Thumma amatahu faaqbarah (surah Abasa: 21)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(80:21) then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, *14

Thumma amatahu fa-aqbarah

*14) That is, not only in the matter of birth and destiny but in the matter of death also he is absolutely helpless before his Creator. Neither he can take birth by his choice nor die by his choice, nor can defer his death even by a moment. He dies precisely at the appointed time, in the appointed place, under the appointed circumstances that have been decreed for his death, and he is deposited in the type of grave destined for him whether it is the belly of the earth, the depths of the sea, a bonfire. or the stomach of a beast. Nothing to say of the man, even the whole world together cannot change the Creator's decree in respect of any person.