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اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عِنْدَهٗ عِلْمُ السَّاعَةِۚ-وَ یُنَزِّلُ الْغَیْثَۚ-وَ یَعْلَمُ مَا فِی الْاَرْحَامِؕ-وَ مَا تَدْرِیْ نَفْسٌ مَّا ذَا تَكْسِبُ غَدًاؕ-وَ مَا تَدْرِیْ نَفْسٌۢ بِاَیِّ اَرْضٍ تَمُوْتُؕ-اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عَلِیْمٌ خَبِیْرٌ(34)
Knowledge of the Hour (Day of Judgement) is with Allah alone; and He sends down rain, and He knows what is in thewombs. And one does not know what he will earn tomorrow; and one does not know in which land he will die. Certainly Allah is All-Knowing, Most-Aware. [1]
Commentary
[1]
Allah Almighty alone has personal, independent
knowledge of Judgement Day, when it will rain, what is inside the womb, what a
person will do tomorrow, and where he will die. With the bestowal of Allah
Almighty, the blessed prophets عَـلَـيْهِمُ السَّلَام were granted this knowledge as a Prophetic miracle and the
Noble Saints رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـه
were granted it as a saintly miracle; this is proven from the Quran and Sunnah.
Therefore, this verse means that if Allah Almighty does not impart this knowledge, then
none in creation can attain it; to take the meaning to be that no one knows
these things even with the bestowal of Allah Almighty is completely incorrect
and in opposition to a plethora of verses, hadith, and reports of our pious
predecessors.