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A day as a thousand years

يوم كألف سنة

The Qur'an teaches that God's measure of time is not man's: a day with your Lord as a thousand years of your reckoning, and a day of ascent measuring fifty thousand years — from which scholars taught that our count of time is relative, not absolute 1.

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The Qur'an teaches that God's measure of time is not man's: a day with your Lord as a thousand years of your reckoning, and a day of ascent measuring fifty thousand years — from which scholars taught that our count of time is relative, not absolute 1.

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Mentioned in
Qur'an 22:47· Qur'an 32:5· Qur'an 70:4

People and things also explored

Dreams (ahlam)· The Higher Assembly· The Creation and Nature of Angels· Sihr (sorcery)· Adam's disobedience and Iblis· The Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk)· In the Courts of the Hadith Qudsi (television programme)· Liqa' al-Iman, Meeting of Faith (television programme)

Sources

  1. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
  2. Jami' al-Bayan 'an Ta'wil Ay al-Qur'an, ed. Ahmad Muhammad Shakir and Mahmud Muhammad Shakir, vol. 1 (Maktabat Ibn Taymiyya, Cairo)
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Dreams (ahlam)

What the sleeper sees in sleep. The hadith collections divide it into the true dream (ru'ya), which is from God and a glad tidings for the believer; the bad dream (hulm), which is from Satan; and the soul's idle talk (hadith nafs), which is not acted on.