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(70) وَ اللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمْ ثُمَّ يَتَوَفَّاكُمْ وَ مِنْكُمْ مَنْ يُرَدُّ
إِلى أَرْذَلِ الْعُمُرِ لِكَيْ لا يَعْلَمَ بَعْدَ عِلْمٍ شَيْئاً إِنَّ اللَّهَ
عَليمٌ قَديرٌ 70. " And Allah has created you, then He will cause you to die, and some of
you will be kept back unto lowest state of the age, so that after knowing
somewhat, they may know nothing. Verily, Allah is All- Knowing, All- Powerful. "
Commentary:
The Arabic term/ 'ar al/ is derived from the word/ ra l/ which means, 'mean'
and without any value. The meanest part of one's life is often that period
during which weakness and forgetfulness will reach its peak.
The oblivion of the period of senility belongs to the ordinary people,
otherwise, men of Allah, such as Had rat- i- Noah (a.s.) and Had rat- i- Mahdi
(a.s.) , who live long for carrying out their missions, will never be entangled
with problems of weakness or negligence.
Therefore, by all means, the verse follows the line for proving the existence
of the sole Allah, which is done by introducing changes in blessings, matters
which are beyond the limits of man's power, and which exhibit the fact that they
are determined from another origin.
At first, it says:
" And Allah has created you, then He will cause you to die, ..."
Both issues are determined by Him: Life and death, so that you may know that
it is not you who determine your own life and death. Nor is your life span
decided by you. Some die while they are still young, while others die when
reaching old
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