´Narrated Ibn 'Umar:` that 'Umar bin Al-Khattab said: "When this Ayah was revealed: Some among them will be wretches and (others) blessed (11:105). I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: 'O Prophet of Allah! Based upon what are we then working; something that has already finished or something that has not yet happened?' He said: 'Rather something that has happened, and the Pens have already passed over it O 'Umar! But for everyone, what he has been created for is made easy.'"
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation:
1:
So among them will be one who is wretched and one who is blessed (Hud: 105)
2:
Everything has already been written before our coming into existence—what we will do after being born and to what end we will reach.
3:
The righteous are granted the ability (tawfiq) to perform righteous deeds, and the wicked are granted the ability to perform wicked deeds.
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 3111
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation:
1:
That is, does the deed we perform become known to Allah after we do it? Or is it already written and in Allah’s knowledge beforehand?
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 2135