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Did God cause Ezra to die while he was standing in his place for a hundred years, with no one seeing him, or did God conceal him from people's eyes?

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The well-known opinion among the exegetes regarding the verse: (Or like the one who passed by a town while it was in ruins, with its roofs fallen in) is that the man was Uzair and the town was Jerusalem after its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar. However, no authentic evidence definitively proves this. There is no need to know the name of the man or the town; the purpose of the verse is to demonstrate God's power to revive creation after death, and to establish proof against disbelievers and Jews that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, knows the unseen through revelation from God, not through personal knowledge. Focusing on such details is an unnecessary burden and preoccupation with what is of no benefit. The important thing is to contemplate the lesson and admonition from the story.

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