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Surah 36. Yasin, Ayah 68

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وَمَن نُّعَمِّرْهُ نُنَكِّسْهُ فِى ٱلْخَلْقِ ۖ أَفَلَا يَعْقِلُونَ Qur’an Yasin (36:68)
Waman nuAAammirhu nunakkishu fee alkhalqi afal a yaAAqiloon a
But [let them always remember that] if We lengthen a human being's days, We also cause him to decline in his powers [when he grows old]: will they not, then, use their reason?37
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

I.e., man should never postpone his exercise of moral choice - for if human beings are superior creatures inasmuch as they have been endowed with the faculty of discernment and a wide measure of free will, let them also remember that "man has been created weak" ( 4:28 ) and liable to decline still further in old age, so that the time at his disposal is short.

Those to whom We grant long life, We reverse their nature. Don't they understand anything from this?
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And whoever We grant a long life, We reverse them in development.1 Will they not then understand?
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab

 Human beings are born weak, then they reach their prime, then they grow weak after a certain age. See 30:54.

He whom We bring unto old age, We reverse him in creation (making him go back to weakness after strength). Have ye then no sense?
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
If We grant long life to any We cause him to be reversed in nature: will they not then understand? 4014
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

This connects on with the last verse. Everything is possible with Allah. If you doubt how man can be transformed from his present nature, contemplate the transformations he already undergoes in his present nature at different ages. As a child powers of mind and body are still undeveloped. As he grows, they grow, and certain moral qualities, such as courage, daring, the will to conquer, unfold themselves. In extreme old age these are again obscured, and a second childhood supervenes. The back of the man who walked proudly straight and erect is now bent. If these transformations take place even in his present nature and constitution, how much easier was it for Allah to cast him in an immobile mould? But Allah granted him instead the high possibilities and responsibilities referred to in the last note.

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