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SAYEEDUDDIN
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WILL THE PEOPLE WHO

CHARGE INTEREST RISE
FROM GRAVES AS MAD?
SURAH BAQRAH AYAT 275:
(The wrong translation of this verse is produced as
a proof that jinns possess humans.)
This verse can be translated in two ways:
The correct translation: Those who charge interest their
condition is like the one who has been misled by shaitaan
who has made them crazy for interest. That is why they say
that business was also like interest although Almighty Allah
has made business halaal and interest haraam. Those
who have stopped on being cautioned by Almighty Allah,
they will be treated by Allah and those who continue to
charge interest, they will forever live in hell.
The wrong translation : Those who charge interest, they
will rise (from their graves) like a person who has been
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driven mad by the touch of shaitaan because they used to

say that business was also like interest
although almighty Allah has made business halaal and
interest haraam. Those who have stopped on being
cautioned by Almighty Allah, they will be treated by Allah
and those who continue to charge interest, they will forever
live in hell.

The 1st translation deals with the present time while the
2nd translation deals with future. The 1st translation says
that persons who charge interest are controlled by
shaitaan who has sealed their hearts and misled them into
charging interest thereby making them crazy for interest
and in this state of craziness they say that business is also
like interest although Allah has made business halaal and
interest haraam and if they do not stop charging interest
they will live in hell forever.

The 2nd translation deals with the Day of Judgment. Those

who charged interest will rise from their graves as if they
have been driven mad by the touch of shaitaan.
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The word mus means touch but here in this verse it

means misleading and in this verse the Mozara tense has
been used which can be interpreted as both the present
and future tense. This is the reason why Mufassireen make
mistake. Another thing is that they had already developed
the perception that jinns could possess humans and could
drive them mad. That is the reason they write about the
future instead of the present and say that on the Day of
Judgment those who charged interest will rise from their
graves as mad and crazy. According to this translation they
would be punished on the Day of Judgment making them
mad when they rise from their graves, although the verse
neither mentions the Day of Judgment nor does it mentions
graves, yet all these have been added wrongly. Besides, the
greatest sin is Shirk and Allah will not make a Mushrik
rise from his grave in a crazy state. Then how could a person
who charges interest be raised from the grave by Allah in a
crazy state?

The verse clearly states that the punishment for a person

who charges interest is that he/she will burn forever in hell
but the wrong translation of the verse states that his/her
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punishment will be that he/she will rise from the graves in a

state of madness.

Those who charge interest is a different kind of mad person

who wears decent clothes, who is in clear know how of
what is good for him and what isnt but he is still a slave of
shaitaan. The translators of this verse might have thought
that as such a person doesnt look mad so they added from
their graves in their translation to drive home the point.

Surah Al-Anaam verse 71 says : after receiving guidance

from Allah if someone goes astray then it is like he was
misled by shaitaan into wild where he is lost. Here The
Glorious Quran has given an example. Actually the person is
not misled into wild as he lives in his own city, in his own
village, in his own home but he is misled by shaitaan from
the guidance of Allah and is ruined. His friends call him
towards the right path of Allah but he doesnt pay heed to
this call.
It is like a sinner who is lost in wild because of shaitaan. He
resides in his own home and works in accordance with
shaitaan and continues to commit sins like Shirk,
Biddah, drinking, gambling etc.
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Some people do not understand that these are mere

examples or parables thinking them to be actual cases. In
this manner while reading the verse 275 of Surah Al-Baqrah
they think that a person who charges interest is a mad
per+son who talks weird things, behave erratically and runs
across street in torn clothes but actually he/she is mad of
different characteristics who looks normal but is actually
made mad by shaitaan for interest. This is why he/she
charges interest and says that business is also like interest
although Allah has made business halaal and interest
haraam.

The translation and commentaries of some verse changes

with time; an example is the last verses of Surah Luqman
which says; Allah knows what is in the womb of a woman.
Earlier the commentators would write that Allah alone
knows whether the child in the mothers womb was a boy
or girl but after advancement in medical science one can
know through ultrasonography whether the child to be born
would be a boy or a girl.
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Now the commentators comment that Allah alone knows

that whether the child to be born would be a good person
or a bad person, how much he will earn, when he will get
married, when he will die, etc. Same is the case with the
verse 275 of Surah Al-Baqrah. Earlier when a mental patient
was found speaking in a different voice and behaving
erratically then people thought that he was possessed by a
jinn. Now after the advancement of medical science we
have come to know that due to illness like Schizophrenia
and Trance & Possession Syndrome patients behave
erratically and talk weirdly and can even speak in a voice
very different from his.

Most important point is that, none of the sins of a mad

person who has lost his senses get recorded as sin in that
state and he is not held accountable before Allah (S.W.T). If
Satan makes a person insane, then he is affecting his only
mission and ambition. Instead he (Satan) would want that
sons and daughters of Adam (P.B.U.H), commit sins by
remaining in their senses, so that their sins get recorded
and they are held accountable and hence he (Satan)
succeeds in his mission. Why will Satan ruin his only mission
by making people go mad/insane?
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Therefore, the correct meaning of the verse should be that

a person who charges interest has been misled by shaitaan
in this world because of which he/she has become mad for
interest because if shaitaan would not have made him/ her
mad, he/she would not have committed the grave sin of
charging interest.