Al-An'am 108: Do not revile the ones who worship anything other than Allah. Otherwise, they will revile Allah unknowingly. Thus, the actions of every nation appear attractive to them. At the end, their return will be to their Lord. And then, Allah will tell them about their actions.

A. Metin Saruhan · 20 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Do not insult those who worship other than Allah; Then they also curse Allah unknowingly. Thus, We have made attractive to every nation their own affairs. In the end, their return is to their Lord. Now He will let them know what they have done.

The right translation

Do not revile the ones who worship anything other than Allah. Otherwise, they will revile Allah unknowingly. Thus, the actions of every nation appear attractive to them. At the end, their return will be to their Lord. And then, Allah will tell them about their actions.

Explanation

This is the wrong place in this verse: So We have made their deeds seem attractive to every nation. Correct: So that every nation is attracted to its deeds. They made the same mistake in this verse. If Allah has made people's own deeds seem attractive to them, then are they not doing what our Lord has said, and do they not receive rewards? But if it is made attractive and people are burdened with the burden of sin, is that justice? Remember when our Lord made a covenant with people. He had written their desires and wishes as their destiny. In this case, after proving what kind of a human being they were by receiving rewards and sins through the actual actions that each person would do with their desires and wishes, they would be transferred to the Hereafter and be held accountable in the Court-i Kübra. Now doesn't this contradict and contradict what our Lord says in other verses? Each nation will be held accountable in the Court-i Kübra by voluntarily committing the burden of sin or the deeds of good deeds that seem attractive to it with its own desire and will. The truth of the verse is as we have explained. Thus, every nation is attracted to its deeds.

What is said in the video

Among the wrongly rendered verses, verse 108 is here.

Do not insult those who worship other than Allah. It's right. Because he will insult our Allah too. May Allah protect us. Then they too will insult Allah unknowingly, it says. Correct. Thus to every community We have made their own deeds seem attractive. No, here it ascribed an attribute to Allah Almighty. Why did it do that? Let's read this now; below we'll explain it, we'll tell you the correct one, below we'll explain. If Allah made attractive to every community what it would do, He programmed it within His own will. Like what? Just as He programmed animals according to His own wish and desire and doesn't punish them, people too, if He made attractive the deed they would do, He won't punish them either.

That is Allah's justice. In this case, to people the deeds they would do within their own will seemed attractive. Yes. What does it say?

Thus to every community We have made their own deeds seem attractive. In the end their return is to their Lord. Then He will inform them of what they did, it says.

Here it says He made the deed attractive to them, doesn't it, and having done so, in the end it's as if He says: I will inform him of what he did. Well, Allah Almighty programmed him for what he would do anyway. If he then does that deed, what need is there to inform me of the deed I did, sir? He, within his own will, found evil attractive and, either in usury, or gambling, or killing people, or lying, or swindling people, chose a path for himself and found that path attractive. Thieves love stealing despite having their hands cut off. Swindlers. They still swindle people. That path seems easy to them like this.

It looks like a way of earning easily. And they have perfected those traits. They know very well which people they will deceive. And they deceive them that way. They take their money. And since Allah Almighty, from the particle to the globe, is everywhere present and watching, He says: I will inform you of what you did. Otherwise, Allah Almighty did not program him that way. He had himself programmed. Where? At the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm. When Allah Almighty made a covenant with people, he had his pledge written for himself as his wish. Yes.

Now we read the correct one here. Do not insult those who worship other than Allah. Then they too will insult Allah unknowingly. Thus to every community what it will do seems attractive, it says. Look how nice. What it will do seems attractive. It's not that Allah made it look attractive. If Allah made it attractive, then one has to see this, to know this: He would remove my will, program His own will over me, just like a robot He would program me with His own wish and desire. Then it would have been made attractive to me. Yes. They've always made up words like this. To ascribe attributes to Allah Almighty.

They've played word games here.

Let's read it once more. Do not insult those who worship other than Allah. Then they too will insult Allah unknowingly. Thus to every community what it will do seems attractive. In the end their return is to their Lord. Then He will inform them of what they did.