An-Nisa 154: We raised Mount Tur-Sinai above them as a covenant, and We ordered them to enter the gate while prostrating. We commanded them not to transgress concerning the Sabbath and gave them Our Word.

Now, Surah An-Nisa, verse 154 has also been explained wrongly. Let us read them from here, the wrong one first, and after that read the right one here.

To reinforce their promise, their promise, We raised the Tur over their heads and said to them, enter the gate bowing your heads. We said, do not transgress on the Sabbath day. We took a firm promise from them, it says. We took a firm promise. And I say: my Lord, You took a firm promise from me, but as the owner of that promise You could not imprint those characters on me. What is my sin? You are my Lord. You should have imprinted characters on me according to my promise. I would say this, you see. Then I would have been faithful to that promise.

In this verse they have ascribed attributes to Allah Almighty. Whereas it is so that everyone remembers the covenant they gave.

We raised the Tur over their heads and said, enter that gate prostrating, We said. Do not transgress on the Sabbath day, We said. We made a promise, it says. A promise. Not: We took a promise. We made a promise.

Do you see how wrongly it is explained? He takes a promise. As if like Ahmet and Mehmet. Just as Mehmet does not accept what Ahmet says. He may not accept it. But if you took a promise from him, he must have the characters to be able to keep that promise. What does Allah Almighty say in Surah Al-A'raf? We made a covenant with those to be brought forth from the offspring of the children of Adam.

We said, We are your Lord. Their wishes, desires and aims were written for them as destiny. According to these destinies Allah Almighty imprinted characters on them. According to these characters people feel wishes and desires. They prove what kind of people they are. Moreover, did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are, He says. Why should he prove it? Because as a result of the covenant he gave to Allah Almighty at the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm, their wishes were written for them as destiny, and to be able to live those destinies, people must have certain characters.

So when those characters appear, when their time comes, Allah Almighty alone creates. He is on duty at every moment, in a state of salat, you see. He has no need to perform the prayer. He is on duty at every moment. For His creatures He brings about causes at every moment within the deeds they will do, He creates. And those people feel wishes and desires within their own characters, and they prove themselves through the actual deeds they have done. You cannot blame Allah. Allah will take a promise and they will break that promise? Just look at that, you know, if Allah does not will, they would not be able to will, they explained this verse too: if Allah does not will, they would not will. Allah takes a promise, He wills this from them, but they do not listen, and they explain Allah Almighty's verse, if We do not will, you cannot will, that way too, Allah forbid.

So because people have no knowledge of the Quran, they cannot reconcile the verses with one another, and in this way they ascribe attributes to Allah. With what? Supposedly there is Arabic grammar. Just look at that. Arabic grammar. It makes one laugh, really. Arabic grammar.

Now we hear something new again.

Someone says this: there are mistakes in the Quran. He is supposedly a hodja too. There are mistakes in the Quran. In the explanation of the verses. We will explain the verses, they say. Where have you been until now?

Blessed man. Where have you been until now? We, since the beginning of the Republic, you were asleep until now, we explained this. Even if you did explain it, since you do not have the root of this knowledge you would go astray again, you would ascribe attributes to Allah again; it is not for you, however much Arabic you know. If you want to ask for Allah's mercy, go the way you know; whatever you know, (?) memorising the Quran, whatever you want to have done, anyway, go further on that path, but never lay a finger here. These are verses to be explained only by the one on duty. You do not have that duty; you would go astray and fall into sin again. Yes.

You, where will you see Allah Almighty?

If He were seen, that would be the exception, I would have nothing to say to that.

He says, our Lord has raised you too.

As a person He has raised, I will understand from your speech anyway; we will give the matter to someone. Maybe that person is yours, I do not know, but we will understand it from what you do.

You will see the realm of lahut. That the souls were created. You will see the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm. You will know how He made the covenant and how our Lord made the covenant with people one by one, showing it to them within times, and you will know what you yourself are. Besides this, Allah Almighty will show you the meanings of many verses. Besides this, He will work on your heart with inspiration and raise you. Then, after these sciences, He will also give you His wisdom, the ability to perceive. If you have these, you too can explain. You can write too. If not, never lay a finger here.

You will fall into sin.

Yes.

Allah Almighty made a covenant at Kalubela with the souls of the people He created in the realm of lahut. Look what it says anyway: so that everyone remembers the covenant they gave, We raised the Tur over their heads, while you were prostrating. We said, enter that gate. We said, do not transgress on the Sabbath day. We made a promise, it says.

Eleven tafsirs have been written. Go and see who has laid a finger on this. Yes. Allah Almighty made a covenant at Kalubela with the souls of the people Allah Almighty created and wrote this covenant for people as destiny in proportion to their wishes. Look, do you see how the verses support one another? What was in the previous verse? They cannot change their word. Why can they not change it? Because what are they? If they wished it, Allah Almighty gave them those characters. Within those characters they proved what kind of people they are.

Allah Almighty never removes anyone's partial will to use His own will over people. Yes. In this situation people, with their own will, since the deeds people do will be reward and sin for them, Allah Almighty does not lay a finger on any person's partial will. What was Allah Almighty's purpose anyway? I will create a being that, within its own consciousness, will itself have itself programmed by Me, will live its own wishes and desires. I will never interfere with it. It will know Me or deny Me by itself, with its own being, with its own mind.

He will leave this entirely to the consciousness and will of the human being He created. This is the miracle of the art of creation. Only through a part of a part of His essence being given to man can it be programmed in this way. A human being can have himself programmed. Yes. That is, his having a part of His essence. Otherwise no created thing can be programmed like this in any way. Yes. This is a quality found only in that spirit. This is a spirit that Allah Almighty gave only to man.

Yes.

In this situation, man, man, having been created in the realm of lahut and having made a covenant with Allah Almighty, so that he remembers that covenant, Allah Almighty raises that Tur over their heads. He makes it a shade for them. A shade.

There they see our Lord. All souls have seen our Lord. Abdul Qadir Gilani says this: As the souls turn on their own axes in their cells, Enelillahi'l-hak, Enelillahi'l-hak, they say, he says. I know that Allah is the Truth, it says. It says this, and how does it know, he says. How does it know?

It says this because it saw Allah Almighty at the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm, he says. Yes, every soul, our soul, has made a covenant with Allah Almighty. You know, He says, I am your Lord; there He shows His essence to it.

And the people who came to the realm of mulk, where He wrote this covenant for people as destiny in proportion to their wishes, came veiled and remained unaware of the realm of the hereafter. They came veiled. What is this? Allah Almighty takes them from the barzakh realm.

What does it say? Only Allah knows what is in the wombs.

They explained this wrongly too. As whether it is female or male. We have been struggling for years. Outwardly, people today know with science whether what is in the womb is female or male. It is not like that. When it made the covenant with Allah Almighty at Kalubela, at whatever time that soul is to come, when that time comes in the (?) realm, is it female or male? Allah Almighty knows these. He takes it from there. Is the one taken from there female? Is it male? Allah knows this. He puts that soul into the mother's womb on the fortieth day. So taking the child after forty days is suicide. That is, it is death for the child. This is a grave sin.

Until forty days a woman cannot even tell whether she is pregnant. Very rarely. In this situation Allah Almighty, in that barzakh realm, brings the soul He raised to the barzakh realm. Whatever time it is in the world, He takes it and puts it into the mother's womb. Yes. The people who came to the realm of mulk came veiled and remained unaware of the realm of the hereafter. When He takes it from that barzakh realm, it is called the realm of jabarut. The realm of nearness. Allah Almighty's essence itself, His essence taking it from there. Then that soul, sending it to the realm of malakut. The garment of the spiritual soul. (?) In the realm of jabarut too it says, We clothed it with a garment.

What garment is this? You give a computer a password. Do not let this open, it says. It opens only if you give this password. So the garment of the realm of nearness is the realm of jabarut. There He clothes it. That is, He makes it forget its appearance. Allah Almighty. He sends it to the realm of malakut. There too He clothes it with a garment. That is, there too it takes on a form. This is called the spiritual soul. He makes it forget the realm of malakut too. It comes to the world, it puts on the bodily soul, the physical body. This they call the bodily soul. Some call it the animal soul, but let us keep away from animal soul.

Let us say bodily soul. Because man's creation is honourable. Yes. In this situation these realms are made forgotten to him. When he is born of his mother in the realm of mulk, he sees this world with these outward eyes. If the person's characters are obedient to Allah, if they are full of love, the person returns to his Lord after a certain level. Then he passes that realm of malakut, that realm of jabarut. He sees the places of creation. Why did Allah Almighty call man insan? Because he is capable. Those who know nothing of these cannot write the verses of the Quran. They cannot know their translations.

They can only write them half-baked like this, by the Arabic equivalent, incomplete. Yes.

So what now? Let us read this sentence again. Allah Almighty made a covenant at Kalubela with the souls of the people He created in the realm of lahut, and wrote this covenant for people as destiny in proportion to their wishes. The people who came to the realm of mulk came veiled and remained unaware of the realm of the hereafter.

This, look here, how many sentences there were. Its creation, its making the covenant, in this sentence, its being raised to barzakh, then its being taken from there, the realm of jabarut, the realm of malakut, and putting on the bodily soul. Within this sentence, as we explained. Then what happens? So Allah, always reminding people of Kalubela through His verses, warns people so that they do not say, we knew nothing of this. Muhammad,

to remind the people of Moses too of His existence, He raised the Tur over them. He made it a shade for them for a while. He raised the Tur over the people of Moses, that is, the Children of Israel. The people who saw this, according to the covenant they gave, some because they obeyed and some out of fear, prostrated to Allah. What was it? One must pay close attention here. Some from the covenant they gave, some out of fear. Now look what Allah Almighty says. If We wished, We tell you, We would come down from the clouds with angels and make you prostrate, He says. People would prostrate out of fear.

Out of fear. He would create such a being that its will is in its own hand, that with its own being it would know its Lord. That is the important point anyway. And with his own will man will earn reward and sin; with his own will he himself will choose the path to Paradise or Hell; Allah will not send whom He wills to Paradise and whom He wills to Hell. Yes. I suppose the (?) of the verses is understood, and how beautifully Allah Almighty, being free of deficient attributes, that man will be called to account for the deeds he does with his own will, and, according to the verse, in return for what your two hands have earned, that today no one will be wronged, how beautifully Allah Almighty tells us this with verses.

Yes.

Then Allah, addressing them, said: enter that gate prostrating. In Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 58. Say Hitta to them. Say Hitta. My Lord, forgive us. In response to that word, they turned it into Hinta. They turned Hitta into Hinta. Yes. You be our shepherd, Allah forbid.

Look at this insolence. Look at this shamelessness. Look at this ingratitude and these people's enmity toward Allah Almighty. Personally, we could not bear it. We cannot be as patient as our Lord. That is impossible. Allah Almighty says, say Hitta. That is, in response to the words, O Lord, forgive us. They turned it into Hinta. You be our shepherd. Watch over us, but we will do as we please, they said.

They did not heed the Sabbath ban. Although He said, do not fish on that day, do not trade, they transgressed the limit of the ban Allah had set. And because of their rebellions Allah changed their forms into apes, and they wronged themselves in this world and the hereafter. You know the people of the Sabbath.

Allah Almighty says, do not hunt on the Sabbath, hunt on the other days. From the sea. Fish. Six days of the week there are none; on the Sabbath the fish are teeming. Of course, this is a test, you see. A test.

Thereupon, in one narration, Iblis says to them, let me give you an idea. You build a breakwater. A breakwater. When the fish come here on the Sabbath, close the gates of the breakwater. Hunt on the other (?) days, he says. This idea pleases those who are rebellious toward Allah. Although their (?), their scholars, tell them that what you are doing is rebellion against Allah, you are sinners, if you do this, Allah will send you a calamity, they do not listen to their scholars. And while they build the breakwater, the scholars build a wall between themselves and them. Every week they give them advice.

They address their scholars. They say: why do you come and talk to these people who do not listen? You know they do not listen to you. Why, they say, do you tell them? We are fulfilling our duty, they say. That duty: since Allah Almighty will send a calamity on those who transgress Allah's limits, we too, they say, are making a boundary between them and us. So that, they say, we do not also become subject to these calamities. In this situation the breakwater is finished.

The scholars too complete the (?) between them. Again one day the scholars go down to give them advice. They see monkeys roaming the town. When those monkeys see these scholars, they tell it like this: tears were flowing from the eyes of those monkeys. They lived like this for three days, they say, in such a humiliated state. After that they perished.

Yes.

Both humiliation in this world and turning one's eternal life in the hereafter into a dungeon. Becoming subject to fire and torment.

O man!

You were brought into being from nothing. You have no power to create anything. Know your Creator. While your life is a treasure, try to be a servant to your Lord and a member of your Prophet's ummah. Love your Lord so much that His love settles in your heart, so that the worldly attachments in your heart leave your heart. So that you attain Allah's mercy.

The place we will all go to is our Lord's presence.

Our body was created from earth, it will become earth; every soul will taste death, and your return is to Me, He says. The place we will all go to is our Lord's presence. (?) Our Lord will bring our bodies back to life. So wherever you go, seven thousand layers beneath the earth, to the most remote corner of the heavens, wherever you go, there is a witness in you you cannot escape. You escape that witness only when you die. What is this witness? Your body. When you come into My presence with a driver, He says, We silence your mouths, bind your feet and make your hands speak, He says. When the souls are paired, the body and the soul come face to face.

And the body bears witness against or for the soul. The soul says to the body, why do you speak against me, and it says, Allah who makes me speak makes me speak. And finally, after the testimony ends, you are returned to the One who first created you, He says, and the body dies a second time. So, O man, come to your senses. Even where you seem alone, you are not alone. You have such a body that it will bear witness against you. You will escape it only when you die.

Let us rather say, you will escape when you taste death. Yes, from that body, the body tasting death, and you, the body will die, and you will taste death, you will taste death; since there is no death for souls, you will escape that body only in that way. You will escape, but bearing in mind that this body will bear witness against you on the Day of Judgment and tell everything about you, atom by atom, second by second, use that body accordingly. Never do what you would do where you see yourself alone. Both fear Allah and remember that your body will bear witness against you, so that you are saved from evils.

Yes.

Allah Almighty, you said; may He grant all of us guidance and wakefulness, we said. Yes.