What is the ruling on interpreting death in the saying of Allah the Exalted: “We caused you to die twice” as meaning that the death in this world is sleep?
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The student: If someone says: he means by it the death in this world during sleep...?
The Shaykh : That is not correct, because the death in this world during sleep is not two times, or three, or four, or a hundred. How many times does a person sleep in a month? At least thirty times.[Al-An'am 6:60] So if we are resurrected from the death of last night, the second night comes, and we die a second time, and what about the one after that? The one who sleeps after the Fajr prayer, the one who sleeps during the midday nap, and the one who sleeps after the 'Asr prayer—four deaths in one day, yes.
We caused you to die twice
أمتنا اثنتينThe Shaykh : That is not correct, because the death in this world during sleep is not two times, or three, or four, or a hundred. How many times does a person sleep in a month? At least thirty times.
