Al-Baqarah 21: Oh, you people! Worship your Creator Who has created you and those before you so that you can attain ittika (abstinence from sins), taqwa (abstinence from sins with extreme care).
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
O people! Worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, so that you may be protected.
The right translation
Oh, you people! Worship your Creator Who has created you and those before you so that you can attain ittika (abstinence from sins), taqwa (abstinence from sins with extreme care).
Explanation
In the opening of this verse, the translators have attributed shortcomings to Allah (swt) by using the word hopefully.
Our Lord says in His Verse that there is not a single creature that will come until the Day of Resurrection that we do not know what it will do. According to this verse, since the verses do not contradict each other, Allah (swt) has programmed these worlds for what will happen until the Day of Resurrection, and within this program, He knows where, when, what to do and what will happen to His creatures until the Day of Resurrection. The word "hopefully" means that Allah (swt) is unaware of what people will do in the future and will evaluate them according to their behavior. At that moment, if a person behaves well, Allah will call that person a good person. Then, when the person behaves badly, Allah will say about that person, "I was wrong, this person is bad. All the verses that have been opened with these meanings have been opened incorrectly. In this Verse, the word hopefully should be used because it is an attribute of Allah (swt). The verse lealle is mentioned here. In return, Allah (swt) gives them a time opportunity by pointing out those who will become Muslims among the people who live in disbelief, and by saying that He knows the people who will become Muslims and that those people will be blessed with Islam.
What is said in the video
We have also explained Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 17.
Again, verse 21 of Surah Al-Baqarah has been explained wrongly. We will explain this one to you as well.
Verse 21, verse 21 of Surah Al-Baqarah, the verse. What do I read as the wrong one? O people! Worship your Lord, who created you and those before you. it is hoped that you will thus be protected, it says. Sir.
"It is hoped that", it says, "you will be protected".
Now, here I had come across a verse, and it caught my attention. But I can't find it here. We'll come to it as well. We'll come to that too. I read verse 21 to you again. O people! Worship your Lord who created you and those before you. It is hoped that you will thus be protected, it says. Now, Allah Almighty is free of all deficient attributes. There is not a single living being, until the Day of Judgment, whose deeds We do not know, according to the verse. Allah Almighty has programmed these worlds. Since our Lord, who is present and watching everywhere, is aware of the beings to come until the Day of Judgment, the word "it is hoped that" here ascribes an attribute to Allah Almighty.
Because it contradicts the verse I mentioned a moment ago, which says there is not a single living being until the Day of Judgment whose deeds We do not know, "it is hoped that" here means "maybe, if you mend your ways, We will forgive you", Allah forbid, this has been explained wrongly. Here the word la'alle certainly occurs. Verse 21: Yâ eyyühe'n-nâs, O people! Rabbekümü'llezî halakaküm. Allah, who created you. Walladhina min qablikum, la'allakum tattaqun. Look: la'alleküm. Now, in Arabic the word la'alleküm can be this or that: "it may be that" and also "so that". Now here the word la'alla must be put in its right place.
One must not ascribe attributes to Allah Almighty. Now here the word la'alla means 'until'. "So that": a demonstrative pronoun. What does this demonstrative pronoun mean? Of the people living through a period of ignorance within a nation, of the people who turn their backs on Allah, or of the people living in unbelief outside Islam, Allah Almighty, because He knows they will become Muslims, within a span of time He has given them, points with "so that". "So that they turn back", He says. "So that"; He does not say "it is hoped that". If it is "it is hoped that", it means Allah does not know that people will become Muslims in the future, which, Allah forbid, ascribes an attribute to Allah Almighty.
And the correct version is this: O people! Worship your Lord who created you and those before you, so that you may have ittiqa, taqwa. That is, those among you who turn back. They have ittiqa. That is, turn back to Allah with a good covenant, with good faith, He says. And "it may be", He says, as in, definitely. Not "it may be". "So that you", because He knows. How does Allah Almighty know they will turn back? Why? He uses "so that" here. "So that": when Allah Almighty made the covenant with people at the address "Elestü bi-Rabbiküm", according to verse 172 of Surah Al-A'raf, their... ve ashâbü'l-meymeneti mâ ashâbü'l- meymeneh: of the right? Ve ashâbü'l-meş'emeti mâ ashâbü'l-meş'emeh: of the left?
That is, God-fearing? Or wretched? Because He knows these, and Allah Almighty, who worked their destinies into them as characters and wrote their script in the realm of the hereafter, when He sends people into the world, then as the actor of that written script, each one, by working through the events he meets in the world, by carrying out his actual deeds, shows what kind of person he is, and earns reward and sin. Allah Almighty already knows what they will do, so when He puts the word "it is hoped that" here, Allah forbid, it ascribes an attribute to Allah Almighty. That's why we use the word "so that" here.
Yes. This way we have corrected the wrong explanation of verse 21 of Surah Al-Baqarah.