Al-Baqarah 63: At one time, We made a covenant with you. We lifted Mount Sinai upon you and said, “Hold on steadily to what We gave to you and remember its contents so that you will abstain.”

A. Metin Saruhan · 8 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

He has taken a firm promise from you, under the mountain of Tur, hold firmly what I have given you, always remember what is in it, in hopes that you will be protected (we said);

The right translation

At one time, We made a covenant with you. We lifted Mount Sinai upon you and said, “Hold on steadily to what We gave to you and remember its contents so that you will abstain.”

Explanation

Allah (swt) has made a covenant with human beings in verse 172 of Surah A'raf. People's desires and wishes are written as their destiny. Our Lord is not going to change this fate of people ever again.

In the opening of this verse, our Lord took a promise from the people, and our Lord could not give the people their character in return for their promise, so they used the word "hopefully". However, according to the verse, "There is not a single living creature that will come until the Day of Resurrection that we do not know what it will do", the word "hopefully" is contradictory. Here they should use the word Ta ki.

When our Lord made a covenant with the people at Kalu Bela, He knew who was obedient and who was disobedient. In this case, since He knows who in a tribe will obey our Lord and who will not, He has to use the word Ta ki here. The meaning of "until" is a unit of time given until the time of the return of those who will obey as a demonstrative pronoun because our Lord knows the people in a tribe who will obey our Lord.

What is said in the video

Then He revived you after your death for those among you who will be grateful. Yes.

There is verse 63 of Surah Al-Baqarah.

Translated wrongly. A verse.

Let us see where the mistake is in this one too.

Unless you confirm verses with verses, do not believe me.

I am telling you again. Unless you confirm verses with verses, do not believe me either. Out of your affection, because you love me, saying the Hodja does not tell lies, because of that, because of the truthfulness you feel towards me, if you set out to believe everything I say completely, you will have mortgaged your mind to my mind. Do not mortgage your mind to my mind, but to the verses. We confirm verses with verses. Where you do not understand, you may have misunderstood some verses. Because you take the verses you misunderstood to be right, what I explain may seem wrong to you. In that case, say: Hodja, in this verse you said this, but here it says this, and let us explain that verse to you as well.

Again we will explain them with verses, by one another. Yes.

Verse 63 of Surah Al-Baqarah. Yes. At one time Allah Almighty had taken a firm pledge from you. look what it says: He took a firm promise from you, Mount Tur, beneath Mount Tur: what I have given you, hold it firmly, and what is with it always remember, perhaps you will be protected, We had said. What does it say, let us see? Perhaps you will be protected. As if Allah does not know who will be protected: perhaps you will be protected.

Up to the word 'perhaps', it is all correct. Once We made a covenant with you, and the Mount too above you, so that you hold firmly the mind We gave you and what is in it you remember, so that through ittika you will have obeyed. Ittika, that is, you will have obeyed. Here, how beautifully Allah Almighty makes a distinction. Here it says 'it is hoped that'. Whereas the people of piety, that is, people who have believed in Allah, sir, having obeyed.

63. verse

Here they always render this word la'alla wrongly wrongly. What does it say? fawqakumut-Tur, khudhu ma ateynaküm bi kuvvetin vezküru ma fihi la'alleküm tattaqun. La'allakum: 'until'; here, right here too, ittika, that is, those people, those who believe, sir, so that through ittika you will have obeyed. Now, this 'so that' here, why do we keep using this word? In the word la'alla, Allah Almighty knows what we are are. Wretched, or God-fearing? That is, a denier, or obedient to Allah? Here He makes a distinction, and a conscious distinction at that. This conscious distinction, like what? In the word la'alla, among a people, obedience to Allah obey Allah, Allah knows those who will obey Allah.

this word is a demonstrative pronoun, a demonstrative pronoun, that is, to those who will become Muslims, to those who will become obedient to Allah, that who will turn back from the wrong path, Allah Almighty points; these people, a demonstrative pronoun, these people will turn back. With this word, what does it say? Ittika, so that you will have obeyed. Yes. That is, verses are never translated ambiguously. Ambiguous. Yes.