Al-Ma'idah 98: Know that Allah’s punishment is severe, and that Allah is Ghafoor (Forgiving) and Raheem (the One who very generously accepts repentance).

Allah's punishment is severe, and again, Allah's forgiveness and mercy are limitless, He says. His punishment is severe, but His forgiveness is limitless.

Whoever does not walk the path Allah has shown, follows his own nafs, recognises neither Allah nor the Messenger, falls for Satan's temptation, does evil deeds through the states of his nafs, chases after imitation, let him know that Allah's punishment of people is very severe. What is this severity, Hodja? Exposing you on earth to want, exposing people on earth to famine, exposing people on earth to drought, again surrounding people on earth with earthquakes, disasters, calamities, tsunamis, all catastrophes. This is temporary, this temporary severity; the real severity is in the world of the hereafter.

What does Allah Almighty say? When they are turned a little in the fire, their lips draw back. Their teeth, it says, show. Just like, it says — they end up grinning, it says. May Allah protect us. They are bound with iron rings. They are thrust into (?) of fire. They are thrust, thrown into those furnaces. May Allah protect us.

Will you like this torment?

Will you be able to make your nafs taste this torment?

If you say, out of stubbornness, I'll make it taste it, break that stubbornness, use your reason, light a candle, and just hold your hand to that candle's flame. Well, am I a fool? I know it will hurt me. Well, blessed one, if you think this way for a moment's pleasure in the temporary world, where do you put away the torment of the abode of eternal happiness? Who said so? Has anyone gone there and come back? Ah. Now things have changed. What happened? If you don't believe in the hereafter, you are a non-Muslim. Where you are going, in this world of the hereafter, against the word you say there is this verse.

When Israfil blows his trumpet, it says, they will rise from their places, from their places. There is no shirking it, it says. They will be gathered at the place of assembly. It's a verse, mind! I am quoting verses. They will be gathered at the place of assembly. Woe! Woe to us! What these prophets said was true. If only we had (?) them. When their books are put in their hands, it says, when they look, again: woe, woe to us. Everything great and small has been written here, they will say.

If you use your reason, if your reason (?) Allah's existence — which it does. Yes, it says. Yes.

Are you without responsibility? Where do you put away these verses Allah Almighty sent? Where do you throw them? Then you have become, in your own heart, a restless person caught in contradiction, living amid opposing forces. To find peace, cleanse from your heart what is contrary to Allah's verses, so that you attain life. Yes.

Allah Almighty gives such people much pain and suffering in this world, and in the world of the hereafter (?) the severest (?).

O man! Use your reason! It is impossible that you stand against Allah Almighty and escape Allah's torment. This is impossible. So, although we have no guarantee and no support to lean on other than Allah, relying on what do you oppose Allah and rebel against Him? What are you relying on? Do you have power? Even if they, it says, gathered all their strength, brought out all their tribes, We too, it says, will call the guardians of hell, it says, the guardians of hell. They will seize them by the scruff of the neck, it says, and throw them into hell's (?), it says. Where is this? In the world of the hereafter.

So, the One who programmed this world, who created these worlds flawlessly and keeps these worlds going until the Day of Judgement — is your power a power against Allah Almighty's power? Is it superior to His power? You are opposing Him.

So man is to use his reason. The blessing of reason is man's greatest treasure. Rather than having money and riches, let me have reason. My reason. There is no treasure as great as reason. Reason wins your money, your riches and your world. Reason also wins your hereafter. Yes. O man, use your reason. It is impossible that you stand against Allah Almighty and escape Allah's torment. So, although we have no guarantee and no support to lean on other than Allah, relying on what do you oppose Allah and rebel against Him? But whoever realises the path he is on is bad, regrets it, returns to Allah, turns in repentance, judges by Allah's verses — Allah too forgives such people. For Allah's pardon, forgiveness and mercy towards people have no limit.

What does Allah Almighty say? His mercy is limitless. Our minds cannot grasp that limitlessness.

And Allah Almighty is merciful to His servants. He loves His servants very much.