Is the statement of Allah the Exalted, “We come to the earth and diminish it from its edges,” the death of the scholars?

Question:
As for the first question of this evening, the questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, we love you for the sake of Allah, and we say, may Allah reward you all for the loss of Shaykh Abdullah ibn Jibril. Is the statement of Allah the Exalted the death of the scholars? And what is the impact of the death of the scholars on the Ummah?

Answer:
First, we ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to forgive the Shaykh, to have mercy on him, and to console the Muslims in the loss of their scholars. This is undoubtedly a great calamity, but we meet it with patience and the hope of reward. We ask Allah to replace him with someone better from among the people of knowledge and insight, and to forgive him and have mercy on him. Indeed, He is the Forgiver, the Merciful. The death of the scholars is a loss, without doubt; the death of the scholars is a great loss for the Ummah. In the hadith, it is said that the death of a tribe is easier than the death of a scholar. The death of a tribe is easier than the death of a scholar. And in the hadith: We ask Allah for well-being. So the death of the scholars is undoubtedly a loss, but we meet that with patience, the hope of reward, and supplication, and that Allah will provide the Ummah with righteous scholars, and that He will forgive the deceased Muslims.
As for the interpretation of the verse , some scholars say that this refers to the death of the scholars, that the earth is diminished from its edges by the death of the scholars. The well-known view is that the intended meaning of the earth being taken from its edges is the conquests, the Islamic conquests that spread until Islam spread across the regions of the earth, and the disbelievers were unable to prevent it or stop it; rather, it took its path to the east and the west.