Hud 31: “I am not telling you that Allah’s treasures are with me and I don’t know the unknown. I am also not saying that I am an angel. About the people that you despise, I cannot say Allah will never give them goodness. Allah knows better what is in their hearts. If I would expel them, I would truly be among the oppressors.”

A. Metin Saruhan · 8 November 2016 · Hud

Translation

“I am not telling you that Allah’s treasures are with me and I don’t know the unknown. I am also not saying that I am an angel. About the people that you despise, I cannot say Allah will never give them goodness. Allah knows better what is in their hearts. If I would expel them, I would truly be among the oppressors.”

Tafsir

Hadrat Noah continued to address his people: O my people! I do not tell you that I have the treasures of Allah with me, nor do I say that I am an angel, nor do I know the unseen, that is, I do not know what will happen in the next moment unless Allah graciously informs me. I am a Prophet sent to you from among you, and I am charged with conveying to you the commands of Allah.

I am not saying that Allah does not give good to those whom your eyes despise, in return for your pride and arrogance towards them. Allah knows the unseen. Because people's sustenance is also within the unseen knowledge of Allah.

And Allah knows better what is in their hearts. Because Allah is the One who has given them their desires and wishes as their destiny, and Allah knows what is in their hearts and how they will live and how they will die, whether they are righteous or unrighteous.

He said, "If I drive away these people who believe in Allah, I will be one of the wrongdoers.

What is said in the video

will have traded it for the abode of punishment, and we will have wronged our own nafs eternally. Surah Hud, verse 31: I do not say to you that Allah's treasures are with me. Yes, people, by people's words, are not always reached. People, in return for material things, by the words of people who own material things are very well reached, they are influenced. And this being influenced is an effect in return for that material. Even if there is no love and affection for the person, even if in their hearts they harbor hostility and (?) toward him, to his face, as though obeying him very nicely, they obey. So Allah Almighty, from these situations, to protect people, sent all the prophets mostly in poverty and (?). In poverty and (?) He sent them. Just as He sent Jesus without a father.

Sir, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) He again raised as an orphan, just as they said: are we left with Abdullah's orphan? Sir, you know, if He had said from one of two men of these cities, I mean from a rich man in Ta'if and a rich man in Mecca the Honored, if it had been from them, they would have obeyed them. So many people love them and obey. But loving the prophet in faith, loving the prophet as Allah's servant, and loving Allah because the prophet brought him to life, then in man's heart toward his prophet and Allah Almighty love and affection do not fall short. In this case: I do not say to you that Allah's treasures are with me.

Yes. That is, if our Lord's treasures were with me, maybe you would believe my word, you would obey, even if for a passing while, but the treasures are not with me. These (?) are Allah's. I don't say my Lord's treasures are with me. Nor do I know the unseen, he says. Yes. Because (?) the keys of the unseen are in Allah's hand. So what does it say? These worlds have been programmed with a program. With a program. Allah Almighty, all of those to come until the Day of Judgment, within a program, with one another, so as to fit together; "until the Day of Judgment there is not a single living being of which, what it will not do, We do not know", according to the verse.

That the keys of the unseen are in Allah's hand and that only Allah knows the unseen, He tells His servants; but only as much as He makes known, as much as Allah Almighty permits and makes known, people can know the unseen. And this they call miracles for the prophets, and for His saintly servants karamat; these are karamat. Yes, nor do I know the unseen. Nor do I say I am an angel. That is, I am a human. I am not an angel. Angels are created from light. They have no nafs. They have no matters of reward and sin. The angels. Because they were created obedient to Allah. They were programmed that way.

In this case, I am not an angel either. I am a human. Because Allah Almighty decrees: whatever kind you are, We send you prophets of your kind. In this case, to angels He sends prophets from the angels, from light. And to humans, from humans carrying the soul to which He gave a part of His soul, He sends prophets. Yes.

Of those whom your eyes look down on, I cannot say that Allah will never give them any good. Yes. People may appear to believe in the prophet. There is a subtle point here. What does it say? I cannot say Allah will never give them any good. That is, wrong may also touch them from this. Nor can I say He will not give good. Because Allah knows the secrets of hearts. Had he said that all who believe in me are, by Allah's leave, destined for Paradise, he would have decided in Allah's place. Since he does not know their states. But look at the meaning, how beautiful. Of those your eyes look down on, I cannot say Allah will never give them any good. So they are left to our Lord's decree.

They have turned to Allah. By the decision Allah will give, with the actual deeds those servants did, by the decisions Allah gives, they will meet with good or with evil. Nor can I say they will not give them any good. That is, these are in evil. They obeyed me, but they are in evil. No. Since they obeyed Allah, if within that obedience they commit a sin, the (?) of that sin belongs to Allah. For this reason I cannot say that no good will be given them by Allah either. That is, these are people who will meet with good.

Allah knows best what is in their hearts. Look how beautifully it says it. Allah knows best what is in their hearts. That is, Allah Almighty will write the good.

He will write the evil too. In this case, God willing, these have obeyed. They have believed in Allah. Even if all of them earned in evil, surely after a punishment they will go to the highest Paradise. But if you do not turn back and remain constantly upon evil, Paradise for you in this case is forbidden. If I drive them away, I would truly be among the wrongdoers then, he says. If we drive them away, I would be among the wrongdoers. I would. Because these are people who have obeyed Allah. Since I invite people to Allah, in this case, if the people I invited to Allah, those who believed for Allah, I drive away from me, then I would have opposed Allah's command, and I would be among the wrongdoers.

Noah (peace be upon him) continues addressing his people. O my people, I do not say to you that Allah's treasures are with me. Nor do I say I am an angel. Nor do I know the unseen. That is, I, what will happen a moment later, unless Allah graciously makes it known, I cannot know that either. As I said just now, for saints, saints, telling of the future is a karama. Allah Almighty, from the future programs, the amount of burden people will bear too may show him. To prophets, however, by revelation He both makes known His verses and shows them the events to come very nicely. He creates miracles for His prophets.

In this case, because they are prophets, miracles; for saintly servants, the word they spoke is (?).

Yes.

I am, from among you, sent to you, a prophet. Allah Almighty sends prophets to every people in their own language. To every people. As we always say, since scholars are the heirs of the prophets, again Allah Almighty raises scholars within their own peoples. Scholars: to them, in their own language, Allah's verses; those people He raised, to remove falsehood, to invite to the truth, to His servants as charged ones He sends them. This is our Lord's custom that will continue until the Day of Judgment. Where does this custom come from? According to the verse: We hold no one responsible from a generation We did not inform.

Since Allah Almighty will complete His light until the Day of Judgment, His light: if He had raised these scholars and not sent them, Allah could not complete His light; it would be lacking. There would be a lack in the word He spoke. In this case, since Allah will complete His light until the Day of Judgment, since after the Seal of the Prophets, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), no prophet will come again, since to other peoples at most every (?) years or in shorter times He sent prophets, and only between Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) some 400 years or so passed.

And since the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) 1400 some years have passed. Within this time, to other people prophets having sent, having sent prophets to people in the past, if after the Prophet (peace be upon him) He had not sent you a prophet, Allah would have done you an injustice. He keeps sending prophets to the others. For these people, no more prophets. And since these people are no different from other people, since they are not different, they can fall into disbelief too. Then why are prophets sent to those? So the hadith in which he said "the saint of my community is like a prophet of the Children of Israel" proves this anyway.

And they also call this a hadith. Many people, because they don't know of the hadiths. Since Allah will complete His light until the Day of Judgment, and will not send a prophet again, one more hadith. Scholars are my heirs, they said. That is, the prophet's heirs. In this case, if the prophet's heirs are scholars, these people Allah Almighty raised are of the caliber of a prophet of the Children of Israel; they are not prophets, God forbid, they are like them. That is, verses come to them. And to this: the translations of the verses, and, (?) the truth just like the duties those people did, righteous servants (?).

Allah Almighty raises these. Since He will not send a prophet again until the Day of Judgment, these scholars, the superstitions that entered religion, remove from religion. In this case Allah Almighty makes it heard. Since He will not call to account anyone from a generation He did not inform, compared to the prophets He sent to other peoples, more strongly; to other prophets a few verses came. Sir, to the community of the Prophet (peace be upon him) He gave 6600 some verses. From these 6600 verses they, by conveying the truth to people, the religion of Islam until the Day of Judgment keep standing.

In every age Allah Almighty, by sending scholars to people, will complete His religion until the Day of Judgment. Allah, He says, will complete His light until the Day of Judgment. Did they think with the blowing of their mouths they would put out Allah's light? Allah will complete His light until the Day of Judgment. So, with words heard from one another, picked up from one another, seen from one another, with words,

the word written in Arabic, with the words' translation into Turkish, those whose knowledge is lacking and some subtleties they cannot grasp, if in the renderings of the Quran too they render it attributing qualities to Allah, then Allah Almighty: after this, if the people to come too are, in this way, with what people have said, with fabricated words, addressed, and if our Lord had not sent them the scholars He raised so, that (?), those people, when ruled by such superstitious words, Allah Almighty would not give them sin, since in superstitions they lived. Because Allah Almighty will not call to account anyone from a generation He did not inform.

So, because of their attributing qualities to Allah Almighty, Allah Almighty such scholars raises. To the wrong renderings in the Quran and what people learned wrongly, He sends scholars. Those who obey the scholars, just as if obeying the prophets, just as if obeying the prophets, are ruled by the truth. If not, ruled by superstitions, valuing those superstitions and despite hearing the truth he turns his back on the Truth, a situation, just as if he turned his back on those prophets, comes about. I don't say it. I don't say they are like those who turn their backs on prophets. It comes about like a state of having turned one's back.

That is, since Allah Almighty will not call to account anyone from a generation He did not inform, now to you He made the Truth heard. But because you are ruled by superstitions, you turned your back on the Truth. The one thing that saves you is La ilahe illallah Muhammeden Resulullah. Because of this you were saved. Because of this you were saved. But because you were ruled by those superstitions, penalties were written. Because you turned your back on the Truth. Penalties were written for you. Sins were written. Either, if your sins are few, you see your punishment in Hell and come out. Or if your sin and reward are equal, if your reward is a bit more, by Allah's mercy one attains Paradise.

But you will have entered the lowest Paradise.

I think we've distinguished the subtleties here. Yes: I am, from among you, sent to you, a prophet, and I am charged with conveying Allah's commands to you, he says.

When we too went on a visit, they didn't listen to us at all; like a wound-up record they talked. When I explained the truth to the person beside him, he became all ears, all ears. Then he drifted back into his own whims.

In this case,

although we conveyed the truth, they didn't want to listen.

Here, of persons we are never backbiting. We don't talk behind people's backs anyway; to their faces we wrote it as "Answer to the Diyanet", our (?), our (?), and uploaded it to our site too.

People, instead of listening to us, when he speaks, with many contradictions, he isn't even aware he speaks so; and when he notices, he says exactly this.

When it says Allah leads them astray, like this he says: this verse comes, here it's like this, Arabic says so, Allah leads astray, he says.

In one place he lays partial will on man, in another, by removing partial will, he uses Allah's will over man. What happens when Allah leads astray? Allah Almighty will have used His will over that person. When he reads the translation, in the footnote, when he reads the translation, in the footnote too it says exactly: by the person's own willing he strays from Allah. By his willing. When he reads that part too, this time, so he can cover his embarrassment, what does he say this time? Look, if you said it like in the footnote, he says, it would be most welcome. In the footnote. The footnote is as I say.

The rendering of the verse. But in Arabic it comes like this, he says. This is like this, he says. Now (?), isn't this remark laughable? I mean, is it laughable or not? I pity him, I mean. I pity him. In Arabic too it comes like this, he says. It removes the will from man. Using Allah's will it leads man astray, and in this case too, in this case too, in the footnote man by his own will turns his back on Allah, strays, it says. So he says: if you said the footnote, he'd believe. What is this, where is the verse's root? You know, what you call "ayet-i sibak ve siyak", the rendering according to the spirit of the verse, where did it go?

So because the subtleties are not known, the subtleties.

Perhaps the people are truly sincere, but since such a subtle knowledge is not there, a (?) knowledge raised by our Lord, that is, a knowledge suited to the spirit of the Quran, being absent, it was rendered this way according to the order it comes in; to them we spoke like this. we said: in this case, when this (?) from the Gospel, it caught their attention, of course. Then, oh, they said, you've likened the Quran to the Gospel. (?) The Quran verses are under this protection of Allah Almighty. The Quran's way of rendering is like this, sir: as a Turkish translation, in a way Allah Almighty did not say, if while rendering the Quran there are in it a (?), many words, what difference would it have from the Gospel, we said.

Then they fell silent. He said nothing, but again starts explaining within his own state. We saw it wasn't going to work, we said. Well, goodbye.

Whereas as Muslims we were going to consult. For example, we listened to them. We listened along with the papers from that time. We gave our answer. Why did we come there? Brother, you sent us such a paper, sent a writing. Our answer to this writing to you: if possible, listen to us, listen, let us answer you. If I am not mistaken in this answer I gave you, show me the truth in the light of verses. That's the essence of it. That's what we're developing too. As if we had gone there to listen to them, to listen to them. Sir, I don't need to listen to you. I've already listened to you; I listened to you in the writing in your hand, and gave my answer.

Now you listen to me a bit, orally, in my outward presence. No. Well then, Allah made it heard. He calls no one to account from a generation He did not inform; He made it heard. God willing, its echo we are awaiting, its echo. Because to their head, the President of the Diyanet, Mr. Mehmet Görmez, too, a (?) we left.

To the head of the Prime Minister's private office too, a (?) we left. To our President's private office head too we left a (?). That is, as an answer, to speak to the Diyanet, that 2-hour 25 minute (?), our talk, we left. Again, by Islamic publication, (?) Islamic council, being its head (?), with that place, to the highest levels of the state we made notification.

In this case the responsibility has left us. We have fulfilled our duty. In the events to come, God willing, they will call us. Whichever office is needed now will call us. There are already more than 504 errors. Rendered. A rewriting of the Quran from the root is required. From the root. We've already finished ninety-five percent. Ninety-five percent. We could even say a hundred percent; sitting down, the verses we have rendered anew, in neater wording, but the same meaning, not a different meaning. And the meanings are sound; perhaps in one or two, three or five, with a neater meaning, with work, we can set them in place.

In a very short time, the religion of Islam according to the spirit of the Quran, if the Diyanet's officials, this rendered translation we made, can acknowledge, a new Quran translation will be written. Apart from that, even though a new Quran translation is written, a very important further duty the Diyanet will do: at the base of theology, of theology, again in the light of these verses people must be raised.

Because they don't know fatalism, people into fatalism they drag. You know, the verses, when it says Allah increases man's deviance, Allah does not increase man's deviance. When we say it like this, they tie it to (?) and worse, if you speak this way, so they have instilled. As Mu'tazila they classify it. As a deviant person in (?) they classify. Since in these situations they raise people this way from the root of theology, it is not possible for them to give ground on what they have learned. So at the root, at the root of theology too, changes. This must be explained nicely to people so that this order is set up again within an Islamic order.

That is, so that it rests on a rule. Otherwise, like this everyone (?). I have done my necessary duty. I have done my necessary duty. If needed, I won't hold back from explaining the truth to them either. If needed. If needed, I won't hold back from teaching them these subtleties. The subtleties. In this case I understand this: with their way of being raised like this, to obtain office and position, and, according to how Arabic grammar comes, their attributing qualities to Allah Almighty, doing so on a few verses, their being taught this way seems to me like the work of non-Muslims. The work of non-Muslims: degenerating religion; their hostility toward Allah not presenting directly to people as "this is an enemy", but removing Allah's glory and tying it to Gabriel, removing the Prophet entirely, and, as they said in the verse of Abasa too, (?) to the Prophet, whereas there it is not possible for such (?) to the Prophet, when it says so, when (?) goes in among the polytheists and asks what the Prophet is telling, attentively they listen to him. Attentively. They don't make a sound then.

Because no one can find any (?) in the Prophet. Now I don't blame them either. They were raised that way. But the blessing of reason is our greatest friend. Our reason. And our faith. In this case, if we use our reason, we see what the truth is. And if we see what the truth is, we must turn our backs on these doings.

That's what I reckon. We developed the groundwork. The groundwork. The events from now on, the events: the persons on duty, within their own judgments, between Allah and themselves, their consciences, have been left bearing responsibility. We developed the groundwork and gave it. We explained everything too. However much a Muslim says in Arabic it comes like this, for him to attribute qualities to Allah is not possible, for a Muslim. (?) About souls too he says this man ties the soul to Allah alone. Whereas, he says, of the soul (?), according to Arabic grammar, to some beings too, he says, it is established that it is said, he says.

For 1400 years, he says, it has come like this, he says. For 1400 years, which is not possible. In this case we have proven what was needed. You know too, we explained it in the last lesson. In this case the duty has been fulfilled, the groundwork of the duty too has been laid. The responsibility from now on, to the levels of the state has fallen. Up to here we have made our voice heard. Yes, even beyond that, may Allah Almighty be pleased with you, be pleased with those who helped. They, as far as possible, were helpful.

In meetings with some offices and making the videos, placing them on sites; of course it's not work we could do alone; Allah Almighty granted helpers to all the prophets too. These children of ours too, as Allah's helpers, that is, as helpers of a world, to us, that is, helping Allah, helping Allah's religion, they have been. May Allah be pleased with them too. A very good initiative has been achieved. In this case the responsibility now onto those offices' backs has been loaded. Yes. From among you, to you sent, I am a prophet and I am charged with conveying Allah's commands to you, he says. We too are charged with conveying Allah's commands to people.

We are conveying them anyway. You are witnesses to this too. Allah is witness too. Those people your eyes look down on, seeing them as smaller than yourselves, against your pride and arrogance toward them, they do not say Allah will not give these any good.

Perhaps these are seen as Muslim but may not live Islam. Perhaps; I don't say He doesn't give any good, but as long as they live Islam too, these will attain Allah's mercy, they say. So this decision belongs to Allah, he says. Allah knows the unseen. Because people's provisions too are within Allah's knowledge of the unseen. Those people you saw, looked down on, held in contempt with your eyes, their provisions too are, by our Lord, within our unseen realm. Within an unseen matter. And Allah knows best what is in their hearts. Because the One who gave them their intentions, desires and wishes as destiny, Allah, what passes through everyone's hearts, and how they will live, how they will die, whether they are (?) or (?), Allah knows.

We cannot know. Because Allah knows the secrets of hearts. Why does Allah know the secrets of hearts? In the address of Elestü bi Rabbiküm, when they made a covenant with Allah Almighty, their desires and wishes, their intentions became their destiny. Within those destinies, Allah Almighty, the characters He instilled in our souls, within these characters, when people come into the world, by their own desires and wishes, what they wanted, that state they wanted to live, Allah Almighty creates as causes. In the person deeds come about; the causes (?) take on sin. He holds himself, those around him and Allah Almighty as witness to what kind of person he is.

And when his time comes, when the Truth's command comes to pass: did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are? According to the verse, when the Truth's command comes, he will have proven himself and passed on to the hereafter. Yes.

What are we saying? And Allah knows best what is in their hearts. Because Allah, who gave them their intentions, desires and wishes as destiny, what passes through everyone's hearts and how they will live, how they will die, whether (?) or wretched they are, Allah knows. So if I drive away from me these people who have believed in Allah, if I push them away, I would truly be among the wrongdoers, said Noah (peace be upon him).