Transliteration:( Wa kulla shai-in ahsai naahu kitaa ba )
17. This means that everyone's good and evil deeds have been recorded on the Divine Tablet from beforehand. From this we learn that those pious servants whose eyes behold the Divine Tablet are fully aware of every condition of everyone. If Allah Almighty had not willed it so then those deeds would not have been recorded on the Divine Tablet. We further learn that the works of the pious servants become linked with Allah Almighty, because writing in the book was the work of the angels and not of Allah Almighty, yet Allah Almighty says We wrote it.
Also, just as we had been directed to the visible world so that we can trade in it, likewise those who wish to deal in the unseen world have been provided with the knowledge of that world by Allah Almighty. Without knowledge, no dealings can take place.
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Please refer to Surah Naba ayat 17 which provides the complete commentary from verse 17 through 30.
(78:29) And everything have We recorded in a Book.[18]
18. That is, We were continuously preparing a complete record of their sayings and doings, their movements and occupations, even of their intentions, thoughts and aims in life and nothing was being left un-recorded, whereas the foolish people in their heedlessness thought that they were living in a lawless kingdom where they were free to do whatever they pleased and desired, and there was no power to call them to account.
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