Al-Kahf 24: But say; “By Allah’s wish (Insha’Allah)!” When you forget, remember your Lord and say; “I hope that my Lord will make me attain a closer, better truth.”

A. Metin Saruhan · 28 February 2018 · Al-Kahf

Translation

But say; “By Allah’s wish (Insha’Allah)!” When you forget, remember your Lord and say; “I hope that my Lord will make me attain a closer, better truth.”

Tafsir

Allah (swt) has created human beings from the class of forgetful people. If forgetting did not exist in humans, people would live with sadness and frustration in the face of the pain and suffering they have endured in their lifetime, and life would become unlivable.

Therefore, if a person forgets about a future deed and says, "Inshallah, I will do this or that" and then remembers that he did not say "Inshallah", he should immediately mention Allah and say, "It is hoped that my Lord will show me a straight path that is closer than this.) By saying this, it shows that only Allah knows the unseen and that we should not only pray and ask Allah for good in the face of the events that will happen within our destiny, but also that we should pray and remember Allah and surrender to Allah, so that Allah will help such people succeed in good deeds in the face of such behavior.

Also, by saying Inshallah (God willing), Allah opens the doors of goodness to people by granting it to them at a time that is closer to the time when they will be able to do what they will do in a long period of time that they may have expected.

What is said in the video

Surah Al-Kahf, verse 24. Only when you wish for something from Allah Almighty, say: inshallah I will do it; when you forget, remember your Lord and say: it is hoped that my Lord will bring me to a nearer, utterly right good, to a success, it says. So the verse has come. Yes, they have explained this wrongly too; let's see how it is wrong. What is wrong with this? Unless you make it dependent on Allah's will, unless you say inshallah, do not say about anything: I will do this tomorrow; if you forget this, remember Allah, and I hope my Lord will guide me to a way nearer to the right than this.

Unless you make it dependent on Allah's will, it says. Here it says: unless you make it dependent on Allah's will. Whereas: only when you wish for something from Allah Almighty, say: inshallah I will do it; when you forget, remember your Lord and say: it is hoped that my Lord will bring me to a nearer, utterly right good, to a success.

And what does it say here? Unless you make it dependent on Allah's will, unless you say inshallah, that is, unless you make it dependent on Allah's will; here the meanings are badly distorted. For example, it also comes to mean whether Allah wills the task I will do or not. It does not say about a task I will do: don't do that task, it is no good for you. Or if you would incur a sin, it does not say: don't do it, it is a sin. Or if you would earn a reward, it does not say: don't do it, it is a sin; it does not say (?) it is rewarded. What does it say here? Unless you make the task I will do dependent on Allah's will.

Sir, unless you say inshallah. Whereas here: only when you wish for something from Allah Almighty, I when you wish, when you wish, say: inshallah I will do it; when you forget to say it, remember your Lord and say: it is hoped that my Lord will bring me to a nearer, utterly right good, to a success. Yes, and at the end, what does this one say? Do not say: I will do this tomorrow. If you forget this, remember Allah and say: I hope my Lord will (?) me to a way that is utterly right and nearer than this. Sir, we have already written the correct one here in words. Allah Almighty created people among the group of the forgetful.

If people did not have forgetting, then in the lifespan they live, in the face of the pain and suffering they go through, they would live in sorrow and loss all their lives, and life would become unlivable. For this reason, if a person forgets about a task he will do in the future and does not say inshallah, if he says: I will do this task, and then remembers that he did not say inshallah, at once elhamdülillah, elhamdülillah yettina ve yettikumullah right after that, remembering Allah, he must say this. It is hoped that my Lord will bring me than this... Elhamdülillah, elhamdülillah. Yes. It is hoped that my Lord will bring me to a nearer, utterly right good than this, to a success.

Why? I use "it is hoped that" here. Because I do not know the unseen. I do not know what will happen either. I hope, but from Allah; but the word (?) does not befit Allah. To Him (?). By saying it this way, it shows that only Allah knows the unseen, and that, in the face of the events that will happen within our destiny, we both ask Allah for good and pray, remember Allah, and submit to Allah; and in response to people behaving this way, Allah brings such people to success in good.

Moreover, perhaps a task that a person would expect to do over a long time, by saying inshallah, Allah grants this too, this too, at a nearer time, and so opens the doors of good upon people