Al-Hajj 75: Allah determines Prophets from among the angels and from men. Verily, Allah is Samee (All-Hearing) and Baseer (All-Seeing).
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The misinterpretation
Allah chooses messengers from angels, from humans as well. Surely, Allah is Hearing, Seeing.
The right translation
Allah determines Prophets from among the angels and from men. Verily, Allah is Samee (All-Hearing) and Baseer (All-Seeing).
Explanation
This is the wrong place to open: Allah chooses messengers from angels and from men. Correct: Allah chooses Messengers from angels and from men. The word 'chooses' is not used against Allah. To choose something means to favor those whom He likes according to His own desire and taste and to give them special privileges. Our Lord, on the other hand, acts with justice. In this case, our Lord has appointed messengers from angels and messengers from human beings. The great angels are Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Israfil. The Messengers of human beings are the Messengers He has sent to their tribes since the time of our father Adam. He sends the Prophets of the tribes that will come according to time as messengers to their tribes and informs them of their laws. He illuminates the way for people and brings them out of darkness into light, and showers His mercy on them through His laws.
What is said in the video
Allah from the angels, too, messengers He chooses, it says — whereas the angels have their great ones. Now pay attention here. When it says messengers — Allah's Messengers, the envoys, teach people. Then the envoys teach the angels too. That's what 'Messengers' would mean. Whereas angels are like robots. Whatever duty Allah Almighty has programmed them for, they act according to that program. So they aren't called messengers. They're called the great ones of the angels, their heads. There are four great angels. Who are they? Gabriel, Azrael, Israfil, Michael. These are the four great ones of the angels.
Apart from that, these aren't messengers but the great ones of the angels. Each of them is programmed on the same program. Messenger means: to a people who don't know, to a creature that doesn't know, Allah Almighty must send a human with a duty to teach them, or send an angel with a duty. Whereas since angels are programmed, exactly like robots, in that case they can't have messengers. What can they have? Great ones. There's a mistake here. Yes, what have we said is the wrong one? Allah chooses messengers from the angels too, and from people. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing, it says. Whereas Allah chooses ('ihtiyar') Messengers from the angels too — He doesn't make them envoys. Look, 'ihtiyar': He chooses their great ones, that is, He creates their great ones. Sir, from people too. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. Here we need to say: from people too He sends Messengers — we need to. We've continued. From people too; surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
From people too He sends Messengers. And he teaches them the Truth. For example, to all the prophets — not to all of them, but to Moses the Torah came. To David (peace be upon him) the Psalms came. To Jesus (peace be upon him) the Gospel came. To the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), as the fourth book after three books, with the Quran, as a mercy to the worlds, He sent the Holy Quran. These are prophets. Allah sent them to teach the Truth to the servants He created. But angels aren't like that. They aren't learners like people. They are programmed exactly. Allah Almighty has programmed them.
I suppose this part is understood. Yes.