At-Tawbah 78: Did they not realize that Allah is the One who knows their secrets, their whispering and the unseen (ghayb) very well?

If Allah wills.

The hypocrites — that Allah knows their secret and their whispers, and that He is the One who knows the unseen, the hidden things, very well — have they still not understood, it says? The hypocrites. What does it say? That Allah knows their secret too — when it says secret: your — what passes through the remotest corner of your hearts, what you need, even though you don't know it, it says — according to the verse "We are nearer to you than your jugular vein", We know about them, it says. We know about it. We know. According to what? His giving me my desire and will as my destiny. What else? My Lord worked those characters into me.

Within my own destiny He has closed my desire and will to me, closed it in the world of the hereafter; though I don't know one moment ahead of my destiny, Allah Almighty, who programs what the living beings to come until the Day of Judgment will do, knows what they will do. Yes. So in this case, the hypocrites still — their secret too, that is, what kind of person you are, and their whispers too, that is, the traps you will set, the wrongs you will do to people, or your swindling — even though He knows: that He knows and that He knows the unseen, the hidden things very well, have they still not understood?

it says. Why, have they still not understood? it says. Because many miracles appeared. All the way from Noah, from the sons of Adam, from Abel and Cain, from (?) the sheep, from the ram brought as a gift to Ishmael, all who rebelled against Allah and overstepped Allah's limits — from His destroying them, in the face of the miracles all the prophets showed, the miracles the Prophet (peace be upon him) showed — have they still not understood that Allah's existence is the truth and that He knows all the unseen and the secrets, have they still not understood, it says. And they cannot understand; their nature is like that.

Allah Almighty in His verse: their eyes are blind to the truth. And there is a veil over their ears, it says. In this case, it says, they have had their hearts sealed against the truth. Had them sealed. For this reason they do not see. They do not see the truth and do not hear the truth. When they hear the word of truth, it says, they get to the point where the clouds in the sky would crack, it says. They go through such distress. Distress. Yes. The hypocrites and disbelievers, despite seeing so many miracles, despite the intellect on them being witness to Allah's existence and a proof against themselves, despite the prophets and, after them, the scholars, heirs of the prophets, holding light before them with the Quran, the word of Allah, still persist in not wanting to know Allah.

Still. Allah created man. Before bringing them into the material world, He made a covenant with them at Kalu Bela. We wrote each person's own desire and will for him as destiny. So: where the people to come until the Day of Judgment will do what, what they will say, what will pass through their hearts, how they will act in response — the one who knows this is Allah. Yes. That Allah Almighty knows everything openly, that in His sight nothing is hidden or concealed — with so many miracles and events He has shown these people, and with the verses of the Quran describing people's traits, making them witnesses against themselves, Allah Almighty saying: this is what you are — in the face of this, Allah Almighty, have they still not been able to understand?

Yes. To be able to understand, man must use his intellect. O man! I will call you to account for not using the intellect I gave you, it says. For not using your intellect. Yes.

No, these did understand too. And understood in a way they cannot deny. But because of the pride and arrogance they nursed in their nafs against Allah, they could not bow to Allah.

The ego and grandeur these people hid in their nafs drove them to rebellion against Allah. These are people who want to live what their own nafs desires. Since people are created incomplete, if they were to live by their nafs and their minds, among people love and respect for one another would vanish, they would engulf the earth with strife. So that people may find life, Allah has sent His laws to people. The intellect is incomplete, after all, man is created incomplete; Allah with His laws shows people the way, holds light before them with the Quran, offers them the Quran as a guide. What is a guide? A guide — let's say from here I went to New York or to Paris.

I don't know the place, I'm not familiar with it.

I can't know where to go, either.

My mind leads me around, I see the surroundings too. On my own I'll stand there and resort to troublesome ways. I can't find a hotel, I don't understand French, I (?) speak his language. That is, I suffer hardship. But in that France, in that Paris, a guide, a person who knows French and knows that Paris very well: Sir, welcome here. Glad to be here. I am at your service. Your (?) father put me at your service. Wherever you want, I'll show you around. He takes him, (?), this is the Eiffel Tower, this is such and such a place, this here is the museum, this is that, and this is where you'll sleep — if he provides his food and drink, will he have difficulty there?

That is what the Quran is. It is a guide, a guide before us. So that with this incomplete intellect we don't suffer hardship in this (?) world, our Lord has placed before us a guide, a guide. Whoever moves away from it can never make ends meet, his two feet get stuck in one shoe; with his own mind and nafs he lives this world in misery and oppression. He cannot find peace, he cannot find peace. Yes.

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are people who want to live what their own nafs desires; since people are created incomplete, if they were to live by their nafs and their minds, among people love and respect for one another would vanish — why, what is the reason? Because people are selfish, they love the world very much; in that case they would swindle one another, and since they would inflict oppression and torture on one another, the bonds of love among them would break, they would turn into enemies of one another. But those who know the truth, who fear Allah, cannot swindle their brother in Islam. The person who, just as when some harm touches him, feels its pain in the one before him, cannot hurt the person before him.

The Prophet says in a hadith: If a believer cannot share the state of another believer, his faith has not reached perfection, he says. His nafs has not reached perfection. So a Muslim who, for Allah, loves Allah, who trembles when Allah is mentioned in his heart — that person can neither lie to his Muslim brother nor swindle him, nor drag him into torment and suffering. In this case, since Allah's verses are a guide before us, we live our unity and togetherness, and since there is strength in unity and togetherness, standing back to back, we live in peace in this world; we live at ease. That is what we are trying to explain.

Since people are created incomplete, created with an incomplete intellect, if they lived by their nafs and their minds, among people love and respect for one another would vanish, the earth would be engulfed in strife. So that people may find life, Allah has sent His laws. He has sent the Quran. So among His creatures Allah wants people on earth to live without failing in love and respect for one another, loving and embracing one another, observing one another's rights. For this reason He makes His laws known to people. His laws. People to whose nafs Allah's laws feel heavy turn their backs on these laws and want to live their own carnal desires and wishes.

Since they don't want to recognize Allah, Book and Messenger, they never want to return to Allah. Because the desire of the nafs looks very fine to them; Satan, with the (?) he gives them, makes it seem right to their nafs. In this case man sinks into delusions. Today somewhere, having heard that America is battling storms, a dear woman, a hodja, says to me: Aren't they Allah's servants, she says. Allah's servants. That they should be subjected to so much suffering.

You're right, I said. But you don't know the root, I said. Let me explain, you listen, I said. Because you are governed by superstitions. (?). It's impossible for you to understand at once, but let me explain to you, I said. I began explaining to her the creation of spirits in Allah's realm, then the covenant at the address Elestü bi- Rabbiküm, then, on coming to earth, "We divided you on earth into peoples, peoples", with the words of the verse. Peoples, peoples. According to the covenant each person gave — since an Englishman cannot get along with an American, an American with an Italian, an Italian with a German — so that each soul can prove itself better, can prove itself — His bringing them among peoples where, among people of their own mindset, they would live their own thoughts more openly and prove themselves better; since He knows those people and what they will do, He divided them on earth into peoples, and to people who go against the verses of Allah Almighty, who deny Allah, two or three calamities a year — these calamities that come from Allah — since they rebel against Allah, He gives so that they know their Lord: I explained this for hours.

Today, today.

She is looking exactly like this.

We are able to grasp it. There is no (?), no (?). There must be (?). (?). Yes. So this is how Allah Almighty makes His laws known. Why do we say: keep listening to us? Why do we say it? In the end you will run out of questions, we say. And they have run out, they are running out. Why do we say it? Listening to us again and again, the verses will settle into his subconscious. A time will come when, from those subconscious words he needs, verses will emerge. It will bring out the superstitions in people's talk just as they are. Isn't that how it is, Mesut? You're a lawyer, you know it better. Yes. You grasp people better.