The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 6
CH. 10 YŪNUS PT. 11 "He settled Himself on the اِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَوتِ Verily, your Lord is Allah. 4 Who created the heavens and وَالْأَرْضَ فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى the earth in six periods, then عَلَى الْعَرْشِ يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ مَا مِنْ شَفِيعِ إِلَّا مِنْ بَعْدِ اِذْنِهِ ذَلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ فَاعْبُدُوهُ أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ Throne; "He governs everything. dThere is no intercessor with Him save after His permission. That is Allah, your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not, then, be admonished?1279 07:55; 11:8; 25:60; 32:5. 13:3; 20:6. 32:6. 42:256. keys of Paradise to Peter and to his other followers and threatened disbelievers with deprivation of the kingdom of God? (Matt. 16:15-19; 18:3 & 19:28, 29). 1279. Important Words: (Throne). See under 7:55. دبر He governs) is derived from) يدبر (dabbara) which again is derived from (dabara). They say i. e. he followed behind his back or he simply followed him with respect to time, place or rank. (dabbara) means, (1) he considered the issues or results of the affair or the case; (2) he performed or executed the affair with thought or consideration; (3) he devised or planned the affair; (4) he governed, managed, conducted regulated the affair (Lane, Tāj & Aqrab). Commentary: or In the verse under comment, the word (periods), of which the singular is, does not refer to the period which is determined by the rising and setting of the sun, for the obvious reason that the verse speaks of a time when the sun had not yet come into existence. The word is used here in the sense of time absolutely (see 1:4). Many eminent authorities (e. g. Mujāhid, Aḥmad bin Hanbal and Ibn 'Abbās) have held that here (period) stands for a thousand years (see Kathir & Ma'ānī, under 7:55). They have drawn this inference from 22:48 where a day is spoken of as equal to a thousand years. They are certainly right in holding that the word in this verse does not denote the period of time determined by the rotation of the earth, but they are not right in holding that it stands here for a thousand years, for according to the Quran there is also a (period) which is equal to fifty thousand years (70:5). If we compute the period of six days by this standard, it will mean that the creation of the heavens and the earth was completed in 300,000 years. But 1214