How is the saying that the distance between the Earth and the Heaven is a 500-year journey to be interpreted, so as to avoid contradiction with the true astronomical dimensions?
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Most of the hadiths that specify the distance between the heaven and the earth as five hundred years are weak, and if authentic, they might refer to Allah's reckoning, as a day with Him is like a thousand years of what we count.
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