32 . Surah As-Sajdah

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ...

32: 4. It is Allah Who has created the heavens and the earth, and all between them, in six Days,

C3632. Six Days: See n. 1031 to 7:54.

The "Day" does not mean a day as we reckon it. viz., one apparent course of the sun round the earth, for it refers to conditions which began before the earth and the sun were created.

In verse 5 below, a Day is compared to a thousand years of our reckoning, and in 70:4 to 50,000 years.

These figures "as we reckon" have no relation to "timeless Time", and must be taken to mean very long Periods, or Ages, or Eons.

See further 41:9-12, and notes. 4470-4474, 4475-4478.

... ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ...

and is firmly established on the Throne (of authority):

C3633. Cf. n. 1386 to 10:3.

Allah created the World as we see it in six great Stages. But after the initial creation, He is still in authority and directs and controls all affairs. He has not delegated His powers to others, and Himself retired.

Also see 7:54.

... مَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِهِ مِن وَلِيٍّ وَلَا شَفِيعٍ...

ye have none, besides Him, to protect or intercede (for you):

... أَفَلَا تَتَذَكَّرُونَ ﴿٤﴾

will ye not then receive admonition?

يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ مِنَ السَّمَاء إِلَى الْأَرْضِ...

32:5 [Ali]. He rules (all) affairs from the heavens to the earth:

... ثُمَّ يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ ﴿٥﴾

in the end will (all affairs) go up to Him, on a Day, the space whereof will be (as) a thousand years of your reckoning.

C3634. How could the immense mystery of Time behind our ideas of it be enforced on our minds better?

Our Day may be a thousand or fifty thousand years, and our years in proportion. In the immense Past was Allah's act of creation: it still continues, for He guides, rules, and controls all affairs: and in the immense Future all affairs will go up to Him, for He will be the Judge, and His restoration of all values will be as in a Day or an Hour or the Twinkling of an eye; and yet to our ideas it will be as a thousand years!

Asad’s Version:

32:4 , .

IT IS GOD who has created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six

aeons, and is established on the throne of His almightiness. 3 You have none to protect you from God, and none to intercede for you [on Judgment Day]: will you not, then, bethink yourselves?

32:5

He governs all that exists, from the celestial space to the earth; and in the end all shall ascend unto Him [for judgment] on a Day the length whereof will be [like] a thousand years of your reckoning. 4