An-Nisa 57: And We will admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into Gardens beneath which rivers flow and in which they will dwell eternally. There are pure spouses for them, and We will place them in deep shade.

Surah An-Nisa, verse 57: And those who believe and do good deeds, to abide therein forever, We will admit into gardens beneath which rivers flow . There are pure things for them there, and We will place them in a deep, pleasant shade . Deep and pleasant. That is, it neither chills you nor, well, overheats you. Deep and pleasant. There, in a beautiful orchard and garden, in beautiful villas, in beauties you cannot imagine, where the air keeps changing colour, where what is around changes shape — because people all grow weary of looking at one thing. Since everything is luminous, in that realm of Paradise, where one never tires of looking, he will live forever.

Something like this may come to your mind: Hodja, won't there be boredom? Now I'll give you an example from the world. A man has caught cancer. He will die. In agony. Still he is striving to be saved. Could I live, I wonder? Will I be saved, I wonder? Or somewhere, sir, he's got cancer, it will spread, he has his leg cut off, amputated; oh, he is left without a leg, without an arm, or has some organs removed from his body; he struggles to live. If it's like this here, even in agony, the world being a person's prison, then in the beauty of the hereafter, where everything vividly changes shape, in a place, in a setting, (?), life there is entirely different.

Yes. Now we can make a comparison like this. Of course this is my opinion. This is everyone's opinion. Surely it's neither a sin nor a shame for a person to say what he thinks.

Allah Almighty created the realms. Although He has existed forever, although He exists without beginning and without end, although we don't know how long He has subsisted in that pre-eternity, does it ever bring Him weariness? Does it bring boredom? Allah Almighty — and since we are a part of Him, always within our wish, desire and will, people's life, within their own world, will go on eternally, forever. Yes, those who believe and do deeds, to abide therein forever, We will admit into gardens beneath which rivers flow ; there are pure things for them there, and We will place them in a deep, pleasant shade. The pure things He mentions: all that your soul desires there — there is no restriction anymore, that is, no haram, no haram; all pure, you can eat whatever you want, because everything there is pure, He says.

What does He say? There are pure things for them. So there — how here He made pork, (?) haram, didn't He? Some things, some animals He made haram. There, there's no such thing. You will eat (?). Everything pure.

For those who believe in Allah and His Messenger and have faith in the Last Day, who carry out Allah's commands, there are the gardens that are Allah Almighty's promise.

If a person uses his mind, a person knows that he was created.

Although every person knows he was created, although he knows that no power at all could create these realms, nor ever will, to those who, against Allah, owner of these realms, deliberately do the opposite of what He says, to those who oppose Allah's verses, who, though they see the truth and understand it, make no concession from their own nafs and stray into falsehood — woe to them.

These are people who wrong their own souls. Can one ever oppose Allah?

Ever, our owner who created us — and our owner did create us.

We are all servants created by our Lord. When we are capable of nothing, would a person oppose Him and turn his back on the One who gave so many blessings? Although a person doesn't easily, easily turn his back on his mother and father, even if they do wrong, while their children carry them on their backs to win their approval and obey that mother and father, how can a person turn his back on Allah, owner of all these realms? A person just can't comprehend this. My mind can't grasp these.

What kind of nafs is this? Yes.

In that Paradise, He says, they abide forever. There are all kinds of what we call nature, world-like scenery, with rivers flowing through, orchards with vineyards and gardens. Since mankind grows weary of looking at one thing, the ever-changing colourful air and nature scenery were created for those who obey Allah and His Messenger and believe in the hereafter with certainty, and beings ready in their places await them. Look, and here we write what was shown to us. Beings with places ready — that is, buildings raised, standing ready, waiting. Ready.

What I said just now — look, we write it here anyway. If this weren't a vision, if it came out of someone's head, there would be words in it that don't fit together. Yes, there are pure things there for these people. Here the first meaning: the sustenance Allah created and will give to those who attain His Paradise is perfectly pure. Emphasising that, unlike worldly life, it isn't as if haram, however little, were mixed into what one earns, He says the sustenance He Himself created, the gift from your Creator to you, is perfectly pure. His offering to people the gift of what He Himself created is perfectly pure.

And as I said just now, unlike the restrictions in the world, the haram things there do not exist. The second meaning, the one this verse intends: there, as spouses for people, He will give, untouched by human face and hand, pure houris and ghilman. They, together with their spouses, are beneath a deep, not oppressive, pleasant shade . Allah is pleased with them and they with Allah; in the bliss of eternal life they are.

People who attain the highest Paradise, in eternal peace and reverence, under the mercy of Allah Almighty, attaining blessings they couldn't attain in the world, their wishes and desires fulfilled, in the highest Paradise, the eternal abode of bliss, they will live a deathless life. What do we say beneath it? How blessed are these people, those who attain this state. How blessed. Yes. Attaining these is not hard. Attaining this state is not hard. Allah

created man talented. Talented. Within this talent, if a person masters his nafs — and here there is a struggle with the nafs — if he masters it, if he is governed by our Lord's verses, he both finds peace and rises meaning by meaning, degree by degree. He passes through the states of the nafs. Now, if a person truly, to Allah's verses holds sincerely — while holding sincerely he may perceive wrongly. These are exceptions. It can happen. He may have understood it that way.

Over time, a person heeding halal and haram, halal and haram, cutting out lies, staying away from gossip and backbiting, remembering Allah within himself aloud or silently, praying the tahajjud prayers at night, toward people being merciful and generous — with such traits a person's feelings change, his heart softens, and Allah places His light in that heart. Then neither the shadow of the east nor of the west falls on it. So as long as a person masters his nafs, he also becomes aware of manifestations, and by Allah's mercy he attains His inspiration too.

Yes, in this case a person, a person — in return for these verses our Lord speaks of, Allah Almighty, as far as He permits them, according to his degree, as much as he can bear, the realms He lets them behold. Some call these saints, awliya Allah. Some, without regard to these degrees, enter through the door of that knowledge and attain our Lord's knowledge. That is, they attain His inspiration. As long as a person corrects himself, masters his nafs, is compassionate and merciful toward people. Let him be sincere toward Allah. Let him submit wholeheartedly to what Allah and the Messenger say. But he is human; he can make mistakes.

So when he makes a mistake, let him ask Allah Almighty for pardon and forgiveness. Let him repent and seek forgiveness. And this person truly then is (?). That is, he is human. Yes.