Al-Isra 55: Your Lord is the One Who knows best everything in the heavens and the earth. Verily, some Prophets are superior to other Prophets. And We have given the Psalms (Zabur) to David.
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
Your Lord knows best all who are in the heavens and on earth. Indeed, We have favored some of the Prophets over others. We gave the Psalms to David.
The right translation
Your Lord is the One Who knows best everything in the heavens and the earth. Verily, some Prophets are superior to other Prophets. And We have given the Psalms (Zabur) to David.
Explanation
This is where the mistake is made: "Indeed We have favored some of the Prophets over others." The correct one is: "Indeed, among the Prophets, some are superior to others." Our Lord has not, by His own will, made any human being or Prophet superior to any other. We said there are two wills. A universal will and a limited will. When our Lord made a covenant with people after the Elestu bi Rabbikum address, He wrote their destiny according to their desires and wishes. People are therefore superior to each other in their closeness to our Lord through faith.
Prophets are the first to be created because they were created from the soul of the Prophet (PBUH). Our Lord made a covenant with them and witnessed them. In the 81st Verse of Surah Al-Imran, our Lord says:
(81- Remember when Allah sent among the Prophets, after I gave you the Book and wisdom, a Messenger who confirms what is before you, you will certainly help him. Have you affirmed this? Have you accepted this covenant? When I asked them, they replied that they accepted. Then Allah said, "Then bear witness, and I am one of those who bear witness with you.")
So human beings are not robots. Since the Prophets are superior to each other in faith towards our Lord, He says that the Prophets are superior to each other. Otherwise, our Lord will not make a deficiency in His justice and leave the one who is superior to the others in faith and say that the one who is inferior in faith to the other Prophet is superior to them in my sight.
What is said in the video
In verse 55, the wrongly translated verse: "Your Lord knows best everyone in the heavens and on earth." Who else would know? He is the one who knows. He created. He programmed. He knows everything. I'm reading the wrong one, mind you. This is written in the wrong one. "Indeed We have made some of the prophets superior to others. And to David We gave the Psalms," it says. And to David We gave the Psalms. Now here, when it says We made some superior to others, here Allah Almighty would be choosing among His prophets. He chooses. Whereas He left everyone free in their own will, the prophets too. When He created the spirits of the prophets from the spirit of the Prophet, what does He say to them?
When a prophet comes after you, do you give your word that you will obey and help him, He says. Yes, they say. I too am among the witnesses with you, He says. I am of the witnesses. Here, since none of them is a robot, each has different feelings. Those with different feelings have different degrees. And according to the different degrees, Allah Almighty has granted them degrees. Here, not even to the prophets did He say, by His own wish: you are at this degree, you are at that degree. According to their aims, according to their wishes and desires, according to their being before Allah Almighty, He gave degrees.
Yes.
What does it say here now? "Your Lord knows best everything in the heavens and on earth." Knows best everyone. "Indeed We have made some of the prophets superior to others, and to David We gave the Psalms," it says. The correct version is this: "Your Lord knows best everyone in the heavens and on earth. Indeed, some of the prophets too are superior to others." How beautiful. Some are superior to others. By their own wish and desire. Yes. "And to David, to David We gave the Psalms," it says. Before sending the Holy Quran, Allah Almighty sends three books anyway. First the Torah, then the Psalms, then He sends the Gospel.
Finally, when He sends the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him), these three books, which will last until the Day of Judgement, together with the fourth, the Quran, gathering them within it, all of them, in fact all of them are in the Quran. Part by part from the Quran. According to people's mental makeup, Allah Almighty, according to their lives, in line with the verse that says He does not load on your back a burden you cannot bear, sends it part by part. When minds come into play, since no prophet will come again, as the last prophet He sends the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) into the world and the Holy Quran to him; although the three books are present in the Quran, with the fourth book, the Quran, so that until the Day of Judgement neither prophet nor book will come again, Allah Almighty has perfected His religion.
This day I have perfected your religion for you, He says. I gave you the name Islam, He says. Yes. Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, let him have a god other than Allah.
On earth there is no religion other than Islam.