At-Tawbah 68: Allah has promised the hell fire for hypocrite men, hypocrite women and infidels, in which they will dwell eternally. It is sufficient for them. Allah has cursed them. There is continuous punishment for them.

Very good. So, apart from the religion of Islam, no religion is acceptable in Allah's sight. Indeed, what people call religion we cannot call religion. According to what? According to the verse.

With Allah, religion is Islam. If it says, whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, that religion will never benefit him — if it says that religion will not benefit him, then that religion which does not benefit we cannot call religion; these are their ideologies. They are the ideologies of those people.

If Allah Almighty says religion here, if He says the religion will not benefit, then our Lord too says they have no religion, they are without religion. Yes.

So it is good to switch it off and on once. The sound got better.

Allah has promised the hypocrite men, the hypocrite women and the unbelievers the fire of Hell, in which they will remain forever. Why did He promise it? Because they are ungrateful. Ungrateful. Why ungrateful? Allah Almighty created man so that His essence would be known, and made man the noblest of creatures. He gave him from a part of Himself. From a part of Himself. In this case, if man, in the face of Allah Almighty's so many blessings, to a sense of greatness, grandeur, pride and arrogance, fame and renown, such feelings falls prey, if this man sees Allah's creations as his own creation and is called their owner, if he loves what Allah created more than Allah and turns his back on Allah, then surely the place this man will go to is the place of punishment he deserves.

And that is Hell. That is what Allah promises. Whoever takes another god besides Allah, that is, associates partners with Him, whoever, outside the religion of Islam, that is, outside His command, without following the religion of Islam, turns his back on the religion of Islam, and does not repent until that door of repentance closes, and to the Hereafter as a non-Muslim goes — My promise, He says, is true. Their place is the fire of Hell, He says. Yes.

Allah Almighty is very compassionate and merciful to His creatures. Compassionate and merciful. Why compassionate and merciful? Take a father. How compassionate a father is towards his children. He spends his life spending on them. He tries to feed them with the money he earns. He loves his child. There are even such fathers, such fathers, who for their child spend everything they have. He comes to the point of (?) need. Yes. Think: Allah our Lord who created us — a person's love, think of it, and of that love, of your beloved's most beloved, the one he loves most, think of someone he loves — one percent of His mercy into the world, His love, He sends. Ninety-nine percent of that mercy He keeps for Himself with that love, Allah Almighty. This much Allah Almighty loves man.

Because He created him, gave him of His spirit, and since He created him as a part of His essence, He has given man very great value. And He proved this value by placing his own partial will in man's hand. Yes, and by giving him of His spirit and endowing man with the forms of His essence, He has proved this too. Like this. So Allah Almighty is very compassionate and merciful to His creatures. But, treating those who do not heed His command with right and justice, to separate those who obey Allah from those who don't, He has prepared Paradise for those who obey, and for those who do not obey, Hell.

Yes, think of a father again, let's give an example again. Let that father feed his child, give him drink, raise him, give that child constantly. Let that child, despite receiving (?), be in rebellion (?) against that father, insult him, and as he likes curse him, scold him.

what happens?

That father grows cold towards him. His heart is broken.

Even though he gives him (?). And Allah Almighty, too, distances Himself like this from (?). How will He distance Himself? His mercy in the universe is for everyone; in the Hereafter only for the believers. He will cut off His mercy from him. But while he is in the world, He will give. Yes. In Paradise man will find everything he wishes. He will live in eternal Paradise as the home of pleasure and bliss. Hell, however, as the home of those who do not worship Allah Almighty, in it, with kinds of punishment beyond our imagination, people will remain eternally, undying, and suffer punishment. So Allah has promised. What?

To those who rebel against Allah Almighty, who turn their faces away from Allah and His Messenger, who do not believe in the Hereafter, Allah has promised Hell. His promise is true. In Allah's word you will find no (?).

So we say: Allah has promised. What? So, to those who rebel against Allah Almighty, who turn their faces away from Allah and His Messenger, who do not believe in the Hereafter, Allah has promised Hell. His promise is true. So, O people: those who, in this transient, passing material world, deceived, turn their faces away from Allah, who, coveting worldly goods, love what Allah created more than Allah, who do not carry out Allah's command, who are devoted to their pleasures, who follow their nafs and Satan, who do evil on earth, hypocrite women and hypocrite men, those who are unbelievers, those who hold any belief other than Islam, those who do not acknowledge Allah and His Messenger — the fire of Hell, Allah's promise, will suffice for them.

Yes. So, O people: those who, deceived by this transient, passing material world, turn their faces away from Allah, who, coveting worldly goods, love what Allah created more than Allah, who do not carry out Allah's command, who are devoted to their pleasures, who follow their nafs and Satan, who do evil on earth, hypocrite women and hypocrite men, those who are unbelievers, those who hold any belief other than Islam, those who do not acknowledge Allah and His Messenger — the fire of Hell, Allah's promise, will suffice for them. Allah has cursed them. Curse. That is, those who eat all the blessings He gave in worldly life in health and well-being without thanking Allah, people who associate partners with Allah and defy Allah — with Allah cutting off His mercy from them in the Hereafter, they will incur Allah's curse.

They will be subjected to various punishments and tortures in eternal Hell. They will have neither a helper nor an intercessor. So, O man, the verses are clear, that is, in a way every person can understand, in a meaning every person can grasp, Allah Almighty has sent us His verses. The verses are clear. While no one with reason can deny Allah's existence, what is it that drives you to rebel against Allah and His Messenger? What does Allah Almighty say? Fe mâ yükezzibüke ba'dü bi'd-dîn. O man, what has happened to you, He says, that you have (?) denial. Eleysallâhu bi-ahkemi'l-hâkimîn. Is Allah not the Judge of judges, He says.

Judge of judges. Yes. What are we saying? So, O man: The verses are clear. While no one with reason can deny Allah's existence, what drives you to rebellion against Allah and His Messenger? Break your nafs, don't follow Satan, and don't be deceived by this world's seemingly pleasurable life of a swamp. By buying the punishment of the Hereafter in exchange for a few hours of worldly gain, towards your nafs do not be unjust. Yes.