At-Tawbah 102: Others have confessed to their sins and mixed a good deed with another bad deed. (They shall repent) such that Allah will accept their repentance (of the ones who will believe). Allah is Ghafoor (Most Forgiving) and Raheem (the One Who very generously accepts repentance).

Verse 102 is where we've come. In verse 102, in Surah At-Tawbah, there is a wrongly explained verse. It has been explained wrongly. Yes.

First, let us read the wrong version to you. Since I don't have the book with me, we will open it from, um,

We will open it from the translation I wrote. Yes. Verse 102 is where we've come.

Where is the wrong part? Others confessed their sins, it says. Others.

They mixed a good deed with another, bad deed.

If they repent, it is hoped that Allah will accept their repentance. Now here, by saying "it is hoped that" of Allah Almighty, they attribute a quality to Him. That is, if he repents, it is hoped that, if Allah wills, He will accept his repentance; if He does not will, He won't accept it. That is, as if He doesn't even know what kind of covenant he gave before. If He likes what he did, Allah will forgive him. Or, just as they deceive people, if those hypocrites speak words that Allah will also like, they will deceive our Lord and, well, He Himself will grant mercy. These things follow from the words "it is hoped that".

Whereas Allah Almighty says in His verse: there is not a single living being to come until the Day of Judgment of whom We would not know what he will not do. In that case, when one says "it is hoped that", the verse becomes wrong. That is: Others confessed their sins. They mixed a good deed with another, bad deed. If they repent, it is hoped that Allah will accept their repentance. For Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful, it says. This is a wrongly explained verse. Others – we are explaining the correct one anyway.

Others confessed their sins. They mixed a good deed with another, bad deed of theirs. These parts are correct anyway. If they repent – "ta ki", we say – so that Allah may accept the repentance of those among them who will believe. "Ta ki" – now, Arabic has no equivalent, no word equivalent; and the letters – Allah Almighty's word is also built on letters – now, when we say "it is hoped that", this, since it attributes a quality to Allah, since it is not its exact equivalent, the Arabic "ta ki" – that is, there is a demonstrative particle here, a particle. A pointer – you are pointing to something.

"Ta ki" what? Among them – I'll (?) a bracket anyway. Those among them who will turn to Islam. That is, one who gave a good covenant to Allah Almighty at the stage of "Alastu bi Rabbikum", but lived in worldly life as a polytheist, a hypocrite or a disbeliever. When such a person repents at the end, he will (?) his covenant; that is, as his destiny he gave a good covenant. He will (?) it. So, Allah Almighty – in the first barzakh, whatever the degree of the covenant a person gave to Allah Almighty, when the person returns to it, he will have returned to his origin. For example, let's say some gold fell into mud.

While taking it out from there, it fell into some paint. It got painted. But this is gold. So we wash it, the paint comes off. Then we clean off the mud. Out of it comes gold. So a Muslim, in the state of "(?) bi Rabbikum", to Allah Almighty – when he comes into the world with a good covenant he gave, he may live like this as a polytheist or a hypocrite or a non-Muslim. That is, that substance which is gold, that faith, has been camouflaged according to where it is. Then the person will return to his origin; the characters will reach perfection in him. When the person turns in repentance to Allah and repents, he will have returned to his origin. So "ta ki" means they – the opportunities within a span of time given to those people.

Yes. So that Allah may accept the repentance of those among them who will believe. For the others are not going to repent anyway. For Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful, it says. Yes.

Those who, when told to go to the Battle of Tabuk, became disbelievers while being Muslim. And then, regretting it, repented, asking Allah for pardon and forgiveness. It is hoped that they attain Allah's forgiveness, it says. Whereas: so that they, so that they attain Allah's forgiveness. "Ta ki". Yes.

And Allah accepts their repentance. For Allah is Tawwab. Most Merciful and Most Protecting. Yes.

We are reading, and also, if there are some letter equivalents, I put them in between from there. It makes A into B. Let me make B into A. We correct the word. Yes. So that they attain Allah's forgiveness. And Allah's accepting their repentance – Allah accepts their repentance. a good deed they mixed with another, bad deed. That is, they were Muslims. Later, out of fear for their lives, they did not go to war. They sat with those who stayed at home. Then they regretted what they had done. So a good deed was mixed, with those staying at home, with a bad deed. That is, they chose disbelief for that moment.

and later, when they returned to Islam again, they became apostates. Apostates. Yes.

Since the commands of Allah Almighty give life to people, those who carry out Allah's commands are the ones doing good deeds. Apart from this, those who cannot heed Allah's command, who follow their own minds and, acting by their nafs, chase after what seems to be in their favor – their deeds too inflict wrong on their own selves. For this reason they mixed a good deed with a bad deed of theirs.

Then those who understood that what they did was bad turned to Allah in repentance. You know, "ta ki" – those in that matter, except the hypocrites, of course – the Muslims too following them, being with them, with those hypocrites together; the hypocrites deceiving those Muslims. In this case, their following the hypocrites and not taking part in the war. Yes. Then those who understood that what they did was bad turned to Allah in repentance. They tied themselves to the pillars of the mosques. To the pillars of the mosques. If our Lord does not forgive us, from (?) we will never part, they said.

Until Allah forgives us, we will not untie ourselves from the pillars, they said. Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him), returning from the Tabuk campaign, on learning why they had tied themselves to the pillars, says: I too, until a verse comes from Allah, will not untie them from the pillar. What a beautiful response. To the Prophet (peace be upon him), who came as a mercy to the worlds, until news comes from Allah. Thereupon the verse below (?).