The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 626
CH. 32 AS-SAJDAH PT. 21 يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ He will plan the Divine. 6 Ordinance from the heaven unto ثُمَّ يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُةٌ the earth, then shall it أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ ) up to Him in a day the duration of which is a thousand years according to what you reckon. 3062 only through that faith. The word the hands of people who will take pride in their wealth and riches and will grow fat on the earnings of others (Tirmidhi & Bukhārī, (Throne) represents the transcendent attributes of God, i. e. such attributes as are God's exclusive prerogatives and are not Kitābush-Shahādāt). As foretold in are found in any other being. These attributes are eternal and unchangeable and manifested through God's attributes of similitude. The principal attributes of similitude are (Lord of the this saying of the Prophet, Islam began to decline after the first three centuries of uninterrupted conquests and growing prosperity, till it suffered a very serious check in about 271 A. H. when its gradual decline set in. The process of decline and decay الرحيم (the Gracious) الرحمن ;(worlds (the Merciful) and (Lord of the Day of Judgement). See also 7:55; 10:4 & 23:17. 3062. Commentary: As mentioned above the principal theme of the Surah under comment is the progressive expansion and eventual triumph of Islam. In the present verse, however, reference has been made to a very serious crisis that was destined to come over Islam in its chequered career. Islam was to pass through a period of sustained progress and prosperity during the first three centuries of its life. The Holy Prophet is reported to have pointedly alluded to this fact in a well-known saying, viz. i. e. the best century is the one in which I live, then the next century, then the century after that. Then there will spread falsehood at 2540 continued till it reached its nadir in the next one thousand years. It is to this period of a thousand years that reference has been made in the words, then shall it go up to Him in a day the duration of which is a thousand years. In another of his sayings the Holy Prophet is reported to have said that Faith will ascend to the Pleiades and a man of Persian descent, namely the Promised Messiah, will bring it back to the earth (Bukhārī, Kitābut-Tafsir). With the appearance of the Promised Messiah in the 14th century A. H. , the process of decay has been arrested and a renaissance of Islam has taken place. The indications are, and prophecies in Divine Scriptures and those in the Ḥadīth lend support to the inference, that the present renaissance of Islam will extend over a much longer period and its spiritual