Some transmitted reports associate kinship ties and obedience with an increase or blessing in lifespan. How can this be reconciled with an appointed term?
One explanation understands an increase in life in relation to a conditional span known eternally to Allah together with the obedient act. It does not imply that Allah learned something new. Other explanations emphasize blessing in time or conditional entries in angelic records.
The aim is to acknowledge the effect associated with obedience without denying eternal divine knowledge or treating the actual appointed term as uncertain to God.