The Holy Quran 16:70 — Surah An-Nahl

Arabic text

وَٱللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمْ ثُمَّ يَتَوَفَّىٰكُمْ ۚ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرْذَلِ ٱلْعُمُرِ لِكَىْ لَا يَعْلَمَ بَعْدَ عِلْمٍ شَيْـًٔا ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌ

Translation

Allaah created you and will then claim your souls (when the time for your death arrives). There are those of you who will be returned to a worthless age (of senility) so that he knows nothing after once possessing (a vast amount of) knowledge. Undoubtedly Allaah is All Knowing, All Powerful. (According to the Ahadeeth, those who learn and teach the Ahadeeth as well as those who regularly recite the Qur'aan will, Insha Allaah, not suffer from senility.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Signs in man's own being: having set out many external signs of divine power, [Allah] urges man to reflect on his own inner states. He was nothing; Allah granted him existence, then sent death and took back the life He had given. Man could do nothing about it.

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