Al-A'raf 51: They (the infidels) are the ones who turned their religion into an amusement and entertainment, the worldly life deceived them. As they have ignored the fact that they will be facing this Day and knowingly denied (and ignored) Our verses, We too, ignore them today!

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Those who took their religion as an amusement and a game, but the worldly life deceived them. Just as they forgot that they would meet this Day and knowingly deny Our Verses, so we forget them today.

The right translation

They (the infidels) are the ones who turned their religion into an amusement and entertainment, the worldly life deceived them. As they have ignored the fact that they will be facing this Day and knowingly denied (and ignored) Our verses, We too, ignore them today!

Explanation

Where this verse goes wrong is here: "Those disbelievers who took their religion as a pastime and a game, and the life of this world deceived them." The truth is: "Those disbelievers who were deceived by the life of this world and took their religion as a pastime and play."

There is no life and life in the world so that the world deceives people. People have been deceived by the attractiveness of the worldly world and have made their religion a pastime and a game. They have forgotten their own creation. They have thrown the verses behind their ears, as our Lord says in His Verse: (Don't you ever ponder, don't you ever think). They were immersed in the world without thinking about where they came from, where they are going, how this world was created and what will happen in the end. They forgot our Lord who created them. People who think that the world is just a game, people who spend their lives playing games, people who take their religion as entertainment, our Lord will send such people to hell in the hereafter and leave them there for eternity.

What is said in the video

Surah Al-A'raf, verse 51, has also been translated wrongly. We read its wrong version too. Those disbelievers who took their religion as amusement and play, and the life of the world deceived them. Just as they forgot that they would meet this day of theirs, and the verses, life, knowingly denied Our verses, so today We forget them, it says. I'm reading that part again. Look, understand it well. Those disbelievers who took their religion as amusement and play, and the life of the world deceived them. with this day of theirs just as they forgot this and knowingly denied Our verses, We too forget them today, it says. Where, let's see, is the mistake in this?

Here we wrote this part wrong too, in fact. Let's correct it. Yes.

Now I'm reading you the correct one. Those disbelievers who took their religion as amusement and play. Correct. And the life of the world deceived them. Why should the life of the world deceive me? Does the world have life? Does it have a soul? What does it have that it would deceive me? Now, how meaningless the words are. The life of the world, it says, deceived them. Whereas: those disbelievers who were deceived by the life of the world and took their religion as amusement and play. They let themselves be deceived by the life of the world. And what does it say here? Those disbelievers who took their religion as amusement and play, and the life of the world deceived them.

The world deceived me. Had it not deceived me, had I not been deceived; if the world deceived you, whereas you were deceived yourself, yourself. Those disbelievers who were deceived by the life of the world, were deceived by the life of the world. A person is himself deceived by the life of the world. Otherwise the world's life does not deceive him. When the world has no life, no life, how should it deceive him? But by this life they were deceived, you see, and took their religion as amusement and play. Just as they forgot that they would meet this day of theirs, that is, by 'this day' He means the Day of Judgment, the Supreme Court, the day they will be called to account in the presence of Allah Almighty, you see, forgot, forgot, and knowingly denied Our verses, so We too forget them today, it says.

What is the meaning of 'We forget them'? We forget them. Whoever Allah Almighty cuts off from His mercy, no one will intercede for. Prophets included. Yes.