﴿ تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍۢ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍۢ ﴾

“all the angels and all the inspiration [ever granted to man] ascend unto Him [daily,] in a day the length whereof is [like] fifty thousand years…”

To Him ascend the angels and the spirit (rūḥ)�He said:The angels ascend with the deeds of the children of Adam, as does the spirit, which is the intuition of the self (dhihn al-nafs). They [the angels and the spirit] ascend to God, Exalted is He, in order to testify to the sincerity (ikhlāṣ) in his [a man�s] deeds. They cover the distance to the Throne, which measures fifty thousand years, in the blinking of an eye. This is the inner meaning of the verse.His words, Exalted is He: