At-Tawbah 85: Their possessions and children should not impress you. This is because with these, their punishment on earth only increases and their lives come out with hardship because they are deniers.

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Do not let their wealth and children envy you. This is because Allah only wants to increase their torment in this world and for them to die as disbelievers with difficulty.

The right translation

Their possessions and children should not impress you. This is because with these, their punishment on earth only increases and their lives come out with hardship because they are deniers.

Explanation

This is where the mistake is made: Allah only wants to increase their torment in this world and to make it difficult for them to die as disbelievers. The truth is: For this will only increase their torment in this world, and it will be difficult for them to live, because they are disbelievers.

When they opened the verses, they opened the verses backwards and put all the blame on Allah (swt). If people's own desires and wishes were written as their destiny when they made a covenant with Allah (swt) in Kalu Bela, then every human being will be held accountable for their own deeds. Although our Lord knows what His creatures are, He sends them Prophets and scholars. He extends His Mercy to all His creatures in the universe. In this case, although our Lord wants people to know Him and to be grateful for the blessings given to them, every human being who goes beyond the laws of our Lord will be rewarded for what he or she has done in the Court-i Kübra.

Suppose a father has thousands of sons. If one or more of them rebels against the father and they are caught and punished, doesn't the father feel pity for them, no matter how many of them rebelled against him? But if those sons, despite being punished, still rebel against the father and spew hatred, the father will let them stay there. These people who are the inhabitants of eternal hell, because they are waiting for the Lord of their imagination, because they live with the feelings of revenge against our Lord who created them, and because these feelings of theirs are written as their destiny, and because their feelings will never change again, they will remain there forever.

Here is the correct opening of the verse: Let not their wealth and their children envy you. For this will only increase their torment in this world, and their lives will be difficult for them because they are disbelievers.

What is said in the video

cannot attain guidance. That's how it should end. Yes. Verse 85: Let not their wealth and their children impress you. We came across the same thing in the other verse. For Allah only wants to multiply their punishment in this world through these, and wants their souls to depart with difficulty while they are disbelievers, it says. With difficulty. Let not their wealth and children impress you, we read the correct one, for through these their punishments only grow in this world, their punishments grow; because they are disbelievers their souls depart with difficulty, with difficulty. Yes, otherwise saying He wants them to depart with difficulty means desiring something, for example, I desire such a thing in you, I want it to be like this, would Allah be like that? Isn't that so?

What does it say there? In the correct one: because they are disbelievers, their souls depart with difficulty. Yes. What does Allah Almighty say in the verse? Which verse does this one correspond to?

The angels striking their backs. Yes. As their souls leave, it says, the angels strike their hands, their faces, their faces and their backs, it says, and take their souls, it says. Yes.

The verses always support one another. This (?) right here anyway.