Hud 98: On the Day of Judgment, Pharaoh will lead his people and bring them to fire. Wretched is their place of destination!

A. Metin Saruhan · 7 June 2017 · Hud

Translation

On the Day of Judgment, Pharaoh will lead his people and bring them to fire. Wretched is their place of destination!

Tafsir

Pharaoh, who had declared himself a god while he was living in the world, denied Allah, even though he saw the miracles of Allah from Hazrat Musa 'alaihis-salâm' and Hazrat Musa 'alaihis-salâm' invited Pharaoh to Allah. He also followed Hazrat Musa and his people with his soldiers to kill them and did not give up his rebellion against Allah. Allah (swt) destroyed Pharaoh by drowning him and his army in the Red Sea as a miracle from Himself and to leave him as an example for the worlds.

So Pharaoh, who disbelieved in Allah and the Day of Reckoning, will fall in front of his people on the Day of Resurrection, when we are resurrected and reckoned with, and his people will follow him, and he will lead them to the Fire. What an evil place these people will end up in! For the sake of a few hours of life and longevity in this world, those who are subject to Satan and the ego, who turn the abode of eternal bliss in the Hereafter into a dungeon in order to fulfill the desires of the ego, are buying a painful torment. Those who do not believe in Allah and the Hereafter will surely end up in the Fire.

What is said in the video

Surah Hud, verse 98. Pharaoh, on the Day of Judgment, will go before his people and lead them into the Fire. What an evil place to arrive at, it says. From here, Allah Almighty again advises us to use our reason. Perhaps you cannot draw that meaning from here, but now I will open up for you in which direction He again advises us to use our reason. What does it say? Pharaoh, on the Day of Judgment, will go before his people and lead them into the Fire. What an evil place to arrive at. Allah Almighty tells us: O people, if you follow the two- legged devil, the taghut, and do not know Me as Creator, as Lord, and turn your backs, then, just as those who followed Pharaoh and carried out what Pharaoh said and turned their backs on Allah — just as Pharaoh led them and took them to the Fire — so tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, if you do not carry out My command but follow the two- legged taghut, and for your worldly benefit, for those interests, obey what he says, then tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, they too, just like Pharaoh, will drag you off to the Fire, He says.

Doesn't He say so? In that case, use your reason, He says. How beautifully the verses confirm one another. What does it say? Pharaoh, on the Day of Judgment, will go before his people and lead them into the Fire. What an evil place to arrive at, it says.

If the people who followed Pharaoh will go to the Fire, then those who lead people away from Allah, and the people who believe what those leading away from Allah say, and go after that two-legged taghut — those people too, exactly as in Pharaoh's case, will take their followers with them into the Fire. So what follows from this is that if every person walks on his own, if every person, with the abilities, commands and rulings he gives himself, earns reward and sin, then within a person's own will there are two paths. There is no third path.

One is the sirat-i mustaqim, the straight path; the other the crooked, winding path to Hell. If a person, by his own will, uses his reason and becomes a servant to the Lord who created him and of the ummah of His Beloved, as far as he is able — for Allah says, We do not load on your backs what you cannot bear — in that case, if he turns to his Lord as far as he is able and does not fall short in worshipping Him, keeps his Lord alive in his heart, remembers his Lord in his free time, is careful about halal and haram, does not bear false witness, does not lie, strives to earn a halal living, Allah Almighty welcomes such servants with a smiling face in the Hereafter.

These are the paths of the sirat-i mustaqim. If you leave it, on the crooked, winding paths you will incur Allah's wrath both in this world and in the Hereafter. Yes.

So Pharaoh, on the Day of Judgment, will go before his people and lead them into the Fire. What an evil place to arrive at, it says. Pharaoh, who declared himself god while living in this world — though he saw Allah's miracles through Moses (peace be upon him), and though Moses (peace be upon him) invited Pharaoh to Allah — denied Allah. Moreover, to kill Moses and his people, with his army, Moses's — Moses and his people — he pursued them and did not give up rebelling against Allah. And Allah Almighty, as a miracle from Himself and to leave him as a lesson to the worlds, destroyed Pharaoh by drowning him in the Red Sea together with his army.

So Allah Almighty — Pharaoh, who denied the Day of Reckoning, on the Day of Judgment, that is, when we are raised again and our reckoning is done, will go before his people, and this time the people who followed him, together with him, under Pharaoh's lead, he will drag into the Fire. What an evil place these people will arrive at. Those who, for a few hours of life in this world, follow Satan and the nafs, who, to fulfil the desires of the nafs, turn the eternal abode of bliss in the Hereafter into a dungeon — they buy a painful punishment. Of course the place where those who do not believe in Allah and the Hereafter will arrive is the Fire.

Yes.