Ali 'Imran 13: Verily, there is a lesson for you in the situation of the two groups that faced each other (in the battle of Badr). One is a group fighting for the path of Allah, the other a group that sees the others as twice their size. Allah supports with Allah’s help whoever desires from Allah. Surely in this, there is a lesson for those who can see.

A. Metin Saruhan · 15 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

There is a great lesson for you in the situation of these two groups that met (at Badr). One is a group fighting in the way of Allah, and the other is an unbeliever group who clearly sees these as twice their own. Allah supports whom He wills with His help. Of course, there is a great lesson in this for those who have insight.

The right translation

Verily, there is a lesson for you in the situation of the two groups that faced each other (in the battle of Badr). One is a group fighting for the path of Allah, the other a group that sees the others as twice their size. Allah supports with Allah’s help whoever desires from Allah. Surely in this, there is a lesson for those who can see.

Explanation

The wrong opening in this verse: (Allah supports whom He wills with His help). When they opened the Verses of the Holy Qur'an, they used our Lord's will on people. In the previous Verses, our Lord says in His Verse: "The passing away of your scholars is like the passing away of the sun and the coming of darkness. When it is said that those who enter the door of that knowledge know, we said that our Lord does not have a wish on people by reforming their ego, that people make a covenant with our Lord in the address Elestu bi Rabbikum, and that at the end of this covenant, people's desires and wishes are written to them as fate, and when people come to the world, they prove what kind of a person they are by living their fate.

Our Lord does not discriminate between people. If we elaborate on this point, it will be better understood.

Allah (swt) created man as a particle of his soul. He gave man a mind to govern himself and to judge himself with his own will. In this case, He made a covenant with human beings, as our Lord says in the 172nd verse of Surah A'râf: (172- He made the descendants of the children of Adam to bear witness against them, so that you may not say on the Day of Resurrection, "We were unaware of this", and said, "I am your Lord: I am your Lord. (They said) yes, we bear witness (to that).

So after man was created in the realm of Lahut, when he made a covenant with Allah (swt), what did he ask of our Lord, and Allah (swt) gave man what he wanted and wrote his destiny, what does Allah (swt) want from man if Allah (swt) removes His will from man and our Lord exercises His will on man? If Allah, who has the power and might, puts whom He wills in Paradise and whom He wills in Hell, if He creates whoever He wills as a disbeliever and whoever He wills as a Muslim, if He bestows His mercy on whomever He wills and withholds His mercy from whomever He wills, are we not characterizing our Lord by making Allah (swt) unjust among His servants?

In this case, those who ask Allah will be guided. Those who turn their backs on Allah and do not embrace the religion of Islam, those who rebel against the commands of our Lord, those who disregard the laws of Allah, those who ascribe partners to Allah, those who obey the Verses of Allah that suit them and deny the others, will surely be punished with the punishment they deserve, and they will be included in Hell, the place of torment, which is said to be an evil bed.

This world is the shadow of the Hereafter. In this world, if people disobey the laws of the state, cheat people, kill people, etc., and commit crimes outside the laws of the state, and are caught and sent to prison for their crimes, did the judge send these people to prison, or did they imprison themselves for their crimes? Of course, they punished themselves for their crimes.

Therefore, when people make a covenant with Allah (swt) in Elestu bi Rabbikum with our Lord, if their own desires and wishes are their destiny, and if people are punished or rewarded for the actual deeds they do with their desires and wishes within this destiny, they will be rewarded for their own deeds. In this case, since people are responsible for the decisions they make of their own will while living in this world, Allah (swt) has no will over people. Those who ask Allah will go to heaven and those who ask Allah will go to hell.

This is entirely the result of the actual actions of human beings based on the decisions they make within their own will. Those who ask Allah for guidance will be guided. Those who turn their backs on Allah and do not embrace the religion of Islam, those who rebel against the commands of our Lord, who disregard the laws of Allah, who associate partners with Allah, or who obey the Verses of Allah that suit them and deny the others, will surely be punished accordingly. They will also enter Hell, the place of torment.

What is said in the video

There are verses thirteen and fourteen. Translated wrongly. Now here's what we'll do. First we'll read the wrong version and not explain it at all.

After reading the wrong version we'll read the correct one. And we'll explain where the mistake comes from, and the correct one too. First we're reading the wrong version. In the state of these two groups that met face to face at Badr there is a great lesson for you. One a group fighting in the way of Allah, the other a disbelieving group that clearly saw them an unbelieving group that saw them as twice their number. Allah supports whom He wills with His help; surely in this, for those with insight, there is a great lesson, it says.

Here I'm reading the wrong version once more, then we read the correct one, so that, actually, if you had our book in your hands, with the wrong and the right in it, yes, where its mistake is, you would follow it better from there, sir. In the state of these two groups that met face to face at Badr there is a great lesson for you. One a group fighting in the way of Allah, the other a disbelieving group that clearly saw them as twice an unbelieving group that saw them as twice their number. Allah supports whom He wills with His help. Surely in this, for those with insight, there is a great lesson.

Now I'm reading the correct one.

In the state of the two groups that met face to face at Badr there is a great lesson for you. Yes. One a group fighting in the way of Allah, the other a disbelieving group that clearly, an unbelieving group that saw them as twice their number. Now we're straightening the crooked part. Allah supports with His help whoever among you wills it. Allah — the one who wills, who says 'Allah', who asks Allah for help. Surely in this, for those with insight, there are great lessons. That is, that there is no god besides Allah, and that Allah Almighty, until the Day of Judgment, His religion will complete; those who fight in the way of Allah with the attitude 'if I die, a martyr; if I live, a veteran', and that after death, leaving the body to this garbage-heap world, he will go in spirit into the presence of Allah Almighty and finally give account there — people of insight who know this, it says.

They receive this with very fine lessons, it says. Yes.

Now we come to it.