Al-Ma'idah 12: Verily, Allah had made a covenant with the sons of Israel and had sent twelve leaders from among them. Allah said to them; “I am with you. If you establish the prayer, give the obligatory alm (zakah), believe in Allah’s Prophets, support them and give a beautiful loan to Allah (giving loans to the needy free of interest), I will surely cover your sins and put you in the Paradises beneath which rivers flow. Those who follow the path of denial after this, would surely be gone astray from the right path.
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
Surely, Allah had taken a promise from the Children of Israel (as a guarantor) and sent twelve chiefs among them. God said to them: I am with you. If you maintain the prayer, pay the zakat, believe in His Messengers, support them, and lend Allah a good loan (for the sake of Allah, lend money to those in need without interest), I will certainly cover your sins and admit you to Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Whoever among you follows the path of denial after that, he has strayed from the right path.
The right translation
Verily, Allah had made a covenant with the sons of Israel and had sent twelve leaders from among them. Allah said to them; “I am with you. If you establish the prayer, give the obligatory alm (zakah), believe in Allah’s Prophets, support them and give a beautiful loan to Allah (giving loans to the needy free of interest), I will surely cover your sins and put you in the Paradises beneath which rivers flow. Those who follow the path of denial after this, would surely be gone astray from the right path.
Explanation
Here they have opened the Verse incorrectly, as we have opened it in the previous Verse. The place that was opened wrongly: It is the place where the promise was taken.
They have opened the verses in such a way and distorted them in such a way that they have made Allah (swt) a human mind, that our Lord (swt) could not write the promises that He has taken from people, that He could not write their destiny according to the desires and wishes of people, and that people have changed the destinies that our Lord (swt) has written in the life of the world, going beyond the program of Allah (swt) and not recognizing their promises in the worldly realm.
Just as our Lord addresses people through His Prophets and sends books to them, people are free to follow His Prophets or not, and they are also free to protect the books sent by our Lord or not. Allah (swt) is always addressing people through His books, His Prophets and His scholars. If our Lord has taken a promise from the people and they do not honor that promise, does this not mean that our Lord has failed to bind the destiny of the people firmly? Can our Lord take a promise from people and people go beyond what our Lord says? This is where people have distorted the Verses.
The return of the promise that our Lord has taken from the people: If people do not listen to the promises they made to our Lord in the worldly realm and change their promises in their own way, does not Allah (swt), who has taken people's promises as a trust, fail to take care of the trust and betray the trust?
However, whatever desires and wishes each person made to our Lord in Kalu Bela while living in the world, their desires and wishes have become their destiny. No creature can go beyond their destiny and disrupt the program of this realm that our Lord has programmed. Our Lord also makes promises to people in the worldly realm. The truth of the verse is as follows: Allah made a covenant with the Children of Israel, and our Lord, who has made a covenant with all mankind, has written their destiny according to their desires and wishes. In this case, each person will pass on to the Hereafter by proving what kind of person he or she is.
What is said in the video
Here, verse 12 of Surah Al-Ma'idah has also been rendered wrongly.
Yes.
What does verse 12 say? Indeed, Allah had taken a pledge from the Children of Israel. Did Allah take a pledge only from the Children of Israel?
Look: indeed, Allah had taken a pledge from the Children of Israel. Whereas it needs to be rendered like this: Indeed, Allah also made a covenant with the Children of Israel. He made a covenant with all people, and with the Children of Israel too, it says. As guarantors, from among them twelve leaders He had also sent. Allah had said to them: I am with you. If you establish the prayer properly, give the zakat, believe in My prophets and support them, and lend Allah a goodly loan, if you lend to those in need without interest for the sake of Allah, then indeed I will cover your sins and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow.
Whoever of you disbelieves after that has strayed from the right path, it says. The ending is right, but now let us explain the correct form of the beginning. Indeed, Allah also made a covenant with the Children of Israel. From among them He had also sent 12 leaders. Allah had said to them: I am with you. If you establish the prayer properly, give the zakat, believe in My prophets and support them, and lend Allah a goodly loan, if you lend to those in need without interest for the sake of Allah, then indeed I will cover your sins. And I will admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow. Whoever of you disbelieves after that has strayed from the right path.
What is missing in this, in this verse, comes from the mistake at the beginning. What was that mistake? 'Indeed, Allah had taken a pledge from the Children of Israel,' it says. Whereas: indeed, Allah also made a covenant with the Children of Israel. That is, Allah Almighty did not make a covenant only with the Children of Israel. He had not taken a pledge from them alone. 'As guarantors, from among them twelve leaders He had sent.' Yes. From among them He had sent 12 leaders. There is no guaranteeing or anything like that here. When one is a guarantor, sir, these guarantors would bear, for others who step outside Allah's command, for those who step outside, their burden of sin; that is what it means.
That's what guarantor means. When someone borrows: 'I am guarantor for his debt; if he doesn't pay, I'll pay,' in that sense. Yes.
Yes.