The Measure of the Hereafter and the Rule Regarding Matters of the Unseen
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, are the fifty years in the Hereafter like our days here?
The Shaykh:
Allah knows best. What is between what you count[As-Sajdah 32:5] does not indicate that it is of the same kind, but [Al-Ma'arij 70:4] this is what is between.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, we seek refuge in Allah if it is so.
The Shaykh:
The rule in this matter is that we do not speak about the affairs of the Hereafter except according to the evidence. So, what the evidence has clarified, we affirm, and what the evidence has not clarified, we remain silent about, while believing in it?
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, are the fifty years in the Hereafter like our days here?
The Shaykh:
Allah knows best. What is between what you count
a thousand years of those which you count.
أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَfifty thousand years.
خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍThe questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, we seek refuge in Allah if it is so.
The Shaykh:
The rule in this matter is that we do not speak about the affairs of the Hereafter except according to the evidence. So, what the evidence has clarified, we affirm, and what the evidence has not clarified, we remain silent about, while believing in it?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 10من13/شرح لمعة الاعتقاد/عقيدة/من قوله والبعث بعد الموت حق/الشيخ صالح الفوزان/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (58:35)
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