Al-Baqarah 83: We said to the sons of Israel, “Do not worship anyone other than Allah, treat with goodness your parents, relatives, orphans, and the poor, and say good things to people. Establish the prayer and give obligatory alms.” After that, with the exception of a few, you turned away and turned your backs.

A. Metin Saruhan · 8 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Once upon a time, we were from the Israelites; You have made a promise that you will only serve Allah, that you will do good to parents, close relatives, orphans and the poor, and tell people nicely. We ordered him to perform the prayer and give the zakat. In the end, with the exception of a few of you, you turned away and left.

The right translation

We said to the sons of Israel, “Do not worship anyone other than Allah, treat with goodness your parents, relatives, orphans, and the poor, and say good things to people. Establish the prayer and give obligatory alms.” After that, with the exception of a few, you turned away and turned your backs.

Explanation

This is the wrong place in the verse: It is where they say: "We had made a promise". When Allah (swt) made a covenant with the people, what the people wanted from Allah (swt), Our Lord has written the desires and wishes of the people as their destiny. When they say, "Here we have taken a promise and they are always going back on their promises," it means that Our Lord could not give them what they wanted in terms of their characters, and in this case, there were openings left in their destiny and people went beyond their destiny through these openings, which is an attribute of Allah (swt). However, no human being can go beyond his destiny.

Our Lord says in His verse: "They prepare a trap and We will prepare a trap, but We are the best of those who prepare a trap. This means that people prepare traps outside of their destiny, and when they make a covenant with Allah (swt), they are heading towards a world outside of the promise they made. Allah (swt) puts them in their destiny with the trap He has prepared.

In this verse, our Lord says, "Did you think that you would die without proving what kind of people you are? People prove what kind of a person they are throughout their lives within the covenants they have made and finally they will pass on to the Hereafter according to the verse that says all souls will taste death and your return is to Me.

What is said in the video

Again, Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 83; I am reading the wrong one. Once We took from the Children of Israel: you will worship only Allah. To mother, to father, to close relatives, to orphans and the poor you will do good, We took this pledge, and to people speak kindly, perform the prayer, give the zakat, saying this We had commanded. Then, except a few of you, turning away, you went back and left, it says.

Let me read it to you once more here, and you see the mistake clearly. These ten commandments, Allah's ten commandments written in the Torah, are these. Now let us read the ten commandments together and explain the mistake too. Look, let us say, from the Children of Israel: only Allah will you worship, He took this pledge from them like this. One, to mother; two, to father; three, to close relatives; four, to orphans and the poor, you will do good. Sir, five, He took this pledge. Well, they gave their word, saying we will do so, and: speak kindly to people. Six, perform the prayer. Seven, give the zakat.

Eight, We had commanded. Let us complete that too, and after that, We to the Children of Israel, yes, here in verse 84, I am reading only the mistakes. Children of Israel, the blood of one another you will not shed. Nine. None of you that you will not drive out of your homes, this was the tenth. We had taken a pledge from you. Of everything, in the end, some had accepted it. In the end of everything you had accepted these, these, it says. Now how wrongly he translates the verse. Because he does not know the address 'Am I not your Lord?', together with his reason, he makes Allah Almighty to man make a pact with them. And in this way, with Allah unaware of the future, they go back on their word.

That is how they translate it.

Now, after hearing the ten commandments together, let us look at the mistakes here.

Now we are reading the correct one. We made this pledge to the Children of Israel: Do not worship anyone but Allah. Do good to mother, father, relatives, orphans and the poor. Speak kindly to people. Perform the prayer as it should be, give the zakat. Then, except very few of you, you turned away, and you continue to go back on what you said, it says. What does it say? There is something definite here. Then, except for very few of you; Allah Almighty knows which among them will turn back and who will not; here He makes an exception. What does it say? Then, except very few of you, you turned away, and you continue to go back on what you said, it says.

Because Allah Almighty knows their characters.

Now.