Yunus 109: (Oh, My Messenger!) until Allah’s judgement comes, follow what has been revealed to you and be patient. Allah is the best of the judges!

A. Metin Saruhan · 5 November 2016 · Yunus

Translation

(Oh, My Messenger!) until Allah’s judgement comes, follow what has been revealed to you and be patient. Allah is the best of the judges!

Tafsir

Allah (swt) addressed the Prophet (s.a.w.) and said, "Follow what has been revealed to you, that is, fulfill the commands of Allah. Even if all people turn away from you, say: Sufficient for me is Allah, the Owner of the heavens and the earth. For He is the Lord of the worlds and He has absolute power over His creation.

So follow what has been revealed to you from Allah, and be patient until Allah judges. Everything is under Allah's judgment. The meaning of "be patient until Allah judges" is that there is a time for each of the events that will happen within the destiny of the people, and within this time there are actions that people will commit. So be patient, within the actions of these people, Allah will give them their destiny. It means that you will see the torment that these people will suffer for their deeds.

(He is the best of judges) Allah has created human beings incomplete in mind. Therefore judges are surely wrong in their decisions. However, since Allah is complete and perfect, He does not wrong anyone and He gives the full amount according to the verse that says, "What everyone earns is the reward of his own two hands". In this respect, He is the best of judges. Allah, the Judge of Judges among them, will reckon between them for what each soul has earned, without wronging any soul.

What is said in the video

In verse 109 of Surah Yunus, Allah Almighty says: My Messenger, follow what is revealed to you. What is revealed. Whatever Allah Almighty reveals, follow that. That is, follow Allah's verses. And be patient until Allah judges. He is the best of judges, He says. Of judges.

In the verse before, Allah Almighty says: you are not a watcher over them, not a guardian. You are not a guardian.

This that he asked, that we explained, that we explained before in the previous verse, and the question our child has now asked too, (?) through the same doors goes in. These all rest on the covenant. They all rest on the covenant. you are not a watcher over them, not a guardian. That is, We made a covenant with them before, in the barzakh. We wrote their wishes and desires, their aims, for them as destiny. Every person, within his own destiny, had the script of the covenant he gave before written. Coming to the world, in the world he plays as the actor of the script he had written. He proves what kind of person he is.

And the verse that you would die without proving what kind of person you are, (?) comes true. Yes.

Again, Allah Almighty in His next verse, 109, in verse 109: My Messenger, follow what is revealed to you. That is, those who do not live the religion of Islam, who see themselves above Islam and live in pride and arrogance, who make gods of their nafs' whims and follow Satan and the taghut — get away from them. That is, do not follow them. Follow what is revealed to you. And be patient until Allah judges. At that state of theirs, He says, do not grieve. Do not grieve. You, until Allah judges. What is this "until He judges"? Either a calamity that will befall them in this world, or in the hereafter Eleysallâhu bi ahkemi'l-hâkimîn, Allah Almighty, the Judge of judges, judges — until He judges between them, you be patient.

If you say, Hodja, isn't that a long time? Between Allah Almighty and the Prophet (peace be upon him) there is no long time. How so? If a thousand years of the world are like one day of the hereafter, like one day, and the Prophet too is alive among us, a thousand years here are, for the Prophet, like one day in this world. That is why He says: you be patient. Be patient until Allah judges. He is the best of judges. That is, between those among you who do not believe in you, who turn their backs on Allah, and those who say Allah and obey Allah, Allah Almighty will separate. Yes. (?) will give its judgment.

Allah Almighty, addressing the Prophet (peace be upon him): follow what is revealed to you. That is, carry out Allah's commands. Even if all people turn their backs on you, say: Allah, Lord of the heavens and the earth and the great Throne, is enough for me. For He is the Lord of the worlds, and He is the absolutely powerful one who holds what He created under His rule. Allah Almighty. So follow what is revealed to you from Allah. Be patient until Allah judges. Everything is under Allah's rule. His saying "be patient until He judges" means: the events that will happen within people's destinies each have a time, and within this time there are deeds that people will commit.

So you be patient. Within the deeds these people will commit, Allah will grant them their aims. And these people, with the actual deeds they commit, will prove what kind of people they are.

Moreover, the punishments they will meet through their deeds, you too will see — that is what it means. (?) both in this world and in the hereafter. He is the best of judges. Allah Almighty created people deficient in reason. For this reason judges certainly err in their decisions. But because Allah Almighty is complete and perfect, without wronging anyone, according to His verse saying that what everyone earns is the recompense of his own two hands, He gives in full. He is the judge of judges. Now we used a word here. Judges get a bit angry at this word here. Like, "are you accusing us of lying?" We need to clarify this a bit.

Of course, we couldn't write everything out here.

For this reason judges certainly err in their decisions. It says they err. If we give an example of this, in Diyarbakır one judge is drinking tea at a tea house, someone comes, before his eyes, before his eyes, the agha shoots someone dead there.

It goes to court. (?) the man beside the agha is convicted. He says, I shot him. And the judge is a witness to the event. That case has been given to this judge. Now the evidence, let's say the evidence is on B. The one who shot is the agha; I know too that A shot him, it happened before my eyes, but all the evidence points to B; now the witnesses, the witnesses all point to B. Now can you jail A here? Is that possible?

The man (?), breaks his pen, resigns from the judgeship and leaves. Events like this don't happen before one's own eyes. Can the evidence (?) like this gather on one person or not? There are lawyers here too. It can. If it does, then today in the prisons many of the inmates — let's not say many, some — are lying inside innocently like this. So, however much judges decide correctly, in fact they decide according to the evidence, according to the evidence. But how far that evidence is true or not, they don't know. Allah Almighty does not err in this matter either; He shows you what you did exactly as it is; He is the judge of judges. Now the matter is understood, I suppose.

Why do we say it like this? Yes.

We pass over it briefly, in short sentences. In this case, when we dwell too long on the sentences, at such times,

if we try to open this up — we always say it — it would fill camel loads. if we open up this many places like this, it fills camel loads, and truly no one reads it. But sincerely — yes, we are human, we are mortal beings, we make mistakes, we say and move on. We close that point like that. Isn't that so? We make mistakes. Keeping that in view as human beings, we pass over the sentence like this without shortening the sentence.

We read that paragraph again. He is the best of judges. Allah Almighty created people deficient in reason. For this reason judges certainly err in their decisions. But because Allah Almighty is complete and perfect, without wronging anyone, according to His verse saying that what everyone earns is the recompense of his own two hands, He gives in full. For this reason He is the best of judges. That is, no one is wronged. Allah, as the judge of judges among them, without wronging any soul, will call every soul to account for what it earned.