Ash-Shu'ara 120: And We have drowned the ones who stayed behind.

In verse 120 of Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Allah Almighty says: "Then We drowned the rest," He says.

The rest.

Who are these remaining ones? Those who deny Allah Almighty.

They did not stop at denial; they were idolaters. Those who worship idols. As a result of this deluge, with the waters covering the world, on earth, except for Noah (peace be upon him) and the creatures in his ship, all the others drowned in the water and perished. So the result of opposing Allah Almighty is, in this world, pains, pain and grief, a lifetime of unrest with a scattered heart, and in the Hereafter an eternal punishment. May Allah, we said, protect us all from such an end.

Now, Allah Almighty sent us into the world; it was not to suffer torment in the world that He sent us. If we are suffering torment, it is because of our own actions that we suffer. We suffer because of our own will. Allah Almighty has, for the duties they will carry out, so beautifully programmed all the creatures He created, and prepared their food in relation to one another. As for our food, there are all kinds of food on earth. There is a world that serves us, with all kinds of minerals. And He created us as vicegerents of the world. So if we suffer torment, it is because we don't abide by Allah's command that we suffer.

Otherwise, man, created honored above the worlds, was not created to suffer torment in the world. Why do we suffer torment? Because we do not know the truth. "But Hodja, how do we know the truth? We are Muslims, praise be to Allah." "Sir, I have debt; isn't this a torment?" Now, if you truly walked in the way of Allah and went into debt, went into debt, I mean, through no fault of your own, went into debt in order to support your family, then with this faith, as long as you put your trust in Allah, you are still at peace. You will put your trust in Allah. "My Lord knows me. I was desperate. I borrowed money from Ahmet, from Mehmet.

Sir, I can't pay it back." And what does Allah Almighty say in the verse? If a person cannot pay, grant him a respite. Look how beautiful. If he cannot pay that either, grant him another respite. If he cannot pay that either, He says, if his situation does not allow it, if you were to give it to him as a gift, if only you knew its rank in His sight, He says. Love. How beautifully He puts it. But the other one, the other one, who for the world gave in to desire, out of his ego's whims took on, beyond and above his own income, a cost, or gave in to worldly desire and swindled this one and that one, gave in to worldly desire and killed a man; what are these? Is this living Islam? Of course this person will be in dire straits.

A Muslim, while living in this world, never lives in torment. If he follows the path of Allah.

Because peace is in Islam. A person clings to the verses.

Allah Almighty says in the verse: "We do not will injustice for people." Well, there you go. Look at the verse. If I suffer wrong, I suffer it from my own nafs. Why does He not will injustice? I hold fast to this verse. If He put me in debt, that is, if I went into debt: "We test you sometimes with your wealth and sometimes with your lives," He says. Now we'll say there is a test. If (?) comes in wealth, now we'll say there is a test.

Now here I have my children. Ahmet Taka knows. Well, Doğan knows too. I don't know. Now I'll tell a story. A true story, though, mind you. We have a shop in Yedik Paşa.

There's Nizamettin the mold maker. In Bayrampaşa. We have him make molds for us.

Our Mehmet Saygın's father, in Bakırköy, in that İncirli, on a street, Florya was it, is selling a house. The house is 225 thousand liras; if it's someone we know, he'll give it for 175 thousand. We came, (?) Nizamettin. "You buy this house. If you have the money." "Okay, Hodja, I'll buy it," he said. I think the poor man even brought it down to around 150 thousand. He paid 25 thousand liras up front. "Look," I said, "I'm taking this money. If you don't buy this house, if you don't buy this house, I won't give this money back to you." That is, he gives us that money as a deposit. We're selling it to him for 175.

The man gave it to us for 150. We're selling him the 225-thousand house for 175. Together with Mehmet Saygın. And we took the money, 25 thousand liras, and put it in the safe.

One day: "When will you buy the house?" "Hodja, next month." The man is waiting too.

I mean, Hamdi Saygın is waiting. He's waiting for our sake. "Hodja, it didn't work out this month; I'll buy it next month." The next month it didn't work out: "I'll buy it next month." (?) he said, "I have," he said, "money owed to me (?)," he said. "I couldn't get my money," he said. "I can't buy the house," he said. "What was our agreement?" I said. "The 25-thousand deposit is gone," I said. "May Allah keep you well. Okay, Hodja," he said. "I don't want it anyway," he said. Okay? Okay. One day I went and saw that upstairs, on the second, third floor, there are his things, his machines. He's sweeping there. Picking things up from the floor.

PVC granules. "What are you doing?" I said. He said, "Hodja," he said, "I have no money to bring bread home." Exactly like this. "I have no money to bring bread home."

"From here, from this rubbish," he said, "the PVC," he said, "(?) if you sell a pair, two pairs of soles," he said, "I'll get bread money from this," he said. That wealthy man, mind you. That wealthy man.

I phoned Ahmet. Is Ahmet here? "Ahmet, take the twenty-five thousand liras from the safe and come," I said. He took it and came. "Take your money," I said. The man turned pale. Deathly pale. Yes. "This," he said, "is how a friend is. He shows himself on a dark day," he said. A friend.

If a person is with Allah, Allah opens his way. The man keeps his five daily prayers, his ablution. An upright man. He's being tested, you see. He says to me exactly this: "Hodja, we're being tested, being tested," he says. "We're being tested," he says. No complaint in the man. We're being tested. Yes. Such a wealthy man speaking this way, you see, Allah Almighty sending me there, (?), and his being relieved. Yes. That is why, in Islam, if one lives in the world by Allah's verses, he lives in peace. Even if he is in dire straits. To him the world comes as a place of amusement, and he knows that it is a transient world here.

Not on this amusement but on the true home of the Hereafter he fixes his eyes. He makes his preparations for there. Yes.

What did we say? So the result of opposing Allah Almighty is, in this world, pain and grief, a lifetime of unrest with a scattered heart, and in the Hereafter an eternal punishment. May Allah protect us all from such a punishment, such an end.