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And this is the explanation of the Words of the Exalted: And there is not a thing except in Our Presence is its store [15:21] ’. و إن بين القائمة من قوائم العرش، و القائمة الثانية خفقان الطير المسرع مسيرة ألف عام، و العرش يكسى كل يوم سبعين ألف لون من النور، لا يستطيع أن ينظر إليه خلق من خلق الله And in between the established Pillar of the Throne and to the second Pillar, there is a distance of a thousand years of the flight of a bird.

And every day the Throne is Coated with a thousand colours of Light. There is no creature from the creatures of Allah -azwj who has the ability to look at it’. و الأشياء كلها في العرش كحلقة في فلاة، و إن لله ملكا يقال له حزقائيل، له ثمانية عشر ألف جناح، ما بين الجناح إلى الجناح خمسمائة عام، فخطر له خاطر، هل فوق العرش شي‏ء؟ فزاده الله مثلها أجنحة أخرى، فكان له ست و ثلاثون ألف جناح، ما بين الجناح، إلى الجناح خمسمائة عام And all the things in the Throne are like a ring in the desert.

And Allah -azwj Called Hizkaeel who has eighteen thousand wings on him, between the wing to the (next) wing is (a distance of) five hundred years. So, a thought came to his mind, ‘Is there anything above the Throne?’ So Allah -azwj Increased for him (the number of) more wings, the like of what he had before. So, he had thirty-six thousand wings, with what is in between one wing to another (a distance of) five hundred years.

Then Allah -azwj Doubled his wings and his strength, and Commanded him to fly. So, he flew for a period of thirty thousand years, and he still could not get there as well. Then Allah -azwj Revealed unto him: “O you Angel!