An-Nisa 27: Allah wants to accept your repentance. However, those who follow their lust and bad desires want you to completely leave the right path.

Allah Almighty (?): Allah wants to accept your repentance, it says. Indeed, since Allah Almighty, who created the worlds, created people deficient, created them deficient in reason, when, through the mistakes they made, man knows his helplessness and turns to his Lord, Allah Almighty too wants to forgive him through his repentance. Why? He created human reason deficient. Could He not have created it complete? He could have. So why did He create it deficient?

Allah Almighty willed that His essence be known. The Prophet, the Prophet's light He created. Then He gave him of His spirit. People indirectly, all the prophets and people indirectly, from the soul of the Prophet (peace be upon him) are created. So, since all its light is Allah Almighty, people too were created as a part of their Lord. So in His verse Allah Almighty says, I created man in the finest form: that man He created without separating him from His essence. He created him without separating him from His essence. So if people had not been created deficient in reason, Allah Almighty would have created beings that are partners to His essence.

Partner beings. So the heavens and the earth, what is between the two, all these created things surrounded by Allah's Throne, as needing Allah were created; so He created human reason deficient too, so that man may know his helplessness, through the mistakes he has made know the Lord who created him, and obey Him. That is why Allah Almighty created human reason deficient. Why did He create it deficient? Because it is a part of His essence. Despite creating beings partner to His essence, equal beings, so that into shirk people do not fall, that is, so that they do not become equal to Allah, He limits their reason.

And man, through the mistakes he makes, knows his helplessness. And when he repents and seeks forgiveness from Allah Almighty, since Allah Almighty's purpose in creating is fulfilled, our Lord too wants to forgive it. He wants to forgive man. What was it? It fits the purpose of creation. Man making mistakes and (?) Allah's pardon. Yes. That is why Allah Almighty says He wants to accept your repentance. He wants to, but who will repent?

To repent, a person first, with the religion of Islam, must be honoured. And within the religion of Islam, only a person who knows his nafs repents to Allah Almighty. Who knows his nafs. Today most people who are at nafs al-ammara

perhaps live without knowing Allah. Muslim, but they live without knowing even the M of being Muslim. They lead the way in drink, gambling and fornication. Yes. A man commits kufr. In kufr he says, tawbah, astaghfirullah. And he carries on doing the same thing.

He says tawbah, astaghfirullah, but does not know what tawbah, astaghfirullah means. His mouth is used to it, so he says it, or he saw it from his forefathers, so he says it. The repentance here is not like his saying tawbah, astaghfirullah and carrying on with his business. Not repentance like that. That is, not repentance while he carries on with that kufr. Repentance: he will know his helplessness, know he has sinned, and that his Lord's load of sin on him, that on the left side where it is written the Kiraman Katibin write sin against him, he will know, and for that sin's pardon he will ask Allah Almighty for pardon and forgiveness, and never to do it again he will promise Allah.

What if he does it? Deeds depend on intentions; until a person corrects himself, even if in small ways he does the same things again, one day he will give it up. Such repentance is what Allah wants to accept. Just turn to Allah. Turn.

Those who follow their lusts,

who are captives of evil desires,

these people want you to go completely astray, it says. Who are these?

Those who follow their lusts, who run after their evil desires. What is evil desire?

Cheating people. Amassing without caring about halal or haram.

Riding on the back of the oppressed. This riding on the back: not in the sense that I rode on his back and he carried me. Putting the livelihood in his hand into your own pocket. So, ruling over whomever you have power over is evil ways themselves.

Dealing in interest, chasing plagues like drink and gambling, is the source of evil ways.

Such people, it says, want you, you, to go completely astray. Because they look for followers like themselves. Followers. Whoever does not follow them and abides by Allah's command,

these are the people who attain salvation.

Allah Almighty created people deficient and fallible in reason. The purpose: Allah Almighty, who created people very close to His essence, as we said just now, gave a part of His essence. It is so that when people, through their mistakes, realize they have sinned, to their Lord they turn and, with a plea for pardon, affirm His oneness. Allah Almighty's willing it so is so that man turns to none but Allah's essence and from no other expects help. Whoever abandons Allah's existence, and his needs hopes for and asks from other than Allah, that person has ascribed partners to Allah. Today most people are in hidden shirk.

Hidden shirk. He takes a mascot in his hand. A mascot: this is my lucky charm, he says. He carries it around with him.

Not that Allah gave to him, but that the mascot in his hand brings him luck he believes, and never parts with it. These are not those who hope from Allah. They hope from what Allah created. These are in hidden shirk. Because he does not do it knowingly. That is, since he has not left the religion of Islam. People who, by a life in ignorance or by superstitions projected onto them, are caught up in some false information they think is true.

That is why Allah, through people turning to Him and asking His pardon, wants to forgive people's sins and accept their repentance.

Those who, running after their selfish desires, follow their lusts,

who today have drifted away from the religion of Islam. Drifted away from the religion of Islam. As long as these people stay away from Islam, those after their nafs al-ammara running at full gallop, mostly, the notion of morals, by those who follow their lusts, morals being corrupted, the religion they degenerate, and in their own souls with faith weakening, the load of sin they load on their backs. And so such people keep increasing.

If people, by marrying, lawfully, abided by Allah's commands, such immorality would vanish, and in this world where our Lord to people life grants, that fine, this fine world of ours, in calm and peace we would make sure we live. Yes, if we abided by Allah's verses. But what do we do?

With no telling whose pocket is in whose hand, whose cap on whose head, outside the guise of humanity, in a way unworthy of humanity, in moral (?) we are in the lead. God forbid. Allah Almighty warns people so that such a thing does not happen. Yes, if you have done it, repent, it says. Repent. Those who, running after their selfish desires, follow their lusts, who what Allah Almighty does not want, His prohibitions, embrace and try to take pleasure in them, those who run after evil desires, (?) their level in their social life, those who become morally collapsed among people, fall into an inferiority complex.

People in this state, dragging those who work beside them or under their command onto their own path, strive to find followers for themselves. They want to spread around the filth of the filth they have committed. People with such traits, who are in these feelings, want other people too to go completely astray. So such people have gone astray. Gone astray. And such fine people of faith they want to lead astray too. A person says, I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim. But after things that have nothing to do with Islam he runs. How much Islam this is, how are we to tell?

Perhaps as long as he lives he recites the shahada and says, I too am a Muslim, but of people who have nothing to do with Islam and spend their lives that way, what, I wonder, is the state at the last breath?

Even those who have risen to nafs al-mulhima, who are at the door of miracles, who traverse distances in an instant, at the last breath can depart as unbelievers. So the state at the last breath of a person who never lived Islam (?).

Let me try to give you an example. An example. With this example some people will be angry with me. Some will become my enemies.

Their anger and enmity toward me do not concern me at all. What concerns me is Allah's verse. Today, people on television who say I'm a star. Star.

Those who chase every kind of immorality.

Who, by unjust earnings, their lusts satisfy. From such kind of people's earnings, the money, Allah Almighty does not even take zakat. There you are. I am not the one saying it. Let them be my enemies as much as they like. I am showing them the way. Tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, let such people not say they did not hear. Let them not say, look, he knew but did not tell us. Today many, though they know, those eager for (?), and even those who know a crowd will turn hostile to us, do not explain these things. They do not explain them. So, when Allah Almighty does not accept his zakat, if this person says I am a Muslim, of his being a Muslim how sure can you be?

Yes. In fact, when such people hear this talk of mine,

slapping themselves, if they are walking around in a daze, they must come to; and this slap is a slap of truth for them, for Allah Almighty does not call anyone to account for what He has not made known.

Allah Almighty created people honourable, he said, honourable. That these honourably created people on earth, with such filth, the earth's decency and manners, Allah's limits, forcing and overstepping them: Allah Almighty never wants this, and does not permit it.

In the eras when Islam had not come, peoples that were such immorality networks Allah Almighty destroyed. Today this immorality keeps increasing, but our Lord, for the sake of the Prophet (peace be upon him), by saying, I sent you as a mercy to the worlds, and by his being alive, lifted these destructions; He sends calamities, calamities. I say to people, we call out from here. O people! Allah Almighty says you are all of one origin. Outwardly, the children of Adam. In our true origin, we are the children of the Prophet (peace be upon him). He is our elder. The elder of the worlds too. The greatest of created beings, of course.

In that case,

you turn your back on Allah and His Messenger, on Allah's Book. To fulfil your own desires and wishes you strain Allah's laws. If you, well, (?) run after lust, gambling, drink and the like, fornication, how far does your Islam, your saying I am a Muslim, go?

I am not calling you an unbeliever. But I say, watch your last breath.

Watch your end. If you say, I'll do it and do it, and in the end I'll regret it, I'll repent, then into Satan's trap and net you will have fallen. You cannot know where and how death will come to you. Death is right on the tip of one's nose. Look, you go out. A traffic accident, may Allah keep us safe. You die and are gone. Or you have a heart attack and are gone. Beware, as Allah Almighty says, lest Satan, stark naked stripping you, it says, disgrace you. Yes. So listen to Allah Almighty. Listen to His verses. What does it say? He wants to accept your repentance.

What does it say? He wants to accept your repentance. Why? Because He created man most honourable. And the man He created honourable He made the one He addresses. And the man He addresses, so as not to create any being for Himself, in helplessness He created. That is, He created him deficient in reason. So if man will know his Creator and by his Creator's commands abide, both this world of his and his hereafter he will build up. Both this world and his hereafter. Yes.

So, O people! Take a lesson from the path such people take and do not follow after them. Which people? Of the people with music and song, exposing themselves stark naked, called stars, who are stars of kufr: never follow after them, and you too, like them, do not debase your own selves, do not wrong your own selves, says Allah Almighty. How beautifully He says it, how beautifully. Something like this may come to your mind: is this man their enemy? Why would I be his enemy? I say this because I hold him to my heart. His hand he has (?) to the fire; he does not know, he stretches it to the fire. I am his hand from the fire trying to pull. If he could grasp it, that kufr swamp, that fire, tomorrow on the Day of Judgment, in the hereafter, if he were one who knew the (?) the Lord who created him will do to him, he would refrain from this path and not get soiled with that filth.

Did Allah Almighty create man to roam aimlessly? Is man without responsibility? If man uses his reason even a little, today what we call this universe, these created beings, are equipped with knowledge. With knowledge. Created with knowledge. Did these lifeless beings ever, by themselves, take on life and reason and bring these events about by themselves? We know there is a Creator. Then did that Creator command you to live in this world in pleasure, defying Allah's commands, making a god of your nafs?

Every soul shall taste death, then your return is to Me: according to this verse of His, did Allah Almighty create Paradise and Hell in vain?

You know it too, you think. Because you have reason. Every mind knows its Lord. But see, you have become such a captive of that nafs, Satan has set you such traps and wrapped your nafs in such whims, that there are cannonballs on your feet and weights in your ears, veils on your eyes, so that to the path of truth you cannot turn.

So, O man, from the path such people take take a lesson and do not follow after them. Deceived by passing worldly gains, your place in the hereafter, your true homeland, into torment do not turn; and do not, wronging your own selves, in that most evil place of return, the torment of Hell, end up.