Mustafa Khattab – Mistranslated Verses Of The Quran Surah 7067

			Another ayah that is mistranslated in the Quran
		

			in chapter 70, Surah Ma'arij, ayah 6 and
		

			7. So
		

			almost everyone says when they translated this ayah,
		

			indeed they see this day, the Day of
		

			Judgment, the final hour, they see it far
		

			away
		

			and we see it as close by.
		

			So the verse does not talk about the
		

			distance here because if you look at the
		

			beginning of the passage in Surah Al Faraj,
		

			it talks about a challenger,
		

			someone who came to the Prophet
		

			to challenge
		

			the possibility
		

			of an afterlife, resurrection,
		

			the final hour, and the day of judgment.
		

			So they were basically saying that this day
		

			will never come, it is impossible, It will
		

			never happen. So how come now that 4
		

			5 verses after it says that they see
		

			this day as coming, but it's kind of
		

			slow, it's kind of far away, and we
		

			see it as close by? This is not
		

			the meaning because it basically contradicts
		

			the beginning of the passage. The actual meaning
		

			is
		

			the word
		

			means impossible. It's far away from comprehension. It
		

			is beyond comprehension.
		

			So they basically see the coming of the
		

			day of judgment
		

			as impossible.
		

			They see this day as impossible
		

			whereas Allah
		

			sees this day as inevitable. It will happen,
		

			it will come. So this is the actual
		

			meaning of the they see it as impossible
		

			and we see it as inevitable. This is
		

			the right meaning. It doesn't talk about far
		

			away, it's coming but slow, it's far away.
		

			This is not the right meaning, and this
		

			is the right understanding of the ayah, to
		

			translate
		

			bayida as impossible. Thank you.