Transliteration:( Wallaahu khalaqakum suma yatawaffaakum; wa minkum many-yuradu ilaaa arzalil 'umuri likai laa ya'lama ba'da 'ilmin shai'aa; innal laaha 'Aleemun Qadeer (section 9) )
147. From this we learn that the works of the special servants of Allah Almighty are linked to Him, because although taking out of souls is the work of the angels, Allah Almighty says "We cause you to die".
148. This physical condition sets in man after he has reached the age of sixty. Then all his strength weakens to a large degree and all his senses become worthless. He forgets what he has studied. Sayyedina Hazrat Abdullah ibn Abbas (May Allah be pleased with him) states that a pious believer does not experience this condition. He in his old age gains added intelligence. However, those special believers who are most close to Allah Almighty sometimes tend to forget this world due to their communion with their Creator (Khazainul Irfaan).
149. It should be remembered that there are five stages of human life: upto the age of seven is infancy; upto fourteen is childhood; upto thirty years prime of life; thereafter middle age and the last stage is old age. Look at these conditions and realise that you are in some one's control, who after your death will keep you in that state as long as He likes, then bring you back to life whenever He pleases.
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70. And Allah created you and then He will cause you to die; and among you there are some who are sent back to senility, so that they know nothing after having known (much). Truly, Allah is Knowing, capable of all things.
Allah tells us that He is controlling the affairs of His servants. He is the One Who created them out of nothing, then He will cause them to die. But there are some of them that He allows to grow old, which is a physical weakness, as Allah says:
(Allah is He Who created you in (a state of) weakness, then gave you strength after weakness, then after strength gave (you) weakness) (30:54)
(so that they know nothing after having known.) meaning, after he knew things, he will reach a stage where he knows nothing because of weakness of mind due to old age and senility. Thus Al-Bukhari, when commenting on this Ayah, reported a narration from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah used to pray:
(I seek refuge with You from miserliness, laziness, old age, senility, the punishment of the grave, the Fitnah of the Dajjal and the trials of life and death.) Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma said, in his famous Mu`allaqah: “I became exhausted from the responsibilities of life. Whoever lives for eighty years, no wonder he is tired. I saw death hitting people like a crazed camel, and whoever it hit dies, but whoever is not hit lives until he grows old.”
(16:70) Allah has created you, and then He causes you to die.[60] Some of you have your lives prolonged to an abject old age, when one loses all knowledge after having acquired it.[61] Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.
60. It is to emphasize this: Allah not only provides you with the necessities and good things of life (as stated in the preceding verses), but also has full power over your life and death. None else has any power to give lift or cause death.
61. This fact has been mentioned to bring home to the disbelievers and the mushriks that knowledge, which gives superiority to man over all creatures on this earth, has been given by Allah, as if to say: You yourselves have seen that when a man, who once possessed much knowledge, becomes very old, he is reduced to a mere lump of flesh. Then that man who once taught knowledge to others loses all his senses and cannot look even after his own self.
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