Al-A'raf 27: Oh Children of Adam! Shaytan should not fool you as he fooled your father and mother when he showed them their intimate parts and had them expelled from Paradise. Verily, he and his followers can see you from where you cannot see them. Verily, devils are friends of those who do not believe in Us (in Allah).

A. Metin Saruhan · 20 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

O sons of Adam! Do not let the devil deceive you as he took your parents out of heaven by stripping them of their clothes to show them their shameful places. Because he and his followers see you from where you cannot see them. Surely, We have made the devils friends of those who do not believe.

The right translation

Oh Children of Adam! Shaytan should not fool you as he fooled your father and mother when he showed them their intimate parts and had them expelled from Paradise. Verily, he and his followers can see you from where you cannot see them. Verily, devils are friends of those who do not believe in Us (in Allah).

Explanation

The wrong opening in this verse is this: "Surely We have made the devils the friends of the unbelievers." The correct one is: "Indeed the devils are the friends of those who do not believe (in Allah)." When people have opened the verses, they have always opened them in a way that undermines Allah's attribute as the Creator and His justice. However, our Lord is exempt from all deficient attributes. If our Lord is going to make humans and devils the friends of the unbelievers, why did He give us the Will in our hands and make a covenant with us, when our Lord, as the Creator, has programmed everything according to His desire and will. This is not the glory of our Lord, nor His greatness, nor His justice.

He has written the desires and wishes of His servants, to whom He has given the Will-at-Will, as their destiny, according to their own desires and wishes, without applying any pressure, violence and fear to them. And the reason why we came to this world is that Allah (swt) sent us to this world by using the attribute of Allah (swt) so that people would not be able to ask questions to our Lord in return for the meaning of the 134th verse of Surah Taha, in return for the fact that our Lord (swt) is exempt from any imperfect attributes, and in return for proving what kind of people we are, and in return for the fact that we will not be in a position to speak and ask questions to our Lord, everyone will be sent to the places they deserve.

What is said in the video

Surah Al-A'raf, verse 27; I'm reading it the wrong way. O children of Adam! Satan, just as, to show your parents their private parts, he stripped them of their clothes and drove them out of Paradise, let him not deceive you too, it says. Look: O children of Adam! Satan, your parents, who are they? Eve and Adam (peace be upon him); to show them their private parts, just as he stripped them of their clothes and drove them out of Paradise, let him not deceive you too. Isn't he deceiving them? They walk around naked. Naked. Stark naked they walk around.

They walk around in shorts.

They walk around in nightgowns. They walk around in half a bra.

May Allah reform them.

May Allah set them right. We are ashamed to go outside, we feel embarrassed.

Just as he stripped them of their clothes to show them, and drove them out of Paradise, let him not deceive you too. For he and his followers see you from where you cannot see them. Indeed, We have made the devils the friends of those who do not believe, it says. Here, here it spoils the translation of the verse. What does it say? Indeed, We have made the devils the friends of those who do not believe, it says. If Allah is capable of everything, and Allah created a person in a certain way, and since he will be that way, made him a friend of Satan, then where is...? What does He want from that person, then?

It's correct up to the end, but at the end they went off track. It leads astray, in fact. What did it say? O children of Adam! Satan, just as, to show your parents their private parts, he stripped them of their clothes and drove them out of Paradise, let him not deceive you too. Yet everyone has gone after Satan and handed their yoke, their halter to their devils; even Satan himself runs away from them. Yes. For he and his followers see you from where you cannot see them. Indeed, the devils are the friends of those who do not believe in Us, in Allah, it says. Look, the devils are the friends of those who do not believe in Us, that is, in Allah.

So whoever takes Satan as a friend should know that he is a guest of the blazing fire. Yes.