Al-Ma'idah 67: Oh My Messenger! Proclaim that which Allah has sent down to you. If you don’t do that, you will not fulfill your duty as Allah’s Messenger. Verily, the infidels do not accept Allah’s guidance.

Verse 67 of Surah Al-Ma'idah is also one of the wrongly interpreted verses. Verse 67 — what does it say? Let us first read here from the book written by the Diyanet: O Messenger, convey what has been sent down to you from your Lord. Correct. If you do not do this, you will not have fulfilled His messengership. Correct. You will not have fulfilled it. Allah will protect you from people. This too is correct. Isn't it? Where, then? Here it comes now. "Surely Allah does not guide the people of the disbelievers," it says. What does it say?

Surely Allah does not guide the people of the disbelievers. What is this? The Quran. The Quran. Did it come to the Muslims? Some say so. It came to the Muslims. But did it not come to the worlds? Yes. Âmennâ ve saddaknâ. It came to the worlds.

The Prophet also came to the worlds. So is this Quran not a proof that holds a light before people, a guide? Yes. Well, had Allah Almighty not guided the people of the disbelievers, would He not have stripped the Quran away from them? Yes. And then would Allah Almighty not have discriminated among His servants? Yes. Would Allah ever do that?

Would Allah ever do that? Wasn't it that He makes no distinction among His servants? In this world, Allah's mercy (?) for everyone. Well, you see the error. What does it say?

Surely Allah does not guide the people of the disbelievers. The Book is a guide. It was sent down to the worlds. By saying this, you end up denying the Book sent down to the worlds as well. By interpreting this verse like this, you are denying that the Quran came to the worlds. But had you interpreted it like this knowingly, you would truly be a disbeliever. Deeds depend on intentions, so perhaps that saves you.

Yes.

Whereas the correct one, the correct one is: the people of the disbelievers, while in that state, do not accept Allah's guidance. What is the correct one? The people of the disbelievers, while in that state, do not accept Allah's guidance. Not that Allah does not guide them. May Allah protect us. May Allah protect us. Yes. Now, how nicely we are telling the errors apart here, aren't we? We are learning, that is. How they attribute qualities to Allah; and those who learn it this way, saying "those are the disbelievers," so to speak, people who speak that way, and also speak this way as it suits them, come into being.

This is how religion degenerates. But had it always gone in one and the same direction, had we presented Allah as free from deficiency, explaining it so that the verses do not contradict each other, and had we told people that, with the actual deeds people do, the rewards and sins are Allah Almighty's alone, that He does not interfere in people's degree (?) judgment, perhaps to these people and to the people after us we would have handed Islam over very beautifully. Yes.

O Messenger, convey the Quran that Allah sent down to you, and the truth. Why did he come anyway? To make the Lord known to the world, to people, to show the truth, to save people from the swamps and from oppression, from those dark paths, to rescue them, As a light to the world, as a mercy, came the Prophet (peace be upon him). With Allah's verses he held a light before them, held a proof before them. He guided them. But those who turned their backs on him left themselves in darkness.

As in the verse, you know, let this interpretation wait; now it is the right place, let us explain it, tell you the verse. One of my wrongly interpreted verses.

What does it say? "The state of them, the hypocrites, is like a fire burning in a dark night." Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 17. Yes. Look, what does it say there now?

"The state of them, the hypocrites, is like one who kindles a fire in a dark night. The moment the fire lights up its surroundings, Allah immediately takes away their light." Just look at that. Allah supposedly takes away their light. So what happened? He wanted to give it to Allah. They have done away with Allah's (?) attribute. Yes. He took away their light. So now Allah held a grudge against them? This time it accused Allah of feelings of the nafs. "Allah immediately takes away their light and in darkness leaves them. They no longer see anything." Just look at that. At the verse. They have interpreted the verse like this. But the verse is not like that, mind you.

Look, we write the correct one there. "The state of them, the hypocrites, is like a fire burning in a dark night. When the fire lights up its surroundings" — the Quran — "when the fire, the Quran, lights up its surroundings, those who put out the fire leave themselves in darkness; they no longer see." It is not Allah who puts it out. He does not take away their fire, nor their light. May Allah protect us. May Allah protect us from such an understanding. And then those raised in this understanding stand up against us. And they say: you say this this way, you say it that way. But in the end we will bear it all.

Yes.

So: "O Messenger, convey what has been sent down to you from your Lord. If you do not do this, you will not have fulfilled His messengership." And the Prophet said in his hadith: My Lord educated me, He educated me well, he says.

Allah will protect you from people. Did He not protect him? When they set out to kill (?) his bed, did he not, together with Abu Bakr, go into the cave of Thawr? The enemies followed his tracks, those polytheists followed his tracks, and the spider at the cave of Thawr spinning a web over the mouth of the cave, and the dove laying eggs there, sitting there; and their turning back, saying, "They are not here; had they gone in here, this spider's web would have been broken."

Look at Allah Almighty: even a tiny spider protects him and humiliates them in this situation. A tiny spider. It protects him from them. Just look at the fools. Plus, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq becomes worried about the Prophet. "O Messenger of Allah, if one day (?) should come to you, what shall we do?" he says here. They have come right up to the door; that is, they are (?). "O Abu Bakr, look to your right," he says. He looks, and there is a stream, and a (?); (?) a stream, we will go, he says. Allah, who creates these miracles, will surely protect him. With His verses. Yes. O Messenger, convey the Quran that Allah sent down to you, and the truth.

For you are a messenger sent as a mercy to the worlds. A witness over all the prophets; your ummah, too, over other people, other ummahs, will be a witness. Yes, the worlds were created from your light, and people from your spirit. Therefore, make yourself known to them by Allah's leave, He says. Make yourself known. What does he do? To all heads of state, to sultans, to kings he sends letters. Through envoys: "Ene Muhammed," he says, that is. What Muhammad? The servant of Allah. "Muhammad, as Allah's Messenger on earth, I invite you to the religion of our Lord, to the religion of Islam. If you become Muslim — Muslim, yes — if you become Muslim, your (?), you will receive two rewards.

Two rewards. If, however, you continue to live outside Islam, (?), you will receive (?)," he says. He explains the situation to all of them. As a prophet.

I suppose I remembered. You were making yourself known to them. Yes, the Prophet was sent as a mercy to the worlds. So to all sultans, kings, he would send (?). What would the envoys say? "I am Muhammad, the servant and Messenger of Allah. If you become Muslim — Muslim — you will receive two rewards. Because your subjects will also see you; in this case you will receive two rewards. When your subjects see you, they will become Muslim. But if you remain a non-Muslim, your subjects, wary of you and afraid, will also remain non-Muslim, and you will receive two sins," he says. In this way he would warn them and make himself known.

As Islam, he would make his duty known to the whole world — his duty, that it is everything. In telling people the truth, telling what is right, in telling people that there is no other being besides Allah. Yes, the commissioned servants of Allah Almighty do the same work. According to the verses, according to these verses, they walk the same path. For the scholars are the prophets', the heirs', (?). The scholars. These scholars are not scholars trained by Ahmet or Mehmet. "The saint of my ummah is like the prophets of the Children of Israel," he said. That is, not a prophet. God forbid, verses come to a prophet.

But one who will rise to that degree — Allah Himself, in person, raising the person with verses, showing them the spiritual realms, showing the counterparts of the verses, by inspiration giving knowledge to his heart. Kneading him with knowledge. Yes. The same duty: according to this verse, the heirs too walk the same path.

What do you say? "For you are a messenger sent as a mercy to the worlds. The worlds are from your light.

Yes, and people were created from your spirit. Therefore, make yourself known to them by Allah's leave. Convey Allah's commands so that, according to the verse 'We hold no one responsible for what We have not made known,' people do not blame you: 'O my Allah, had You sent me a messenger, and had I, through that messenger of Yours, known You and Your commands carried out.' Yes, so that they do not blame you. You were sent as a mercy to the worlds, weren't you; so tell, tell," He says. And he would tell, night and day. He approached people from in front, from behind, from their right, from their left.

He conveyed the truth. The truth. Yes. "O my Allah! You should have sent a messenger to make Yourself known to us. Following that messenger we would have found the truth" — so that they do not blame you, saying that. Against people becoming your enemies, holding grudges against you, and seeking to do away with you, Allah will be with you and will protect you from people. Their enmity toward you, other than increasing their wrongdoing against their own selves, will serve no purpose at all. If they set traps for you, they themselves will (?) into the traps they set. For your Lord — your eyes — you are before His eyes, He says.

You are before His eyes. Yes, that is why they prepare a trap for the Prophet, invite him to a meal, a big pit we dropped (?); they will make him fall into the trap. But Allah Almighty, through Gabriel (peace be upon him), informs him of the trap ahead of him, and he turns right back. In this way our Lord protects him with miracles, with miracles. With miracles, yes.

Likewise, on the evening he was to go from Mecca the Honored to Medina the Illuminated, having laid Ali in his bed, when he went out of the house, the people who had come armed to kill him — he sees their (?) around the house. He takes a handful of earth from the ground and throws it toward their faces, scatters it. By Allah's grace and miracles, the armed, enraged polytheists cannot see the Prophet, and the Prophet walks out from among them. He stops at the cave of Thawr; the aim is to mislead the polytheists. That is, the cave of Thawr is on the road to Ta'if. Whereas Medina the Illuminated is at a place exactly 180 degrees opposite to it.

That is why he heads toward the cave of Thawr. He recites a verse from the Quran: "My beloved, what you threw at them, it was not you who threw it. It was not you who drew the veil over their eyes. We threw," He says; "We drew the veil over their eyes," He says. Yes. Our Lord protects.

There is a narration. In the narration it says the following. In the narration, he leaves Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) in his bed, and he himself begins the Hijrah, the Prophet. Allah Almighty shows Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) to the angels: "Do you see My servant? My servant who is ready to give his life for My Prophet, for My Beloved — do you see him?" He says. Yes.

In one narration He commands Gabriel (peace be upon him) and Michael (peace be upon him): "One of you at his head, one at his feet; if they try to do him any harm, protect Ali," He says. Yes. And when the armed men came in and, so as not to kill someone else by mistake, lifted the quilt, they see Ali before them. And they are stunned. Did my Lord protect? He does protect. These are miracles. Miracles. What we have told is also narration. Even though narrations, as you know, people with their own minds (?) narration. It may be true in reality.

By people, according to their own minds, to adorn the religion of Islam, like proverbs, they may also be sayings. Yes, but one of the polytheists, a master tracker, finds the tracks and follows them up to the cave of Thawr. The polytheists say to that tracker, "You are going the wrong way." And he says, "I am following their tracks; I am not leaving these tracks, they are leaving them," he says. They are leaving them. So they follow their tracks. They come up to the cave of Thawr. But Allah, as His Messenger's protector, through a spider weaving a web at the mouth of the cave and a dove coming, laying eggs and sitting in the nest, protects His Prophet.

The polytheists, convinced that the Prophet (peace be upon him) (?) is not there, turn back. Yes.

With many such miracles Allah Almighty has protected the Prophet (peace be upon him). Because after the Prophet (peace be upon him) no other prophet will come, and Allah will complete the religion until the Day of Judgment. And to complete it until the Day of Judgment, He will send the Prophet the Quran, the whole of it, verse by verse. For him to leave the whole of the Quran, which He would send verse by verse, to people as a light, a proof, a mercy — for the Prophet, in his own person, to leave the Quran to people as a mercy, he naturally has to live. So when He says He will protect you, will protect you from people, it means that by his own appointed term he will taste death and leave the world.

Because, since He protects him from people, no human power will succeed in killing him. For example, Ali was martyred, Uthman was martyred, Umar was martyred. Abu Bakr, too, through the snakebite in the cave of Thawr, (?) its bite, was martyred. Yes.

His wound opens up, and it continues again. In the cave of Thawr, while the Prophet was resting, the snake, in order to see the Prophet — who is it? I went in there and put my hand into those openings too. It really exists, I mean, it exists. We saw these with our own eyes. Well, Abu Bakr, so that no harm would touch the Prophet, tears his garment and plugs a hole, tears another piece and plugs another hole, but whatever he plugged, the snake comes out from somewhere again. Unable to cope, he plugs it with his foot — Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. The snake bites his foot, and from the pain, beside the Prophet, his tears drip.

When the Prophet wakes up, he sees tears coming from Abu Bakr's eyes. "O Abu Bakr, what is it, what's wrong?" he says. (?), he calls the snake, (?) speaks — a miracle. The snake says, "I knew you would come to this cave; so many deserts I (?)," it says, "to see you. My intention was not to hurt him," it says. "But wherever I wanted to see you from, he blocked me; in the end I could not bear it and bit his foot," it says. Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him), with his saliva, (?) Abu Bakr as-Siddiq's foot, and Abu Bakr as-Siddiq's foot heals. At the last moment that wound opens, and they (?) that he departed a martyr from it.

And he is a martyr, of course. Yes. Truly, the people of the disbelievers do not accept Allah's guidance. Since the people of the disbelievers are used to living by their nafs, since the base and evil traits of the nafs whip up the pride of the disbelievers' workshop of ego, (?) their nafs against the truth, they cannot come to the straight path that Allah shows. That is why their hearts are always restless and scattered. Yes.