AhsanAllahu ilaykum Can we say that we all muslims are in a competition between eachother, including with those of the past, the salaf- for the highest ranks with Allah? And what is the right perspective?

Ustadh AbdulAziz al-Haqqan

Yes, but what u mean is eveyone who passed not the sahabah for example as we know they have gone ahead and some of them outwiegh the whole ummah like abu bakr or omar.