An-Nisa 49: Did you not see the ones who declare themselves to be pure? Allah purifies those who wish that from Allah. And, without a doubt, no one will see the slightest injustice.

A. Metin Saruhan · 13 November 2017 · An-Nisa

Translation

Did you not see the ones who declare themselves to be pure? Allah purifies those who wish that from Allah. And, without a doubt, no one will see the slightest injustice.

Tafsir

People commit crimes and at the same time, in their minds, they justify themselves and say that this is the way it should be. In other words, they consider their own intellect superior to the laws established by Allah. Ignorant of Allah's wisdom, they belittle Allah's laws, thinking that they are justified in their humble condition, in their sins against Allah, which they themselves have committed. What do you call such people?

Allah does not exonerate people who judge themselves and justify themselves for the sins they have committed. He does not forgive them. Humans are already created incomplete and faulty. No human being can blame himself for the crime he has committed. Even if the offense was a sable fur coat, no one would take it upon themselves. The ego, on the other hand, considers the crimes it has committed as permissible for its own self and never admits that it has sinned. In that case, if everyone were to make his own decision, there would be no need for Allah's Sharia judgment, no need for His judgment, and Allah's commands would not be fulfilled.

No; it is not as they say. Allah only accepts the repentance of those who make a mistake and then realize their mistake. Only this cleanses people and forgives them their sins.

(No one will be wronged by a hair's breadth) Allah (swt) is free from deficient attributes. No creature can see any deficiency in Allah and say to Him, you have been unjust, you have accused me of sins I did not commit and you have punished me. Because Allah is perfect. He is not unjust to His creatures. He is the judge of judges. Everyone will be dealt with according to his deeds. Whoever blames Allah and accuses Him, blames himself and exposes himself.

What is said in the video

What do you say about those who declare themselves pure, it says. Here again there is another verse that was written wrongly, we are correcting it. We have corrected that one too. Now, Surah An-Nisa, verse 49. What do you say about those who declare themselves pure? No, Allah purifies whom He wills, it says. Look how it portrays what Allah has over people, over His creatures — how it characterizes it? Allah supposedly purifies whom He wills. Well, if Allah purifies whom He wills, then, given the deeds man does with his free will, does that not contradict the verse that everyone gets the return of what his own two hands have earned?

So what kind of Arabic grammar is this, that you interpret it like this? You are attributing qualities to Allah.

We have written the correct one here. What do we say? The correct verse is correct. What do you say about those who declare themselves pure? No, we say. Allah purifies the one who asks Him for forgiveness. Look how beautiful. He purifies the one who asks Him for forgiveness. And no one is wronged even by a hair's breadth, it says. Well, and if no one at all is wronged even by a hair's breadth, now I am reading the verse here.

What do you say about those who declare themselves pure? No, Allah purifies whom He wills, and no one is wronged by a hair's breadth. Now, does this verse not contradict itself? Both Allah will purify whom He wills, whom He wills, and also no one at all will be wronged by a hair's breadth — whereas the one who has his free will in his hand, man, by asking Allah for his own pardon, by asking for it, our Lord will grant him pardon and forgiveness, because he turned back and the other did not. If everyone gets the return of his own two hands, as the verse says, then in that case, if what man does with his own deeds is taken into account, Allah's willing is lifted from me. If Allah's willing is upon me, if He purifies whom He wills, then I would say this to Allah.

I am (?). I would say it. And Allah would find no word to say to that. My Allah, You were Allah, that is, You were the Creator, You were the Merciful. What is my sin? You created me for Hell, and this one You created for Paradise. What did I do that You created me like this? Because you have no deeds at all, because we were created in the world of spirits. So if everyone gets the return of his own two hands, if it is Allah Almighty's judgment by His truth and justice, no one — (?) Allah Almighty — no one, doubting our Lord's justice, can describe Allah as unjust. Allah supposedly will purify whom He wills.

He supposedly will put whom He wills into Paradise. And whom He wills into Hell. My Allah. Let's see what He will say. Yes. What is the whole verse? What do you say about those who declare themselves pure? No. Allah purifies the one who asks Him for forgiveness. And no one is wronged even by a hair's breadth. Yes. The verses always confirm one another. They support each other. What did it say about that Day of Reckoning? Today, without anyone being wronged at all, everyone will be given in full what he earned, the return of his two hands, it says. Yes. We will come to more verses.

Here we come. Surah An-Nisa, verse 49. What did we say? What do you say about those who declare themselves pure? No. Allah purifies the one who asks Him for forgiveness. And no one is wronged even by a hair's breadth. Because what does Allah Almighty say? I am the Judge of judges. Eleysallahu bi-ahkemi'l-hâkimîn. And Allah, that Allah who is compassionate and merciful to His creatures, always waits for them, for those people, to turn back to Him.

Yes. People both commit crimes and, in their own minds, consider themselves right and say it is more correct this way. They both commit crimes and, although their nafs shows them it is bad, they say it is more correct this way. That is, they consider their own reason superior to the laws Allah has set. Don't they see it so?

Now Allah Almighty, in the verse of covering, for women, says: cover your heads.

This verse of Allah Almighty of the ancient ages, a verse, that is, a word spoken in ancient times. Back then, since women had no manicure and such, the women's hair fell out, so they had their heads covered. Now there is manicure and such. Well, with manicure the hair falls out even more because it burns, right? Look, with their own words they refute themselves. Like this, people who evaluate the verses of Allah Almighty according to their own reason and try to (?) — such people. That is, they consider their own reason superior to the laws Allah has set. Unaware of Allah's wisdom, in their helpless state, against Allah, with the sins their own nafs have committed, considering themselves right, they belittle Allah's laws.

What do you say to such people, it says. So: what do you say about those who declare themselves pure, it says. Those who declare themselves pure. Those who, with the crimes they committed by their own reasoning, give their own fatwas themselves and declare themselves in the right — what do you say about them?

Allah — those who judge themselves on their own and, with the sins they have committed, consider themselves right — He does not purify such people.

You did not carry out the command I gave. Moreover, by your own reasoning you regarded My command as feeble, as lacking. The deed I told you not to do, that bad deed, your nafs and the taghut, Satan, made it look attractive to you. And you did it, you carried out this deed. And you did not ask Me for forgiveness either. How shall I, with My justice, purify you, He says. Yes. And it says: Allah does not purify those who judge themselves on their own and, with the sins they committed, consider themselves right. In this case you declared yourself pure. Look and see, He says, was My command like this?

You decided on your own. By not carrying out My command, by deifying your nafs, with a command above My command you lived by your own whims and desires. Who are you, He says. Who are you? He does not forgive them. People are created deficient and fallible anyway. No person pins on himself the crime he has committed. Even if he commits a crime, he says: oh, this is not a crime. (?) That's how he talks.

If fault were a sable fur, it says, no one would put it on his back. If it were a sable fur.

The nafs, however, deeming the crimes it committed permissible for itself, never accepts that it has sinned.

And it always shows itself the sides where it is right. In that case, if everyone were to give their own verdict, Allah's Sharia ruling would not be needed. His judgeship would not be needed, and Allah's commands would not be fulfilled either, if everyone, by himself and with the deeds he has done, had given his own verdict himself.

Look what Allah Almighty says: no, He says. The matter is not as they say. That is, it is not like the state of those who justify their nafs, who with the crime they committed consider themselves right, who declare their nafs pure, it says. The truth of the matter is not so, it says. No. The matter is not as they say, it says. Allah accepts only the repentance made by those who err and then understand their error. yes only these people — He purifies these people and forgives them their sins. So when it says the matter is not as they say, as I said a moment ago: outside My command, things that will corrupt everything, ruin morals, harm you — although I made known to you the lawful and the unlawful, if you turn not to the lawful but to the unlawful and commit deeds, and count this as lawful according to your own nafs and give your own fatwa — as the Creator, He says, as your Lord — if you set out a command above Mine and consider yourself right, are you the Lord or am I the Lord, He says, are you the Creator or am I the Creator, He says, are you the one who commands or am I the one who commands, He says. And when I give you a command, though I give it in your favor, if you give a command in your own favor, today you will bear your punishment yourself, He says.

yes therefore turning to what Allah says is the duty of every human being created. No one is wronged even by a hair's breadth. When? At the Great Court. Everyone will be given today in full what he earned, it says. As the return of his two hands. Allah Almighty is free from deficient attributes. No created being can find a deficiency in Allah, cannot find a deficiency in Allah, and cannot say to Him: You were unjust, You accused me of sins I did not commit and punished me. What did we say a moment ago? A superior sends you somewhere, he will meet you there. But you are under cameras. If, without doing what he said, you use up that road following the whims of your nafs, and on the other side you reach your superior, you have no way left to slip out.

Allah Almighty, too, informs us that in this world, in this traveler's world of ours, we are under His sight, that no one has any way to escape from Him, Allah Almighty informs us of this. Even if you go seven thousand layers down into the earth, it says, even if you leave the world and go to the remotest corner of the universe, We will still find you there — since He says so, since no created being can get out from under His sight, no one, for the deeds he has done, can say to Allah Almighty: I didn't do this.

Allah.

Because Allah is perfect. He does not do injustice to His creatures. He is the Judge of judges. Everyone will be treated according to what he did. Whoever blames Allah, accuses Him, blames himself and exposes his own weakness. Yes.