﴿وَمَا تَدْرِى نَفْسٌ بِأَىِّ أَرْضٍ تَمُوتُ﴾

(and no person knows in what land he will die.)

Qatadah said, "There are some things which Allah has kept to Himself, and they are not known to any angel who is close to Him or any Prophet who was sent by Him.

﴿إِنَّ اللَّهَ عِندَهُ عِلْمُ السَّاعَةِ﴾

(Verily, Allah, with Him is the knowledge of the Hour, )

no one among mankind knows when the Hour will come, in which year or month, or whether it will come at night or during the day.

﴿وَيُنَزِّلُ الْغَيْثَ﴾

(He sends down the rain,) and no one knows when rain will come, night or day.

﴿وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِى الاٌّرْحَامِ﴾

(and knows that which is in the wombs.)

No one knows what is in the wombs, male or female, red or black, or what it is.

﴿وَمَا تَدْرِى نَفْسٌ مَّاذَا تَكْسِبُ غَداً﴾

(No person knows what he will earn tomorrow,)

whether it will be good or bad. You do not know, O son of Adam, when you will die. You might die tomorrow, you might be stricken by calamity tomorrow.

﴿وَمَا تَدْرِى نَفْسٌ بِأَىِّ أَرْضٍ تَمُوتُ﴾

(and no person knows in what land he will die.)

means, no person knows where his resting place will be, on the land or in the sea, on a plain or in the mountains. It says in the Hadith:

«إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ قَبْضَ عَبْدٍ بِأَرْضٍ جَعَلَ لَهُ إِلَيْهَا حَاجَة»

(If Allah wants to take a person's soul in a particular land, He will give him a reason to go there.)

In Al-Mu`jam Al-Kabir, Al-Hafiz Abu Al-Qasim At-Tabarani recorded that Usamah bin Zayd said, "The Messenger of Allah said:

«مَا جَعَلَ اللهُ مِيتَةَ عَبْدٍ بِأَرْضٍ إِلَّا جَعَلَ لَهُ فِيهَا حَاجَة»

(Allah does not will that a person should die in a certain land but He gives him a reason to go there.)''

This is the end of the Tafsir of Surah Luqman. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. Sufficient for us is Allah and He is the Best Disposer of affairs.

[Tafsir ibn Kathir]