To whom the angels and the soul take a day to ascend, whose length is fifty thousand years.
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'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : ((whereby) the angels and the spirit) i.e. gabriel (ascend unto him) unto allah (in a day whereof the span) the span of ascending it for other than the angels (is fifty thousand years) it is also said that this means: it is from allah that the punishment of the disbelievers comes in a day whose span is 50,000 years; and it is also said that this means: if anyone, other than allah, were given the reckoning of people, such reckoning would not finish in 50,000 years.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : to him, to the place in the heaven to which his command descends, ascend (read [feminine person] ta‘ruju or [masculine person] ya‘ruju) the angels and the spirit, gabriel, in a day (fī yawmin is semantically connected to an omitted clause, that is to say, ‘[in a day] in which the chastisement befalls them’, on the day of resurrection) whose span is fifty thousand years, from the perspective of the disbeliever, on account of the calamities he will encounter in it — but as for the believer, it [the mentioned day] will be easier for him than an obligatory prayer which he performs in this world, as stated in hadīth.
Sahl al-Tustari
تفسير : to him ascend the angels and the spirit (rūḥ)…he said:the angels ascend with the deeds of the children of adam, as does the spirit, which is the intuition of the self (dhihn al-nafs). they [the angels and the spirit] ascend to god, exalted is he, in order to testify to the sincerity (ikhlāṣ) in his [a man’s] deeds. they cover the distance to the throne, which measures fifty thousand years, in the blinking of an eye. this is the inner meaning of the verse.his words, exalted is he:
