Al-Baqarah 79: After this, great punishment is upon those who write the book with their own hands (changing the verses of the Torah), selling them for a small price. They say, “This is from Allah”; great punishment is upon them for what they wrote with their own hands. Woe upon them for the sins they have earned!

A. Metin Saruhan · 22 March 2017 · Al-Baqarah

Translation

After this, great punishment is upon those who write the book with their own hands (changing the verses of the Torah), selling them for a small price. They say, “This is from Allah”; great punishment is upon them for what they wrote with their own hands. Woe upon them for the sins they have earned!

Tafsir

And torment them that they write a book with their own hands. O people! Can you imagine the audacity of these people, taking the Creator lightly and not knowing the secret of the Creator in His verses, fitting Allah into their own heads and saying Allah sent this, writing a book with their own hands, how they attribute to Allah the crime they committed with their minds.

O man! Do you know Allah, but do you not know the day when you will give account to Allah? You exchange this temporary world for the Hereafter by selling the verses for worldly benefits. Are Allah's creations more precious than Allah? You believe the lies that your ego and Satan fabricate for you, and the life of this world seems sweet. Your ego deceives you? You say that the fire of hell will not touch me more than a few numbered days. Do you have a proof from Allah that has come down to you, so you say this?

Woe to them for what they have written with their hands. According to the verse (All souls will taste death in this world), they too will pass away from this world. Man appears to be free and irresponsible in this world. Within the framework of a certain lifespan given to the person, Allah (swt), who gives the opportunity to play out His covenant without stopping human action and behavior, will catch the person at the end of his lifespan and send him to the place he deserves. Woe to that person who makes a bad covenant and takes Allah lightly, who says, "This is a book from Allah" with the lies he fabricates, and who exchanges this mortal and temporary little time for the torment of an eternal and immortal life.

Woe to them for the sins they have earned. Allah (swt) wants people to attain high rank in His sight by the way He treats man and the value He places on him, but man is ungrateful and greedy and forgets his Lord. He does not listen to what comes from Allah. He eats and drinks the blessings of Allah. But he does not thank his Lord. He does not keep what his Lord says and does not worship Him. These are the losers and the losers. Woe to them for the sins they have earned. They failed to recognize Allah, they failed to serve their Creator out of the whim of their ego.

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Woe to those who write a book with their own hands, Allah forbid, and say: this is from Allah, they sell it for a price; woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them because of the sins they have earned, says Allah Almighty. Allah forbid.

Yes.

Woe to them who write a book with their own hands. O people! Can you imagine the audacity of these people? Look at the audacity.

When I was a child I was apparently very naughty. My late dear mother used to say to me: son, you have found a village without dogs and you walk around without a stick, she used to say.

These too came to an unseen world. Within their own will, thinking themselves unattended, did they think they had no owner?

Yes, look at the audacity. Can you imagine the audacity of these people? The Creator is taken lightly, and without knowing the secret in the Creator's verses, the secret,

he fits Allah into his own head and says Allah's, Allah sent this, makes a book with his own hands, and attributes to Allah the crime he committed with his mind. This person believes neither

in Allah nor in the Hereafter. This person believes in the Lord of his imagination.

The one of his own imagination. What did we say? They will not be able to see their Lord. That is, there is no god but Allah, so that they might know the Lord of their imagination. Why? They believe in the Lord of their imagination. Because they have money, they have property, they have children, they have land. First of all, if there is someone who will speak, if there is someone who will have rank and position, it belongs to them. He has his family and children, sir, his household, his offspring, his wealth, his money and possessions. Your family and your children, your wealth, your household, all of it is Allah's.

Allah created all of it. That does not suit them. Because their wishes and desires are different.

In this case they fit Allah into their own heads. That is, what did we say? According to the Lord of their imagination. According to their own wishes and desires, Allah will trust them in that way, will obey them, or will show them favour. And he says Allah sends this, he writes a book with his own hands, attributes to Allah the crime he committed with his mind, and by his own reasoning Allah allows him this: go and earn worldly gain. He will earn worldly gain, you see, it will be done, you see, and he sells it for money. To whom? To people who want it that way. Their wish and desire is like that too.

If their wish and desire were not like that, they would not buy it for money. The person who buys it for money

knows, by Allah, by Allah, that it was written by a person. By giving him money he will supposedly put the blame on him. Because he knows Allah too. He will put the blame on him. They are this (?), this much, people passing the ball to one another. Yes. O man, you know Allah, and do you not know the day you will give account to Allah? You say Allah wrote it, you knew Allah. Well, could you not know the day you will give account to that Allah? By selling the verses for worldly interests, let him exchange this fleeting world for the Hereafter. Are Allah's creations more valuable than Allah? Allah's creations.

He believes the lie his nafs and Satan made up for him. The life of the world seems sweet. Your nafs deceives you. You say: the fire of Hell will not touch me for more than a few numbered days. Do you have an argument, a proof sent down to you from Allah? If so, says Allah, bring Me your argument, bring your proof. Yes.

Woe to them for what they wrote with their hands. Why? Woe to them; who are you, with that partial mind of yours, to put yourself in place of the Lord over My servants and write writings for them as religion? As religion; who are you? So woe to you. According to the verse, every soul in the world will taste death; these too will depart from this world. We will all depart. So in this world that seems free and without responsibility, within a certain lifespan granted to a person, without his deeds and behaviour being stopped, Allah Almighty, who gives him the chance to play out his own covenant, will seize the person at the end of his life and send him to the place he deserves, the place he deserves.

In this world the person, the person thinks himself without responsibility. So irresponsible that wherever he goes he is free; especially where people do not see, he does what he likes. Yet that poor man does not know that there is such a yoke on his neck, that he is under such responsibility, a radar that follows him constantly. Forget the radar. What follows him constantly is his own body, his own body. As long as he cannot escape from his body, he will not escape the testimony of the deeds he did either. Well, what do you want from my body? My body is mine anyway. No, it is not like that. What does Allah Almighty say? We bring you to life twice and cause you to die twice.

Now I will separate you from your body. Here. In the world we were created as a body. A body. Our souls were created in the world of Lahut. It gave the covenant, (?). The soul entered the garment of the body. Here. It put on flesh and bone. It appeared as Yunus.

In flesh and bone. According to the verse: We bring you to life twice and cause you to die twice. The first time He brought us to life here. The first time He will cause us to die here, in the world. The second time He will bring the bodies to life in the Hereafter, and when you come before Me with a driver, who is the driver? The body. With the soul, He says, addressing the soul. It will come with a driver and with my body. When the souls are paired, soul and body will come face to face. We silence your mouths, bind your feet, and make your hands speak. Sir, Allah who tears my lip here and makes me speak, can He not make me speak from here?

He makes me speak from my arms. Before the soul, it says: why are you speaking against me? These are all verses. I am telling the verses. These are all verses. Why are you speaking against me? The body answers it now. It says: Allah, who makes me speak, makes me speak. And in the end, after the testimony is over, after the body has given its testimony against the soul, it says exactly this. You are being returned to the One who first created you, it says. And the body dies there a second time.

Spirit, nafs and life are separate from the body. In this case, where will you run? Run wherever you like, there is a witness in you. You cannot escape this. So He says: even if you went to the remotest corner of the earth, even if you went to the remotest corner of the world and of the universe, We would still find you there, seize you in death, and We would know about you, and We know what you do, He says. And We make you witnesses against yourselves, He says. With what? From our body.

So those people who wrote with their hands, woe to them, woe to them. So in this world that seems free and without responsibility, within a certain lifespan granted to a person, regarding his deeds and behaviour, without his behaviour being stopped, Allah Almighty, who gives the chance to play out his own covenant, will seize the person at the end of his life and send him to the place he deserves. So with the verse in which He says woe to them, the one who gave a bad covenant and took Allah lightly, who with the lies he made up says: this is a book from Allah, who exchanges this fleeting and passing short time for the punishment of an eternal and deathless life, woe to that person. Yes.

What did we say? The one who says this is a book from Allah, who exchanges this fleeting and passing short time for the punishment of an eternal and deathless life, woe to that person. Yes. What will happen, woe to him? Look what Allah Almighty says. In that Hell there are such (?), that is, chains, with which he will be bound, and on his back, in those flames, he will writhe there. And there are also such places, He says, they are like yellow sparks, He says, like yellow camels they throw off sparks, He says. He will be put into these.

Gentlemen, your not believing will bring you nothing. But that fire that leaps like yellow sparks, I have seen it. My Lord permitted me, I saw it. It takes the person like this. There are those Zabaniya angels. (?) They are beings resistant to fire. Sir, it takes him and immediately puts him inside that fire. And what is that fire like? In the form of a ring. A ring like this. Exactly, let us not even say red, together with a state like (?), its inside the colour of lava, like the sight of those lavas that volcanoes hurl, a lava inside. It takes him, grabs him by the nape, by the back like this, by the back, and puts him there.

Count, count five, six seconds. Like this: one, two, three, four, five, six. It takes him out of there. Puts him on the ground. He lies face down like this. Face down. Like prostration. Pitch black, a piece of coal. Pitch black. The verse says it too. Then again count five or six seconds. Five or six seconds. When you have counted those five or six seconds, that one lying motionless, that person, the bodies crack like soil left without water. Allah Almighty says the same in the verse. He shows us exactly that. This is the verse. From underneath, a brand-new white skin comes. I see it. I watch it.

A pure white skin comes. And he starts to move. It goes from that. That skin, you know, like snakes shedding their skin. This world is the (?) and the shadow of the Hereafter, you see. And the soul is deathless, you see, the soul. It changes the skin, brand new, a pure white skin comes out, he fully comes to himself, again it takes him from there and puts him there. Well, can this punishment be endured? This punishment. Well, Allah Almighty tells us the same verses with His verses. And me telling you these things after seeing them, does my saying I saw them surprise you? Let us say you did not see them; I am opening up the verses.

(?), but I am opening up the verses. But who opens up the verses best? By seeing them. Of course the one who sees. We are telling you the verses. We will come to those parts later, God willing. We will come to those parts too. We will tell you. Yes.

What did we say? The one who says this is a book from Allah, who exchanges this fleeting and passing short time for the punishment of an eternal and deathless life, woe to that person. Woe to them because of the sins they have earned, He says. Allah Almighty. That person, sir; Allah Almighty, by addressing man to His Essence and by the value He gives him, wants people to attain high ranks in His Essence's sight. Who wants it? Allah Almighty. Why? I addressed you to My Essence. I gave you a partial spirit from My Essence, He says, a spirit. And by opposing Me, by denying your origin, you have harmed your own self. Woe to you, He says.

Woe to you. Yes. What does this resemble? A child opposing his father. Get lost, who are you? I am not even your child. I do not even know you, if he said. What would that father say to him? Shame on you, he would say. He would say it, would he not? Shame on you, he would say. Yes.

Allah Almighty, by addressing man to His Essence and by the value He gives him, wants people to attain high ranks in His Essence's sight. But because man is ungrateful and greedy, greedy, what greedy? Selfish. Stingy towards the world. He forgets his Lord. He values this matter his eyes see, he values Allah's creations, but he forgets Allah, he forgets the One who created him. He does not heed what comes from Allah, he eats and drinks the blessings Allah gives, but does not thank his Lord. He does not keep what his Lord says, he does not worship Him. So these are in loss and ruin. Woe to them because of the sins they have earned.

They could not come to know Allah. Out of the whims of their nafs they could not fulfil the duty of servanthood towards their Creator.

Yes. Is the human nafs this arrogant? And is the human nafs this ungrateful, and that it should fall into such arrogance as to count its Creator as nothing?