Al-Furqan 20: (Oh My Messenger!) The Prophets We have sent before you certainly also ate and walked in bazaars. For you to prove (your character and) whether you show patience some of you are put to test with some others. Verily, your Lord sees everything.

A. Metin Saruhan · 22 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

(My Rasul!) All the Prophets We sent before you used to eat food and wander around the bazaars. (O people!) We have made some of you a trial for others. (Let's see) Will you be patient? Your Lord sees everything properly.

The right translation

(Oh My Messenger!) The Prophets We have sent before you certainly also ate and walked in bazaars. For you to prove (your character and) whether you show patience some of you are put to test with some others. Verily, your Lord sees everything.

Explanation

This is where the mistake is made: (O mankind!) We have made one part of you a trial for another part of you, (so) let us see whether you will be patient. Truly: (O people! Now you will be tested with one another, one part of you with another part of you, so that your patience may be revealed and you may prove what kind of a person you are.

When they open this verse, they make it mean that our Lord does not know the unseen, that He does not know what kind of a person people are, that He will decide by testing people against each other. However, our Lord says that there is not a single living creature that will come until the Day of Resurrection that we do not know what it will do. The wrong way of opening these Verses is always based on the 172nd Verse of Surah A'râf. The 134th Verse of Surah Taha says: "If We had destroyed them with a torment before this (the Qur'an), they would surely have said: 'O Lord! If You had sent us a messenger, we would have followed Your Verses before we fell into this humiliation and disgrace.)

Surah Al-Qasas Surah Verse 47- When a calamity befalls them because of what they themselves have done, they say: Our Lord! Would that You had sent us a Prophet so that we might have followed Your Verses and been of the believers! (We would not have sent you) if they had not said.

The short meaning of these Verses is: We know what you are. When I made a covenant with you, I wrote your desire and will as your destiny. But when I made a covenant with you, when I said that I am your Lord, you could not recognize me as Lord because you saw me in human form. I too have the attribute of Allah. For the manifestation of this, it means that I will send you to a realm in the world where my Essence is not visible. Allah's attribute of being Allah is that people experience all the questions they would ask our Lord in the worldly realm and they have no words to ask our Lord. This shows that our Lord is free from incomplete attributes. Our Lord is complete and perfect. In this case, the truth of the verse is: (O people! Now you will be tested with one another, one part of you with another part of you, so that your patience may be revealed and you may prove what kind of a person you are.

What is said in the video

Verse 20 of Surah Al-Furqan also contains mistakes. What

does it say? My Messenger, all the prophets We sent before you also, without doubt, ate food and walked in the markets. O people, We have made some of you a means of testing for others. Let's see, will you be patient? Just look at that.

Allah Almighty doesn't know.

Your Lord sees everything fully, it says. That is, I am following you. Let's see what you will do. Then I will ask you. He will evaluate them according to what they did. Whereas our values have long since been written. Our places have long since been prepared. How do we know?

From verse 172 of Surah Al-A'raf. What else? How do we know? From verse 134 of Surah Ta-Ha. There is a verse in Surah Al-Qasas too. Exactly. In many surahs: our places have been prepared, our abodes are ready, places in paradise and hell are ready. In that case, Allah Almighty: the word 'let's see', the word 'hopefully', 'I am constantly watching you', fine, He watches, 'let's see what you will do': these words ascribe lowly (?) attributes to Allah, Allah forbid. How can their tongues bring themselves to say these? With what pen do they write these? Yes.