21660: What is the meaning of the aayah "It is prescribed for you, when death
approaches any of you…"
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Question:
What is the meaning of the aayah (interpretation of the meaning) "It is
prescribed for you, when death approaches any of you…" [al-Baqarah 2:180]?
Answer:
Praise be to Allaah.
Abu Bakr ibn al-`Arabi said:
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning) "It is prescribed for you, when
death approaches any of you…" [al-Baqarah 2:180].
Our scholars said: This does not mean the approach of death in the literal
sense, because that is the time when repentance will no longer be accepted and
he no longer has any involement in this world; we cannot make sense of anything
that he says, not even a word, so if the aayah were referring to that, that
would be something impossible and unimaginable, but it may be interpreted in
two ways:
1 _ If the time of death is drawing nigh, the signs of which are: old age or
travelling, for there is risk involved in travelling, or one expects something
to happen that could lead to death, or one realizes that death is inevitable
[because death could come suddenly at any time].
2 _ It may mean when one falls sick, because sickness is a cause of death, and
when the cause of something happens, the Arabs mention the result when
referring to the cause. For example, the poet said (speaking of sickness):
"Tell them to hasten to apologize and to think about something to say that will
free you from any blame, for I am death."
Ahkaam al-Qur'aan, 1/102.
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