Back to search
The question

What is the interpretation of Allah’s saying: "If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, it is to yourselves. Then when came the promise of the Hereafter, [We sent Our servants] to sadden your faces and to enter the Masjid as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had conquered with [total] destruction" in Surat Al-Isra, especially since the word "Masjid" has been translated as "temple" in English?

Share this answer

Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
The answer

Sheikh Al-Sa'di interprets the verse "If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, it is for it [i.e., yourselves]" to mean that benefit and harm revert to the doer. He points out that their corruption in the land will cause enemies to be unleashed upon them: "to disfigure your faces and to enter the temple as they entered it the first time and to utterly destroy what they had elevated." The "temple" here refers to Al-Aqsa Mosque. As for using the word "ma'bad" (temple) instead of "masjid" (mosque), there is no linguistic harm in it, but it is preferable to use the legal/ Shar'i term "masjid."

Summary from Ftawy's records · added here

Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.

Read the full answer on Ftawy
Where this answer came from
Source platform
Ftawy
Original fatwa ID
155776
Added here
. This is when the answer was added to El Fatwa, not the fatwa's date.
Text
Summary from Ftawy's records, reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
Read the full ruling
Read the full answer on Ftawy