How to reconcile Allah’s saying, “When the sun is folded up,” with the hadith that the sun will draw near to the creatures on the Day of Resurrection?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you. A questioner asks: How can we reconcile Allah’s saying: [At-Takwir 81:1] with the hadith: ?
The Shaykh : Various things are mentioned regarding the Day of Resurrection, but we ask: How long is the Day of Resurrection? Fifty thousand years. Conditions change; the sun draws near to the creatures and is then folded up. Likewise, it is cast into the Fire as a humiliation for those who worshipped it. The Day of Resurrection is not a day, a month, or a year. Look at the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:[Ali 'Imran 3:106] and His saying: [Taha 20:102] There is a difference between blueness and blackness. And look also.
The last question we answered?
The questioner :[At-Takwir 81:1] Reconciling the verse.
The Shaykh : We mentioned that the Day of Resurrection, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy, is fifty thousand years in duration, and that the conditions within it change and transform. We mentioned that Allah the Exalted said about the Day of Resurrection:[Ali 'Imran 3:106] and He said: [Taha 20:102] Likewise, He informed us that the polytheists will say: [Al-An'am 6:23] In another verse, He said: [An-Nisa 4:42] So in the first instance, they said: [Al-An'am 6:23] in the first verse, and in the second, they said: [An-Nisa 4:42] because the conditions change; at one time they admit it, and at another time they do not. So any discrepancies you encounter regarding the Hereafter are due to the length of what? The length of its duration and the change of conditions within it.
When the sun is wrapped up [in darkness]
إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْThe sun will draw near to the creatures on the Day of Resurrection
تدنو الشمس من الخلائق يوم القيامةThe Shaykh : Various things are mentioned regarding the Day of Resurrection, but we ask: How long is the Day of Resurrection? Fifty thousand years. Conditions change; the sun draws near to the creatures and is then folded up. Likewise, it is cast into the Fire as a humiliation for those who worshipped it. The Day of Resurrection is not a day, a month, or a year. Look at the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:
On the Day [some] faces will turn white and [some] faces will turn black
يَوْمَ تَبْيَضُّ وُجُوهٌ وَتَسْوَدُّ وُجُوهٌAnd We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed.
وَنَحْشُرُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَئِذٍ زُرْقاًThe last question we answered?
The questioner :
When the sun is wrapped up [in darkness]
إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْThe Shaykh : We mentioned that the Day of Resurrection, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy, is fifty thousand years in duration, and that the conditions within it change and transform. We mentioned that Allah the Exalted said about the Day of Resurrection: