Al-An'am 149: Say; “Absolute proof belongs to Allah. If Allah had desired, Allah surely would have put you onto the right path”.

A. Metin Saruhan · 2 August 2017 · Al-An'am

Translation

Say; “Absolute proof belongs to Allah. If Allah had desired, Allah surely would have put you onto the right path”.

Tafsir

Surely the final judgment is Allah's. If Allah had willed, no one could have strayed from the right path. In this case, Allah's will would not have been realized. Allah's intention was that the people He created should know Allah of their own volition. Otherwise, the entire universe and the creatures that Allah created in proportion to His will, are beings created by Allah's will. Again, Allah (swt) willed; He willed that man should know His Essence through his own ability. He wanted man to know his Lord through his own will. In this respect, He left man free in his will.

Since Allah is the Creator out of nothing, since He is sovereign over everything, Allah creates what He wills in the way He wills. He creates neither deficiency nor excess in His creation. Therefore, by creating man and by His commands, He intends that man should know his Lord in the same way as He intends that man should know his Lord and worship Him in the same way. Those who do otherwise are those who disobey Allah. Those who do not adopt Allah's will, who try to attribute their own shirk and sins to Allah's will, who live irresponsibly in the realm of property, who deify their own nafs, and then say that if Allah had not willed it, we would not have done it this way, are people who are unjust to their own nafs by falsely blaming Allah.

Instead of people saying that if Allah had not willed it, we would not have committed this shirk and haram, they should have thought that Allah created rewards and sins for people. He could not say what Allah intended with this. Because it was too much for his soul to worship Allah and recognize Him. The glory, fame, pride, greatness, selfishness, arrogance and love of the world in his own soul seemed pleasant to him. In addition, the temptation of the devil, the desires of the ego, and the world's ornate appearance and benefits turned man away from the worship of Allah and towards his ego. In this respect, man has gone astray, leaving the right path.

What is said in the video

When Allah Almighty said, "I am your Lord," the beliefs that people felt toward Allah Almighty were written for them as their destiny. Now, had Allah Almighty wished, just as He programmed all creatures according to His own will and wish, then people too, according to His will and wishes, He would have programmed. This is within Allah Almighty's power. So He was going to create a being that, of its own will and wish, would know its Lord, and of its own will and wish would itself choose the path it wanted. In this way, man would both be addressed by Allah Almighty and come under a great responsibility.

That is the highest point of the secret of creation: Allah Almighty leaving the human He created free in his will.

Yes.

Upon this, the final judgment surely belongs to Allah. Had Allah willed, surely no one could step out of the right path. That is not possible. Because (?) the animals, according to the program they will carry out, He programmed.

(?) the angels He programmed according to the programs they will carry out, and no (?) can go outside that program. Today you load a program onto a computer; when you make it do anything outside that program, right away it reminds you, it says there is no such thing, no such thing. it says the data is empty, that is, the memory is empty there. For the (?) you would give it, there is no memory. In this case, people too, Allah Almighty's uh or rather, people, with their will and wishes from Allah Almighty, had their own desires written for themselves as destiny. Had our Lord wished, He would have programmed people, and people could not have stepped outside this program.

Yes. Then what Allah intended would not have come to light. That is, while people were supposed, of their own will and wishes, uh, to know Allah Almighty, Allah Almighty Himself would have (?). And in that case people would not be responsible for what they did.

Allah's intention was that the people He created would know Allah by their own will. Yes. That is, we called this the summit of the art of creation.

Otherwise, the whole universe and the creatures Allah Almighty created in accordance with His own intention are beings created by the will of Allah Almighty. Apart from humans and jinn, this entire universe was created in accordance with Allah Almighty's intention. Humans and jinn have been left free in their own will. By their own will and wishes they are also free to know or not to know the truth, that is, Allah. So among the jinn too there are those of Islam, that is, Muslims, and the wretched; the God-fearing and the wretched. Just as with humans. The difference between humans and jinn: He created the jinn from pure fire, while to humans He gave of His spirit.

That is, being created from pure fire. Since He created it from the light of the Prophet, being created from his light. As for humans, since He gave of His spirit to the Prophet, from that essence of His, miraculously, in His creating humans. The noblest of creatures. Man gives a very great value to Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty to man. Yes.

Again, Allah Almighty willed,

He intended that His essence be known through man's own ability. Through his own ability. That is what we call partial will.

With this partial will, Allah Almighty's intention is fulfilled. Without any pressure or coercion on them, without programming them, with the great value He has given those people, by giving a part of His spirit, He makes them addressees of His essence. And so He writes the intention of man's own will and wishes for him as destiny. He wanted man to know his Lord by his own will. For this reason He also left man's will free. Yes.

Since Allah Almighty is the One who creates from nothing, since His rule extends over everything, He creates everything from nothing. Then what does "creating from nothing" mean? Bringing a substance into being because it does not exist. Let's say there is no substance A in the world at all. That is, it has not been created. Substance A. He creates it. Let's say, for example, iron. Say it doesn't exist at all. We don't even know what it is, but He creates iron. And when He creates them, what did He create and why, the Owner of wisdom?

He puts them at the service of people, and all His creations He creates under His own rule, within His will. That is a great matter.

In what He creates He creates neither a deficiency nor an excess in His creation. Neither a deficiency nor an excess. If there had been a deficiency or excess, people could not have ruled over them, could not move them as they wished. So, just as by creating man He intends, through His commands, how man should know his Lord, man must likewise know his Lord in that way and obey and worship Allah.

how beautiful In whatever way Allah Almighty wants man to know His essence, how should I know how He wants it — through His prophets, His books, His sharia rulings, His scholars, He informs people how we will know, how we will know that there is no god other than Allah, that everything from the atom to the globe was created by Allah Almighty, that all the prophets and books sent are true, and that people are in helplessness before their Lord, that in the helplessness of his nafs he was created so as to submit to his Lord's commands, of his own will; that man was created able to know or not know Allah Almighty, of his own will.

And that, being addressed by Allah Almighty, if they fulfill Allah's commands they will possess the sovereignty of the eternal abode of bliss in the hereafter, and if they step outside Allah's command, then they will (?) the eternal punishment of the abode of torment — this He makes known. Faced with this, man knows how he will worship his Lord. Yes. those who do the opposite are those who oppose Allah. Those who do not embrace Allah's intention, who try to attribute the shirk and sins they themselves committed to Allah's will, who, living irresponsibly in the material world, deify their nafs, then those who say, "Had Allah not willed, we would not have done this," who, wrongly blaming Allah, are people who wrong their own nafs.

That is, saying "Had Allah not willed, we could not have done this" and blaming Allah is because, without giving up anything of their nafs, toward every pleasure of this swamp of a world and delight, its trickery, evil, lust, interest and material things, they feel (?), they are intimately involved with it, and Allah's commands weigh heavy on them, and what Satan makes pleasing to their nafs, outside Allah's commands, they are fond of, and so, siding with their own nafs, saying "Had Allah not willed, we would not have done this," they set out to blame Allah — how pitiful such people are comes to light.

Pitiful. Why? That they did this comes to light. Yes.

People saying in this way, "Had Allah not willed, we would not have committed this shirk and the forbidden" — their saying that, you know, "had our Lord willed, we would not have done this" — instead of saying that, instead of uttering such words, if they had thought like this: Allah created reward and sin for people. That is, He left them free in their own will. He gave us a very great value. Since we are in helplessness before the One who created us, if we carry out what He says, we will attain our Lord's reward — if they had thought this way. They could not say, "I wonder what Allah intended by this," they.

Yes, if they had thought like this: Allah created reward and sin for people; I wonder what Allah intended by this — if they had thought that, they would find the truth. Because worshipping Allah and knowing Him weighed heavy on his nafs. Fame, renown, pride, grandeur, ego and arrogance, love of the world, found in his own nafs, seemed pleasing to man. Besides this, since Satan's nest pleased man, the desire of the nafs and the world's adorned appearance and benefit, distancing man from obedience and worship to Allah, turned him toward his nafs. For this reason man left the right path and went astray.

Yes, so man, instead of saying, "If Allah had willed, we, we would not have gone astray, nor would our forefathers," what did Allah intend from us, what did He want by saying this, what did He command? Since the words "Had We willed, We would have created you as one community" (?), since He left us free in our own will, what did He intend — if man had thought this, he could not have opposed Allah Almighty's command. Because he is thinking. Reason will know the truth. It will know what is right.

If Allah Almighty created all beings in the service of His intention, and also left man's will free, I wonder what He wanted from us?

He did not want something difficult from us.

To make a living, man, from morning to evening, under someone else's command works. With the money he gets he makes his living, or he can't. Some can save a few extra pennies.

For his work, from his boss too he sometimes gets warnings. Sometimes he gets scolded. For man works for the money he receives. He is patient there so he can support his child. He is patient in his work. And Allah Almighty does not even ask such a thing from us. He doesn't say "work for Me" either. Isn't worshipping working for Him? No. Worshipping does not mean working for Allah. Allah needs nothing. If man knows his creation, knows his helplessness, and carries out Allah's command, Allah's command for his own benefit — just as by working in a factory, working at a workplace, he earns money — for the hereafter he will have made preparation.

He tries to obtain the earnings of that place. The earnings of the hereafter. With what? By carrying out Allah's commands. Otherwise, Allah has no need of worship. In this case, we can give an example of this. A state has laws. Obeying its laws — is that obeying the men at the top? No. It is obeying one's own self. Because if you step outside them you will be punished and they will put you in prison. Yes. Allah Almighty too informs you of His commands. You don't even get scolded, like by those people who scold you at that factory. And He showers you with every kind of health and blessing. He offers you the finest living conditions.

He grants you a lifetime.

He creates you honorable. He makes you an addressee of His essence. As the most excellent of His creatures, He makes you the vicegerent on earth, and you, in return to Him, can't even give thanks — how bitter, truly a bitter matter: man, who forgets his Lord in the face of every blessing, and dives into a good (?) of pleasure, yes. So no one can blame Allah Almighty.

That fault lies in man himself.