No One Lives For Eternity…
ALLAH (exalted and majestic) said:
And We did not grant to any man before you (O Muhammad) eternity [on earth]; so if you die - would they be eternal?
[Al-Qur`aan (Surat (21) al-'Anbya' Ayat # 34)]
Shaykh Abdul Muhsin said:
The Noble Ayaah indicates that the passage of a human is to pass away, and that ALLAH (exalted and majestic) did not make it such that anyone could live for eternity before the Prophet (salALLAHU alaihi wa sallam), so eternity is not for the Prophet or for anyone else to remain.
But rather everyone is moving towards passing away as ALLAH (exalted and majestic) said:
Everyone upon the earth will perish,
And there will remain the Face of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor.
[Al-Qur`aan (Surat (55) ar-Rahman Ayat # 26-27)]
Some of the people of knowledge said:
The Mushrikoon (Polytheists) used to reject his (salALLAHU alaihi wa sallam) Prophet hood, and they would say:
Muhammad is a poet we await for him some calamity after some time, and perhaps he will die just like such and such poet died from such and such tribe.
So ALLAH (exalted and majestic) mentioned that indeed Prophets before you died, and ALLAH (exalted and majestic) has power over His religion with victory and protection, this is how the Deen and Sharia of the Prophet is protected.
With this Ayaah, it indicates that al-Khidr (alaihi sallam) has indeed died, whether he was a Wali (friend of ALLAH exalted and majestic), or a Prophet, or Messenger, because he was a human being, and he was present at the time of Moosa (alaihi sallam).
And ALLAH (exalted and majestic) had indeed said:
And We did not grant to any man before you (O Muhammad) eternity [on earth]
[Al-Qur`aan (Surat (21) al-'Anbya' Ayat # 34)]
Reference:
>> {From ‘Min Kanooz Qur'aan’ by Shaykh AbdulMuhsin p.118} <<
Compiled & Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya
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