Al-Baqarah 10: They have the sickness of sedition and jealousy in their hearts. These sicknesses increased due to their lies. There is a severe punishment for them.

A. Metin Saruhan · 6 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

There is a disease in their hearts. Allah has increased their sickness. And for them is a painful torment for the lies they tell.

The right translation

They have the sickness of sedition and jealousy in their hearts. These sicknesses increased due to their lies. There is a severe punishment for them.

Explanation

Allah has the attribute of justice. Our Lord does not do injustice among His servants. Will is two. The universal will and the limited will. The universal will is our Lord. He creates what He wants. The limited will is in man. Whatever man has asked from our Lord, our Lord has given it to man. In this case, Allah (swt) does not do injustice to people by increasing their illnesses of His own will.

Such people commit sins because they lie, increasing the diseases in their hearts. By increasing their burden of sin, they will be subjected to the torments of Hell, which they say is a bad mattress in the Hereafter.

What is said in the video

In the tenth verse it says: in their hearts there is a disease, and Allah has increased their disease. Allah, Allah, Allah! He is angry with them, so He increased their disease, you see. Can Allah be like this? How can you attribute this to Allah, you? To the One who created you, who is free of every deficient attribute, who brought these worlds into being from nothing, and who shows mercy to so many people, how can you, by attributing this, slander Allah? Does your mind not grasp it at all? What does it say? Let me look once more. In their hearts there is a disease, and Allah has increased their disease.

And because of the lies they keep telling, there is a painful punishment for them. Whereas the correct version is this: In their hearts there is the disease of hypocrisy and envy. In their hearts. Who are they? The hypocrites, those who deny Allah.

Because of their lying, their disease has increased. Allah does not increase it. Because they themselves lie, their hypocrisy, their disease has increased. For them there is a severe punishment, says Allah Almighty. Well, if Allah Almighty programmed people according to their wishes and desires, if their wishes and their wishes became their destiny, if the script too was written in the hereafter according to their own wishes and desires, what people do was written according to their wishes and desires, if Allah Almighty gave those people nothing outside their wishes and desires, then how can you pin these things on Allah?

How can you say Allah increased their disease? Wasn't it that Allah wrongs no one? Wasn't it that His mercy outstrips His wrath? Wasn't it that He sent the Quran to the worlds? By your reasoning, Allah is lying by sending the Quran to the worlds. Allah forbid. "Even though I sent it to the worlds, O Muslims, whomever I want", or, "O people, whomever I want I will put into Paradise, and whomever I want into Hell." Is that so? May Allah set you right. Yes, what kind of explaining verses is this, what kind of understanding verses is this, what kind of squeezing Allah into their own minds and judging Allah by reason?

It is astonishing, astonishing. Yes.