As-Sajdah 21: Before the greatest punishment, We will make them taste this (worldly) punishment so that they (those that will be believers) shall repent and return.

A. Metin Saruhan · 22 February 2022 · Misinterpreted Verses

The misinterpretation

We will make them taste of the nearest torment before the greatest torment. It may be that they return (to faith).

The right translation

Before the greatest punishment, We will make them taste this (worldly) punishment so that they (those that will be believers) shall repent and return.

Explanation

This is the wrong place in this verse. That they may return (to faith). It is true: Until they (those among them who will believe) turn back.

When they opened the Verses, they repeated the same Verses in the same way, always referring to our Lord. We put the footnotes of the verses we have already written under the repeated verses as a repetition.

Our Lord does not use the words "hopefully", "perhaps" or "just in case" when forgiving the sins or lives of people. The word "may be" means that He is unaware of the future, He will evaluate people according to their situation, and even if they are hypocrites, He will decide accordingly by trying people without being aware of their situation. However, he should use the word Ta ki here. Ta ki is a demonstrative pronoun. Since our Lord knows that there will be Muslims in a tribe, it is a matter of giving them a unit of time.

The meaning of "hopefully", "perhaps" or "may be" is: I will look at your situation and if you are well, I will bring you to salvation or relief. However, our Lord made a covenant with human beings after the Elestu bi Rabbikum address and their desires and wishes were written to them as destiny. These realms are programmed until the Day of Judgment. In this case, instead of "hopefully" or "perhaps", we should use "until", which is a demonstrative pronoun and refers to those who will convert to Islam within a people and within a given time frame. That is why our Lord does not use the word hopefully or perhaps. It is to be hoped, perhaps or maybe, that His word will adjectivize our Lord.

What is said in the video

Let's see in which verse of Surah As-Sajdah there are mistakes. In verse 21 there is a mistake.

Before the greatest punishment We will surely make them taste the nearest punishment. Perhaps they will return to faith, it says. Now here there is a mistake. Yes. These verses also have meanings. We are not explaining their meanings. We are correcting their mistakes. Yes. Before the greatest punishment We will surely make them taste the nearest punishment. So that those among them who will come to faith return.

Now what is the greatest punishment?

What is the nearest punishment?

Do you know the nearest punishment? I don't know. I don't know.

Who knows? Let me tell you the nearest punishment. All of us living in this world are within the near punishment. Doesn't He say: We test you sometimes in your lives and sometimes in your wealth? He tests with some calamities, does He or not? The near punishment. Then what does it say? Before the greatest punishment; the greatest punishment is in the hereafter. How beautifully Allah Almighty puts it. Before the greatest punishment We will surely make them taste the nearest punishment, so that, it says, so that those among them who will come to faith return, it says.

When they see the calamity, they return.

So what is the near punishment? The calamities that will befall people living in this world.