The Meaning of the Hadith: "I have never hesitated over anything I am about to do as I hesitate over taking the soul of My believing servant"

Question : The questioner asks: What is the meaning of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), in what he narrated from his Lord (Exalted and Majestic is He), the human being.

Answer : This hadith contains the love of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for His believing, pious servant who carries out the command of Allah. So He, the Exalted and Majestic, hesitates to take the soul of this believer. This is not because He is ignorant of the outcome, for He, the Exalted and Majestic, knows what was and what will be. But rather, because taking the soul of this believer is disliked by whom? By whom? By the believer. And Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) dislikes his ill-treatment, but Allah the Exalted said in the same hadith: "He dislikes death, and I dislike his ill-treatment, but he must have it." However, O my brothers, be glad. When a man is given the glad tidings at the time of death, and may Allah make me and you among those who are given glad tidings when they are given them, he loves to meet Allah. He loves to meet Allah, and his soul yearns to depart from his body until he meets his Lord. For this reason, when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was informed of this hadith...
, Aisha, the Mother of the Believers, said: "O Messenger of Allah, we all dislike death." He said: "It is not that. But the believer, when he is given the glad tidings—meaning of Paradise—he yearns for Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and loves to meet Allah, so Allah loves to meet him. And the disbeliever, when he is given the glad tidings of punishment—and may Allah protect us from that—he dislikes meeting Allah, so Allah dislikes meeting him." So Allah (Mighty and Majestic) hesitates to take His believing servant, not because He, the Exalted and Majestic, is ignorant of the outcome, but because He dislikes the ill-treatment of His believing servant. The servant dislikes death because he loves to remain in this world to increase in righteous deeds. Allah the Exalted said: "And I dislike his ill-treatment, but he must have it." And when that is the case, there is no room left for distorting the hadith from its place. It is said that the hesitation has two causes. The first cause is ignorance of the future, like a person who wants to do something but is hesitant, fearing that the outcome will be bad.
This person is hesitant for what? We answer: For his ignorance of the outcome. And this is impossible for Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because Allah the Exalted is All-Knowing of everything. The second is hesitation related to the unseen, meaning that you hesitate to deal with this person with punishment, for example, or something similar. Not because you do not know what the outcome is, but because you dislike for him what causes him harm. Is this permissible for Allah or not permissible? This is permissible for Allah, and there is no deficiency in it; rather, it is the ultimate generosity.