Tafsir for verse: 16:70
وَٱللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمۡ ثُمَّ يَتَوَفَّىٰكُمۡۚ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرۡذَلِ ٱلۡعُمُرِ لِكَيۡ لَا يَعۡلَمَ بَعۡدَ عِلۡمٖ شَيۡـًٔاۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٞ قَدِيرٞ ٧٠ ﴿70﴾
70Allah has created you, then He takes you back. And among you there is one who is carried to the worst part of the age, so that he knows nothing after having knowledge. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.
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Commentary
To the lowest age, to its most despicable and insignificant, which is seventy-five years according to Ali, may Allah be pleased with him. And ninety years according to Qatada, because there is no age worse than the age of senility, so that he does not know after knowledge anything, to become in a state similar to that of childhood in forgetfulness. And to know something, then hasten in forgetting it, so that he does not know it if asked about it. And it is said: so that he does not comprehend anything after his first understanding. And it is said: so that he does not know additional knowledge beyond his knowledge.
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