Al-Anfal 60: As much as your strength permits, prepare horses for war against them that are tied and fed. With them, you will instill fear in those who are enemies against Allah and against you and in those who you do not know but whom Allah knows. That which you spend in Allah’s path will be paid back to you without any loss and you will not suffer injustice.

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Prepare as much force as you can against them (enemies) and horses that are tied and fed for jihad. With it, you frighten the enemy of Allah, your enemy, and those other than them, whom you do not know, but whom Allah knows (the enemy). Whatever you spend in the way of Allah will be repaid to you in full, and you will never be wronged.

The right translation

As much as your strength permits, prepare horses for war against them that are tied and fed. With them, you will instill fear in those who are enemies against Allah and against you and in those who you do not know but whom Allah knows. That which you spend in Allah’s path will be paid back to you without any loss and you will not suffer injustice.

Explanation

This is where this verse is wrong: With him the enemy of Allah, and the truth is: Those who are enemies of Allah with it.

They opened the verse in such a way that Allah (swt) could not resist the people He created, He became an enemy to them, and He says to the people, "Feed them fattened horses, and prepare for them (the enemies) as much strength as you can against them (the enemies), and horses that are tied and fed for jihad, against those whom I am an enemy and against your enemies.

When people have opened this Verse, they have not understood this Verse or they have tried to open the Verse without understanding the meaning of the Verse. Our Lord says in His Verse that even if the human and jinn groups gather, they cannot harm Allah. People have tried to write the meanings of the Verses by fitting our Lord into their own minds. Just as Allah (swt) created human beings incomplete, they have made Allah (swt) inclusive according to their own minds. They have opened the Qur'anic translations falsely. In this case, they have turned the opening of the verses into superstitions by opening the verses with contradictions that do not correspond to each other by attributing our Lord, who is exalted from incomplete attributes.

Our Lord is not an enemy to anyone. He patiently waits for people to return to Him. Finally, after the Resurrection, each soul will be reckoned for what it has done and will be sent to their rightful places. In this case, the correct opening of the verse is: (With it you frighten those who are enemies of Allah, and your enemies, and others besides them, whom you do not know, but Allah knows).

What is said in the video

Surah Al-Anfal, we have come to verse 60. Surah Al-Anfal, verse 60 reads: Against them, the enemies, prepare whatever force you can and horses tied and reared for jihad. Correct. With it, Allah's enemy, Allah's enemy — Allah is no one's enemy.

Here it goes astray. It translates the verse wrongly. Allah's enemy — Allah is no one's enemy. Every person is an enemy to his own self. Allah, however, will punish those who are enemies to themselves. With it you frighten Allah's enemy, your enemy, and others besides them whom you do not know and Allah knows, hostile people. Whatever you spend in Allah's way will be repaid to you in full, and you will never be wronged, it says. The rest is correct. Now we read the correct one. With them, against them, the enemies, prepare whatever force you can and horses tied and reared for jihad. This part is correct anyway. Up there it says the same.

Now we have come to the wrong part. We are reading you the correct one. With it, those hostile to Allah, those hostile to Allah, your enemy, and others besides them whom you do not know and Allah knows, of hostile people, you frighten. You frighten such people. Whatever you spend in Allah's way will be repaid to you in full. You will never be wronged, says Allah Almighty. Yes. In one small place, with a play on words, they ascribe qualities to Allah Almighty. There are many more like this, but we, roughly, picked them out. There are many more. We picked them out and submitted them to the Diyanet too.

We gave them our book as well. They are preparing a new book too. They will prepare it. And our intention was this. God willing, they will invite us too, and we, by explaining some things to them, could help them even better — that is the intention we hold. But pride and arrogance, selfish feelings, belong to Satan alone. According to the hadith that says, if knowledge is in China, go and get it, people, wherever they see knowledge, ought to take knowledge from that person. Once we pushed aside the people of knowledge, this is how, stark naked, we were stripped. Doesn't Allah Almighty tell us this?

Beware, lest Satan, just as he stripped your father Adam and our mother Eve, your mother Eve, strip you too and leave you stark naked, He says. There you go: when we abandoned our scholars, it was then that this misery, this immorality, this — to Allah (?) decency and manners, the decency and manners of the human He created honourable — we did away with them. Like baboons, the private parts, the parts that even animals cover with their tails, we (?). People exposed them. Yes.