An-Nisa 157: And because they say; “We have killed the Messenger Jesus, the son of Mary!” Yet, they neither killed him nor crucified him. But the matter was made deceitful to them. Who they killed was made to look alike Jesus. Those who are in dispute over him are clearly in doubt. They have no true knowledge about this issue except for following an assumption, and yet, surely they have not killed Jesus.

And their being cursed, being cursed: because they said, we killed the messenger of Allah, Jesus son of Mary, We cursed them, it says. Yes. A cursed people. We cursed them. That is why they are the discord of the earth.

These people. They cannot live properly on earth in peace. In peace. And because they do not know peace, poor foolish people who stir up discord on earth and try to find life within that discord. Yet they neither killed him nor hanged him, it says. Would Allah not protect His messenger? When he went inside and the commanders were about to take him to be hanged, long before that Allah Almighty raises Jesus to the first heaven.

The angel! Come, it says, come! Come upward! Through the opening at the top of the synagogue. And Jesus says, my shoulders and my head, can my body pass through there? That is how they worship, you know, maybe they do not even know its meaning. That is how they worship, you know. My head, my body and my shoulders, he says, can they pass through there? Come, it says, come. And he goes out through there and leaves. Look, that commander is inside, he does not come out. They go in; they make that commander resemble Jesus; this is Allah Almighty's grace. They stretch him on the cross, not Jesus. The one crucified is not Jesus.

Yes. Allah's verse is here. Now, will you believe people's book? Or will you believe Allah's verse? They say, we killed (?). And they go to the cross and (?). Whom? Their commander.

And because they said, we killed the messenger of Allah, Jesus son of Mary, We cursed them, it says. Yet they neither killed him nor hanged him. But the one they killed was made to appear to them like Jesus, it says. Good: the one they killed was made to appear like Jesus. Those who disagree about him are therefore in complete uncertainty.

They cannot decide at all. They have no sound knowledge of this matter apart from following conjecture. They are always after conjecture anyway.

And they certainly did not kill him, it says. Certainly. So the time will come. The Mahdi will come into the world. The Mahdi. Just as the People of the Cave sleep for 300 years. When they wake up, they say, we slept like part of a day. Yes. Just as Abel, he kills Abel, Abel's sheep, Abel kills Abel, I suppose; Abel kills Abel; Abel's sheep rises to the sky, since Allah Almighty asks them for a sheep. Cain the scrawny one, and (?) shows the finest. And when Cain's sheep is accepted, he says, it is always what you say anyway. I will kill you, he says, and he kills him.

After a long time has passed, the same sheep, many centuries pass, is sent to Ishmael, son of Abraham, as a ransom for his life. So the events programmed within a program in this world, until the Day of Judgment (?) he says. In this situation Jesus too will come to earth like (?) or like part of today. There he lives time within time. Otherwise 400 years have passed, 1400 years have passed. Within these 1400 years. Since Jesus, 2010 years have passed, AD. Oh, we will see a person 2010 years old. No. We will see him according to his age there. That is, we will see a person as he was when he left the world.

Because it will be like a few hours of a day. Or, since 2000 years have passed, a time like 2 days will have passed. Like 2.5 days.

He will be of the ummah of the Mahdi.

They say, this man denies the hadiths, and I just laugh. About me. When they say he denies the hadiths, I laugh. They say, this man made the Prophet into the Mahdi, and again I laugh.

Is Jesus a prophet? A prophet. No prophet. Can a prophet become of the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), of a saint from his ummah, a prophet of a saint, can he? Gentlemen, I am telling you. Can he follow? Why can he not follow? Let me tell you the subtlety here too. To one comes revelation. To the other comes inspiration. What is revelation? It is the verses Allah Almighty sends. The verse comes directly to the heart of the prophet. What is inspiration? His giving the meanings of the verses to the hearts of His servants. Now, is the coming of the verse stronger? Or is giving its meanings to other people's hearts stronger?

In this situation, can a prophet who receives revelation, who is of the people of the book, become of the ummah of a saint who has been honoured only with inspiration?

If a person cannot use his head, he cannot find this either. That is one.

We will bring you to life twice and make you die twice, He will say. So He says in Allah Almighty's word. We bring you to life twice and We will make you die twice.

Even in Hell the disbelievers say this: O our Lord, You brought us to life twice and made us die twice. Is there perhaps one more way, they say, to return to the world? Now, how did he die twice, how did one remain? Deaths are upon bodies; there is no death upon souls. If souls are immortal, in Paradise and Hell they are then everlasting; so Allah Almighty tells us clearly with verses that Paradise is eternal and Hell is eternal. In this situation, our first death is while in the world, upon bodies. Every soul, it says, will taste death. Note that it does not say every soul will die. Pay close attention to the words.

Every soul will taste death. To understand this: spirit, nafs and life are one; bodies are separate. One must know this. As Yunus (peace be upon him) said, souls do not die, bodies die, he says. Bodies. So since spirit, nafs and life are one and bodies are separate, Allah Almighty, after creating Adam's body from clay and breathing the spirit into it, had them prostrate to him.

So spirit, nafs and life are one. These are separate. In this situation, did the Prophet taste death in this world for the first time? But he is alive. Alive. He tasted death, he is alive. In Surah Al-Fath, does He say, I have forgiven your past and future sins too? Pay attention to this verse. I have forgiven your future sins too.

Li yağfira lekallâhu mâ tekaddeme min zenbike ve mâ teahhara. Now one falters a little over something. When reading quickly. Now what does it say here? Look, it will be on page 512, I think. On page 512. Yes, Surah Al-Fath.

Li yağfira lekallâhu mâ tekaddeme min zenbike ve mâ teahhara ve yütimme ni'metehû aleyke ve yehdiyeke sırâtan müstakîmâ. So that Allah forgives your past and future sins, completes His blessing upon you and guides you to a straight path, it says. Does the verse say there is no idle word in the hereafter? This is the verse. There is no idle word. There, it says, in Paradise they keep saying, selam. There is no Selamun Aleyküm either. Selamun Aleyküm means, may Allah's mercy be upon you. When you enter Paradise, Allah's mercy has been upon you; there is no more Selamun Aleyküm there; one says selam. That is, you are safe here today, one says.

Let me explain a bit more fully and hit some people a little like this. (?) Today a person who turns (?) says, hey, selam. Selam. Did you get proof from Allah that you say you are safe in Allah's sight? Hey, selam. Selam to what? Did you enter Paradise and attain Allah's mercy, and with your warrant in hand did they stamp you as safe? Do you have such proof? Then why can you not say Selamun Aleyküm? Why can you not remember Allah and ask for His mercy? You determine your own place this way.

Yes. And since there is no idle word there, since his past and future sins have been forgiven, all people being brought to life bodily in the realm of the hereafter, when you come into My presence with a driver, He says. What is the driver? With the body. When the souls are paired, when body and soul come face to face, this body of ours, which is a witness over us, We will silence your mouths, He says. We will make your hands speak and your feet bear witness, He says.

In this situation, the soul's answer to the body: Why do you speak against me? Allah who makes me speak makes me speak, it says. After the testimony ends, you are returned to the One who first created you. There the body tastes death a second time. Now I ask: if his past sins and future sins have been forgiven, is there any need for the Prophet's body to be brought to life there? If there is a need, and Allah Almighty were to bring the Prophet's body to life a second time there, would that be doing something superfluous? Since there is nothing superfluous there, if his body will not be brought to life there again, according to the verse, We bring you to life twice and make you die twice, since the Prophet was brought to life once and tasted death once in this world, he will enter a body again in this world a second time and again taste death in a body.

So again Allah's verse will be manifested; he will have tasted death twice, and the Mahdi; and while he is in that garment of the body, one will become of his ummah. If they have any proof of this other than the verses, let them prove it to me. That the Prophet is not the Mahdi, if they can prove it to me other than with these verses, let them prove it. Only an empty word. What do they say? This man denies the hadiths. He does not deny the hadith. You do not know hadith. You do not know the verses either. I am calling out to you from here. Not because I found the field empty, mind you.

I am calling out to the whole world. Since the beginning of the Republic, look, can a person ruled by 400-odd wrong verses have knowledge? I am asking you now. Do you have knowledge? If you have been ruled by these 400-odd verses. If you call the Spirit Gabriel, if you call the Spirit revelation, if you say Allah puts whom He wills into Paradise and whom He wills into Hell, if you remove partial will from people and make Allah Almighty use partial will over people, do you not ascribe attributes to Allah?

Who can oppose what Allah wills, after all? So with this knowledge you thought yourself a scholar? And then you come out and say, this man denies the hadiths. Who are you, and what is hadith?

Yes.

Learn. You will learn.

Look, I repeat. I said it a moment ago too. A person's words show where that person stands. The mujtahid that Allah Almighty sends every hundred years. In religion, removing superstitions, taking falsehoods out of religion. So listen well. If I am saying something wrong, set me right with verses, as Umar said. Do you see this stick in my hand, he says. If you go astray, he says, I will set you right by beating you with this stick, he says. (?) says, if you too go astray, I will set you right too. How could your strength be enough for me, he says. I will set you right by beating you with Allah's verses, he says.

At once Umar falls into prostration. My Lord, let us say there are those who will set me right too. Do you have such (?)? If you can set me right by beating me with Allah's verses, I too will fall into prostration and kiss your hand too. But never deify your nafs and oppose the truth. Learn the verses well. Yes.

Let us read the verse once more, then move on to our tafsir; let us read it in the tafsir. And because they said, we killed the messenger of Allah, Jesus son of Mary, We cursed them, it says. Yet they neither killed him nor hanged him. But the one they killed was made to appear to them like Jesus. Those who disagree about him are therefore in complete uncertainty. They have no sound knowledge of this matter apart from following conjecture. And they certainly did not kill him, it says. We have explained this part to you this far. These were the matters concerning the Mahdi and Jesus. Because he will come; he was not killed, you see; he will come.

Because they said they killed Jesus, son of Mary, who is Allah's messenger, Allah cursed them. That is what the verse means anyway. Because, by challenging Allah, who created them and is the Lord of the worlds, and saying, we killed His peerless one, they show that they are enemies of Allah and bear hatred toward Him. Yes. Aduvvallâhi ve aduvveküm: your enemies and Allah's enemies, it says. But they (?) that too. Allah's enemy, it says. Allah, those to whom Allah is an enemy, it says. Those to whom Allah is an enemy. Allah is no one's enemy. Is that not so? Use your minds. Allah is not helpless that He should be an enemy to a person.

Today many disbelievers, non-Muslims, become Muslims.

Allah even to those who persist in disbelief to the end and in the end depart as disbelievers, He is not an enemy.

Is there a verse on this? Of course there is. I say nothing without a verse. Today, it says; which day? The Great Court has been set up, that day of reckoning.

What you have earned is exactly the return of your two hands, it says. Today without suffering any injustice, it says. Look, today, without suffering any injustice, what you have earned will be given to you as the return of your two hands, it says. So in another verse Allah does not will wrong for souls. You wrong your own selves, it says.

Yes. Allah has shown both truth and falsehood. He has offered us both paths. If you go outside Allah's commands, transgress the limits, do not turn to the truth, become an enemy of Islam, embrace disbelief, is Allah your enemy, or are you the enemy of your own self?

So get it well into your heads that Allah is no one's enemy. If you say Allah is their enemy, He is the enemy of the disbeliever, you ascribe attributes to Allah, you accuse Him of helplessness. Even if men and jinn gathered, it says; men and jinn, you cannot harm Allah, it says. Yes. Because, by challenging Allah, who created them and is the Lord of the worlds, and saying, we killed His peerless one, they show that they are enemies of Allah and (?) hatred toward Him. The disbelievers. All that is spoken here is what the verses mean anyway. Allah, however, the covenants they gave in the unseen realm, making them hold themselves witnesses to their destinies and to Allah, making them bring out the intentions within, has given them a lifetime within their own destinies.

O people, you saw Me here. Elestü bi-Rabbiküm, I am your Lord, He says. You saw Me here. So that you do not say, O my Allah, You created me like Your essence. You gave me a part of You, You did not separate me from Your essence. Had You sent me to an unseen world and made Your essence known, I would have served You there. So here is the challenge. An unseen world. A world where our Lord is not seen. Plus with scholars, plus with prophets, plus with books, Allah proves His existence. We do not call anyone to account for (?), He says. In this situation Allah Almighty says, did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are?

So every soul in this world, against itself, those around it and Allah, makes itself a witness. Allah, who within their lifetimes permits everyone what they do within their own will, will seize them at the end of their lifetimes. He will seize them. As in: every soul will taste death, and your return is to Me. Yes. So these people, because they are enemies of Allah, because they killed the envoys Allah sent, because they committed crime and slander against Allah, Allah has cursed them. Cursed them. These are the people addressed in this verse: Hatemallâhu alâ kulûbihim ve alâ sem'ihim ve alâ ebsârihim ğışâvetün ve lehüm azâbün azîm. We blinded their eyes and stopped their ears, it says.

In fact they blinded their eyes to Our knowledge, to Our verses, it says. Blind. They were blind in the world, the verse says. They were blind in the world. They were blind now. They look. It speaks figuratively. What was their blindness? They were blind to Allah's verses. And their ears, it says, they stopped. They were deaf, it says. Deaf. Deaf? He hears conversations. (?) When they hear the word of truth, it says, it becomes as if the clouds in the sky would burst; yes, they are distressed, it says. So in this situation, since their eyes were blind and their ears deaf, so as not to hear the word of truth, they had Us seal their hearts, it says. Yes.

Because they killed the envoys Allah sent, because they committed crime and slander against Allah, Allah has cursed them. In this respect these peoples are cursed.

Yet could they kill Jesus? Nor could they hang him.

Those who ambushed and caught Jesus lock him up in a synagogue. These are, even to their own nation, hostile people. Jesus came from among the Jews.

But the Christians accepted him.

The Jews, even Mary's guardian Zechariah (peace be upon him), they killed.

John is the son of Zechariah (peace be upon him). The king of the time asks John for a fatwa. What does he say? I will marry my elder sister's child, her daughter, he says. Perform our marriage. And he says, I cannot perform your marriage. I am in the religion of Jesus, he says. I am in the religion of Jesus. But, he says, it was in the book of Moses. So this word, this word: with their hands, it says, they changed Allah's verses for a few coins, it says. It was in the book of Moses. God forbid. Here too they slander Allah. (?) His sister, this one. The king's sister. And she has him killed. The king has John killed.

Before he has him killed, Zechariah (peace be upon him), coming to the king to save his son, realises on the way that he is being followed, and hides inside a tree trunk. The Jews who see this close the trunk, cut it with a saw and split it in two.

What would you expect from such a cursed people? A people who are the discord of the earth.

Yet they could neither kill Jesus nor hang him. Those who ambushed and caught Jesus, again they themselves lock him up in a synagogue in order to crucify Jesus. When their commander enters the synagogue, he cannot see Jesus in the synagogue. Because Allah Almighty raised him to His essence.

In the verse He says this: We raised Jesus to the heavens, to the first heaven. After every soul has tasted death, at the Day of Judgment We will raise him to Our essence too, He says. He has a great rank with Us, He says. Jesus. Yes.

Because Allah has raised him to His presence. Jesus. They could not kill him. Jesus, in terms of creation, is likened to Adam. Adam too was created without a father, from clay. But than Adam, Adam is more superior, in terms of creation, to Jesus. How superior? A clay is created and the spirit enters it. Then from his left rib Eve is created; this forms a pair. From their sexes people multiply. Within these sexes, the spirit enters what is ready. But there is a nearness. In terms of nearness to Adam, since he was created without a father, there is a (?) of nearness.

When the commanders enter the synagogue to crucify Jesus, they cannot see Jesus in the synagogue, because Allah has raised him to His presence. Thereupon, when the commander does not come out of the synagogue out of fear, they go in and, making their commander resemble Jesus, they crucify him. According to one narration, Allah made the person who betrayed Jesus and showed the soldiers where he was resemble Jesus and had him crucified. Whatever the narrations may be, the truth is that Jesus was not killed and is alive with Allah. When the time comes, he will come to the realm of mulk. He too will taste death.

He too will taste death. Yes. He too will be brought to life a second time in the realm of the hereafter. O Jesus, was it you who told them, I am the son of Allah? (?) And he will say, God forbid, You know me better than I do, Allah; never did such a (?) come from me, he says, and of their lying, their (?), that they are (?), he bears witness before our Lord. So We, with a witness from every people, will bring them into Our presence, He says; a witness from every people, that is, with their prophets. Then I will hold you too as a witness over those prophets, He says.

As for the Muslims, to the Muslims I am calling out from here. I say: O Muslim, if you are truly a Muslim, listen to Allah's verse. I will make you too witnesses over them, He says. I will be a witness over those ummahs, it says. How will you be a witness over that ummah? You pull every kind of intrigue apart from what he does. You have (?) decency. Honour and dignity, chastity and virtue have vanished. When you hear Allah, the Prophet, the Book, you run away.

The glittering state of the world makes you envious, and in the swamps of this world you try to take pleasure. It is the same thing the disbeliever does. You share the same path. (?) how will you, as a Muslim, bear witness against that disbeliever? Will you not be ashamed? Will you not be ashamed? Will you not feel shame? So be ruled by Allah's verses. (?) Know yourself. Do not let their glittering lives make you envious. Those who get tattoos even on their private parts. Whereas tattoos harm the human body, and the Prophet said, do not get tattoos on your bodies; these are outside what Allah said; if you follow what people do who follow with the permission of the taghut, if you too mingle with them, according to the hadith that a person is resurrected with whom he loves, you will go where they go.

Will you not pity your own self? Supposedly you are a Muslim, you have faith, you say, I am of Islam. Use your mind, use your mind, be wise, steer clear of your nafs.

About Jesus's death or survival, they are in complete conjecture. Did he die? Did he not die? Was he hanged? Was he not hanged? In conjecture. Notice that I never go outside the verses of my Lord. My Lord says that until they die they do not believe in Jesus either, He says. Until they die they do not believe in Jesus either. And as they die, with a perhaps, if Jesus is His son, that is how they go.

Some say Jesus died; others say the one made to resemble him was killed; both sides do not have complete, clear, certain knowledge. They are in conjecture. But if Allah says they certainly did not kill him, they did not kill him. Because according to one narration Jesus will carry out his duty together with the Mahdi. The noble Companions ask the Prophet (peace be upon him) about the Mahdi. O Messenger of Allah, who is the Mahdi, they say. While sitting in a mosque in conversation, the noble Companions say, O Messenger of Allah, you spoke of the Mahdi. Who is the Mahdi? Will you describe him to us?

He says, his mother's name is Amina, and his father's name is Abdullah. O Messenger of Allah, is it you? When they say this, he keeps silent. Silence is consent.

Yes. And is this not the Prophet coming, as the Mahdi, a second time in a body, in a physical body, to raise his own religion, back on duty again?

It lowers the Prophet's glory.

When minds came into play, when the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel, four books, were gathered in the Holy Quran, and our Lord, giving the Holy Quran, which will (?) and be proof for the people to come until the Day of Judgment, to the Prophet (peace be upon him), whom He sent as a mercy to the worlds, and sending it to people, sending it, and with the rise of knowledge, with minds coming into play, with verses that do not contradict one another, with verses full of miracles, with Allah's words that prove His existence at every moment under the work of verses, to raise the Prophet's glory until the Day of Judgment, He sent him as the very last.

(?) Yes.

About Jesus's death or survival, they are in complete conjecture. Some say Jesus died, others say he was made to resemble, the one made to resemble was killed; both sides do not have complete, clear, certain knowledge. They are in conjecture. But if Allah says they certainly did not kill him, they could not kill him. Because according to one narration Jesus will carry out his duty together with the Mahdi. The noble Companions ask the Prophet (peace be upon him) about the Mahdi. O Messenger of Allah, who is the Mahdi, they say. Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him) says, his mother's name is Amina, his father's name is Abdullah.

The noble Companions say, O Messenger of Allah, is it then you? The Prophet keeps silent. Yes.

He does not answer the question; he keeps silent. There are some proofs, by knowledge, that the Mahdi is the Prophet. By knowledge. The first proof: he is alive. He is alive. So while he exists, no one can be a prophet over him. The second proof: (?) will certainly come to the realm of mulk. He will live and finally taste death. If Jesus is a prophet, and since after the Prophet, the Seal of the Prophets, no prophet will come again, Jesus coming to the realm of mulk as a prophet would go against the verse of the Seal of the Prophets, contradict it. It would contradict it. The third proof: with the living Prophet carrying out his duty under the name Mahdi, Jesus will come to the realm of mulk as his ummah; for in one narration Jesus says to Allah Almighty: my Allah, I see an ummah that is very sinful.

When they repent they attain great attributes. When he asks whose ummah this is, Allah Almighty says, this is the ummah of Muhammad. So Jesus asks similar questions several more times. Each time he receives the answer, it is the ummah of Muhammad, and he says, make me too of his ummah, my Allah. So, a prophet's prayer being accepted by Allah, in the time of the Mahdi Jesus too will descend to earth. Their coming will not last for centuries either. If you add up the remaining life of the world, it is around 200 years, a little less, a little more. Not more. About 130 years are left. Let us say 140 years. Allah and His Messenger know best.

Why? We say 130 years, 140 years. Today technology too says it is around 150 years. And why do we say it?

The eighth qutb (?) will come.

Forty years will pass. Forty years. For forty years the Mahdi and Jesus will reign. That makes. Eighty years. After Jesus and the Mahdi pass on to the hereafter, the world forty more years lasts. It will rapidly head toward its end. What does it make? One hundred twenty. (?) Accept that it is my lifetime. 135 years. Around 140 years. Give or take. You cannot say exactly. Because its knowledge is with Allah. Its knowledge is with Allah. Yes.