Al-An'am 43: If they would only have prayed when such tribulations struck them. But their hearts were hardened and Shaytan had made their deeds appear attractive to them.

A. Metin Saruhan · 7 July 2017 · Al-An'am

Translation

If they would only have prayed when such tribulations struck them. But their hearts were hardened and Shaytan had made their deeds appear attractive to them.

Tafsir

Living far away from Allah and deceived by Satan and their ego, these people could not say Allah. This is because their hearts have become petrified and hardened, and they have become living dead while in this world. Satan, too, has made their deeds seem good to them, and these people have prepared their own destruction against their own souls in pride and grandeur.

What is said in the video

Al-An'am, Surah Al-An'am, verse 43: if only, at least, they had implored when such hardship came to them, it says, if they had implored, at least, when such hardship, that is, an affliction came, if only they had implored, at least. But their hearts had hardened, and Satan made what they did seem fair to them. Their hearts had hardened. Who are these? Those who, first in the barzakh, did not recognize their Lord as Lord for Allah, the non-Muslims who gave their covenant in that way.

People who are enemies of Allah and His Messenger, who do not believe in the hereafter, who ascribe partners to Allah, who are in the darkness of shirk: to these people Satan made what they did seem fair, so despite being seized by so much affliction, distress and hardship, they did not turn back to Allah, ask His forgiveness and repent. Because it is not in their character. Their hearts have hardened.

There are stones from which water flows. There are stones from which springs flow, it says. A spring. These are even harder than those. Sometimes I travel.

I pass by rocks like these. How beautifully water flows from the rocks. I show it to (?): look, the verse. Look what Allah Almighty says. There are rocks, there are stones from within which water flows. Look at the water, I say. Yes.

Before your eyes thousands of miracles appear every day. You do not see, you are blind, it says.

Miracles appear every moment. But if a person reflects, he finds it. You need an eye that sees.

He says, the visible is hidden from eyes that do not see. Manifest, yet manifest; in these worlds it is hidden from the eye that does not see. So, not seeing what Allah created, paying no heed to the miracles before one's eyes, through one's weakness towards the verses or one's ignorance, living this world like a world of fancy and wasting one's life away. If we lift this veil of fancy from our eyes, we see the world of truth. Yes.

What does it say? People who are enemies of Allah and His Messenger, who do not believe in the hereafter, who ascribe partners to Allah, who are in the darkness of shirk: to these people Satan made what they did seem fair, so despite being seized by so much affliction, distress and hardship, they did not turn back to Allah, ask His forgiveness and repent. These people who live far from Allah, deceived by Satan and their nafs, could not say "Allah". They cannot say it. Allah weighs heavy on them. What will they say? Their gods, their deities,

the sky god, the water god, the god of whatever, gods and goddesses, and people who speak with (?), with love, with heartfelt pleasure of them.

Yes, but when they say Allah, they (?) their tongues once and mention Allah while speaking that way. And those who speak mockingly prove so well what they are themselves. The believer, it says, is the mirror of the believer. Beware the insight of the believer, for he sees with the light of Allah, it says. He sees with the light of Allah.

The way (?) talk on television.

How their hearts and eyes shine when they speak apart from the truth. And how they twist and bend their words when telling the truth. When people speak, whether from the tongue or from the heart, you see it right there.

Yes.

These people who live far from Allah, deceived by Satan and their nafs, could not say "Allah". Because their hearts have turned to stone, hardened; while in this world they have become the living dead. And with Satan making what they did seem fair, in pride and arrogance they have prepared their own destruction against their own souls. Just look at such people: with what arrogance and pride among themselves, and when they do something against Allah's commands, what heroes they turn into, what heroes they become. And the more they rebel against Allah's commands, the more they see themselves as high society, the higher they see themselves.

See how well Satan strips them stark naked. Whereas, according to the verse, it says: let not Satan strip you naked. These, saying our pleasure for the eyes is spoiled,

those who strip naked the women entrusted to us.

Who present them as stars, make them the toy of their (?) and then crumple them and throw them away like a rag.

Those base people who, taken in by the word "star", the poor things, consent to every kind of degradation. Those who lead the way in disbelief against Allah's verses, the four-legged people roaming the earth, of whom it says they are even (?) more astray, human in form but animal in nature.

Here I speak the truth, I speak what is right, I speak of what is before our eyes.

No one can say to these words of mine, you are speaking wrongly. Except those whom it weighs on, their nafs. They are the ones who flare up. The one whose nafs it weighs on flares up in this case, but if there is fear of Allah in his heart, he sees that what was said is true, and at once says, may Allah be pleased with this man, he woke us from our sleep, and if he repents and returns to the truth, Allah says, even if your sins had reached the clouds in the sky, when you repent and ask forgiveness from the heart, We turn them into good deeds, it says. This is a hadith. Yes. Allah is At-Tawwab, the One who accepts repentance again and again.

He is At-Tawwab. Yes.