Al-A'raf 101: Those nations; We are informing you about some of the news about them. Verily, their Prophets had brought to them clear proofs. But they were not to believe in truths that they had denied before. This is how the infidels have made Allah seal their hearts.
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
Here are those countries... We tell you some of their news. Surely their Prophet brought them clear proofs. But they would not believe the truths they had denied before. This is how Allah seals the hearts of the disbelievers.
The right translation
Those nations; We are informing you about some of the news about them. Verily, their Prophets had brought to them clear proofs. But they were not to believe in truths that they had denied before. This is how the infidels have made Allah seal their hearts.
Explanation
The wrong opening here is this: "This is how Allah seals the hearts of the disbelievers. The correct version is: "This is how the disbelievers make Allah seal their hearts."
The meaning of this verse was opened in the previous verse and its copy is placed in the footnote of this verse. They have attributed shortcomings to our Lord by constantly opening the verses in reverse. As we have always said, Allah (swt) created His servants to know His Essence. He does not seal the heart of any of His servants, nor does He exclude them from His Essence. By their own will, people either have their hearts sealed by our Lord, or they turn their backs on their Creator and do not want to know our Lord. Or they disobey the commands of our Lord, disobeying His verses.
Did our Lord then seal their hearts or make them hell-bound? If every human being is free in his own will, then each person will be rewarded for what he has done. To attribute this to our Lord for the crimes that people commit of their own will and desire is to take away the justice of our Lord. It is people exonerating the servants created by our Lord. In order to accuse Allah (swt), they say that the Creator created us like this and the person has done his duty. Those who open the verses in this way by perverting them are in shame.
What is said in the video
will have bought. Here, in verse 101, a verse that was translated wrongly.
Those are the lands; We are telling you some of their news. We read the wrong one here. Pardon? It's coming. Those are the lands;
We are telling you some of their news. Indeed, their messengers had brought them clear proofs. Up to here it's all correct. But they were not going to believe in the truths they had denied before. This is correct too. Thus Allah seals the hearts of the disbelievers, it says. Now here they translated the very last sentence wrongly. What does it say? Thus Allah seals the hearts of the disbelievers. It says Allah seals the disbelievers' hearts like this; if so, those who continue in disbelief later become Muslims. For that reason it means Allah did not fully seal that disbeliever's heart, or He skipped that disbeliever, or forgot him. Or, because He loves him, He said: come over to this side unsealed. So if, in a way that ascribes attributes to Allah Almighty, in these meanings they translate the verses, they will have ascribed attributes to Allah Almighty; but this verse is not like this. That is, it is to be translated like this.
What do we say? Let's read it from the beginning. Those are the lands; We are telling you some of their news. Indeed, their messengers had brought them clear proofs. But what they had denied before, what they had denied before, what is this? What they had denied before: when Allah Almighty made the covenant with people, there, because he did not believe in Allah Almighty, saying 'You are my Lord', you see, into the group of those on the left he was included. In this case: but they were not going to believe in the truths they had denied before. Look how beautiful. Because they had denied these before.
They are not going to believe. Because he gave his covenant that way, had it written that way. Thus the disbelievers have Allah seal their hearts. Who? The disbelievers. Those who have their hearts sealed are the disbelievers. But when it says 'the disbelievers' hearts', that is, 'Allah seals the hearts of the disbelievers like this', it covers all disbelievers. But here: thus the disbelievers have Allah seal their hearts. The case of the disbelievers who have their hearts sealed. Here now the disbelievers are divided into parts. That is, those among them who will turn to Islam are separate here.
And the disbelievers who have their hearts sealed are separate. And there is no return for them. That is, one must grasp the meanings very well. One must distinguish the words very well.
Yes.