومًا عند ربك كألف سنة" — youtube.com

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