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Why Does Allah Mention "Death" Before "Life" In Surah Mulk? | (Quran 67:2) | Mufti Abu Layth

muftis koran quraan al-quran sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat amanah amana amaanah amanat

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why does allah mention death before life in surah mulk allah all right good question surah now

0:33

yeah i guess there's many ways to look at this one way is that i suppose from a standard viewpoint of islam once we come out of non-existence i guess we never truly ever return to it so moat for us now

1:14

is only it's like a doorway it's not a waiting room in fact attributed to sedna abu bakr of the law and is the poem that um [Music] that death is a door everyone shall go through and the verse in the quran

1:44

that the self will now only taste death in many ways we've kind of emerged forever one could argue from non-existence so in that way non-existence would precede existence because if death

2:18

by extraction is non-existence and life is its very opposite then yeah let's and so yeah that makes allahu alam but yeah

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2022, June 24). Why Does Allah Mention "Death" Before "Life" In Surah Mulk? | (Quran 67:2) | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/riy46h9zyeq/
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BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-RIY46h9ZyeQ,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Why Does Allah Mention "Death" Before "Life" In Surah Mulk? | (Quran 67:2) | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2022},
  month = {6},
  date = {2022-06-24},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/riy46h9zyeq/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/riy46h9zyeq/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}