What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "Allah erases what He wills and establishes"?

The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. [Garbled audio regarding a night event]. The questioner asks: What is the believer's statement regarding making us thank the brothers, and saying that Allah does what He wills with you, and that Allah erases? May Allah welcome you. Allah possesses what He wills, He makes things easy, and He writes. Yes, what should I say? And those animals, He rewards them and passes judgment upon them. A student says: All of it is cowardice. This. This brother says that my son divorced his wife forcibly. Three times. The discussion now is about the coercion and its timing. Is it old? No, this is a condition; it will not be resolved unless it is brought to light. What is your opinion on this? Because it forces us to answer it. Shall we proceed with it, or shall we not? May Allah bless you. What happened? By Allah, I am coming from nowhere. It does not contradict. What happened? My son divorced his wife three times. This divorce was all forced; he held him in the house before it, with witnesses, and locked the door. It is not possible for the woman to come and say, "Yes, I forced him to do that." It is not possible to take it to any court where you can reach a ruling on this. Which region are you in? May Allah bless you. Which jurisdiction do you belong to? Peace be upon you. Do you belong to Abha or elsewhere? If so, go to Shaykh al-Hadithi and he will resolve the problem. Yes. And the questioner asks: It is not acceptable, and we said in the Surah of the Promise that Allah does what He wills, and from you, and you are the Book of the Mother, and likewise the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) which we heard: "Whoever wants to be extended in his lifespan and expanded in his provision, let him maintain his kinship ties." And likewise our position regarding those who say that the decree is suspended and that is what changes the matter and the provision, and they submit to the hadith. And they said the source is from you to Allah. Yes.

The Shaykh : Allah the Exalted said: The Book of the Mother is the Preserved Tablet, because everything that is written returns to the Preserved Tablet, because what is in the Preserved Tablet is not changed or altered, and it is upon which matters settle. As for what is written below that, it is subject to erasure and confirmation. It has passed us that with every person there are two angels who write what he does. This which is written, if it is written, is it confirmation or erasure? It is confirmation. So if the person repents from it, it is erased. So this is erasure and confirmation. Thus, the erasure and confirmation occur, or occur in the scrolls in the hands of the angels; it is in them that the erasure and confirmation take place. As for what is in the Preserved Tablet, it is preserved, and it is the reference, and nothing changes in it. As for the hadith, which is the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): Yes, be patient, be patient. And as for this hadith, it does not mean that a person has two lifespans: one lifespan if he maintains his kinship ties, and one lifespan if he does not. No, rather the lifespan is one, and the decreed amount is one. The person whom Allah the Exalted willed or decreed for him to maintain his kinship ties will maintain them, and the one whom He decreed to cut them off will cut them off, inevitably. But the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to encourage the Ummah to do what is good. Just as we say: whoever loves that a child come to him, let him marry. Marriage is written, and the child is written. So if Allah willed for you to have a child, He willed for you to marry. And with this, both the marriage and the child are written. Likewise, this provision is written from the origin, and it is written that you will maintain your kinship ties, but you do not know about this. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged you and showed you that if you maintain your kinship ties, Allah will expand for you in your provision and extend for you in your lifespan. Otherwise, everything is written without doubt, including marriage, buying a house, buying a car, and so on. But because maintaining kinship ties is a matter that a person should perform, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged his Ummah to do so by this, meaning that if a person loves that his provision be expanded for him and his lifespan extended, let him maintain his kinship ties. Otherwise, the one who maintains ties has had his maintenance written, and it has been written that his lifespan will be extended to where Allah the Mighty and Majestic willed. Then know, may Allah bless you, that the extension of the term or the delay of the term and the expansion of provision is a relative matter, not an absolute one. For this reason, we find some people who maintain their kinship ties, and their provision is expanded somewhat, but their lifespan is... and this is observed. So we say: this person whose lifespan was short, despite being one who maintains kinship ties, if he had not maintained them, his lifespan would have been shorter. But Allah the Exalted has written in the origin, or in eternity, that this man will maintain his kinship ties and that the end of his lifespan will be at such and such a time. Yes.

The questioner : Answers to the question.

The Shaykh : No, it is not correct. The interpretation of "barakah" (blessing) as "barakah" is incorrect.

The questioner : Whoever interprets the verse and gives Allah what He wills by saying "Allah does what He wills" if they buy, meaning any action, and give what they will.

The Shaykh : Yes, some scholars said this, and said that the intended meaning is the abrogation of the legislative rulings. But there is consideration in this. The apparent meaning of "erasure and confirmation" is what is written upon a person and erased from him.