At-Tawbah 111: Allah has purchased from the mu’min their possessions and their lives in return for the paradise (that they will be given). (This is) because they fight on the path of Allah, they are killed, killed, and they died. (This is) a truthful promise from Allah in the Torah, in the Bible and in the Qur’an. Who fulfills Allah’s promise more than Allah? Thus, be joyful for the trade you have made with Allah. And this is the great salvation.

A. Metin Saruhan · 21 October 2016 · At-Tawbah

Translation

Allah has purchased from the mu’min their possessions and their lives in return for the paradise (that they will be given). (This is) because they fight on the path of Allah, they are killed, killed, and they died. (This is) a truthful promise from Allah in the Torah, in the Bible and in the Qur’an. Who fulfills Allah’s promise more than Allah? Thus, be joyful for the trade you have made with Allah. And this is the great salvation.

Tafsir

The believers are buying Paradise from Allah in exchange for their lives and property. From Allah's grace and mercy on human beings, a very interesting phenomenon of Allah on human beings is revealed. Man cannot create anything out of nothing and all creation is created by Allah. Humans have no rights over what is created. In fact, even though humans themselves are created by Allah, Allah sells paradise to them by buying His own creations in return for their saying Allah once, believing in Allah and the Hereafter, and sacrificing their property and lives in the way of Allah. Is this not a great favor of Allah to mankind? Since no one can be as faithful to his promise as Allah, he insists that Allah's command is true.

Should not people rejoice in this exchange they have made with Allah? Isn't this the real and lasting gain? That is a big gain.

Those who fight with their wealth and their lives, those who oppose those who seek to extinguish the light of Allah on earth and oppression on earth, those who spread the justice of Allah on earth, these are those who kill and die in the way of Allah for the sake of Allah.

Since Allah does not need anything, He distinguishes between those who do what Allah commands and those who do not, and He makes them witnesses to themselves and to those around them. He reveals those who obey Allah and those who do not. Allah promises Paradise to those who obey Allah and fight with their lives and property. This is in the Torah, the Bible and the Holy Qur'an, and Allah considers what He has promised to mankind as His right. So that people are not left in doubt about Allah, Allah says: Who is there who fulfills His promises more than Allah? He says.

O man! Can you abandon such a lucrative and abundant exchange by turning away from Allah through selfish stubbornness, when you have a Lord who is Tawwab and whose forgiveness is abundant? Since human beings are mortal in the realm of property, on the day of reckoning, when the truth is revealed to you, when you see that you are bankrupt for the exchange you have made, turn to your Lord while you have the opportunity to escape the torment of a day when regret will not help. The promise of your Lord is true. He is the Most Merciful, the Most Forgiving.

What is said in the video

Surah At-Tawbah, verse 111: Allah has bought from the believers their wealth and their lives in return for the Paradise that will be given to them. For they fight in the way of Allah, they kill and they die. This is a true promise binding on Allah in the Torah, the Gospel and the Quran. Who fulfills his word more than Allah? So rejoice in this trade you have made with Him. This is truly a great gain.

People, before entering the verse here, let's recap again. The verses: this man said this, that man said that. Well, in their own words, and also in their own words, in their own knowledge, adding to it, they try to tell people things. If you pay attention, with us there is no one's word. There is only the word of Allah. We explain the word of Allah to you in the light of the verses, each connected to the other. Yes. The believers buy Paradise from Allah (?) in return for their lives and their wealth. Who were these? Those who have risen to the nafs al-mutmainna. O nafs that has found peace! Enter, my Lord pleased with you and you pleased with my Lord.

You will enter among My servants, into My Paradise. The believers. (?) There is no turning back. For the love of Allah, giving their lives to Allah as soon as possible they do not hold back from. From Allah's grace and generosity to people, Allah announces a very interesting matter concerning people. An interesting matter. Yes. Truly an interesting matter. Allah Almighty announces it concerning people. What is it? It is Allah who created wealth. Allah created life, Allah created you, Allah created Paradise, the One who gives you these is Allah; if you give what He gave for Allah's sake, in the world of the Hereafter He admits you to His Paradise. You go as a Muslim.

Yes, isn't this interesting? What right do you have over these created things? What did you do? Did you become Allah's partner? But in return for simply saying "one Allah", for knowing Allah, Allah Almighty sets so many treasures before you. Yes.

While man creates nothing and everything created is created by Allah, and people have no right over created things, in return for people saying "Allah" once, for their believing in Allah and the Hereafter, and such people sacrificing their wealth and lives in the way of Allah — by buying His own creations Himself, He holds Paradise for these people. Paradise. This is a great grace of Allah to people. Since no one can be as faithful to his promise as Allah, that Allah's command is true He insistently makes known. Yes. Such a Lord we have. So is it possible for a person, toward such a Lord of his, the One who created him, to turn (?)?

Is it possible that he follows his nafs and takes Allah's verses lightly? A person helps another person, and that one stays with his head bowed before him. Well, although Allah Almighty, who loves you so much, shows you so much (?), if tomorrow Satan, the enemy of man, said to Allah Almighty, "Look, this person You love, this person You love and who loves You — how he has gone astray", if he complained of a loved one to the one who loves him — I, to a person I love, would not want a complaint to be made. I would not want myself complained about to that person — I wouldn't. Because I love him. I must be very honest toward him.

I will be very honest toward others too, so that with my good conduct that person may be even prouder. So, the more a person fulfills Allah's command, the more Allah Almighty (?) with that person and says to him (?). "You say (?), I will give," He says. I will give. Yes. So then, people's — this, Allah's people — we said He makes known to you that Allah's command is true.

So, this trade people have made with Allah — over this trade they should greatly rejoice. And this is the real and lasting gain. This is a great gain. Yes. You cannot bear a greater gain than this.

In the world, all that you earn ends at the close of your life. No one can take even an atom of anything to the Hereafter. A person goes into the presence of Allah Almighty only with a load of good deeds and sins. In that case, if a person acts on the path Allah commanded him and strives in jihad with his life and wealth — since no one can be as faithful to his word as Allah Almighty — we rightly, rightly attain our Lord's promise and are settled into very great stations in Paradise as heirs. And this is it: although all you earned in the world stays in the world, in the world the world of the Hereafter what you earned in the world by taking to the world of the Hereafter, you will have secured the greatest gain. This, then, is the gain.

There is no greater gain than this.

Those who fight with their wealth and lives on earth against those who want to extinguish Allah's light, and against the oppression done on earth stand, who spread Allah's justice on earth — these, for Allah, kill and die in the way of Allah. Yes.

Since Allah Almighty needs nothing, Allah distinguishes those who carry out Allah's command from those who don't, and before themselves and their surroundings makes them witnesses.

Those who obey Allah and those who don't, those who obey Allah and those who don't, Allah Almighty brings to light. To those who obey Allah, who fight with their wealth and lives, Allah has promised Paradise. This is what, in the Torah, the Gospel and the Holy Quran, Allah has promised people, (?) as a truth. True. Allah Almighty, who does not let people encroach on one another's rights — if He does not let people encroach on one another's rights, would He place His own spoken word above a person's right — would Allah? He is the Possessor of justice.

So that people have no room for doubt about Allah, Allah Almighty says: "Who fulfills his word more than Allah?"

O people!

While I have a Lord abundant in accepting repentance and in forgiveness, turning one's face from Allah out of nafs-driven stubbornness, is such a profitable trade to be abandoned? Yes. Since people in the material world are mortal, by an inevitable end, by (?) being called to account, on that day of reckoning, when the truths are spread before your eyes, when you see that what you got for the trade you made has gone bankrupt, regret will be of no use; and to escape the punishment of that one day, while you have the chance, turn to your Lord; your Lord's promise is true; He is Most Merciful, Most Forgiving.

A human life with the world's jewels cannot be compared. A human life is this precious. A person's. What is the reason? This whole universe will vanish. Hell too, rolled up like an old rag, into Hell — the world, like an old rag rolled up, will be thrown into Hell. So, since a person's soul is everlasting, since Paradise and Hell are eternal, a human life, in his life, in a human life, while a guest in the world, when he earns Allah's pleasure — one world, even several worlds would not equal his earning that pleasure of Allah. That is why we must earn Allah's pleasure. To the rosy appearance of the world, to Satan's coming to a person with satanic feelings, (?) a person with needles, pulling him into the swamp (?).

Yes.