Ali 'Imran 101: While Allah’s verses are read to you and Allah’s Messenger is among you, how can you disbelieve? Those who hold firmly to Allah have entered the straight path.

Surah Al-Imran, verse 101 — what does this verse say? While Allah's verses are recited to you, and moreover the Messenger of Allah is among you, how can you turn to disbelief? Whoever holds fast to Allah has certainly been guided to the straight path.

Let me explain this once, then let's read it — or rather, let's read it first, and then explain it in more depth. Allah Almighty, with the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), sent the last religion, the religion of Islam, and the Holy Quran as mercy and guidance to the worlds.

Why did He send books one after another? According to people's development, according to their capacity of reason, in a way that would not load onto their backs ropes they (?), as they advanced in civilization, as their minds began to work, He sent them verses. At last, when minds came into play — since no prophet would come again — and the first He created, our glorious Messenger, the one who seals the prophets, Hâtemü'n-nebiyyîn — since He would send no prophet again — the Messenger of Allah, He sends as mercy to the worlds. What does He say? Ve mâ erselnâke illâ rahmeten li'l-âlemîn. Yes. And the Prophet (peace be upon him), having tasted death, He makes alive. With what?

Look: 'and moreover the Messenger of Allah is among you', it says. Since the verses keep their force until the Last Day — until the Last Day — then the Messenger of Allah is among us. According to the verse, alive. What does it say anyway? I made you alive, alive. Yes. Although the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), by showing many miracles, proved he was a true prophet and that Allah's verses, His verses, are true, to people, people both turned away from Allah and set out to deny the verses.

Why? They act like this. What's the reason? The reason: at the call 'Elestü bi-Rabbiküm', the covenant each gave to Allah Almighty — each had the scenario of that covenant written there. That scenario was inscribed into them as destiny, as characters, and within those characters, when the time comes, through desires and wishes, Allah Almighty creates causes. So that everyone proves what kind of person they are, through actual deeds, through the things they themselves have done, each is made a witness against themselves, against those around, and before Allah Almighty.

And though the Messenger who was among people, who saw so many miracles, was among them, here a question like this may come to our mind. Since Allah's verses address the past, the present and the future, how is the Prophet of the end times, the noble Muhammad, among us, even though he has passed on to the Hereafter?

Allah Almighty has made the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) alive. What does 'alive' mean?

When He says alive, it means deathless. Alive. Alive. Well, we're alive too, but we are mortal. Within our lifetime we are mortal. In fact we are alive in spirit. In spirit. Spirits do not taste death. (?) do not die. What is it? Death is upon bodies. Not upon spirits. What does the verse say? Every soul shall taste death. It doesn't say every soul shall die. What is it? Every soul shall taste death, and in the end your return is to Me, He says. So the body will die, and the spirit — may Allah grant it safety — will go on its way. Where to? To the Barzakh. then in the Hereafter He will raise the bodies again; 'when you come before Me with a driver, when the souls are paired,' He says.

Yes, after that body has testified to Allah Almighty — by the verse 'We give you life twice and death twice' — the body, a second time, dies there, and finally, since spirit, nafs and soul are one, they are sent to the places they deserve. So what is 'alive'? Alive: if He made him alive, he was alive inside the body, within life. And even if the body passes on to the Hereafter, even if it has passed into the earth, he himself, outside the body, is still alive. Although other people, or the other prophets, wait in the Barzakh, the Messenger of Allah does not go to the Barzakh. He is alive in the realms at large.

In this case 'alive' is understood through many events anyway. and if he is among us until the Last Day, at the Resurrection, after the Resurrection, again, first of all, Allah Almighty will raise him, that is, bring him to Himself, and after all people have risen, he will intercede for his community. So now, Allah Almighty — if He says alive, he is alive. Then the verses of Allah Almighty, of Allah Almighty, are clear, explicit. In it you cannot find verses that contradict each other.

If He says alive, if He says alive, then before he came into the world he was alive too. He was alive. Allah Almighty proves to us in the verse that he is alive like this. In some verses He says: remember, He says. By telling him 'remember' about some events from before he came into the world, it means that even before coming into the world, he witnessed some events in that realm. Some events.

So Allah Almighty has made the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) alive. He came as mercy to the worlds. Every soul shall taste death. According to that verse he has tasted death, and he is among us. Even though he is among us, how can you still, without even being ashamed before the Messenger, deny the verses?

Now here, if we go deeper, into a second meaning: even though it says 'while the Messenger of Allah is among you' — what about Allah Almighty, who knows everything from the atom to the globe and sees it — aren't you ashamed even before Allah? Whoever holds fast to Allah has certainly entered the straight path. Why? Can't someone who doesn't hold fast to Allah enter the straight path? Impossible. Impossible. Why is it impossible? Because Allah created these realms, from the atom to the globe. Since the one who knows every particle of these realms, from the atom to the globe, their states and conditions, who (?) accordingly, and who is aware of the state of all He created, is Allah, the owner of these realms, in His word: whoever submits to the One who created him, whoever enters the path of the One who created him, whoever does what the One who created him says — by the verse 'who is truer to his word than Allah?', you attain salvation.

Look what the verse says. What does it say? Whoever holds fast to Allah is certainly on the straight path, it says. Yes.

Whoever holds fast to Allah has certainly entered the straight path. Since there is no other god but Allah, and since our return will be to Allah Almighty, whoever is bound by Allah's command and holds fast to Allah by what Allah says — Allah certainly does not go back on His promise at all. That is impossible. Because it is a verse. Allah does not go back on His promise. What did Allah Almighty promise? Whoever does what I say, I have made him heir to Paradise. He will remain there forever. And whoever comes before Me as a disbeliever outside the religion of Islam, for him I have prepared eternal Hell; he too is there forever, He says.

There is no flaw in Allah's word, and He does not go back on His promise.

In one verse He says 'who is truer to his word than Allah?' — by that verse, those who hold fast to Allah have certainly entered the straight path. They have attained Allah's mercy. Yes. They have certainly attained Allah's mercy.