Al-Anfal 70: Oh Prophet! To the captives that you hold, say, “Allah knows whether there is goodness in your hearts or not. If you turn to goodness, Allah will give to you something better than that which was taken from you and Allah will forgive you. Indeed, Allah is Ghafoor (Forgiving) and Raheem (the One who very generously accepts repentance).
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The misinterpretation
O Prophet! Say to the captives in your hands; If Allah knows that there is good in your hearts, He will give you something better than what has been taken from you and forgive you. For God is Forgiving, Merciful.
The right translation
Oh Prophet! To the captives that you hold, say, “Allah knows whether there is goodness in your hearts or not. If you turn to goodness, Allah will give to you something better than that which was taken from you and Allah will forgive you. Indeed, Allah is Ghafoor (Forgiving) and Raheem (the One who very generously accepts repentance).
Explanation
This is where this verse goes wrong: If Allah knows that there is good in your hearts, and the truth is: Allah knows whether there is good in your hearts or not.
It is because people are ignorant of the covenant with our Lord that they have opened the Verses according to their minds. Here this Verse contradicts Verse 172 of Surah al-A'râf. They have wrongly opened the verse as follows: (Our Lord created human beings and sent them to the world to see what they would do). In this case, by opening the verse incorrectly, they have reduced our Lord to the state of mind of incompletely created human beings, just as a human being knows whether a human being is good or bad by trying another human being, and they have characterized our Lord by opening His verses with this understanding. They have made Him ignorant of the future. Our Lord made a covenant with each and every human being at Kalu Bela in the address Elestu bi Rabbikum, and wrote everyone's destiny as his destiny. In this case, there is not a single creature that will come until the Day of Judgment that we do not know what it will do. Also, according to the verse "We know the secrets of your hearts" (if Allah knows that there is good in your hearts), by saying that our Lord is unaware of the future, and at the same time, by removing the covenant, they have turned the verse into superstition by separating it from its meaning according to their minds.
What is said in the video
Yes. We are looking here. Verse 70 of Surah Al-Anfal, a verse that has been translated wrongly. What does it say? O Prophet! Say to the captives in your hands: if Allah knows there is good in your hearts — look, look, look: if Allah knows there is good in your hearts — as if Allah does not know. Come on, Allah, who knows what every single living being until the Day of Judgement will do, Allah, in whose presence a leaf on the trees does not stir without His permission, does not stir. What kind of understanding of the verse is this? Since verses do not contradict one another, what kind of person translates it like this? O Prophet, say to the captives in your hands: if Allah knows there is good in your hearts, than the ransom taken from you He will give you something better.
Yes. What do we say? O Prophet — I am reading the correct one now. Say to the captives in your hands: Allah knows whether (?) your hearts are good, it says. Look now. What does it say here? Say to the captives in your hands: if Allah knows there is good in your hearts. Where do you get this from, man? How can you ascribe such things to Allah, my child? Who are you to make Allah, by your own reasoning, well, unaware of people's states? What kind of translation is this? Whereas: O Prophet, say to the captives in your hands: Allah knows whether your hearts (?) are good or not. Of course, which verse does this support?
We know the secrets of your hearts, He says. We know the secrets of your hearts. Yes. If you turn to good, something better than what was taken from you to you (?). He is Forgiving. He is Merciful. What was taken from you? Your freedom. Allah grants you more than that, He says. Yes. Ah, the world. The world.
The world.