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9) The Return is a World Without Existence of Time:
The Return: The Third of God’s Greatest Days · Alaa Al-Salim
9) The Return is a World Without Existence of Time:
Abu Abdullah pbuh was asked about the day that God mentions in the Quran that has a span of 50,000 years. He said: “It is the return of the Messenger of God pbuhap. He will rule in the Return for 50,000 years, and the Prince of Believers pbuh will rule in it for 44,000 years” (Al-Hilli, 1950, 49).
In light of this and similar narrations, Sayed Ahmad Al-Hasan pbuh was asked: Does time exist in the World of the Return as it does in this world?
He answered:
There is no time like what we have in this physical life. However, in the World of the Return, new events and moments elapse in a way that is fitting for that world. That is why in the religious account I mentioned, you will notice that the day representing the ascent of the angels and the spirit is used to demonstrate the time span of the Return: {The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years} Quran Chapter “The Ascending Stairways” 70:4.