Ash-Shu'ara 167: (They) said, “Oh Lot! If you don’t abandon (your cause) or give up, know that you will certainly be among those who are expelled.”

In Surah Ash-Shu'ara, verse 167, they said as follows: O Lot! If you do not give up this cause, know well that you will be among those expelled. Yes. Now this, what does it resemble? Someone is beating a blind man.

Someone has stepped in and is trying to separate them. Since the blind man cannot see, he wants to shoot the one separating them with a pistol. He has a pistol in his hand. (?) the one beating him is someone else. Allah Almighty, too, has sent His commands. He will beat them. Before beating them, He first sends the messenger. They set about beating the messenger. If you set out to (?), Allah will give you your punishment. Yes.

Anyway, Allah Almighty, about them too, says: Their eyes have a veil, their ears a plug, and their hearts are sealed. They do not see. For them there is a painful punishment, He says.

In the face of Prophet Lot's (peace be upon him) efforts to save his people from Allah's punishment, his people spoke to Prophet Lot (peace be upon him) thus: O Lot, if you do not give up this cause of yours, know well that you will be among those expelled, they said. So a person who, while living in the material world, at Kalu Bela had the covenant he gave to Allah Almighty written for himself as his destiny, who had his wishes and desires there, his aim, programmed into himself, such a person, even if you warn him in this world not once but a thousand times, will not step outside his own program and see the truth.

Because people cannot change their destinies. Allah Almighty says: if We do not will, you cannot will. The meaning of this: with Us there is a book which is preserved in the Preserved Tablet. Nothing is later added to it or taken from it, He says. So if a book with Him is preserved in the Preserved Tablet, and to it nothing will be taken away or added, these worlds have been programmed until Judgment Day. Since no one can step outside that program, He says: only if I will, it happens. That is, I am the one who created this; as the Creator, I can change it. But a word has gone forth from Me too.

What is that word? Paradise and hell. Yes. According to everyone's wishes and desires, their aims became their destiny. No created being can step outside its destiny or break that program.

Even if you warn him in this world not once but a thousand times more, he will not step outside his own program and see the truth. Here again, a question like this may occur to us. First question. Since no person can step outside his destiny and act, and cannot change, why did Allah Almighty not settle our account in the hereafter but sent us to the material world? Indeed. Right? The simplest answer to this: the verses, not simple, rather, with us, I mean. You point to verse 134 of Surah Ta-Ha. What does it say there? They, that is, who are they? (?), the polytheists.

If they had been punished immediately for the rebellion they committed, if He had dragged them to punishment, they would have said this, He says: If You had sent us to an unseen world, You would have sent prophets and books, and we would not have fallen into this (?), they say, He says. So, since Allah Almighty is free of deficient attributes, in His own essence, at the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm, when Allah Almighty created us and said I am your Lord, because He appeared exactly, one to one, in human form, people did not understand that Allah Almighty had created them, and with pride and arrogance they denied Allah who created them.

In this case their denial became their destiny. There they were already divided into three classes. In Surah Al-Waqi'ah, verse seven: ve kuntum ezvâcen selâseh. (?) classes, He says. Fe ashâbu'l-meymeneti mâ ashâbu'l-meymeneh. O you on the right, good tidings to you. Ve ashâbu'l-meş'emeti mâ ashâbu'l-meş'emeh. O you on the left, woe to you. Ve's-sâbikûne's-sâbikûn, ülâike'l-mukarrabûn, fî cennâti'n-naîm, a third group, the (?) (?). We were separated there already. After that our Lord made a covenant with us. Each person's wish, desire and aim was written for him as his destiny, and these worlds were programmed in accordance with people and the creatures He created, and as a result of that program, this program will manifest until Judgment Day.

And no one will be able to step outside this program. That is the first part. Second question: since we will live out our covenant in the material world, and since He has programmed us according to our covenant and no one can step outside this program, or since sinners will not come to the right path, why does He knowingly send them prophets and also have them warned? Right? That is a second question. That too is in Surah Ta-Ha. All of it is in the Surah Ta-Ha I described a moment ago. If these questions are solved, a person will better understand why and for what purpose he came to the material world, and that Allah is free of deficient attributes.

How nice. Right? These need to be solved. The questions get knotted right here anyway.

From the beginning of the Quran to its end, Allah Almighty both tries to prove the existence of His essence to people,

and since the start of the Asr-ı Saadet book, from the first volume to the last volume, we have been trying to convey to you Allah's covenant with people and the existence of His essence and to explain it. In this case the questions we asked above arise, and we have been explaining these questions to you since the beginning of the Asr-ı Saadet tafsir book. What? The covenant. We keep explaining it. While we are at it, gathering these questions here, if the covenant between Allah and man we can grasp even a little, we will have found answers to our questions. If we can understand this address Elestü bi Rabbiküm, we will of course find some answers to our questions.

Allah Almighty willed that His essence be known to people. He willed it with man. For this reason, the Beloved of the Almighty (?), Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), He created and gave him from His spirit. So Allah, who gave the first created one a spirit from His essence (?), created man in the likeness of His essence. In this case, from the spirit of the Prophet (peace be upon him) the spirits of the prophets, and from the spirits of the prophets the spirits of their peoples; Allah, who created them, indirectly created all people from the spirit of the Prophet (peace be upon him). For this reason He kept the Prophet (peace be upon him) over all prophets as a witness. And finally, with the religion of Islam, He sent him to all people and jinn and also to the worlds as a prophet.

So, as a likeness of His essence, the Beloved of the Almighty (?), Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Allah created; and since from the Prophet's (peace be upon him) spirit He indirectly created people's spirits, people too are in the state of being the exact likeness of Allah Almighty.

How do you know? By Allah, I saw it. I saw the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm. I know my covenant too. Yes. I know my covenant too. I also know that the Prophet, beside Allah Almighty, the Prophet, rushing at the people, said: This is our Lord. Yes. Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) is my grandfather. (?) from his loins.

I do not believe in an Allah I have not seen, he said. I do not worship, he said. Yes. I know that world, he says, as if it were today, he says. The very words he said, in me, who comes from his loins, I repeat them in those very same words. Yes. I know. As if it were today. And that this place is a guesthouse, a place for travelers, and that our return is again to there. In fact, we sometimes used to ask those coming here.

Where is (?), I say, I ask him. He has only just come, his hair still (?).

Tired, truly tired.

He rebelled against Allah, he said. Isn't it this one? Right? Can one rebel against Allah? You went (?), what will we do, we used to say. We saw the world as strange, we did not know. (?) that it would be like this. I know that place this clearly. Yes. That is why I write these things this way. Otherwise these are not written (?) off the top of one's head, by knowing Arabic. Anyway, when it is called Sufi, some people link Sufism to nature. When it is called Sufi: the inner, the very essence worlds being observed by the person and his conveying what he saw there, that is Sufism. Yes.

As a likeness of His essence, the Beloved of the Almighty (?), Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Allah created; and since from the Prophet's (peace be upon him) spirit He indirectly created people's spirits, people too are in the state of being the exact likeness of Allah Almighty. The forms found in all people are from the forms of Allah Almighty, and Allah, who does not separate man from His own essence, has scattered His essential attributes among people. We speak of these essential attributes, right, (?), if you pay attention, in the hadiths it says: I swear by that Being, in the hadiths.

Yes. That is, it refers to Allah Almighty there.

But so that people would not give Allah Almighty a shape and practice idolatry, that phrase, free from a particular shape, they made into free from shape. Free from shape. Nothing that is free from shape is either seen or entered into a covenant with. He is free from a particular shape. That is, in more forms than those of all the people who will come from our father Adam until Judgment Day, Allah Almighty, with an infinite form, manifests Himself to people. Yes.

For this reason, at the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm, Allah Almighty, in the form of His essence, in a human form, (?) told people decisively: I am your Lord, He said, and after that the Prophet (peace be upon him), as confirmer, saying to people: Yes, this is our Lord, quite in a state of rushing at them, His Messenger beside Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty, without speaking at all, glides where He is, like this. Back and forth. Not back and forth, left and right. And the Prophet tells people: confirm. This is our Lord. That is, this is the one who created us. Suppose a person said: I am the President, someone who does not know him would say (?).

Hey, why would you be the President? But if there were someone who knows him and says: truly, this is the (?) of such-and-such state, the other one would pause a bit, right? He thinks. Just so, the Prophet is beside Him as confirmer. In this case we too are thinking. Is it really Him? There people (?) all of it. Allah Almighty says in a verse: they will not see their Lord. Who? For the disbelievers, He says. Those unaware of these events will also be gathered blind and sightless, He says. Yet (?), they will not see their Lord. Why? They know they were created. They know they were created by a god.

But Allah, who is before them and truly created them, they deny. They wait for the Lord of their imagination. Why do they deny? Because He is in human form. Now if I said to Duan: Duan, I created you, (?) suddenly, would he believe me? But he knows he was created. Now if I said to you (?): I created you, would you believe me? But all of you know that suddenly you have no before. Suddenly you have a creation. Yes, I was created, but how do I know that you created me? That is when Allah Almighty says: do you not reflect? Do you not think? He does not want His essence to be known right away. He has a witness beside Him. Yes, he says.

This is the one who created us, says the Prophet. There, those who used their reason, since no other creator appeared, what do they say? Yes, I was created and He created me. And what do the others say? I was created, but He is like me too. Why should I regard Him as a god? He imagines the one who created him. He waits for Him. He waits for the one who created him. Those are the ones who will not see their Lord, it says in the verse. There is no god other than Allah for them to see as their creator. In this case, people being divided there into three classes: prophets, (?), saints, martyrs, the whole of the martyrs.

We always speak of this place; however much we explain, question marks light up in people's minds. Because it is a place not seen. An event in which many secrets are lived out together. The covenant, Allah Almighty being seen with His essential attribute, people being divided into parts, their being there in divisions, and the Prophet's (?) to people, his (?) my Lord, many secrets being together, arouses questions in people. Yes. For this reason Allah loves people very much. Also Allah said: I created man in the most beautiful form.

Whereas the most beautiful forms belong to Allah Almighty. In this case Allah did not keep man apart from His own form.

If we have been able to learn this much here, and the root of the matter is here, after this, events manifest. That is, Allah, who created our spirits in the realm of Lahut, gave our spirits life and nafs as well. Spirit, life and nafs are one. This is in the spirit. Bodies are separate. Now our true being, our true spirit, our life and our nafs, together. This. And our mount is this visible outward body. I was clothed in flesh and bone, I appeared as Yunus, he says, right; our mount. In this case.

People in this world, unaware of their spirit, unaware of their being, see themselves. Because they see themselves, they say: after dying, where is death again? Who has gone and come back, they say. Well, instead of saying who has gone and come back, how did I come to be and reach this state; in me there is something people cannot solve or know, a being created by the union of many sciences. Created. It did not come about by itself, did it. That created being, and the Creator addresses the created. He also tells how it was created and where it was created. In this case, if a person does not use his reason, he rebels against Allah.

Now, since spirit, nafs and life are one, when a person dies, there is death upon the body, no death upon the spirit.

In the verse Allah Almighty says every soul will taste death. See, He does not say every soul will die. Every soul will taste death. If we pay attention to the verses.

When my body dies, from the body, as my spirit leaves, if spirit, nafs and life are one, it will taste that death, the body's death. How? Now I have taken this tea of mine.

I am drinking it. My spirit tasted this death. This death: take the tea as death upon the body. What did it do? My spirit tasted death. But the spirit did not die. Spirits are immortal. Paradise and hell are eternal, everlasting. You know, some sophistries say that paradise or hell is not everlasting; in many verses Allah Almighty says hell is everlasting, says it is eternal. Why eternal? Because spirits are immortal. Why is paradise eternal? Because spirits are immortal. Why are spirits eternal? Because Allah Almighty is immortal. He gave a part of His spirit. Yes.

What are we saying? In this case Allah did not keep man apart from His own forms. So if we have been able to learn this much here, and the root of the matter is here, after this, events manifest. That is, Allah, who created our spirits in the realm of Lahut, gave our spirits life and nafs as well. He also gave a mind that knows His essence. That is, this is a mind that knows people were created by someone. This mind is akl-ı maad. We call this mind akl-ı maad. The mind in the spirit. That is, the mind before putting on the body. Because if our spirits were created in the realm of Lahut while not in a body, how would it speak from us?

He programmed us. I have my phone here. I say to the phone: call (?). Calling (?), it says right away. Isn't that so? It says it right away. (?). If one makes this phone, wood, iron speak, Allah Almighty too has loaded a living being with a part of mind from His essence, and will of course make it speak like this as well, within His will. Yes. That is, if a person knows this science, Allah, who possesses the science of creating from nothing, is capable of everything. In ways we cannot know as well, sir, the one who created these worlds and gives them life, who, in the way His creatures can do their duty, works that art into them: Allah.

And He also gave, he says, a mind that knows His essence. What is this? Akl-ı maad. With akl-ı maad a person thinks. Yes, I was created. (?) Its coming into being is there. Its coming into being is there. That is, it is a mind that knows people were created by someone. This mind is called akl-ı maad. In this case our Lord, who brought all spirits to themselves with life at once, to our spirits, addressing them, said: I created you. So the (?) broke out right here.

People resemble the Essence, after all. People look and see that the being before them who says I created you is like themselves. Someone in human shape. For this reason man could not recognize Allah who created him. They waited for an Allah of their imagination. Like this: He would appear from the sky in a terrifying state, shout at people in fury, or in quite different ways say that He is Allah. And people would prostrate before Him. No such one appeared. Indeed Allah Almighty says: if We had wished, exactly, these are what the verses correspond to anyway, We would have made you prostrate, He says.

We would come down from the sky with angels, come down and make you prostrate, He says. How beautifully He says it. Yes.

Most people took Allah lightly and dug in their heels in not believing in Him. In the face of their digging in their heels, Allah, without pressuring any soul and without frightening them, without putting pressure on them, with each soul, with every soul, within their own will, giving them their own aims, made a covenant. And this aim of man was written for him as his destiny. This, we said, was the answer to the first question.

The answer to the second question is that Allah Almighty is free of deficient attributes. Allah has the attribute of being Allah. No one can question Allah Almighty or call Him to account. And the reason for this is not that Allah, by pressuring or frightening people, silences their rightful points by frightening them and lets them ask no questions. Allah is such an Allah that all the questions people would ask Allah Almighty He will have brought forth to Allah Almighty, and people, from the questions they would ask, will have been cut off. Here too, with Allah Almighty creating people close to His essence, so that people would not say: You created me close to Your essence, and for this reason I could not recognize You as my Lord; had You sent me to a world where Your essence is not seen, see how I would have worshipped You, so that they would not say this, Allah Almighty created these worlds.

And this here is Surah Ta-Ha, verse 34. In this world, a person, besides the mind in his spirit, to manage his body and his livelihood, that is, his living, and to know right and wrong, also has a mind called akl-ı maaş, in the body, to provide our living, to do our trade: akl-ı maaş. In our spirit, in whether we know Allah Almighty or not, our zeal toward Allah Almighty, our faith or faithlessness: the state of akl-ı maaş. Akl-ı maaş is providing our living in the body. Sir, knowing our responsibility to fulfill the duties we have taken upon ourselves in this world. (?) the duty of both of them.

Yes.

In this world, besides the mind in his spirit, to manage his body and his livelihood, that is, his living, and to know right and wrong, the so-called akl-ı maaş, (?) He gave a mind. So, however much people in the hereafter denied Allah who created them, they know that they were created by an Allah. For people who come into this world, in this case, with prophets, with books and with scholars, Allah Almighty to these people gives reminders. But since earlier man had his covenant written for himself as one who denies Allah, in the material world every person, even people who say there is no Allah, know in their conscience that there is an Allah who created them.

They know it in their own conscience. However much you deny, however much with (?) he tries to show proofs, that mind knows that it was created. He denies Allah out of that grudge. Like Darwin.

Allah Almighty said yes there. Whereas they denied there. Right? They said: You are not my Lord. There. Well, is Allah Almighty, God forbid, lying here now? They said yes, He says. He created them such that that mind, that akl-ı maad, too knows it was created by a god; so Allah Almighty, since He would know that they too denied Him, without taking their denial into account, what passed through their true hearts, in the state of knowing they were created, they too said yes. That is, we were created. But Allah Almighty, whom he saw as like his own self, like himself, he could not believe in, and he waited for the Lord of his imagination, He says.

That is the meaning of the yes here.

Yes. Otherwise, it is not that he said yes there and did not deny here. He did not deny there and say yes here. These so-called scholars, these (?) of scholars, [say] when he came into the world, here man said yes or said no, or, sir, if he said yes there, here he broke his word. They gave their word and (?) their word; with such words, by pushing Allah Almighty's verses outside their meaning, they turned the translations of the verses into superstition. Yes. Allah Almighty reminds of His essence. But since earlier man had his covenant written for himself as a denier of Allah, in the material world every person, even people who say there is no Allah, know that there is an Allah who created them in their conscience. But out of stubbornness (?), in the way they took Allah lightly there, that is, You too are like me, he says. Out of their pride and arrogance they denied Allah.

Out of their pride and arrogance. What does He say? My beloved, do not mind their calling you a liar. They betrayed Me in their time. They are lying disbelievers, He says. I used to say: is there no one at all among them who tells the truth? By Allah, it turns out there is no one who tells the truth. Because at the root they are liars, by denying Allah. Yes. For this reason, since Allah's word cannot be lacking, He says they are lying disbelievers. Yes. And their first art is lying. Yes.

They mock Allah's prophets. Prophets and books do not benefit these people either. Although Allah tells people in an unseen world to believe in the unseen, man, continuing his earlier life exactly in the material world too, continues his denial. So even in this material world where Allah does not show His essence, although people know Allah, His prophets or His books they oppose. Allah, to prove to people that they are outside His command, sends them to this world. This is the answer to the second question. And readers who want deeper detail can, on the first page of each volume, get in touch via the contact address and get answers to their questions, I have said.

Now, in this case, Allah Almighty said yes, right? Does Allah Almighty prove what that yes stands for to those people in this world or not? How does He prove it?

An idolater denies Allah. Where is Allah's saying yes here? That is, on him. If that idolater did not know he was created, he would not make the idol of his imagination and worship it. That is the meaning of the yes.

You know those in America who kill one another, they worship, some temples; every being, every living thing, if over people we (?) this, they surely worship something. There are those who worship (?), those who worship the cow, those who worship (?), sir, and those who worship the stars. There are all kinds. So even though these, outside the religion of Islam, worship various religions, various beings, they know they were created by a god. Today, in a place where no human has set foot, there are people living. For example, in Africa's untouched forests, formerly, the (?), what do they call them?

Those who eat people. Cannibals. Even they (?). That is, although it was not made known to them by anyone, they know they were created, and they feel the need to worship something. That is the meaning of this yes.

It is this simple. Then, according to the (?) there: so he knew he was created, but there he denied Allah.

And Allah Almighty, regardless of their denying Him, what did He say? They said yes. They knew they were created. The real secret of the yes is right here anyway.

So although Prophet Lot (peace be upon him) warned his people, since his people earlier denied Allah, although they knew that their prophet's words were true and knew Allah's existence, since their own aims, wishes and desires, within their own will, became destiny for people, they cannot step outside of these. They try to live out their wishes and desires at whatever cost. In this case, although Allah shows them the truth, with these people continuing to deny Allah, although Allah introduces Himself to them in this world too, their denial will not render Allah helpless. Allah both gives these people their punishment and, as a remembrance for future generations, makes His existence known to people as a lesson by destroying them.

But most of them do not take the lesson and believe. Yes.