As-Saf 7: Who is a worse oppressor than the one who fabricates lies about Allah, while being called to Islam? Oppressors cannot find Allah’s guidance (as long as they are in that state).
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
Who can be more unjust than one who invents a lie against Allah while being called to Islam? Allah does not guide the unjust people to the right path.
The right translation
Who is a worse oppressor than the one who fabricates lies about Allah, while being called to Islam? Oppressors cannot find Allah’s guidance (as long as they are in that state).
Explanation
This is where this verse goes wrong: Allah will not guide a wrongdoing people. The truth is: The community of wrongdoers (when they continue in that state) will not come to the right path of Allah.
Are there not those who are guided among the community of wrongdoers? It is full. Is this not an attribute of our Lord? As we have said, the verses of the Qur'an have been opened in a contradictory way because of their incomplete and incorrect opening.
When they opened the verses, they opened them wrongly because of their incomplete opening. Those who are not aware of the covenant between people and Allah (swt) have evaluated people based on their current situation. However, people are guided when they realize that their ways were wrong after they were in the situation they were in, and they repent and enter the religion of Islam.
The origins of the wrong opening of the verses are due to the wrong opening of Verse 172 of Surah A'râf. Our Lord's doors of repentance are open. If those who are outside the religion of Islam die without repenting, they will go to the Hereafter without faith and without guidance. However, the door of repentance is open until the end of life. If they repent, they will go to the Hereafter as Muslims.
What is said in the video
To Islam being called, yet inventing a lie against Allah: who could be more unjust than such a one? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people, it says. Here the verses are actually fine, but a distinction is needed. What does it say? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people, it says. Whereas, as long as they persist in that state, to Allah's right path they do not come. Yes, when it says Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people, Allah Almighty holds the power over man in His own hand. Whereas we said the will is twofold: the universal will and the partial will. Allah Almighty does not interfere with the partial will. In what he will do, He does not interfere either. Whatever he has desired, He gives him that. So it is not 'Allah Almighty, as long as the wrongdoing people continue in that state does not guide the wrongdoing people'.
As long as they are in that state, they do not come to the right path. Yes.