Al-Anfal 24: Oh you believers! When you are called to things that are life giving, follow Allah and Allah’s Messenger. And know that Allah goes between the person and their heart; and you will surely be summoned in Allah’s presence.

A. Metin Saruhan · 18 September 2017 · Al-Anfal

Translation

Oh you believers! When you are called to things that are life giving, follow Allah and Allah’s Messenger. And know that Allah goes between the person and their heart; and you will surely be summoned in Allah’s presence.

Tafsir

O you who believe! When the Messenger of Allah calls you to that which gives you life, then follow him. The Verses of Allah, which enlighten people by teaching them what they do not know. They give life to people. So when you are called to the Verses of Allah, follow Allah and His Messenger. Adhere to the Sunnahs of the Prophet, ruling by the Verses of Allah. Do not live with doubts and suspicions in your hearts, pretending to worship. For Allah is the Knower of the secrets of all hearts.

O you who believe, know that Allah comes between a person's heart and himself. Allah knows what goes on in the heart, what the heart desires and what the hearts of men desire and what goes on in their hearts. So let your outward and inward be one. Your obedience and submission to Allah should be from the heart. Do not abandon the Hereafter for the life of this world. Know that one day you will surely die. All souls will taste death. And finally, all souls will be gathered before Allah (swt).

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Surah Al-Anfal, verse 24: O you who believe! When he calls you to things that will give you life — who? The Messenger of Allah. When he calls you to things that will give you life, obey Allah and His Messenger. Because when that Messenger of Allah calls to life-giving things — calls them, that is, those people, by the command coming from Allah, to things that will give them life, give them peace and light their way, follow those things, He says. And know that Allah comes between a person and his heart. He comes between a person and his heart. And you will surely be gathered before Him, He says.

This part is entirely the realm of divine manifestations — the source of that realm. And know that Allah comes between a person and his heart.

The person is the outward body; his heart is the one that will come to know the manifestations — that palace; that is, in a sense, the source of the soul, let's say.

When He says He comes between a person and his heart, His manifesting Himself to the person — that is this verse. Those who deny the manifestations are those who deny this verse. But — this is important — because they do not do it knowingly, because they do not deny it knowingly, there is no sin on them. Now if, after hearing and knowing this, they deny it, they deny this verse. We say it once more: and know that Allah comes between a person and his heart. When Allah Almighty says this — He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden. So the word He speaks has both an outward and an inward meaning.

Through words, through interpretation — it is not that in the hereafter, when bodies and soul face each other, He will come between them or the like. That would be ta'wil (interpretation). There, at the Great Tribunal, account will be given in the divine presence. And one will also bear witness. He does not come in between. But manifestation in the heart: He comes between a person and his heart. He manifests Himself. Allah comes between a person and his heart, He manifests Himself to the person. And you will surely be gathered before Him. And people will surely taste death and, in the hereafter, before Allah Almighty they will be gathered.

O you who believe, when the Messenger of Allah calls you to things that will give you life, follow that Messenger at once. Allah's verses, which, by teaching people what they do not know, light the way for them. They give people life. So when you are called to Allah's verses, follow Allah and His Messenger. Ruling yourselves by Allah's verses, hold fast to the sunnahs of the prophets. Do not, while seeming to worship, draw near to the doubts and suspicions in your hearts.

With the doubts and suspicions in your hearts, in that way, Allah and His Messenger, what He says and those acts of worship — do not approach them in that way. For Allah knows the secrets of all hearts. The secrets of hearts. That is, if He has worked the aim of a person's desires and wishes into him as character, and since the person, within those characters, in his life, within that lifetime, does not know what he will do within his destiny, since the keys of the heart are in Allah's hand, since He knows what every (?) to come until the Day of Judgment will do, He knows the secrets of those people's hearts.

Yes.

O you who believe! Know that Allah comes between a person's heart and himself. Allah is the One who knows what passes through hearts, the desires and wishes of that heart, what passes through people's hearts. Since we write for the general public, in the outward sense it is like this.

In the outward sense it is like this. So let your outside and your inside be one. Let your obedience and submission to Allah be from the heart. Yes.

For the life of this world do not abandon your hereafter. Know that you will surely die one day. Every soul will taste death. And finally, all souls will again be gathered before Allah Almighty. Yes. We would have wished that people hear these verses we speak of. They are very late. Perhaps the very essence of the matter, at that exact time, or within the times we speak, they can lose that essence in an instant. For example, when they ask what manifestation is, how it is proven with verses — those who miss these naturally cannot come to know it. Even if they come late, some remain recipients only of surface, outward words.