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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "O Gabriel, what prevents you. from visiting us more often than you do?" Then this
Verse was revealed:--'And we angels descend not but by Command of your Lord. To Him belongs
what is before us and what is behind us..' (19.64) So this was the answer to Muhammad.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 97, Hadith 81
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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) the true and truly inspired, narrated to us, "The creation of everyone of you starts with
the process of collecting the material for his body within forty days and forty nights in the womb of
his mother. Then he becomes a clot of thick blood for a similar period (40 days) and then he becomes
like a piece of flesh for a similar period. Then an angel is sent to him (by Allah) and the angel is
allowed (ordered) to write four things; his livelihood, his (date of) death, his deeds, and whether he
will be a wretched one or a blessed one (in the Hereafter) and then the soul is breathed into him. So
one of you may do (good) deeds characteristic of the people of Paradise so much that there is nothing
except a cubit between him and Paradise but then what has been written for him decides his behavior
and he starts doing (evil) deeds characteristic of the people of Hell (Fire) and (ultimately) enters Hell
(Fire); and one of you may do (evil) deeds characteristic of the people of Hell (Fire) so much so that
there is nothing except a cubit between him and Hell (Fire), then what has been written for him
decides his behavior and he starts doing (good) deeds characteristic of the people of Paradise and
ultimately) enters Paradise." (See Hadith No. 430, Vol. 4)
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While I was walking with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in one of the fields of Medina and he was walking leaning
on a stick, he passed a group of Jews. Some of them said to the others, "Ask him (the Prophet) about
the spirit." Others said, "Do not ask him." But they asked him and he stood leaning on the stick and I
was standing behind him and I thought that he was being divinely inspired. Then he said, "They ask
you concerning the spirit say: The spirit, its knowledge is with My Lord. And of knowledge you (O
men!) have been given only a little." ...(17.85) On that some of the Jews said to the others, "Didn't we
tell you not to ask?"