Al-Isra 30: Your Lord gives provisions abundantly to those who desire (within their destiny by their covenant) and decreases from those who desire. Verily, Allah is Khabeer (All-Aware) and Baseer (All-Seeing) upon Allah’s servants.

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

Your Lord gives the food abundantly to whom He wills, and narrows it down to whom He wills. Undoubtedly, He is aware of His servants. (Them) He sees very well.

The right translation

Your Lord gives provisions abundantly to those who desire (within their destiny by their covenant) and decreases from those who desire. Verily, Allah is Khabeer (All-Aware) and Baseer (All-Seeing) upon Allah’s servants.

Explanation

The wrong place in this verse is this: "Your Lord gives abundant provision to whomsoever He wills, and to whomsoever He wills, He makes it narrow." The truth is: "Your Lord gives abundant sustenance to whomsoever He wills (in His destiny), and He restricts it to whomsoever He wills." Our Lord does not make anyone's sustenance narrow, nor does He make it abundant. When people made a covenant with our Lord, they were shown the worlds. Within these realms, the person asked for what he desired. Our Lord has also written the will of the person as his destiny.

This realm is the shadow and likeness of the Hereafter. Just as people are given choices in this world. When they go and work with their own will and desire, some earn more and some earn less. In this case, whatever people asked from our Lord, He gave them exactly what they asked for. No human being will be able to say that you gave so-and-so so much and me so little that I could not worship you.

What is said in the video

He raises us degree by degree. Of course.

Verse 30 of Surah Al-Isra has also been translated wrongly. "Your Lord gives provision abundantly to whom He wills." Oh, how nice. Give me some too. He doesn't love me. Well, if He doesn't love me, am I not Your servant, my God? Didn't You create me? Look, how nice. Now words come out, questions to Allah. Whereas no one will be able to question Allah Almighty. Everything they asked will have become manifest, and they will stop asking. This too is Allah's attribute of being God.

Yes. In this case, what does it say? "Your Lord gives provision abundantly to whom He wills," it says. Yes. In this case, to be able to tell these things apart, and a person must know how he came into the world, so that he can grasp this well.

Doesn't a person want abundant provision? When coming into the world, no one wants abundant provision either.

There are those who want it and those who don't. There are those who want to come disabled and those who don't. Because he sees this place as another world. He doesn't want to come here. Allah Almighty has left everyone to their own will. If I gave you such a body and made you look like this, would you go? Well, I'll go like that, he says. The disabled are like that. If I made you blind, I mean, as a blind person there, if I sent you to so-and-so, He says, would you go? Fine, I'll go like that, he says. Another says: in such and such circumstances, give me the position of boss, let me be a boss, he says. He gives him that too.

He will employ the man next to him. Another says: let me come like this, let me go like that. I don't want the world, he says. Let me come like this and go like this, he says. That one is of such a character too. He has left everyone to their own wish. How do you know, Hodja? I know. I am a witness. I am one of those who saw. I know many things.

That's why no one will be able to say to Allah Almighty: I was blind, so I did this. Even the blind are content with their state. Go tell a blind person. They are content with their state. Go (?) to the criminals, they too are content with their state.

Everyone is content with their state. Maybe they'll pour out their troubles to you. But it's not like that at all.

That's why no one will be able to question Allah Almighty. Allah is not unjust, to send him blind, to send him as an injustice.

In the realm of the Hereafter He gives them places according to their degree too. Now what does it say? "Your Lord gives provision abundantly to whom He wills. And restricts it for whom He wills. Surely He is aware of His servants. He sees them very well." Well, if You are aware of Your servants, and You give provision abundantly to whom You will and cut it short for whom You will, people will say (?). Now let's assume this. A father has fifty or sixty sons. Of them, the father gives and gives to fifteen or twenty, gives and gives, and cuts it short for the others.

What do the others say? They say to (?): Am I not your son? You give to them, but you don't give to me. Would they say that? Of course they would.

In this case, isn't an attribute being ascribed to Allah Almighty? Whereas within the destinies, your Lord gives provision abundantly to whoever wishes for it. And restricts it for whoever wishes. Surely He is aware of His servants. He sees them very well. When making the covenant with Allah Almighty there, according to the person's wish and desire, He assigns them their provision. And all of it according to the covenant there. Yes.