Throughout the Quran, there are many cases in which messengers make mistakes, or messengers have the wrong perspective of what will happen–and God corrects them in the Quran and speaks to them of the truth that they didn’t fully recognize. This demonstrates that messengers in the Quran can and do hold incorrect assumptions about God’s plan and in their normal conversations and discussions with their people, those assumptions likely came up. God however, informs them of the facts they didn’t fully comprehend and corrects their mistakes. Indeed, “God’s revelations to his messengers comes in stages” as Rashad says. And before messengers are corrected by God and before they receive that specific revelation, they may have the wrong understandings about God and God’s plan. And those premature understandings would inevitably arise in the conversations the messengers had with their people before they are corrected by God.
We see an example of this in the case of Rashad. All the mistakes that I have witnessed other people pointing out-all of them have to do with Rashad being very impatient and very hopeful that God’s retributions will come imminently. He has made some very hasty conclusions, including saying King Fahd would be the last Saudi King, that the retribution of his deniers is imminent and he will witness it because all messengers witness their people’s retribution. This is where he was impatient, getting excited, getting ahead of himself (‘Rashad the human’ getting ahead of ‘Rashad the messenger’), wishful thinking that the retribution of God will come sooner. This really demonstrates Rashad’s certainty that he is a messenger and that God’s retribution will come-and this certainty coupled with hopefulness and wishful thinking, led him to the conclusion it would occur in his lifetime and led him to the conclusion that certain current events surrounding his time are the beginnings of God’s retribution. He over-analyzes things and sees them as signs that certain events will unfold.
God corrects Rashad
[Quran 13:38] We have sent messengers before you (O Rashad), and we made them husbands with wives and children. No messenger can produce a miracle without GOD’s authorization, and in accordance with a specific, predetermined time.
[Quran 13:39] GOD erases whatever He wills, and fixes. With Him is the original Master Record.
[Quran 13:40] Whether we show you what we promise them, or terminate your life before that, your sole mission is to deliver (the message). It is us who will call them to account.
For those who don’t know, God gave Rashad a numerical mechanism to reveal to him which verses are talking to him. In his footnote Rashad writes: *13:37-38 The verse number (38) = 19×2. Placing the values of “Rashad” (505) and “Khalifa” (725) next to 13:37-38, gives 505 725 13 37 38, or 19×26617112302 (Appendix 2). This even starts earlier in the discussion (see footnote in verse 13:30).
Not only have these verses been numerically revealed to Rashad as being about him, but these verses are oddly specific to the case in question. Here is God saying he can erase whatever he chooses, whenever he wants (indicating that God may have even erased some of what Rashad predicted, and those predictions may have even been accurate, but God erased them as a consequence of some human choices)–and that God can either show Rashad the retribution God promises the people, or terminate his life before that (which is what happened).
Thus God has corrected Rashad and the assumptions he made as a result of his impatience and wishful thinking. Another verse where God corrects Rashad:
[Quran 46:35] Therefore, be patient like the messengers before you who possessed strength and resorted to patience. Do not be in a hurry to see the retribution that will inevitably come to them. The day they see it, it will seem as if they lasted one hour of the day. This is a proclamation: Is it not the wicked who are consistently annihilated?
Footnote: *46:35 Quranic and mathematical evidence proves that the messenger addressed here is Rashad Khalifa. By adding the gematrical value of “Rashad Khalifa” (1230), plus the sura number (46), plus the verse number (35), we get 1311, or 19×69. This conforms with the Quran’s code (App 2).
Again, through the numerical mechanism God revealed to Rashad to know which verses apply to him–this is one of the verses. And again, notice how oddly specific it is to the case in question. The verse tells him to be patient and not be in a hurry-indicating Rashad’s impatience. And his impatience and being in a hurry, would inevitably come up in his normal discussions with the people, including premature misattributions of current events as being tied to the coming retribution, until when God corrects him. And when Rashad was corrected, you will notice none of these assumptions and hasty conclusions he reached earlier in his career made it into his final translation of the Quran-and through God correcting him: he completely reverses his conclusions including how the smoke prophecy is still yet to pass (whereas before, he expressed his belief that the smoke prophecy is the Chernobyl disaster). Thus ‘Rashad the human’ got ahead of ‘Rashad the messenger’, and God corrected him.
We must trust that God has it under control. That he will ensure his messenger does exactly what God intends and gives exactly the message God intends before terminating his life. And any confusions or disputes that arise as a result will be judged between us (as per Quran, disputes inevitably arise after the messenger and is part of God’s system) and may even be addressed through future messengers and revelations.
Messengers can go astray, but God causes the truth to prevail
[Quran 34:48] Say, “My Lord causes the truth to prevail. He is the Knower of all secrets.”
[Quran 34:49]Say “The truth has come while falsehood can neither initiate anything, nor repeat it.
[Quran 34:50] Say [Oh Rashad], “If I go astray, I go astray because of my own shortcomings. And if I am guided, it is because of my Lord’s inspiration. He is Hearer, Near.”
[Quran 34:51] If you could only see them when the great terror strikes them; they cannot escape then, and they will be taken away forcibly.
[Quran 34:52] They will then say, “We now believe in it,” but it will be far too late.
*see footnote on 34:46 (2 verses before this set) to see the numerical confirmation these verses are about Rashad.
Notice again, how oddly specific these verses are to the case in question. If you recall, on previous blogs and on the Submission server–Rashad was charged with being a false messenger because he made some mistaken predictions and hasty conclusions. God corrected him and Rashad reversed on those predictions, to the point he did not include them in the appendices or footnotes of his final translation of the Quran. God has called him out publicly in the Quran and commanded him to be patient. In these verses here, God informs us that Rashad can go astray because of his own shortcomings (Rashad the human) and if he is guided, it is because of God’s inspiration (Rashad the messenger)–and these verses are in the context of God causing the truth to prevail and eliminates falsehood. So any mistakes Rashad makes, God would eliminate in time. And the next verses (34:51-52) inform us about people who refused to believe–hinting that it is because they refused to accept Rashad as a messenger because of some things he had said when he went astray. What an interesting Juxtaposition these verses are. SubhanAllah. To recap, God just confirmed for us that:
(1) Rashad may go astray,
(2) God eliminates falsehood and causes the truth to prevail, and
(3) The nonbelievers will witness the great terror and they will come to know how wrong they were to reject God’s messenger.
Now, let’s take a look at the verse that comes immediately after:
[Quran 34:53] They have rejected it in the past; they have decided instead to uphold conjecture and guesswork.
*34:53 People of all religions tend to forsake the word of God and uphold the words of men. The Jews and the Muslims uphold the Mishnah (Hadith) and Gemarrah (Sunna), while the Christians uphold a trinity invented by the Nicene Conference, 325 years after Jesus.
The conjecture and guesswork that I have witnessed on the discord server by those who do not believe, is “messengers cannot make mistakes” and therefore “Rashad is a false messenger because he made some mistakes”. They say this based off of the words and conjecture of humans and Islamic hadith, even if it *directly* contradicts the Quran in 34:50 which confirms messengers can indeed go astray. Again, notice the interesting juxtaposition God uses to put these verses together, SubhanAllah!
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