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Reconciling His saying, the Exalted: (in a day whose measure is a thousand years) with His saying: (in a day whose measure is fifty thousand years)

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-‘Uthaymeen

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[Reconciling His saying, the Exalted: (in a day whose measure is a thousand years) and His saying: (in a day whose measure is fifty thousand years)

It is mentioned in Surah Al-Sajdah that Allah, the Exalted, says:
He arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand years of those which you count.يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ) [السجدة:٥]
[As-Sajdah 32:5]
،And in Surah Al-Ma'arij, Allah, the Exalted, says: The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose measure is fifty thousand years [Al-Ma'arij: 4] So what is the reconciliation between the two verses?

As for the verse in Al-Sajdah, Allah says:
He arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Himيُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ
[Al-Sajdah: 5] This is in this world
in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand yearsفِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
[Al-Sajdah: 5] and that is because it has come in the hadith: (Between the earth and the lowest heaven is five hundred years, and the thickness of the heaven is five hundred years) .
So on this basis, it is a thousand.
As for Surah Al-Ma'arij, that is in the Hereafter,Therefore, it appears to me that His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He:
during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
[Al-Ma'arij: 4]is related to His saying:
for a punishment bound to happen (2) To the disbelieversبِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ * لِلْكَافِرِينَ
[Al-Ma'arij: 1-2]meaning: that this punishment which befalls the disbelievers on a day whose measure is fifty thousand years is not related to His saying:
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Himتَعْرُجُ الْمَلائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ
[Al-Ma'arij: 4]rather, the angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in this world, as stated in the surah: (Alif Lam Mim, The Revelation)Al-Sajdah. This is what appears to me.
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