Hud 56: “I depend on Allah, who is my Lord and your Lord because there is no walking being whom Allah has not grasped by its forelock. Verily, the path of my Lord (which Allah shows) is the straight path.”

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

I have relied on God, my Lord and your Lord. For there is no walking creature that has not grasped its forelock, but my Lord is on the straight path.

The right translation

“I depend on Allah, who is my Lord and your Lord because there is no walking being whom Allah has not grasped by its forelock. Verily, the path of my Lord (which Allah shows) is the straight path.”

Explanation

The wrong opening here is this: Surely my Lord is on the straight path. The truth is: Surely the way of my Lord is a straight path.

Although there is a similarity between the two words here, there is a vast difference between them. In the verse that is opened wrongly, they say: "Surely my Lord is on the straight path." Is there another god besides Allah and our Lord is on the right path on the path that He has shown? Are we on the path of the imaginary Lord that our Lord has followed, following our Lord? Here they have attributed Allah (swt). Satan also guides people by giving them temptation. The two-legged devils, the taguts, also guide people. There are many who show the way. Everyone says that my way is the right way. So what is the difference between the way that these people and demons show people and the way that people who misunderstand the verse say that our Lord is on the right path?

The correct opening of this verse is: Verily, the way of my Lord is a straight path. And among those who show the way, the way shown by the Owner of the worlds is the straight path.

What is said in the video

Yes. Surah Hud, verse 56 has a mistake. Here: I, both my Lord and your Lord, I have relied on Allah; how nicely it says it. I am reading the wrong one, but when we say wrong, it is of course not wrong from top to bottom; there are correct parts in it. One word, when they change that, we mark that place as wrong; otherwise we take the correct parts as correct. I have relied on Allah, who is my Lord and your Lord. For there is no moving creature but that He holds it by its forelock; surely my Lord is on a straight path, it says. Now, there is no moving creature but that He holds it by its forelock. Whereas: I have relied on Allah, who is my Lord and your Lord, for there is no moving creature but that He holds it by its forelock; surely the path my Lord shows is a straight path, it says. Yes. What does it say: but that He holds it by its forelock; surely my Lord is on a straight path, it says.

So Allah is on a straight path. What do we say? Surely the path my Lord shows is a straight path. Yes.

They rendered the verses incompletely. (?), crooked, sir, these too, by attributing qualities to Allah Almighty, they rendered the verses so as to distort (?) them, with a language that would distort (?) them.