An-Naml 59: (Oh My Messenger!) Say, “Praise be to Allah and peace be upon the servants who excelled (who are righteous). Is Allah better, or those whom they associate as partners with Allah?
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
(My Messenger!) Say; Praise be to Allah, peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen. Is Allah better, or their partners whom they ascribe to Him?
The right translation
(Oh My Messenger!) Say, “Praise be to Allah and peace be upon the servants who excelled (who are righteous). Is Allah better, or those whom they associate as partners with Allah?
Explanation
This is where this verse goes wrong. Peace be upon His servants whom He has made distinguished. Correctly: Peace be upon His servants (who are close to Allah, the righteous).
The origin of the misopened verses is that they are ignorant of Verse 172 of Surah A'râf and do not know its meaning, so they have opened the verses incorrectly and attributed the good and bad deeds of all people to our Lord. In this case, not only have they covenanted people with our Lord, but because they do not know how to covenant, they have also opened the verses with superstitions such as Our Lord has ordained the good and bad deeds of people, He has subjected them to punishment, Our Lord has ordained, He has chosen this, Our Lord has chosen that, Our Lord has made this superior to that, etc., contradicting each other.
Our Lord does not choose anyone. He says peace be upon the believing servants of our Lord who are faithful and just, adorned with taqwa, or the servants who are ilmel near, or the righteous servants like Qutbul Azam and Qutbul Aqtab. Why does he mention them? He does not say peace be upon Muslims. Among the Muslims, the servants who go to the Hereafter as sinners will enter Hell and will come out of Hell after serving the punishment as much as their sins. But about the righteous people mentioned above, our Lord says:
Surah Al-Imran Verse 18- Allah and the angels and the men of knowledge have testified with justice that there is no god but Him. There is no god but Him. He has absolute power. The Owner of judgment and wisdom. Also in the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th verses of Surah al-Fajr, our Lord says O satisfied soul! It is the people whom your Lord says, 'Enter among My servants and enter My Paradise, and you will be pleased with you and you will be pleased with your Lord. The correct meaning of the verse is that it should be called the servants who are (righteous and close to Allah), referring to those servants who are close to our Lord among the people. Otherwise, our Lord does not choose anyone of His own will among people, nor does He prejudice His justice.
What is said in the video
The fifty-ninth verse has been translated wrongly. It says that: My Messenger, say: praise be to Allah, (?) peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen. What happens? It's always Allah making servants chosen. This is where it keeps being translated wrongly. Allah Almighty is given attributes here, made to discriminate between servants. Whereas Allah Almighty makes no distinction among His servants, among any servant. He even says, even: I have distributed the world to you equally. The world. If you have petroleum, he has water. If you have iron, he has gold. Another has silver. Another, let's say, has fields to sow crops in. Look at all this one has.
All of them dependent on one another. I have distributed the world to you equally, He says; what He means is it is parcelled out equally. Yes. And it says: My Messenger, say: praise be to Allah, and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen. Is Allah better, or the partners they associate with Him? Now here: My Messenger, say: praise be to Allah, and peace be upon the chosen, righteous servants close to Allah. Look, upon the good servants. The good servants He calls chosen. Is Allah better, or the partners they associate with Him? Here, removing all the words that would ascribe attributes to Allah Almighty means, with regard to the verses, sir, not belying them but confirming them.