Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Ma'aarij, Ayah 4
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To Him to the place in the heaven to which His command descends ascend read feminine person ta‘ruju or masculine person ya‘ruju the angels and the Spirit Gabriel in a day fī yawmin is semantically connected to an omitted clause that is to say ‘in a day in which the chastisement befalls them’ on the Day of Resurrection whose span is fifty thousand years from the perspective of the disbeliever on account of the calamities he will encounter in it — but as for the believer it the mentioned day will be easier for him than an obligatory prayer which he performs in this world as stated in hadīth.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
((Whereby) the angels and the Spirit) i.e. Gabriel (ascend unto Him) unto Allah (in a Day whereof the span) the span of ascending it for other than the angels (is fifty thousand years) it is also said that this means: it is from Allah that the punishment of the disbelievers comes in a day whose span is 50,000 years; and it is also said that this means: if anyone, other than Allah, were given the reckoning of people, such reckoning would not finish in 50,000 years.