Hud 15: To those who (only) desire the worldly life and its ornaments, there, We give the return of their deeds completely and they will not suffer injustice.

A. Metin Saruhan · 1 June 2017 · Hud

Translation

To those who (only) desire the worldly life and its ornaments, there, We give the return of their deeds completely and they will not suffer injustice.

Tafsir

If people turn away from Allah and His Messenger and do not believe in the Hereafter, the life of such people is the life of this world and its temporary blessings.

Whoever covets the temporary blessings of this worldly life and prefers Allah's creatures to Allah, realizing and desiring that life and living is here, and turns his back on the Hereafter, Allah (swt) will reward such people according to their lives and intentions, in full for what they earned in this worldly life. People will not be able to say, "I did this and that, and I am not being rewarded for it," without any loss. This is because Allah is free from imperfect attributes. Such people who do not believe in Allah and the Hereafter will be rewarded for their deeds without any loss for their gains.

But such people have no share in the Hereafter. The wealth they earn remains in this world. Since they cannot send any provisions for the Hereafter, they will be naked there. Not only will their good deeds in this world be in vain, but they will also be deprived of Allah's mercy.

What is said in the video

You say. Surah Hud, verse 15: Whoever desires only the life of this world and its adornment, the reward of their deeds We give them in full there. The reward of their deeds. We give it in full, and there they are not wronged at all.

What does it say here? Let us read the verse again. Whoever desires only the life of this world and its adornment, the reward of their deeds We give them in full there, and there they suffer no harm. Now, this verse goes all the way back to the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm, to Allah Almighty's covenant with people. Allah Almighty's showing our souls the times to come; those people's, within those times, wishes and desires; because their wishes and desires are their destiny, the world: those who want only the world, who give themselves to the world's adornment and desire that adornment, since their destinies were written like this, Allah Almighty here, that destiny (?). What does He say? Whoever desires only the life of this world and its adornment, where? Right there. That is, at that address Elestü bi Rabbiküm.

He wants the worldly life of the coming age and the adornment of that worldly life. He does not know Allah anyway. "Let me live here," he says. "I will go here. I will live here." Well, he is waiting for the Lord in his imagination. He has turned his back on the Lord who created him. He has turned his back on Allah. He recognizes Him neither as Allah nor as his Lord. In that case he thinks only of that life of his, his life in the world, and according to his own mind, because he does not use his reason. According to the verse "you do not use your reason." And because he does not use his reason, in the world too, by his own mind, if there is an Allah, if there is a creator, he will deceive Him that way too.

With his family, his children, his offspring, his wealth, his property, he will pull strings. So, whoever desires only the life of this world and its adornment, the reward of their deeds We give them in full there. That is, We give him in full the return for the life he desired. And there they suffer no harm. That is, their not being harmed here: whatever they intended, in proportion to their covenant, We give them completely, in full. Because according to the verse "We do not put on people's backs what they cannot bear." They live what they desired, completely, in this world. If people turn their faces away from Allah and His Messenger and do not believe in the Hereafter, such people's lives are the life of this world and the passing blessings found on the world.

So whoever (?) the passing blessings in this worldly life, prefers Allah's creations to Allah, perceives that existence and life are here, desires that, and turns his back on the Hereafter: Allah Almighty, according to the lives and intentions of such people, in the worldly life, as the full return for what they earned, it is given to them. People suffer no harm at all.

In that case these people, "I did this, and I don't see the return for it," will not be able to say. Because Allah is above any deficient attribute. Such people, who do not believe in Allah and the Hereafter, the return of their earnings, (?), they see the return for what they did. But such people have no share in the world of the Hereafter. The wealth they earned stays in the worldly life; since to the life of the Hereafter not even a little did they send, they are left there stark naked. As if the (?) they did in the world had gone to waste, moreover, from Allah's mercy they are deprived. Yes, these people, with only the world's blessings, just as (?) spending his life, here they indulge in pleasure and enjoyment; all their (?) they did having gone to waste according to the verse, since they sent no provision at all to the Hereafter and since they did not recognize their Lord as Lord, there, without anyone and alone, in the world of the Hereafter, turning the eternal abode of bliss into the eternal abode of torment, as people of Hell, the eternal abode, that place that is such an evil place of return, they make their bed.