Yunus 3: Verily, your Lord is Allah, who has created the heavens and the earth in six days and who has then enthroned Allah’s Self above the Throne, governing things in their proper place. No one can intercede without Allah’s permission. This is your Lord, Allah; so, worship Allah. Do you not contemplate?

A. Metin Saruhan · 30 December 2017 · Yunus

Translation

Verily, your Lord is Allah, who has created the heavens and the earth in six days and who has then enthroned Allah’s Self above the Throne, governing things in their proper place. No one can intercede without Allah’s permission. This is your Lord, Allah; so, worship Allah. Do you not contemplate?

Tafsir

Allah (swt) encourages people to think and contemplate with this verse. It declares that the heavens and the earth and all that is between them have been created with knowledge, and that there is an absolute owner of these creations, and that this owner is Allah.

He declares that the heavens and the earth and all that is between them were created in six days, that the earth was created in two days, the heavens in two days and all that is between them in two days, and that all this creation was created in six days, and that these creations were created within the framework of a solid and firm knowledge, and that this created order will not be disturbed until the Day of Resurrection, and then He surrounds these created beings with the Throne and declares that He abides from the Throne.

Allah, the Exalted, created everything in its entirety and in its proper place, and Allah, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted, the Exalted. In order to declare that He does not need His creations, He has also descended from the Throne, that is, He has ascended from it and established His sovereignty in a place that is unique to Him, where there is no time and space. By sending this verse, Allah answers the questions that people will ask about His Essence. First, is Allah among His creations? Secondly, does Allah also subsist on food and drink, and thirdly, is Allah in need of His creatures? He created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in order to prevent such questions and to make it clear that He does not need anything. Then He programmed them by managing things in their proper place, that is, by creating all the creatures within a knowledge, and then He showed to every intelligent person with His attribute of Hay that Allah is exempt from time and space, that He is not in need of His creatures, and that all creatures are in need of Allah, by ascending from the Throne, by ascending and exalting from it.

No one can intercede for you except by His permission. He is your Lord.) After describing Allah (swt) in this way, Allah (swt) informs us that all creatures will be held to account and that no one can intercede for anyone in His sight except by His permission. All souls will surely be held to account. Allah (swt) declares that He will give the right of intercession to those whom He loves, and those who will intercede will intercede for their relatives who are guilty, and Allah (swt) will forgive those who are guilty with the mercy of Allah (swt) for the sake of those whom Allah (swt) loves. It is Allah, your Lord, the Lord of all creation, the absolute arbiter on the Day of Reckoning.

(Then worship him, do you not think?As we have mentioned above, Allah, who appeals to the minds of people, shows the creation of the heavens and the earth to people with examples, emphasizing that they are in a state of order and regularity, that there is surely someone who created them, that there is such a creator, that there is such a creator, that these worlds were not created in vain, and that He, Allah, your Lord, is the one to be worshipped, after proving His existence with various examples to every intellect by encouraging the human mind to contemplate and think.

What is said in the video

If you have questions, you can ask your questions. Surely your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then, governing affairs in their proper place, rose above the Throne; that is Allah. And for this it used to say: who occupied the Throne. We struggled for years, for years. Is Allah waging war on what He created, sir, can He not rule over what He created, that He (?) so we struggled for years; in the end they wrote the correct one. If you look at the old Qurans, at the old writings, it appears there as istila. In all of them. In all of them. Yes.

No one can be an intercessor without His permission. No one can be an intercessor without His permission. To the half-witted I now call out here; I call out to those who say there is no station of intercession, I tell those who say: where in the Quran is there intercession? If you had truly known Allah's verses, you would not, envying Allah's righteous servants like this, utter words that contradict Allah's verses.

Allah Almighty will give His saintly servants, His righteous servants, the right of intercession for seven up to seventy people.

We will give it to them, He says, and they will rejoice. They will rejoice. Yes.

In this case He will of course give that station of intercession. They will rejoice. In this case, the verse where He says no stain will touch their faces; those who cannot grasp its meaning. Here, directly, directly, look what it says?

No one can be an intercessor without His permission.

On that day judgement belongs to Allah alone, says Allah Almighty; judgement on that day. On that day it is His alone. People who render this merely as judgement belongs to Allah, and take free will away from people and make Allah exercise free will over people; such people. So he said. Judgement, supposedly, is Allah's alone. Whereas on that day judgement is Allah's alone. What day is that day? The Last Hour will strike. In the realm of the hereafter, the Supreme Court will be set up. Since Allah Almighty has (?), on that day judgement belongs to Allah alone. No one will be able to speak in His presence.

Only, without His permission, He says. No one can speak. Except the people to whom He gave the station of intercession. Plus the intercessions the prophets will make for their ummahs, excepted. Plus the Prophet (peace be upon him) being witness over all the prophets and (?), excepted. He will speak, look. He will speak.

Yes.

There is faith, but no knowledge.

But faith without knowledge is a dry tree. Or a tree without fruit.

If everyone who comes along tries to open the Quran's verses, in this way superstitions arise, and these superstitions brought people to this state. Now when you stand up against these superstitions, it contradicts people's knowledge. Because it contradicts those superstitions, those who cannot use their minds try to oppose it. Those who cannot use their minds. And in the Noble Quran Allah Almighty says: will you not use your minds? (?), He says. And those who use their minds pass by in silence. Alhamdulillah. Thanks be to Allah. I suppose those who listen to us, from listening and listening, have stopped asking questions too.

Questions. And they no longer stand up against us.

Yes. Except some people who don't know their place. Except those newly wanting to get to know us, the newcomers.

With this verse Allah Almighty, leading people to thought and reflection, that the heavens and the earth and all between them were created with knowledge, and that these creations have an absolute Owner, and that their Owner is Allah, makes known.

That all created earths and heavens and what is between them were created in six days, creating the earths in two days, the heavens in two days and what is between them in two days, that all this created perfection was created in exactly six days, and that these creations were created sound and firm within a framework of knowledge, and that this created order will not be broken, and then that He enclosed these beings He created with the Throne and rose above the Throne: what does declaring this mean?

Let us put a point here. One, in this sentence, the matter of six days; Allah Almighty, day, that is, in the sense of be; those who cannot even grasp that and say: when He said be, it is; those who think they are (?) right, if they were (?) right, Allah Almighty would not have said: the earth in two days, the earths, the heavens in two days, and what is between them in two days I created. Not being a worldly day, before worldly days even came in turn, (?), within the days of the hereafter, if a thousand years here are like one day of the hereafter, He created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six thousand days, by worldly reckoning. In six thousand days.

In that case. Six thousand years, Hodja. Six thousand years. Six thousand years. Did you say six thousand days? Yes. Six thousand years. Yes. A thousand years here. If it is one day of the hereafter, six days make six thousand years. Of course. Two days. Two thousand years. In two days, what is between them: four thousand years. In two days the heavens. Six thousand years. Since Allah Almighty created these worlds in six thousand years, it is not that kun, that is, He said be, and it came to be. So am I attributing qualities to Allah? Am I attributing qualities? God forbid. Now, isn't Allah Almighty knowledge and power?

Isn't He All-Knowing? Isn't He All-Powerful? Isn't He the Creator? Then when He wills a thing, wills. We only say to it: be, He says. That is, I create what I will, says Allah Almighty. A person who cannot even understand this says He said be and it was. Whereas His saying be is Allah Almighty's willing of a thing. What does He say? If I will a thing, I create it, He says. I create it. So Allah Almighty, who is All-Knowing, All-Powerful, capable of everything, who creates nothing outside His decree, created these worlds in six thousand years. Yes, the second: here we say that this created perfection was created in exactly six days, and that these creations, sound and firm, within a framework of knowledge, this created order will not be broken; in this verse you might ask me this: the Last Hour will strike, after all, Hodja, this order will be broken, after all; now haven't you here put this at odds with the verse?

you'd ask me this. Allah Almighty says in His verse: We create what We create firm, He says; firm, this is that verse. You will break this world with your own hands, He says, with your own hands; so, to remove those filthy smells, making perfumes, tearing the ozone layers, the sun's ultraviolet (?) at the North Pole (?).

Who supposedly makes it strike? The Last Hour is in our own hands. Yes. Now, (?), they are trying to cover the ice with covers so that they'll delay its melting; supposedly they won't die. They don't realise they'll make it (?) even more. Because what will the layer getting wet underneath do? There is a cover on top. Where does icing come from, icing?

The excess of (?). (?) is the cold layer.

As one goes up toward the sky, from the earth, up, as one goes higher, the air up there being less dense, cold layers: minus fifty, minus sixty, minus eighty. That's how we fly in the plane. We fly at minus sixty too. The (?) coming out the back freezing, the exhaust's (?) freezing. Well, when that cold layer strikes the earth, it turns the earth into an icebox. If you put a cover over it, this, even faster, to the earth (?). The sun's rays (?); when those atomic rays strike the earth, an explosion occurs. Where those atomic explosions strike, heat occurs. The earth warms up this way. In the plains, because there is a lot of flat land, it warms up more.

As one climbs toward mountain tops, since fewer atomic rays strike there, it is colder.

Yes. Well, if you cover these glaciers, what will happen? On their own reckoning, they will make the world even faster, well, they will cause the Last Hour to strike.

They may not cause the Last Hour to strike, but they will leave the world under water. Anyway, since many towns will be under water, they are already looking for countries for themselves. Countries. Yes.

Allah Almighty's intent in saying He also rose above the Throne: Allah, who is free from deficient attributes, creating everything complete and in its proper place, to make known that He has no need of His creations, rose above the Throne too, that is, rose even above it, and in a place with no time and space, proper to His Essence, He established His sovereignty. Oh sir, how would sovereignty be established? What would His sovereignty be? Does Allah have a sovereignty?

Of course He has sovereignty. If there were no such sovereignty: with Us there is a Book, preserved in the Lawh al-Mahfuz. So there is a sovereignty there. Is that so? If He had no sovereignty: He has a House; on earth He has Bayt al-Mamur. Doesn't He? In the sky. With Allah Almighty, in Paradise. How do you know? Adam says, you know: my Allah, he says, when I was in Paradise, (?), the light I circled around, he says, that House of Yours, he says. If You would send it here too, I would circle around it, he says, that pillar of light. He sends that pillar of light, and the first, oldest house, He says; in His verse Allah Almighty too says the House for Allah.

Yes. And here Allah Almighty uses the attribute al-Hayy. Hayy in the sense of living and giving life to the worlds, but Himself having no need of anything.

Yes. Sovereignty proper to His Essence. That's it. His own Essence is a sovereignty anyway. If He is the Owner of the worlds, the owner of sovereignty is a sovereignty anyway. Sultan. Yes. That His Essence needs nothing, that Allah, free from time and space and from deficient attributes, created everything complete and in its proper place. We read this part. The first: is Allah perhaps among His creations? it says, but we haven't completed this part yet. Let's complete this thing.

He rose above the Throne too. That is, He rose even above it. In a place with no time and space, proper to His Essence, He established His sovereignty. By sending this verse, Allah Almighty, the questions people would ask about His Essence, has answered. To this. One. The first: is Allah perhaps among His creations? If it were me, it would come to my mind. If He had not said He rose above the Throne too, is Allah perhaps also in a place with time and space? One would look for it, I mean, one would look. So since He rose above the Throne too, He is in a place without time and space. So Allah is present and watching everywhere.

Here He cuts off the questions that would come to people's minds.

The second: is Allah also dependent on eating and drinking? So it's written. If He remained within time and space, would He be dependent on eating and drinking? The third: does Allah have need of His creations? To prevent questions like these that would come to mind, and to make known that His Essence has no need of anything, He created the earths and the heavens and what is between them. Then, governing affairs in their proper place, that is, the One who creates all things within knowledge and programs them, then rises above the Throne, and by being exalted there and lofty, that Allah is free from time and space, that He has no need of His creations, that all created things are in need of Allah, He shows, with the attribute al-Hayy, to every possessor of a mind.

To every possessor of a mind.

No one can be an intercessor with Him without His permission. That is your Lord. So Allah Almighty describes His Essence like this, then that all created things will be called to account and that with Him, unless Allah permits, no one can intercede for anyone, He makes known. That all souls will surely be called to account, that Allah will give those He loves the right of intercession so that they intercede, and that, of these people, those who are Muslim and pass to the hereafter as sinners, Allah Almighty will forgive for their sake, He makes known. The Owner of all created things, the One with absolute (?), that is your Lord, Allah. Yes.

So serve Him; do you still not reflect? That is what He says, according to the verse. As we mentioned above, Allah, who addresses people's minds, the creation of the earths and the heavens, showing people examples, that these move along in order and harmony, that surely their Creator is One, leading the human mind to reflection and thought, and after proving His existence to every possessor of a mind with all sorts of examples, being such a Creator, and stressing to people that these worlds were not created in vain, that servitude be rendered to Him who is your Lord, Allah, He commands. Allah Almighty. May He grant all of us to be servants of our Lord, to be the ummah of Muhammad (peace be upon him).

May He grant us, on the sirat al-mustaqim, not to leave Allah's path until the last breath; may He grant it. Giving a fine comprehension, able to sift Allah's verses with the Prophet's hadiths, and to go before our Lord with fine knowledge, a fine understanding may He bestow. Lillahi Teala.