At-Tawbah 109: Is the person who establishes his building upon Allah’s fear and contentedness better, or is it the person who establishes his structure near a collapsing cliff and falls with it himself into hellfire? Nations that continue with oppression cannot attain Allah’s guidance.

Yes, Surah At-Tawbah, verse 109 — this too is probably a wrongly explained verse, it seems to me.

Let's see, verse 109, Surah At-Tawbah.

Well, Surah At-Tawbah, 109. Verse. That one too was explained wrongly.

What does it say? Is the one who builds his building on the fear of Allah and His pleasure better? Or the one who builds his structure on the edge of a crumbling cliff and, together with it, collapses with it and goes into the fire of Hell? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people, it says. Here, the statement it makes right to the end, as the verse's rendering, at the end: "Allah the wrongdoing people, does not guide the wrongdoing people" — that statement is wrong. Wrong. It would be right like this.

What does it say? Peoples who persist in wrongdoing cannot attain Allah's guidance. But what does it say here? Allah does not guide, it says. Allah guides the wrongdoers too. If they repent. Yes. One must pay attention here.

Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people, it says. Does not guide. Among the wrongdoers, is there no one who repents and becomes Muslim? There is. Among the disbelievers, is there no one who repents and turns to Islam? There is. So this verse is not to be explained this way. That is, instead of "Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people," "peoples who persist in wrongdoing cannot attain Allah's guidance." Yes, this is how it must be explained.

With this verse too, that these (?) have no validity in Allah's sight, that they have none, Allah Almighty so beautifully makes known. Is the one who builds his building on the fear of Allah and His pleasure better — (?). With the verse "İnne'd-dîne inda'llâhi'l-İslâm" as the ruling, Allah will complete His light, according to the verse. That the mosques and places of prayer will remain until the Day of Judgment, and that this religion will continue until the Day of Judgment, yes, did they think they would extinguish Allah's light with the blowing of their mouths? With the verses "Allah will complete His light even if they dislike it." That the mosques and the religion of Islam are true, that besides it there is neither any religion nor any house of worship, He makes known with verses.

And the verse continues. Or the one who builds his structure on the edge of a crumbling cliff, that is, a precipice, and collapses with it and goes into the fire of Hell? So the people who are upon falsehood and act outside Allah's command, appearing as if they worship Allah, who associate partners with Allah out of their spite and arrogance toward Him — their houses of worship, to a building without foundation or support built on the edge of a precipice, He likens. Although they know the buildings they make will come down on their heads and they will perish with them, they go inside them, and finally, with the buildings at the edge of the precipice collapsing on their heads — that is, by their death — into the pit of Hell they will be pushed and perish; this Allah Almighty, representing it with such beautiful examples, makes known. Allah Almighty, in a verse of His: Allah never gives up giving the example of a mosquito and what is greater.

Since in meaning every person of intellect will understand the words differently, Allah gives examples in a way that both the most ignorant and the most learned will understand. No one will: "I understood nothing of Your verse; had You made Your verses known in a way I could understand, I too would not have held back from worshipping You" — be able to say. That is, every person, every person — when it says He does not give up giving the example of a mosquito and what is greater, so that every person can understand, Allah Almighty gives people encouragements and examples. The wrongdoing people cannot reach Allah's right path.

Yes, look, we have already corrected this part. The wrongdoing people cannot reach Allah's right path. So those who continue in this state, those who (?) the buildings at the edge of the precipice, the right path — they cannot see the right path. Although Allah calls them to the right path, since every person is free in his will, by the decisions he makes he holds his surroundings, himself and Allah as witness over himself. Since he will be called to account in return for the deeds he earned, those who out of their nafs and arrogance say "I will stay here no matter what", who despite seeing the right path, out of stubbornness stay in the buildings at the edges of the precipice, that is, who continue in falsehood, who turn their faces away from Allah and His Messenger, and finally with their death into the pit of Hell roll down.

As they themselves, with their death, into the pit of Hell roll down, they will find no one at all to blame. In this state they cannot come to the right path. In this state. Of course, if they change their state, if they repent, they will see the truth.