A089
Surah: 021 - Ayah: 089
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21:89
Khayr al-warithin (The best of inheritors)
It is mentioned in verse (21:89): "You are the best of inheritors." The wisdom of this verse is that fortunate people attain the rank of fana’ fi’llah and baqa’ bi’llah. In this sense, Allah is their best inheritor. Further, in reality, they are not dead, they have in fact become eternally alive (zindah-yi azal-u abad).
Zakariyya (Zakariyya)
He was a great Prophet and secretly Imam also, as mentioned in verse (21:89): “(Remember) Zakariyya, when he cried to his Lord: O my Lord! Do not leave me alone (childless), though You are the best of inheritors.”
From this verse we understand at least four wisdoms: (i) Children are prayed for, for the sake of religious work. (ii) The same children may be born at the place of intellect of the personal world. (iii) One seeks one’s own intellectual birth. (iv) Finally, there is the indication that at the place of intellect the best of the inheritors is God Himself.
This verse has been referred 2 times.