At-Tawbah 24: Say; “If you love your fathers, sons, brothers, spouses, close relatives, possessions you earn, the trade, which you fear will be disrupted, and the dwellings you have affection for more than fighting on Allah’s path, wait until Allah’s orders come. Nations that continue with great sins will not attain Allah’s guidance.”

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Say: If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, the wealth you have earned, the trade you fear will fail, the dwellings you enjoy are more beloved to you than Allah, His Messenger, and striving in the way of Allah, wait until Allah brings His command. Allah does not make the society of evildoers mislead.

The right translation

Say; “If you love your fathers, sons, brothers, spouses, close relatives, possessions you earn, the trade, which you fear will be disrupted, and the dwellings you have affection for more than fighting on Allah’s path, wait until Allah’s orders come. Nations that continue with great sins will not attain Allah’s guidance.”

Explanation

This is where it goes wrong: Allah does not guide a party of transgressors. The truth is: The people who continue in transgression will not attain the guidance of Allah.

They are doing the same misunderstanding in this verse as they did in the 19th verse of this Surah. In the same way, we are putting the footnote of the 19th verse here as a repetition, since they open the verses incorrectly by repeating themselves. The only word that has changed in this Verse is the word "those who continue to be unjust" instead of "those who continue to be unjust".

Are there not those who are guided among the community of transgressors? Is this not an epithet for our Lord? As we have said, the verses of the Qur'an have been opened in a contradictory way because of their incomplete and incorrect opening.

When they opened the verses, they opened them incorrectly because they did not know the meanings of some of the verses. Those who are not aware of the covenant between people and Allah (swt) have evaluated people based on their current situation. However, people are guided when they realize that their ways were wrong after they were in the situation they were in, and they repent and enter the religion of Islam.

The origins of the wrong opening of the verses are due to the wrong opening of Verse 172 of Sûrah A'râf. Our Lord's doors of repentance are open. If those who are outside the religion of Islam die without repenting, they will go to the Hereafter without faith and without guidance. However, the door of repentance is open until the end of life. If they repent, they will go to the Hereafter as Muslims.

What is said in the video

You shouldn't be telling dream interpretations. Yes. Verse 24. Of Surah At-Tawbah. Say: If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your kin, the wealth you have earned, the trade whose decline you fear, the dwellings you are pleased with are dearer to you than Allah, His Messenger and jihad in the way of Allah, then until Allah brings about His command, wait. Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people. Just like before: as long as the disobedient people continues in that state, Allah's guidance cannot be attained. It goes on and on and on. At the end, with one word, they ascribe an attribute to Allah Almighty.

And we mark them, the verses, as wrong just as they are. At the end we also say: Say, if your fathers, your sons, your brothers, our spouses, our kin, what we earned, the wealth, the trade whose decline you fear, the dwellings you are pleased with are dearer to you than Allah, His Messenger and jihad in Allah's way, then until Allah brings about His command, wait. These parts are all correct. Together with them. Communities that persist in disobedience cannot attain Allah's guidance. How beautiful. It is always by man's own partial will (irade-i cüziye), by the decisions he made, that the script of his covenant was written (?); as an actor he plays that script here.

Why should Allah change his script? If He changes his script, why not change mine, why not change that one's, why not change the unbeliever's? Yet what does Allah say? In a verse He says: unless We will, you cannot will. What does this mean? They don't even know its meaning. We made a covenant with you. We wrote the destiny of this covenant for you. If there is a power that can change this script, this destiny, it is Me, He says. Only I can change it. But a word has also gone forth from Me, He says. Paradise and Hell. With Us is a book, preserved in the Preserved Tablet. Nothing is added to it afterwards, nor taken away, He says.

Go ahead. What is written is written, what is done is done. Why do you blame Allah? Why don't you look for this in yourself? Why don't you blame yourself? Why do you fall for Satan's whispered temptation, put his lasso around your neck, follow him dragging and being dragged along, and turn your back on Allah's word? Allah Almighty says: aduvvî ve aduvvekum. What is this? Your enemies and those who are enemies of Allah. We interpret this wrongly too. Enemy of Allah, Allah's enemy, it says. Allah is no one's enemy. Allah does not fit in my mind, nor does He fit in yours. Allah – eleysallahu bi-ahkemi'l-hâkimîn.

Everyone will be called to account for what they did. In this case. Who is my enemy? Well, my enemy is in me, in me. I have three enemies. My nafs is one. My nafs. The world is two. It deceives me. Satan is three. All three enemies are in me. Three friends are in me too. I have reason. Reason is one. There is the inspiration Allah gave you. That is two. The third didn't come to my mind.

You have faith. Faith. Three. Faith. Reason. Inspiration. Inspiration. Now. Three friends too. Three enemies. The will is yours. If you want, join the ranks of the enemy. If you want, join the ranks of the truth. Why do you blame Allah?

Yes.