Al-An'am 106: Follow that which has been revealed to you from your Lord. There is no deity other than Allah. Turn your face away from the idolaters.
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Follow that which has been revealed to you from your Lord. There is no deity other than Allah. Turn your face away from the idolaters.
Tafsir
Allah (swt) addresses His Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Habib-i Kibriya, Hatemul Anbiya, and in fact addresses all believing human beings and says, "Follow what has been revealed to you". It is Allah who created the beings and wants people to know the Essence of Allah through their own will. There is no God but Him.
(Turn away from the polytheists) The meaning of turn away from the polytheists here is not to be subject to their desires and wishes. Otherwise, it does not mean not telling them the truth and separating from them. If it meant turn away from the polytheists, separate from them, it would not be (vemaerselnake illa rahmatan lilalemin).
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Surah Al-An'am, verse 106. The verse: 'Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord; there is no god but Him; turn away from the polytheists,' it says. 'What is revealed from your Lord — follow it,' it says; the verses revealed to him, to the Prophet (peace be upon him), the verses. In fact He is saying this to all people. Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord. So since the Quran is a revelation, it addresses you too, it addresses me too. Follow what is revealed from your Lord. Follow the Quran, it says, the Quran. Follow the Quran. There is no god but Him. Yes. Turn away from the polytheists, it says.
From the polytheists.
May Allah grant them good guidance too.
If you do not turn away from them, since they shamelessly, indecently, with words unworthy of a person's life and honor speak, people's faith tends to wither. That is why, when those people speak, the faith of the believing people roars up, they feel like destroying them. So Allah Almighty, who, so that every person proves within his own lifetime what kind of person he is, grants him a term within that life — honoring that, you too grant him a term; turn away from them, just leave, He says. Turn away and just leave. Yes, following them. Allah Almighty, addressing His Beloved (?), the Prophet Muhammad, in fact addresses all believing people and says, 'Follow what is revealed to you,' He commands. That Allah who created all beings and who, through people's own partial free will, wants Allah's Being to be known — that is Allah.
There is no god but Him. Those polytheists (?) to their idols.
Those polytheists ascribe attributes to Allah. That is why the Allah we know is not an Allah with a father, with children, with family, with offspring, with a wife. Self-subsistent and One, He is an Allah who has need neither of family nor of children — none at all. Yes. Allah is the One who needs neither family nor children, who is self-subsistent. Turn away from the polytheists. The meaning of 'turn away from the polytheists' here is not following their wishes and desires. It does not mean not explaining the truth to them, or 'leave them'. Yes, we live side by side with polytheists; you will explain things to them, but when bad words — when you start, when he starts, it says — do not stay with them, leave, it says in the verse.
If it meant 'distance yourself from those polytheists, leave them', then 've mâ erselnâke illâ rahmeten li'l-âlemîn' would not be. Right — tell them, you will tell them, but what does the verse say? When they plunge into speaking indecently, shamelessly like this, it says. When, on hearing the truth within the religion of Islam, they reach a state at which the clouds in the sky would crack, it says.
If you have nowhere to go, stop your ears and sit. Otherwise, leave that place until they plunge into some other talk, it says. Yes.