Al-Hashr 19: Don’t be like the ones who forgot Allah and consequently forgot their own-selves too. They are the ones who has gone astray.

Are there mistakes in Surah Al-Hashr? Yes, in verse 19 of Surah Al-Hashr there is a wrongly rendered verse. Let's see where they made the mistake here. Those who forgot Allah, and so Allah made them forget themselves: do not be like them. They are the ones who have left the path, it says. I'm reading it once more, look. Those who forgot Allah, and so Allah made them forget themselves: do not be like them. Allah makes no one forget Him. Pay attention. To this (?), (?), the religious, the irreligious, to all the worlds, sir, Allah sent the Quran. He said: the field is open, come on in, He says. Whether you are religious or irreligious.

Whatever you are. Sir, as long as one repents to Allah Almighty, since there is no god other than Him, and since Allah Almighty accepts repentance abundantly, surely He will accept us too. Because He created us fallible. As long as a person repents, repents, and turns back to Allah. Whereas what does it say here now? Those who forgot Allah, and so Allah made them forget themselves: do not be like them. May Allah make no one forget Him. Then why does He send the Holy Quran? Without sending it, if He is going to make them forget, let Him inspire that one's heart that way, and this one's heart with something conscious as well.

Then there would be no need to send us into the world at all. What does Surah Ta-Ha say in its 134th verse? If We had destroyed them with a punishment before the Quran, it says. That is, before sending you into the world, when We made a covenant with you, what you are We know. If We had sent you to Paradise or to Hell, it says, if they came to Hell they would speak like that, it says. 'If only You had sent us prophets and books, sir, we would not have fallen into this (?)' is what you will not say. Had it been so, He says, I would not have created these worlds, He says. Now in this situation, look how Allah Almighty addresses us with a beautiful verse.

Those who forgot Allah, and therefore even themselves, even themselves forgot: do not be like them. They forgot Allah, they even forgot themselves. What does it mean, they even forgot themselves? Allah Almighty gave man from His spirit. He created him as the most honoured being. And if this man on earth, as Allah Almighty decrees in His verse, is like the four-legged that roam the earth, then like this man who does not know where he came from, where he will go, does not know how he was created and what the purpose of this creation is, do not be like a person unaware of himself, it says. They are the ones who have left the path, it says.

Who are they? Above their own minds. Having become Satan's plaything. Those who chase lust. Those who chase the world. Those who chase the desires of the nafs. Yes. Because they are the ones who have left the path. If you follow them, you will meet the same fate.