Al-Ma'idah 89: Allah does not hold you accountable for the oaths you have made with your tongues unintentionally. But Allah does hold you accountable for the oaths that you have made consciously. And atonement for this is either to feed ten needy people from what you normally feed your family with, or to clothe them or to free one slave. Those who cannot find these shall fast for three days. When you make an oath, atonement for your oaths are these. Keep your oaths. Allah explains to you Allah’s verses so that (those of) you (who will come to the right path) will be grateful.

Surah Al-Ma'idah, we have come to its verse 89.

Now some people take the subjects the wrong way. There are such. Look, the Hodja says this man goes to the tavern too. He goes to the bar, to the nightclub too. He goes to the music hall too. So such people went to these places. That's how they understand it. Yes. And there are those who understand it that way. Allah protect us. What were we saying? We saw that someone went to a music hall, a nightclub. Or someone complains. My husband is there. Come on, he's over there, give him a warning. He goes there. He takes him by the collar, takes him out, takes him in. Let me tell him, I suppose. Very well.

He has sat down at a drinking table. He conveys the truth to him and takes him away from there. But whoever sees him there thinks he is drinking. Now there will be those who misunderstand these words of mine here in this way too. Pay close attention to my words. Yes.

For the oaths that slip unintentionally from your mouths, Allah Almighty does not hold you responsible. What is this like? While talking, you said: By Allah, I didn't do this that way. Unintentionally. That is, it was a slip. That doesn't make you responsible. But if you said, by Allah and by Allah, I will do this like this, and you don't do it, you are responsible.

If what you are going to do is a bad deed, a bad deed, Allah Almighty expects you to turn back from it, to retreat. He expects you to turn back from the oath you made. In that case, the person will either feed a poor person, again so that he fulfils his word.

Or he will clothe a person, according to his means; a poor (?). Or, if he has nothing at all, he will feed a dog. To fulfil the oath. (?) One, because he did not commit the evil. Two, because he carried out Allah's commands. Yes. What a beautiful thing.

For the oaths that come, that slip, unintentionally out of your mouths, Allah does not hold you responsible. But He holds you responsible for the oaths you make knowingly.

Its expiation is to feed ten poor people with the average of the food you feed your family, or to clothe them, or to free a slave. Whoever cannot find these must fast three days. This is the expiation of your oaths when you have sworn. Keep your oaths, observe them. Allah explains His verses to you. Perhaps you will be grateful. Yes. Here it says 'ta ki': so that you may be grateful. These get changed. 'Perhaps' - Allah knows everything. Here it is not 'perhaps'. It is 'ta ki', so that you may be grateful. What does 'ta ki' mean? Let us explain it here to our children who are listening to me. The Arabic word has no equivalent in Turkish.

When it says 'perhaps', it ascribes a quality to Allah. That is, our Lord comes to be in the position of not knowing what people will do. And 'ta ki', what does it mean? There is a sign in 'ta ki'. A question of a sign. He knows that what is within you will turn, is turning, to the truth. So it is a respite of time given to them until they turn. Ta ki. People sometimes swear oaths to convince the people in front of them. And sometimes they swear involuntarily, willy-nilly, by a slip of the tongue. So for the oaths you have made through (?) and unintentional slips of the tongue, Allah does not hold these people responsible for the oaths they made.

But a person is responsible for oaths made deliberately. Knowingly and consciously; he must both know and be conscious. In oaths made in Allah's name, calling Allah as witness, people are responsible. If a person is not faithful to his oath and breaks it, he becomes responsible before Allah Almighty. But to be freed from this responsibility, then, in the way Allah Almighty has commanded and shown, expiation must be made.

When people are not faithful to the oaths they have made, their responsibility toward Allah: taking Allah lightly, not embracing Him, breaking one's oath puts a person in the state of sinning against Allah. But when, as a human, he breaks his oath for the good and in return makes expiation, since he knows man's helplessness before Allah Almighty, from that repentance arises, and Allah forgives such servants of His. Through people's expiations of oaths in this way, Allah also has His other servants in need helped by people. Here too, a kind of mutual help arises among people. Just as, when one earns, you give zakat, one fortieth, to the poor to purify that wealth, giving it in charity to the needy, here too, by having this oath broken, again those in need are helped.

Sometimes, when people get angry, they swear unjustly. By Allah and by Allah, I won't speak to my father, or my mother, or my brother. Or: by Allah and by Allah, I won't pay this debt of mine; in oaths like these, the person, since he is in the position of usurping the rights of those in front of him, if he breaks his oath, since there is benefit in breaking these oaths, the sooner he breaks his oath and pays the expiation of his oath, the sooner the person who swore it is freed from that right. With Allah Almighty too, this person, because he has carried out Allah's command, attains reward. For the oaths made, a person, of the food he eats daily, the average: for example, with how much money does a person, in one day, fill his stomach?

Say he eats for 10 lira. If you feed ten people, it's a hundred lira. A hundred lira's worth, or ten lira each to ten people. Or the hundred lira to one person in need, so he eats his meals for ten days. Yes. For the oaths made, as the average of the food a person eats daily, the lightest expiation is to feed ten poor people. For those better off, it is to clothe ten poor people. To make them happy by buying their clothes and shoes. For those even better off, it is to free a slave. So Allah, in return for oaths made too, since He has no need of anything, Allah, who tests us through one another, has people give help and enables us to attain reward in Allah's sight.

Well, if my situation allows nothing at all, what will I do? Then you will fast three days in a row. In this case too, you buy a loaf of bread and, again, a creature Allah created, you will feed it. You, keep your oaths. People who fear Allah do not swear oaths at random. Keeping oaths means showing respect to Allah Almighty. But as for oaths that (?) the good, since breaking them quickly by paying their expiation brings good, we have said breaking such oaths is good.