Reconciling “The pens have been lifted and the records have been closed” with the sound of the pens in the Mi'raj
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner asks: How do you reconcile the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), “The pens have been lifted and the records have been closed,” with what is reported in the story of the Mi'raj, where when he reached the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, he heard the sound of the pens?
Answer:
What it means is that the decrees have ended and are finished. No, the decrees are ongoing, and they are all a detail of what is in the Preserved Tablet. All the decrees are copied from the Preserved Tablet.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner asks: How do you reconcile the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), “The pens have been lifted and the records have been closed,” with what is reported in the story of the Mi'raj, where when he reached the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, he heard the sound of the pens?
Answer:
What it means is that the decrees have ended and are finished. No, the decrees are ongoing, and they are all a detail of what is in the Preserved Tablet. All the decrees are copied from the Preserved Tablet.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1258- الجمع بين (رفعت الأقلام وجفت الصحف) وصرير الأقلام في المعراج - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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