Al-Baqarah 98: Whoever has animosity towards Allah, also has animosity towards Allah’s angels, Prophets, and Gabriel (angel), and Michael (angel).

A. Metin Saruhan · 9 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Whoever is hostile to Allah, His angels, His Prophets, Gabriel and Mikail should know that Allah is also the enemy of disbelievers.

The right translation

Whoever has animosity towards Allah, also has animosity towards Allah’s angels, Prophets, and Gabriel (angel), and Michael (angel).

Explanation

What is wrong with this verse is that it opens with Allah being the enemy of mankind. They have opened the Verse by attributing shortcomings to Allah (swt). They open it as follows (Allah is the enemy of the unbelievers). Allah is not incapable of being an enemy to people. If our Lord wills, He can destroy this world in an instant. In the verse: Our Lord says that even if the human beings and the jinn gather together, they cannot harm Allah.

The correct version of the verse is as follows: Whoever is an enemy of Allah, the disbelievers are enemies of Allah, His angels, His Prophets, Gabriel and Michael.

What is said in the video

98. In Surah Al-Baqarah, in verse 98, a verse that has been interpreted wrongly. Yes.

Whoever is an enemy to Allah, His angels, His prophets, Gabriel and Michael, let him know that Allah too is the enemy of the denying disbelievers.

Allah, like a human mind: if Ali Şahin is my enemy, then I am Ali Şahin's enemy too. It's astonishing. He fits it into the human mind, he fits this into his own head. He makes Allah an enemy together with Gabriel, with Michael, with Esaf. Or, if people are enemies to Him, Allah Almighty becomes an enemy to people too. What is an enemy? I can't get the better of Ahmet or Mehmet, so I become his enemy, I look for a chance to do him some harm, or to kill him. Come on, Allah Almighty has no need to be an enemy. He sent us here, all His creatures, to be tested for themselves. In the hereafter He will call us to account, and in the end those who are enemies to Allah, through the deeds they themselves have done, will settle their own account themselves.

They will give their own punishment themselves.

So, does a person give his own punishment? Now, I live in the state of the Republic of Turkey. If I go against these laws and kill someone, if I rob people on the road, if I, let me tell you, commit theft against people, if I steal, don't I set my own sentence under our laws? The law doesn't set my sentence. I mean, when the owner of the law that gives the punishment there gives the punishment to a person, according to that law the person has his own sentence set by himself.

So here Allah Almighty too will call them to account for what they did, in the hereafter. Since Allah Almighty is their enemy, and in the hereafter those people are enemies to Allah, then Allah can hardly overpower them. But Allah Almighty has taken every measure. What does He say? To avoid entering Hell, they will throw themselves face down on the ground. To avoid entering Hell, He says. And We will call the guardians of Hell. We will have them seized by their forelocks and thrown in through Hell's gate, He says.

When writing these verses, when writing the translations, if the verses contradict other verses, then you are not in a position to write a Quran translation. Even if you are the grand master of Arabic. Yes.

Here too, look what it says; the correct one: whoever is an enemy to Allah, the disbelievers, to Allah's angels, His prophets, Gabriel and Michael, are enemies. The disbelievers, that is, those outside Islam. Yes, verse 98.

Look. Is there "disbeliever" here? He can't say it. He can't say it here. Why? Because he would be embarrassed before his fathers, his supporters.

Hodja, the book in your hand, the book of those who wrote it deliberately, is it written like this in the Diyanet? It's the Diyanet's book. The Diyanet's book. The Diyanet's. Yes.