What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "Have they not seen that We come to the land and diminish it from its edges?"
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Ar-Ra'd 13:41]
Answer:
Allah knows best. Some scholars mentioned that it refers to the death of scholars, and some mentioned something else, and Allah the Exalted and Majestic is the one who knows best. However, the death of scholars is undoubtedly one of the greatest diminutions of the edges of the earth, and there is no power and no strength except by Allah.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Have they not seen that We set upon the land, reducing it from its borders?
أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا نَأْتِي الْأَرْضَ نَنقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَاAnswer:
Allah knows best. Some scholars mentioned that it refers to the death of scholars, and some mentioned something else, and Allah the Exalted and Majestic is the one who knows best. However, the death of scholars is undoubtedly one of the greatest diminutions of the edges of the earth, and there is no power and no strength except by Allah.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 24 ما معنى قول الله تعالى أولم يروا أنا نأتي الأرض ننقصها من أطرافها؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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