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What is the Sharīʿah's view on the statement: "Death in Gaza is never sudden; rather, life there comes suddenly"?

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The meaning of speech is understood from its context and reason, and its intentions are known from the speaker's cues and circumstances. Gaza, like any other place, is subject to Allah's cosmic laws, such as death, and no one knows when they will die. If the speaker's intention with a certain phrase in this context is to express their readiness for death and their lack of surprise at it, because they have dedicated themselves to Allah, or due to the intensity of the fears and destruction surrounding them, then the phrase is acceptable. It is preferable to phrase statements unambiguously, because ambiguous words that can have more than one meaning may cause dispute. Therefore, every word that can bear both truth and falsehood should not be uttered without clarifying the intended true meaning, as Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned.

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