An-Nisa 115: Those who oppose the Messenger and follow a path other than that of the believers (mu’min) after the right path has become obvious to them, We will let them continue on the path they have chosen and admit them to Hell. How evil a destination it is.

A. Metin Saruhan · 16 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

After the right path has become clear to him, whoever opposes the Prophet and follows a path other than that of the believers, we will leave him in that direction and put him in Hell. What a bad place it is.

The right translation

Those who oppose the Messenger and follow a path other than that of the believers (mu’min) after the right path has become obvious to them, We will let them continue on the path they have chosen and admit them to Hell. How evil a destination it is.

Explanation

This is the wrong opening in the verse: If he follows a way other than the way of the believers, We will leave him in that way. The correct one is: If he follows a way other than the way of the believers, he will go to Hell. Because all people are responsible for what they do of their own volition. In this verse, again blaming our Lord, they have removed the human will from human beings and made our Lord exercise His will over them. People will be held accountable for their own actions. People can wander in evil ways. They can do evil, they can even turn away from their religion. Then those who repent, when they repent, they will find Our Lord Most Forgiving, Most Accepting of repentance.

Here, when they open this verse, they mean that our Lord will close the doors of repentance and people will turn away from the paths of the believers by their disbelief, and that such people will leave Islam and change their religion, and that our Lord will put such people in Hell. Among such people there are those who return to Islam. These are called apostates, that is, apostates. If our Lord had not accepted their repentance, then our Lord would have removed His attribute of Tawwab. Thus, the meaning of the verse is that if they continue on that path, i.e. the path of disbelief, and go to the Hereafter as non-Muslims, they will go to Hell. The opening of the verse is as follows: When they pass on to the Hereafter (without repenting for continuing in that direction), they will enter Hell.

What is said in the video

We have verses one hundred fifteen and one hundred sixteen.

On page ninety-five, on page ninety-six. One hundred fifteen. What does it say? We are reading the wrong version. "After the right path has become clear to him." How nice. The verses are being explained nicely. With one single word they ascribe attributes to Allah Almighty. "After the right path has become clear to him" - through what? The prophets brought the books. And Allah Almighty gave us a fine mind. With this mind we told the crooked from the straight. And we understood that the truth, the path Allah invites us to, is truly right. That's the meaning. "After the right path has become clear to him, opposes the Prophet and follows a way other than the way of the believers, We leave him in that direction," now he has ascribed an attribute to Allah.

Allah leaves no one like that. Every person will be answerable for what they themselves do.

What does it say? "We leave him in that direction and put him into Hell." "What an evil place it is," it says. Now, the correct version of this: "if he follows a way other than the way of the believers, because he continues in that direction, he enters Hell." As long as he continues on that path, as long as he does not turn back, because when he turns back, Allah would forgive him anyway. Whereas what does it say here now? "In that direction - if he follows another way, We leave him in that direction." So: repent as much as you like. "I will leave you in that direction." But what do we say here? When he continues in that direction, because he continues, that is, if he keeps on that path until he dies and does not repent, he goes to Hell.

What an evil place it is. Now, it is always a person's own deeds. Don't drag Allah into people's doings in any way. Because Allah Almighty showed people the events. He showed them the places they would go to. He left them free in their own will. To the one who denies: you denied? Fine, you are a denier. And to the one who says "Allah, You are my Lord", knowing the secrets of their hearts, Allah Almighty ranked them degree by degree. In this case He wrote each person's own wish for them as their destiny. When he came into the world, you now say, "Allah willed it, so he did this." "Allah left him on his own path." These are tales.

Because people don't have this knowledge, they ascribed attributes to Allah. Yes.