وَٱللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمْ ثُمَّ يَتَوَفَّىٰكُمْ ۚ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرْذَلِ ٱلْعُمُرِ لِكَىْ لَا يَعْلَمَ بَعْدَ عِلْمٍۢ شَيْـًٔا ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌۭ قَدِيرٌۭ
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سُورَةُ النَّحۡلِ
English — Sahih International
And Allah created you; then He will take you in death. And among you is he who is reversed to the most decrepit [old] age so that he will not know, after [having had] knowledge, a thing. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Competent.
اردو — مودودی
اور دیکھو، اللہ نے تم کو پیدا کیا، پھر وہ تم کو موت دیتا ہے، اور تم میں سے کوئی بد ترین عمر کو پہنچا دیا جاتا ہے تاکہ سب کچھ جاننے کے بعد پھر کچھ نہ جانے حق یہ ہے کہ اللہ ہی علم میں بھی کامل ہے اور قدرت میں بھی
Bahasa Indonesia — Kemenag
Allah menciptakan kamu, kemudian mewafatkan kamu; dan di antara kamu ada yang dikembalikan kepada umur yang paling lemah (pikun), supaya dia tidak mengetahui lagi sesuatupun yang pernah diketahuinya. Sesungguhnya Allah Maha Mengetahui lagi Maha Kuasa.
Ibn Kathir
In Man there is a Lesson
Allah tells us that He is controlling the affairs of His servants. He is the One Who created them out of nothing, then He will cause them to die. But there are some of them that He allows to grow old, which is a physical weakness, as Allah says:
اللَّهُ الَّذِى خَلَقَكُمْ مِّن ضَعْفٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِن بَعْدِ ضَعْفٍ قُوَّةٍ
(Allah is He Who created you in (a state of) weakness, then gave you strength after weakness, then after strength gave (you) weakness) (30:54)
لِكَىْ لاَ يَعْلَمَ بَعْدَ عِلْمٍ شَيْئًا
(so that they know nothing after having known.) meaning, after he knew things, he will reach a stage where he knows nothing because of weakness of mind due to old age and senility. Thus Al-Bukhari, when commenting on this Ayah, reported a narration from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray:
«أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْبُخْلِ وَالْكَسَلِ وَالْهَرَمِ، وَأَرْذَلِ الْعُمُرِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ، وَفِتْنَةِ الدَّجَّالِ وَفِتْنَةِ الْمَحْيَا وَالْمَمَات»
(I seek refuge with You from miserliness, laziness, old age, senility, the punishment of the grave, the Fitnah of the Dajjal and the trials of life and death.) Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma said, in his famous Mu`allaqah: "I became exhausted from the responsibilities of life. Whoever lives for eighty years, no wonder he is tired. I saw death hitting people like a crazed camel, and whoever it hit dies, but whoever is not hit lives until he grows old."
المُيَسَّر
والله سجانه وتعالى خلقكم ثم يميتكم في نهاية أعماركم، ومنكم مَن يصير إلى أردأ العمر وهو الهرم، كما كان في طفولته لا يعلم شيئًا مما كان يعلمه، إن الله عليم قدير، أحاط علمه وقدرته بكل شيء، فالله الذي ردَّ الإنسان إلى هذه الحالة قادر على أن يميته، ثم يبعثه.