Ali Ataie – Muslims Misquoting Qur’anic Verse 262

You know, I attend a lot of, you

know, gatherings, interfaith gatherings, whatnot.

A lot of times Muslims

will get up on stage and

give their own kind of personal

tafsir of the Quran. Right? It's very common,

for example, with verse

number 62.

Right?

So whoever whoever believes, those who believe, those

who are Jews and Christians,

those who are Sabians,

anyone who believes in Allah the last day

will have the reward. They shall not grieve

nor shall they fear.

So this verse is quoted a lot, like

interfaith audiences.

And people get the wrong idea that,

you know, we're a perennialist type of religion

that you can believe whatever you want and

you you have to go to Jenna. It

doesn't matter.

It's just a wrong understanding of the ayah,

because

Allah says,

This is in the past tense.

Whoever had already believed and became Muslim. That's

one way of looking at it. Or is

a

conditional statement,

whoever should become Muslim in the future.

Right? So there's nuances in Arabic

that people need to study,

and they should tap into what the actual

Mufasaileen actually say about the Quran. So this

is why the Sahaba and Tabi'in were actually

very cautious

about this type of tafsir.