Al-Hajj 51: And those who race with each other to thwart Our verses, they are the people of hell.

A. Metin Saruhan · 26 September 2016 · Al-Hajj

Translation

And those who race with each other to thwart Our verses, they are the people of hell.

Tafsir

Those who disbelieve in Allah and talk back and forth about the Verses of Allah, those who say that the Verses of Allah are outdated in order to turn those who are judged by the Verses of Allah from the path of Allah, those who say that the Verses of Allah are outdated, those who think that the filthy and swampy paths that their ego desires are life, Those who compete with each other to make these ways look good to people, who compliment each other in each other's presence as if they have done a great heroic deed by opposing the Verses of Allah, buy Allah's wrath by turning away from His mercy in order to satisfy their worldly desires for a moment. They have no share in the Hereafter. They will be alone and desolate on the Day of Reckoning. These are the owners of Hell, the abode of everlasting torment.

What is said in the video

Surah Al-Hajj, verse 51: As for those who, concerning Our verses, in order to render them ineffective, as if leaving one another behind, race — those are the people of Hell, it says.

The verses — as for those who, concerning Our verses, to render them ineffective, race as if to leave one another behind — and today we see it.

What a jihad of falsehood they are waging against Allah's verses, their hostility toward those who live Islam, how these people lay out their feelings toward Allah and their hatred toward Allah and put them on display — we see this.

These people, even if they were the most intelligent people in the universe, are even more ignorant than Satan.

More ignorant than Satan. The intelligent person is the one who knows his Lord. That is the intelligent person. Well, is the one who knows his Lord intelligent? The shepherd roaming the village, despite being in such ignorance, is he intelligent? He is far more intelligent than you.

My saying (?), now I will give you the answer. If you deny Allah and are deceived by the paltry gains of this world and love the world like a zaqqum flower blooming in a swamp, and the hereafter, your future — in this world your life of a few hours compared to the hereafter, for eternal, endless torment if you trade it, do you have any sense? Are you an intelligent person?

The shepherd on the mountain remembers his Lord, he does his duty, he does his shepherding. You have studied, you do your own profession. What difference is there between you? That shepherd is more intelligent than you.

Yes. Therefore, therefore, as for those who, concerning Our verses, to render them ineffective, race as if to leave one another behind — those are the people of Hell. May Allah protect us from such a state. Yes.

Our verses concerning, we read them. Those who deny Allah and talk disrespectfully about Allah's verses, who, to turn those bound by Allah's verses away from Allah's path, say that Allah's verses are out of date; who, taking the filthy and swampy ways their nafs desires for life, to make these ways look attractive to people, race with one another; who in each other's company, as if by opposing Allah's verses they had performed a great act of heroism, to one another pay compliments — to satisfy their momentary worldly whims of the nafs, they distance themselves from Allah's mercy and buy His wrath.

They have no share in the hereafter. On that Day of Reckoning they are utterly alone. These are the companions of a Hell (?) of eternal torment.