Al-Baqarah 175: They are the ones getting deviance in return for guidance and getting punishment in return for forgiveness. How patient they are to the fire.

A. Metin Saruhan · 18 September 2016 · Al-Baqarah

Translation

They are the ones getting deviance in return for guidance and getting punishment in return for forgiveness. How patient they are to the fire.

Tafsir

Those who disbelieve in the Books and Prophets sent by Allah (swt), those who abandon the path of guidance shown by Allah (swt) and prefer the dark and swampy paths shown by the ego and the devil to the paths of light, those who act outside the commands of Allah (swt) instead of seeking forgiveness from Allah (swt) for their mistakes, these are the ones who buy Allah's punishment. Allah says about them (how patient they are with the Fire).

With this verse, Our Lord informs such people that they are eternal Hell-dwellers and that their place in Hell will be the Fire. He says how patient they are with the fire. What He means by saying that they are patient with the fire is that there is no God but Allah and no one is able to overturn Allah's decision, and when they are thrown into the fire in Hell, they have no helpers, no intercessors, and they have been abandoned by Allah, so no force can save them from the fire, and when that person sees that torment and cries out, "Where is destruction?" and sees that no one comes to his aid and there is no destruction, the fire becomes his shelter. In this case Allah (swt) says how patient they are with the fire. Neuzubillah Allah forbid. They will inevitably be patient with the fire. So O people! Do not be deceived by the pleasures of this world. Satan is your worst enemy, do not make him your friend. Do not abandon your Lord by following the desires of your nafs, so that you may find salvation.

What is said in the video

Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 175: They are those who, leaving the path of truth, have bought misguidance, and punishment in exchange for forgiveness. To them, how patient, how patient they are with the Fire, it says.

And (?) a punishment, and (?) a word. How patient they are with the Fire, it says.

Those who deny the books and the prophets that Allah Almighty sent.

Those who leave the path of guidance that Allah Almighty showed, and the paths their nafs and Satan showed, dark and swampy, prefer to the paths of light; those who, for the mistakes they made, instead of taking refuge in Allah Almighty's pardon and forgiveness, act outside Allah's commands, these are they. They buy Allah's punishment. For them Allah Almighty says, how patient they are with the Fire, He says. So in this verse, its saying how patient they are with the Fire shows that they will never be able to leave the Fire. Never. Even after burning for many thousands of years they will no longer feel or taste, it says, doesn't it; they will remain as logs of Hell, it says, doesn't it; that is fire, fire, logs of the fire of Hell; so, how patient they are, it says.

This patient shows that they will never be able to get out of there. About such people, with this verse our Lord makes known that they are destined for Hell forever and that their place in Hell is the Fire. How patient they are with the Fire, He says. What is meant by saying they are patient with the Fire: that there is no god but Allah, and that no one can overturn, has no power to overturn Allah's decree; that when they are cast into the Fire in Hell they have no helpers at all, that they have no intercessor, that they are abandoned by the Divine Essence too; and in this respect that no power can save him from the Fire; and when that person sees that punishment and cries out, Destruction, where are you, no one comes to his help, and seeing that there is no destruction either, he understands he has no place other than the Fire, and that state causes him more torment than the Fire does.

Hope is cut off.

Hope is cut off, but there is still one hope. There is still one hope. What is this hope? Waiting for the Lord of his imagination. Because the more they see the Fire, the more their hatred toward Allah Almighty will grow. And as long as their hatred grows, they will stay there forever. What does Allah Almighty say again in the verse? When they, the punishment, the punishment taste, if only that punishment they had known; the punishment of being thrown into that Fire, if only they had known, it says. When they see that punishment, when they see that punishment of Hell, if only they had known it.

I mean, where will he see it? Where will he see this punishment? In the realm of the Hereafter. If only they had known that punishment, that is, before being thrown in. That is, what would have happened, it says, they had come to faith and said, yes, You are my Lord, it says. If he had said it. He is that merciful. So as long as they stay in that Fire, in the Fire, their hatred will grow, and that hatred will keep him in the Fire forever. He has one single hope.

The Lord of his imagination will come, he is waiting for him. He will take revenge on Allah.

That is how they leave themselves subject to the eternal Fire.

We seek refuge in Allah, may Allah protect us; willy-nilly they endure the Fire. So, O people! Let not the pleasures and delights of this world deceive you. Satan is your greatest enemy. Do not take him as a friend. Do not abandon your Lord by following the desires of your nafs, so that you may find salvation. Otherwise there is no other salvation.

Yes.