Allah has engaged two angels for every man; their job is recording a person’s deeds.
One angel is at your right side and he is recording your good deeds.
The other angel is at your left side and he is recording your evil deeds.
The verse 50:17 says:
Remember when the two Receivers, the two angels charged with recording a person’s deeds, receive and record, they are sitting on the right and on the left, hand side of every man.
Remember when the two angels write and record your deeds!
The verse 50:18 says:
Man utters no good or evil word but there is with him an observer ready to record either that which is in his advantage or disadvantage.
Man does not utter a word but there is beside him a watcher ready to record.
Man has an attendant guardian who is never absent from him.
The angels do not know the good and evil that is within a person’s conscience save when that person’s heart acquiesces in it either good or evil.
In order to appreciate how kind is Allah, remember that Allah commanded the angels to record the one good deed ten times up to 700 hundred times and to record every evil deed only once!
The verse 50:19 says:
If you know that, then what you are going to do when:
The agony of death, its throes and distress, arrives with the truth of the Hereafter, such that the one who denied it sees it with his own eyes at the moment of his death.
And this is the distress itself.
That, namely, death, is what you used to shun.
That death, is what, you use to dislike and to flee from.
That death, is what, you use to avoid and be terrified by.
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The verses 50:17-19 in different translations
QARIB:
17) When both receivers (the angels) receive, one on his right, the other on his left,
18) Whatever phrase he utters, an observer is present.
19) And when the agony of death comes in truth (they will say): ‘this is what you have been trying to avoid! ‘
SHAKIR:
17) When the two receivers receive, sitting on the right and on the left
18) He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand
19) And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape
PICKTHAL:
17) When the two receivers receive (him), seated on the right hand and on the left,
18) He uttereth no word but there is with him an observer ready.
19) And the agony of death cometh in truth. (and it is said unto him): this is that which thou wast wont to shun.
YUSUFALI:
17) Behold, two (guardian angels) appointed to learn (his doings) learn (and noted them), one sitting on the right and one on the left.
18) Not a word does he utter but there is a sentinel by him, ready (to note it).
19) And the stupor of death will bring truth (before his eyes): “this was the thing which thou wast trying to escape!”
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