At-Tawbah 115: After a nation has come to the right path, until Allah has declared to them the things they will abstain from, Allah will not hold them accountable. Verily, Allah knows everything.

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

After Allah has guided a people to the right path, He will not lead them astray until he makes clear to them what they should avoid. Allah is all-knowing.

The right translation

After a nation has come to the right path, until Allah has declared to them the things they will abstain from, Allah will not hold them accountable. Verily, Allah knows everything.

Explanation

This is where this verse goes wrong: He will not lead them astray. The truth is: He will not hold them responsible.

Our Lord guides no one to the right path and leads no one astray; every human being has written his or her desire and will as a destiny to our Lord when he or she made a covenant with our Lord. In the worldly realm, people play out the script they have written like an artist. They prove what kind of a person they are. They have always attributed shortcomings to Allah (swt) because they opened the verse incorrectly. The truth of the verse is: He will not hold them responsible.

Our Lord says in the 59th verse of Surah Al-Qasas: "We will not torment a town until We send messengers to the center of that town to announce the truth." In this case, our Lord does not hold anyone responsible for what He has not announced.

What is said in the video

Yes, Surah At-Tawbah, verse 115. Allah would not lead a people astray after guiding them to the right path until He makes clear to them what they should guard against. Allah knows everything very well. From top to bottom, they rendered this wrongly. From top to bottom, astonishing. Look what it says: after Allah has guided a people to the right path. Allah has not guided anyone to the right path. Look, I say it firmly: Allah has not guided anyone to the right path.

Now we will prove it with verses. In verse 72 of Surah Al-A'raf, when Allah Almighty made the covenant with people, if within the human being's own will He gave his desire and wish to him as his aim, his aim as his destiny, if Allah did not steer those people there by His own desire and wish in the direction He wanted, and if He left the human being free in his own will and wrote his desire and wish for him, his aim, as destiny, how can you say here that after Allah guides a people to the right path He will lead them astray until He makes clear to them what to guard against, and so on? Allah leads no one astray.

He leads no one astray. We always say it, pay close attention here. Will is twofold. Will: universal will, partial will. Now, let us open this up a little for you. Even though it will weigh heavily on people's minds, it does not weigh on a developing mind. Or it does not weigh on people who use their reason. Allah Almighty is the universal will, that is, the universal spirit; the human being is the partial will, that is, the human being to whom He gave a part of His spirit. You cannot deny this either. Because Allah Almighty says: when I breathed My spirit, into what? Into Adam's body. Yes. And when I breathed My spirit into Mary, He says, He says exactly, the creation of Jesus is like the creation of Adam, He says.

Because people would fall into shirk here, because they would say Jesus' father is Allah, Allah Almighty makes this verse known to people this way too. In that case, since the human being is a part from his Lord, here

when Allah Almighty created His servants, did He make a distinction between His servants, so that it says: after guiding people to the right path? After guiding a people to the right path, I mean, to the other people: I created you but I don't love you. I created you for Hell. And it does say so. In verse 179 of Surah Al-A'raf it says so. What does it say? A wrongly rendered verse. Look what it says. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Ve lekad zere'nâ li-cehenneme kesîran mine'l-cinni ve'l-ins. Indeed We created many of mankind and jinn for Hell, it says. Come on, can Allah be like that? Now in this case the same renderings of the verses, the renderings of the wrongly rendered verses, what do they say here? Allah, after guiding a people to the right path, until He makes clear to them what to guard against, will not lead them astray. Well, Allah doesn't lead anyone astray anyway.

The person is free in his will, he asked Allah Almighty for his aim, and Allah Almighty said: oh, if your aim is this, take it, and programmed it into him; he will now continue within that program. In this case how can you (?) here? And what does it say after that? Allah knows everything very well. Of course Allah Almighty will know very well. Would He not know what He created? Would He not know what they want? You might ask me a question like this. Hodja, maybe we were confused before Allah Almighty and said this to Him. I mean, if we managed to say "we can't recognise You, we couldn't recognise You", well, why did He seal our hearts like this?

You might ask this too, I mean. So when they ask such a question, Allah Almighty says this verse. We know the secrets of your hearts, He says. What you need, which is in the most remote corner of your heart, what you need but do not know, We know, He says. So you, however confused you get, because He knows the aim of your desire and wish better than you, exactly in that will of yours, the knowledge you will rule by in your will, He works into you just as it is, as character. Yes. Allah is just. You cannot doubt Allah's justice either. Yes.