Az-Zumar 36: Is Allah not sufficient for them (Allah’s servants)? They try to make you fear from others but not Allah. For those who turn away from Allah, there is no one to help to straighten their path (while they continue to turn away from Allah).
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
Isn't God enough for his servant? They scare you with other than Him. Whoever Allah misleads, there is no one to guide his path.
The right translation
Is Allah not sufficient for them (Allah’s servants)? They try to make you fear from others but not Allah. For those who turn away from Allah, there is no one to help to straighten their path (while they continue to turn away from Allah).
Explanation
This is where this verse goes wrong: Whoever Allah leads astray, there is no one to guide him. The truth is: Whoever deviates from Allah, there is no one to guide him (as long as he remains in that state).
Our Lord does not lead anyone astray by exercising His will over people in the world. Our Lord invites all of His servants to Him. He has sent the Holy Qur'an as a mercy to the worlds. In that case, Our Lord will not lead anyone astray by discriminating between His servants.
When our Lord and mankind made a covenant at Kalu Bela, they dictated their destiny to themselves. In this case, those who deny our Lord at Kalu Bela will of course continue to deny Him in the worldly realm. Because his desires and wishes have become his destiny and he has been given characters to live out this destiny in return for his desires and wishes.
When people come to the world, they desire and wish to do things with these characters. Our Lord also creates reasons for them. The person receives rewards or sins for his actions. So in this worldly life, our Lord never interferes in what people do. People prove what kind of person they are in return for what they have done.
What is said in the video
Them. Yes.
There is a mistake in the thirty-sixth verse. I mean, my tongue has got so used to it that I keep saying there is a mistake in the verse. There is no mistake in the verse. They have rendered the verse wrongly. They have rendered the thirty-sixth verse wrongly too. Let me at least train my tongue this way.
Yes. You know, we get worked up, and we say it out of excitement. They have attributed qualities to Allah Almighty. And of course, when one gets angry from the heart, one makes some slips of the tongue. God willing, as Hacivat and Karagöz say, sir, please excuse our faults, he says.
Is Allah not sufficient for His servant? it says. Of course He is sufficient. They frighten you with others besides Him. Whomever Allah leads astray, there is no one to straighten his path, it says. They have made it all up around the same words. Allah leads no one astray. Whoever strays from Allah does so by his own will. Allah shows the right path. He sends the Holy Quran. He sends the prophets. He sends scholars. O people! We did not create you free of error, He says. Had We created you free of error, We would destroy you and create servants who commit errors. So when you commit an error and repent for the error you committed, then We are Tawwab, that is, We accept repentance abundantly, He says. Resolving never to do it again, bring your repentance, He says, repent and We will accept it. Now here, whom would Allah lead astray? We are reading the correct one.
(?) Is Allah not sufficient for His servant? They frighten you with others besides Him, they frighten you with others besides Him. Whoever strays from Allah, as long as he remains in that state, there is no one to straighten his path. If he has remained in that state.
Back home I found myself in need of a worker. I went to the Russian bazaar. They told me there, these are workers. There were Romanians there, there were Russians. There are Russians too. I took three people and came back.
They worked, got tired, and sat down. Let me convey a truth to them (?). They are going to work more anyway. I began to explain.
They are listening, but I saw that there is a wall between us, a wall. Their eyes went up like this. They became deaf. It says, truly these are deaf, doesn't it? I lived that there. I lived that verse there. On those people. Hatemallâhu alâ kulûbihim ve alâ sem'ihim ve alâ ebsârihim ghishâwatun wa lahum adhâbun azîm. A veil was drawn over their eyes. Yes, like this. The lids are looking up like this. Their ears are plugged and their hearts are sealed too. When it went like that, I changed the subject there.
I said, did you like the food? I had brought them food. Oh, the food is great, and so on. They got to work. Yes.