A047
Surah: 022 - Ayah: 047
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22:47
Sittah ayyam (Six days)
One day of God is a thousand years (22:47). According to this, the creation of the world of religion completed in six thousand years and the last cycle of one thousand years is assigned for Hazrat qa'imu’l-qiyamat (11:7; 25:59).
Part 52
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
It is recorded in the book “Sara’iru’n-Nutaqa’” that prior to the Adam of this cycle, there were spiritual cycles (adwar, sing. dawr) and aeons (akwar, sing. kawr).44 Such a statement is also in “Ithbatu’n-Nubuwwat”45, in which is quoted verse (22:47) according to which one day of Allah is equal to a thousand years of this world. The wise Qur’an also mentions a day, the duration of which is equal to fifty thousand years (70:4). This is a great cycle, which God, by His perfect power, can shorten and in which the angels and the Single Soul ascend to the sacred Sanctuary:
“Thala(k) thala(k) thala(k) ni + Thala(k) thala(k) thala(k) zu46
Hundred lacs, hundred lacs, hundred lacs go! + Hundred lacs, hundred lacs, hundred lacs come!”
This is an aeon of sixty million years. Such great cycles and aeons are for the purpose of bestowing endless favours, bounties and blessings upon the world of humanity by God, may He be purified and exalted.
God, by His grace and generosity has created angels, pious jinns, the people of paradise, the kings of paradise from human souls, and honoured them by granting the vicegerency of the universal earth (6:165; 24:55). There is no doubt for the people of intellect that His every promise is true.
This verse has been referred 3 times.