Al-Baqarah 165: Some people among mankind associate partners with Allah and love them more than they love Allah. The love of those who believe however, is more intensive and stronger. If only the oppressors could comprehend after seeing the punishment that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah’s punishment is very severe.

In its 24th verse, on the page, 24th page, verse 165, the wrongly interpreted verse.

Some people — I'm reading the wrong one — some people take others besides Allah as gods equal to Allah and, as they would love Allah, they love them. And the love of the believers for Allah is even more intense and stronger, it says.

If only the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment, could have understood that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah's punishment is very severe — understood it beforehand, it says.

Here I can't move on without giving this a little meaning too. Give that part a meaning too, and then I'll move on. We'll find the mistake later, God willing. We'll say it.

Some people take others besides Allah as gods equal to Allah, and them they love as they love Allah. Yes. Idol worshippers. They love. And the love of the believers for Allah is more intense and stronger. Now, a comparison between these two. That one loves, and this one loves too. What is the difference between these two? Can you understand this? You tell me, what's the difference between the two? That one loves the idols, this one loves Allah; that one loves the idols because they created him, and this one loves Him because Allah created me. Right. Between the two, Allah Almighty says the believers', that is, the love of those who love Allah is different from theirs, it is greater, He says.

What difference is there between them that this comes about? Yes, these are the fine points. However much a person worships an idol he made with his own hands, Allah Almighty has given that person a good mind. With his mind he too knows: I made this with my own hand, but my forefathers worshipped it, and because of them I worship it. What he worships it for is unclear. However much he may love it, however much he may worship it, his love is doubtful. Doubtful; that's how he saw his forefathers do, he saw it from his forefather. But the one who believes in Allah, in a Creator who created the worlds, in the Sovereign of the worlds, whose proof — outwardly and plainly, He has laid His existence before people's eyes.

All created things were created upon knowledge. Created with knowledge. Allah Almighty addresses people's minds. The idols are of stone; they neither show them a way nor speak to them. On the contrary, they even serve them with their own hands. But the Owner of the worlds makes what He created submit, provides for it, feeds it, gives it drink. So of course, can that one's love and the love of the one who believes in Allah be the same? In this case. The distinction is plain. Yes.

And the love of the believers for Allah is more intense and stronger. If only the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment, could understand that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah's punishment is very severe — if only beforehand they could have understood. Here there isn't even the word "beforehand".

When we made our covenant with Allah Almighty: "Allah will put us into punishment, He'll put you into hell, look, here is hell, now you, of your own free will, look, turn to Me" — He made no such statement. He showed everyone the places they would go. Well, to those who deny Allah He said: if you deny, what do you say? Because Allah Almighty created him from His spirit, he saw Him as being like himself and did not believe in Him. He waited for the Lord of his imagination. And Allah Almighty gave him all the traits that passed through his heart, just as they were. And there He wrote: you are searching.

Now, the situation here: because they don't know these things, they interpret the verses like this. Now how do they interpret them? If only the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment — right, look, when they see the punishment — that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah's punishment is very severe, beforehand could have understood. If he understood it beforehand, he would obey Him anyway. If Allah had shown people hell and paradise, they would obey anyway. They would see. Why didn't He show them? Well, even the one who denies, if he saw paradise, would say: let me go there, fine, I want this place, and he would act accordingly.

Allah Almighty showed neither paradise nor hell. How does he know? By Allah, I know because I know the covenant I lived through. Because I also know what was shown. Can just anybody interpret this verse? What do we say? Some people take others besides Allah, the things Allah created, as partners to Allah. They love them more than Allah. And the love of the believers for Allah is more intense. Now look, pay attention to the meaning here. What do we say? They associate what Allah created as partners to Allah. They love them more than Allah. What? What they worship. They love it more than Allah. Because they have turned their backs on Allah.

Had they loved Allah, they would not love those. Now we say they love Allah more. Now look here, what comes after it? And the love of the believers for Allah is more intense and stronger.

If only the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment, could understand that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah's punishment is very severe. There is no "beforehand" here. What do we say?

If only the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment, could understand that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah's punishment is very severe. Now, there is much hidden knowledge here. In so few words.

Let me open a little of it up for you. And let me benefit from it a little too. If only the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment, could understand that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah's punishment is very severe.

That is: if only, when they see this punishment, they knew that I am Allah and turned back, He says. Turned back. But unfortunately the covenant he gave before became his destiny, and since he cannot turn back from that destiny, they remained in this punishment forever. Forever; he can no longer turn back. So still Allah Almighty says: if only, when he sees this punishment — if only — that all the severity, that is, the punishment, belongs to Allah, that is, to Me — if he knew Me, He says. Me — I would forgive him, He says. I would forgive. If he only knew Me as Allah. What does it say? That Allah's punishment is very severe — if only they could understand.

Since he can't understand, where is he going? He goes to the covenant. And since Allah Almighty will not change the covenant, and since everyone came to the world for a test, and since he took his test, well, as rebellion against Allah, as a rebel — after he has rebelled against Allah and gone, can the one who knows and the one who doesn't be the same, He says. The one who knows the truth, who obeys the truth, and the one who denies the truth — can they be the same, He says. Can you understand the meaning here? Can you understand the meaning of that "if only"? If only. Yes. How merciful Allah Almighty is, but that destinies will never change again; despite seeing so much punishment, they still think the idols they worship in their imagination will come and take revenge on Allah, and they will satisfy their nafs, escape that punishment and in the finest way live on.

Within these feelings, they can never part from them. Because they have been branded with that stamp. They have made that stamp their emblem. On their eyes a veil, in their ears a plug, their hearts sealed — their hearts too they have had sealed, it says. Yes. For them there is a painful punishment. They cannot turn back again.

Yes.

I wonder whether these parts can be understood? Where do the mistakes come from? Interpreting it from the words alone doesn't work. Interpreting alone doesn't do it. You must interpret knowing its meanings. Its meanings. You must interpret the verses knowing their meanings. Look how nicely our child here puts it. Look how nicely it is said here.

Yes. Melodies put you to sleep. Meanings, he says, wake you up. Meanings. Yes. When you explain the Quran well, it says, you're either a madman or a culprit.