Surah Az-Zumar, Ayah 42
Quran 39:42 · The Troops · Makki · Para 24 · Page 463
اَللّٰهُ یَتَوَفَّی الْاَنْفُسَ حِیْنَ مَوْتِهَا وَالَّتِیْ لَمْ تَمُتْ فِیْ مَنَامِهَا ۚ فَیُمْسِكُ الَّتِیْ قَضٰی عَلَیْهَا الْمَوْتَ وَیُرْسِلُ الْاُخْرٰۤی اِلٰۤی اَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّی ؕ اِنَّ فِیْ ذٰلِكَ لَاٰیٰتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ یَّتَفَكَّرُوْنَ ۟
Transliteration
Allahu yatawaffa al-anfusa heenamawtiha wallatee lam tamut fee manamihafayumsiku allatee qada AAalayha almawta wayursilual-okhra ila ajalin musamman inna fee thalikalaayatin liqawmin yatafakkaroon
Saheeh International
Allāh takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that do not die [He takes] during their sleep. Then He keeps those for which He has decreed death and releases the others for a specified term. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
Allah is the one who takes away the souls when their term ends. He also takes the souls whose term has not ended when they sleep. He then withholds those for whom He has decreed death and releases those for whom He has not decreed death until a time that is fixed in His knowledge, (may He be glorified). In this taking away, release, giving of death and life there are indications for a people who reflect on the fact that the one who does this is able to resurrect people after their death for reckoning and recompense.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
Explains 39:41–39:42 together — read it on 39:41