Chapter 50 of the Quran (17) the Jews: God Rested on Sabbath

The Prophet Muhammad answered the Jews: Allah has created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days. The Jews said: ‘you would have answered correctly, if you added: and then He rested on the seventh day, the Sabbath’. Upon hearing that, the Prophet Muhammad was furious. Then, this verse was revealed.

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The verse 50:38 says:

And verily Allah has created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them of created beings and marvels, in six days and neither weariness nor fatigue has touched Him.

 

The background of this verse:

This verse was revealed as a refutation of the Jews’ claim that God rested on the Saturday.

 

The prohibition of weariness and or fatigue in Allah case is absolute on account of His transcending of the attributes of creatures and the non-existence of any contiguity between Him and other beings:

His command, when He wills a thing, is just to say to it ‘Be’, and it is [See the verse 36:82].

 

 Al-Hasan and Qatadah (two Muslim scholars) said:

The Jews said: ‘Allah created the creation in six days and rested on the seventh, Saturday’, which they call the Sabbath, and so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse”:

 

“And verily We created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six Days, and naught of weariness touched Us”

 

Ibn ‘Abbas (a great Muslim scholar) said:

“The Jews came to the Prophet Muhammad and asked him about the creation of the heavens and earth.

He said to them: Allah has created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days.

 

The Jews said: ‘you would have answered correctly, if you added: and then He rested on the seventh day, the Sabbath’.

Upon hearing that, the Prophet Muhammad was furious.

Then the verse (50: 39) was revealed.

 

It says that Allah created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six Days of the days of the beginning of the life of the world,

Each day is equivalent to 1,000 years of our present days.

The Jews say that each day is equivalent to our present day i.e. it is 24 hours.

 

And naught of weariness touched Allah

Allah was not tired as claimed by the Jews who said: when Allah finished the creation of the heavens and earth, he rested on Saturday.

One Muslim scholar said:

The enemies of the Almighty Creator have lied against their Great Creator.

 

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The verse 50:38 in different translations

 

QARIB:

38) In six days we created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them and no weariness touched us!

 

SHAKIR:

38) And certainly we created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods and there touched us not any fatigue

 

PICKTHAL:

38) And verily we created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six days, and naught of weariness touched us.

 

YUSUFALI:

38) We created the heavens and the earth and all between them in six days, nor did any sense of weariness touch us.

 

 

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