Ibrahim 4: We have sent all Prophets in the language of their people so that they would openly explain to them (Allah’s orders). Now, those who desire from Allah go astray and those who desire enter the right path. And Allah is Azeez (Exalted) and Hakeem (Ultimately-Wise).
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
We have sent every Prophet in the language of his people, so that he may explain (the commandments of Allah) to them thoroughly. Now Allah misleads whom He wills and guides whom He wills to the straight path. Because He has power and wisdom.
The right translation
We have sent all Prophets in the language of their people so that they would openly explain to them (Allah’s orders). Now, those who desire from Allah go astray and those who desire enter the right path. And Allah is Azeez (Exalted) and Hakeem (Ultimately-Wise).
Explanation
This is where this verse goes wrong: So Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. The truth is: So whoever wills of Allah goes astray, and whoever wills of Allah is guided.
We have explained in many verses that Allah's will is not over people. Allah made a covenant with people at Kalu Bela and wrote their desires and wishes as their destiny. People prove what kind of a person they are by acting out the scripts they have dictated when they come to this world like an artist in the world. You can read in detail in the footnote of Verse 172 of Surah A'râf.
What is said in the video
We continue with our lesson. From Surah Ibrahim, the fourth verse. So that he might make Allah's commands clear to them, We sent every prophet only in the language of his own people. Then Allah leads astray whom He wills, and whom He wills He guides to the right path. For He is mighty and wise. The same mistake is here, you know what it says? Allah: so that he might make Allah's commands clear to them, We sent every prophet only in the language of his own people, it says. Yes. Now, don't you know Arabic? Don't you know it? You, sir, don't know your religion, Allah protect us. What does the Prophet (peace be upon him) say?
The wali of my community is (?), he says. (?) Yes. Allah Almighty raises His wali. Since no prophet will come again in that people's own language, as the prophet's heir, in the state of nafs-i radiya, sir, with that knowledge Allah Almighty Himself calls ilm al-yaqin, Allah Almighty raises His wali; and according to the verse that Allah will keep His religion alive until the Day of Judgement, by sending these, a Qutb al-Azam every hundred years and a Qutb al-Aqtab every two hundred years, sir, He will have the religion of Islam explained to people until the Day of Judgement. Those who come there: I didn't hear, I didn't know, I never heard it; no such thing.
See, we are explaining it to people. We are explaining Allah, our Lord. How they explained the verses incompletely, how, so to speak, they twisted them, how they ascribed attributes to Allah, all of it, sir, here, to you, to the world (?) over the internet I explain; I call out from here to the whole world; for example, we have children in America, even they listen; at the other end of the world there are people listening. Yes, and whoever wishes reaches the right path, it says. Allah, now, whoever wishes goes astray from Allah. And whoever wishes enters the right path. For He is mighty and wise.
Allah Almighty sent the Noble Quran as a mercy to the worlds. He sent it as a light, as a divine light. He also sent the Prophet (peace be upon him) as a mercy to the worlds. As the Seal of the Prophets, I will make the prophets reach up to you. And since no prophet will come again until the Day of Judgement, Allah Almighty will raise scholars. The passing of your scholars to the hereafter is like the sun going and darkness coming, the people He said this about, Yes, yes. the people in charge, such people they should, sir, take hold of, take hold of such people and say: for Allah's sake, come, let's correct these books; instead, out of love of rank and position, as if a feeling of inferiority would come over them, they act that way, seeing themselves in arrogance, pride and loftiness, and still, with those deficient views, deficient views, they want to continue on their way.
Whereas calling such people, consulting them and engaging in dialogue with them raises their rank, their spiritual rank too. It elevates their worldly, outward ranks too. Yes. For the nafs al-ammara, pride and arrogance drag a person into ruin.