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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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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:
We caused you to die twice أمتنا اثنتين
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.
And it is He who takes your souls by night and knows what you have committed by day. Then He revives you therein وهو الذي يتوفاكم بالليل ويعلم ما جرحتم بالنهار ثم يبعثكم فيه
[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.
Source alathar.net

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