Al-An'am 2: Allah is the One Who has created you from clay and who makes you die at a determined time. And there is another determined time of death (the Day of Judgment) in the sight of Allah. And you are (still) in doubt.

Surah Al-An'am, verse two. Allah Almighty, who created you from clay, who created man from clay. Then the One who makes you die in your time, that is, keeping us alive until a certain time, after we have proven what kind of person we are, when our life is complete, at the end of that life of ours, the One who will make us die is only He, it says. That is, it is Allah Almighty. Now, yes, may Allah be pleased with you too, Nihat. The One who created you from clay, then makes you die in your time, is only He. When it says in your time, what does this time refer to? In your time refers to two meanings: for Allah, when you will die is fixed; it refers to that.

Second, it refers to our dying after we have completed a certain lifetime. In your time: according to what was life given to man? What is life? Why is the life of every person not always the same? Yes, let us touch on this. People, I'll stop here, cannot possibly know this either. They cannot solve these matters with ordinary minds.

This is in the address "Am I not your Lord?" Everything was already settled there. Those who made a covenant with Allah Almighty: according to their desires and wishes, Allah Almighty, in them, characters such that they will live their destiny He places, yes. Our Lord: these people's desires and wishes, which He placed in these characters, according to worldly time, how long it takes this person to bring these characters out. He makes desires and wishes. And I create causes for them so that they live out their deeds; I create them. And by committing these, through the cause, they incur sin. According to the verse, did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are, He makes his reckoning.

This one, He says, so many breaths, so many breaths; it's not time (?), look, it's not time (?). So many breaths: this one does this, does these deeds; this many breaths, He calls this a lifetime for him. He proves himself within that number of breaths.

Yes, in this case that number of breaths has become his lifetime. And this belongs to Allah alone. Making that reckoning too, knowing within how many breaths that person will prove himself, and what kind of characters He will place according to their desires and wishes: this is our Lord's knowing; how great a Creator He is, that He is aware of what He created until the Last Day, and that He says in His verse, there is not a particle of what will come until the Last Day that We are unaware of: this shows us how great our word is. Yes. Now, if they said to you: take this trust, go to this country, deliver the trust there.

I will watch you on camera second by second, he said; if you knew you were being watched in front of that camera, could you go against that command? Impossible. Even if you did, (?), what would you do again? You would feel shame, be embarrassed, and turn back again. So those who, with their faulty and deficient creation, turn back to Allah, who repent and seek forgiveness, Allah Almighty forgives them like that. But as for those who, although they know they are in front of that camera, act shamelessly, as if they would not be called to account, if in front of that camera, towards that person who sent him to that land, he made insults, if he went against him: when he gets there, what will happen? Come here then, let's see, he will say. Can a person who uses his reason so little that he cannot think of this be called a person of reason?

A person who cannot think this far: the disbelievers, the non-Muslims cannot think of this. Even if a Muslim does not think of it, his faith is enough for him. The vein of modesty in him, the vein of shame, Allah's Sharia ruling makes him do exactly what I just said. But if he is a non-Muslim, he is outside that modesty and decency. He acts senselessly, mindlessly, in a way that defies his Lord. And in this case he is caught where he goes. Yes, the One who created you from clay, then makes you die in your time, is only (?). It is only He. And with Him there is an appointed term, the Day of Judgement, it says.

See how beautifully it says it. With Him there is also a term. That is, every soul will taste death. All these people created, our souls waiting in the barzakh, will come into the world. Our last soul too, the souls too come into the world. They too will prove what kind of person they are. At the Last Day, arranged accordingly, those people will not have died and vanished before the Last Day breaks out. A samum wind will blow upon the Muslims. The samum is a wind of death. A hot wind. A sleep will come upon the Muslims and they will die. Among them the rebellious, the polytheists and disbelievers will say, what is happening to this world?

The Last Day will break out upon them. What does Allah Almighty say? And with Him there is an appointed term, the Day of Judgement. Yet you still doubt, it says. You doubt; never. Âmennâ ve saddaknâ.

Just as I see the writing on this computer in front of me and the objects around me, so I know my Lord. I also know that you are listening to me. Although I know it, I am full of doubts. Doubts. That is the difference between a Muslim and a believer. The Muslim is just like the one who listens to himself but does not see. But there is proof: it shows on the computer right now, he says, us. It says 36 people are listening. Here, of course, these are the ones that are on right now. Maybe there are hundreds of people in (?) too.

Of course, since he doesn't know them, doesn't know, are they listening or not? Are they at the computer or not? Like that. But he believes. They are here. That is the light of faith. He believes. He bears witness to Allah's existence.

The believer, the believer: I now see myself on the same screen, broadcasting a second time. I am both broadcasting and seeing myself in the broadcast. At the same time I see my surroundings. The angels and the scholars are made witnesses to Allah's existence: of the verse that says this, this is the secret. They know. As truth. They know Allah. If he did not know Him like this, these verses would not be explained with this love and affection. If he did not know his Lord so truly. Yes. So with Him there is such a term, a fixed term, the Last Day. You still doubt, it says. When is this doubt broken?

It is broken when one becomes a believer. The Muslim will pass beyond the commanding self. He will pass beyond the reproaching self, pass beyond the inspired self, the third state of the self, and rise to the self at peace, he will attain the manifestations. After that, he will enter among the people to whom He says: O soul at peace, enter among My servants, pleased with your Lord and He pleased with you, enter My Paradise. To find this, together with the Islamic Sharia rulings, we will listen wholeheartedly to the hadith of the Prophet.

If the acts of worship you perform do not keep you from evil, they are a burden to you, he says. So, to be able to destroy these evils in his nafs, a person will struggle with his nafs. Neither to Satan's temptation nor to people who oppress him, for Allah's sake, will he make any concession. He will work both for this world and for the hereafter, he will use his will. He will learn to stand on his own feet by his own will, he will know it. He will not lose heart over anything. The thing called fear will be erased from him. If there is fear, he will fear his Lord. That is what Allah Almighty says in the verse.

If there is anyone to be feared, it is Me. If there is anyone to be loved most, it is also Me, He says.

If you erase all fears other than Allah from your heart, if you open your heart with all its strength to your Lord, if you do what our Lord says to do, refrain from what He says not to do, and keep away from what is not to be done,

Allah Almighty, with His attribute of justice, His attribute of being just, raises you degree by degree. O My servant! You struggle with your nafs and, by your own will, on My path, to see Me, with love and affection, you make your way towards Me, and would I leave you alone? He says. Most people are unaware of these manifestations. And they look at people with other eyes, they label them. And those who look with other eyes and label them, half-baked, are like birds flying with one wing. Yes. Probably not.

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The One who created you from clay, then makes you die in your time, is only He. And Him, with Him there is an appointed term, the Day of Judgement. You still doubt, it says. We explained these to you nicely. And we opened it up a little, I think. In this case we also gave you the example. We also explained how people will find the truth. After that, we now continue our lesson. Allah Almighty saying I created you from clay: that man is in helplessness, and that only through the value his Creator gives him will man have dignity and honour, is understood even better from this verse.

We sent you your honour, and you turn your backs on your honour. By saying this it tells us clearly that only if man is governed by Allah's verses will life be found through them. So when Allah Almighty says, I created you from clay, I created you from mud, it means: O man, with this outward body you see, with this skeleton you see wrapped in flesh (?), with what reason do you oppose Me, and with what reason are you ungrateful for the provision I have given? Do you have some power in your house? Or do you own a single particle of the world? If that were so, you would not have been given anything of your world.

So do you not fear your Lord, who created you and gives you your provision? Will you never hold back from Him? Yes, from your Lord, who will make you die and return you to His essence, will you never refrain? How beautifully with His verses. It is Allah who makes you die and then will call you, before whom you will appear. Yes. And He will bring about the Last Day. Then at that Great Tribunal you will be called to account, it says. To account. In this case, We created you very honourable. In return for that honourable creation of yours, We made you addressees of Our word. Of Our word. So We sent you Our verses.

That is, We sent the Holy Quran, a mercy to the worlds. And the one I created from the light of the worlds, and people from his soul, the Beloved of the Almighty, the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him), I sent as a mercy to the worlds. O man! Reflect a little. Think a little. A little. What will your end be? What will your end be? Your end. Think about this. When you do a job, you think about the end of everything. If I do this, if I do this like that, this will happen. If I do that like this, that will happen. When you set out to do something, you say, if my money is enough I'll do this; if my money isn't enough, let me wait a bit longer.

Well, why do you not think about the end of your life, its close, the close of your life? In this world you use your reason at the end of all your affairs. But you cannot grasp the place where true reason is to be used and use it there. You become a porter of this world. It loads the world. You make your hereafter (?). Yes. So when He says, We sent you your honour, and you turn your backs on your honour: if we are governed by the verses of Allah Almighty, we are honoured with that honour our Lord sent. As I explained a moment ago, if we are governed by the verses, we become viziers. Viziers, we become sultans.

If we turn our backs on the verses, we are disgraced.

It is only He who makes you die in your time. He says. What is time? When your death comes, you will stay neither an hour ahead nor an hour behind, it says. So when your time comes: when He says it is only He who makes you die in your time, every person at Qalu Bala, in the address "Am I not your Lord?", when Allah Almighty called out, I am your Lord, made a covenant with people while they were there as souls. There, in Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172, Allah Almighty, who made a covenant with each soul, showed the souls the world and left it to their own will when they wanted to come and go. According to people's desires and wishes, the events lived out era by era in the world He showed like a television screen.

People chose their times according to their own desires and wishes. Allah Almighty, who showed people the time until the Last Day like a cinema, had every person choose, within his own characters, the time he liked, and the time of the people who would come and go within that time, he himself determined. He himself determined his time too. He himself determined his lifetime too. Man. Let me come here, let me go there. With these feelings. Allah Almighty knows those feelings. He gives characters according to those feelings. With those characters, within how many breaths this person will prove himself: the knowledge of this belongs to Allah alone.

He gives it to that person as a time, as a lifetime. Allah Almighty, determining people's lifetimes within their destinies, sends the soul whose time has come to the world of dominion. At the close of the life of the person who has completed his time,

again in his time, Allah Almighty makes them die. Neither a time, an hour ahead nor an hour behind, it says. Why does it say so? Suppose: we said the door of repentance, within people's lifetime, within their destiny, closes when the soul reaches the throat, and the worlds of truth are seen. Now, suppose this person's life had come to an end; let's say this person was bad, a very bad person.

Suppose his time had passed but his soul had not left; at that moment too, unwillingly, without being able to help it, or in a way he would later turn back from, he consented to a state that does not suit his character, which is fickle, though. This time He also knows he will turn back. Because it doesn't suit his characters. If He made him die, he would have departed in a way outside his character.

Or a person with faith did not die in the last moment either. Allah Almighty did not take his soul within his lifetime. He came to disbelief, but it doesn't suit his character. Well, he too would have departed as (?) disbelief. That is why Allah Almighty takes them exactly in their time. They prove themselves completely. This is what you are, He says. There is no more turning back for him. A time fully in keeping with their characters, and within that time, the command of the Truth.

Yes.

It is only Allah who will do this. If people had not chosen these times by their own will, Allah Almighty would be given attributes. He would be given attributes. We chose the times ourselves. That is, according to our will, according to our desire and wish, our Lord knows how many breaths, within this time, before we pass away; that He knows, Allah Almighty. And since those are our characters, and since we ourselves know within how much time we can prove ourselves, we ourselves have chosen our time. Because Allah is free from deficient attributes. If people had not chosen these times themselves, I personally would say: O my Allah, if only You had sent me in the time of the Prophet, and I had been a Companion too. Oh, and these times, for example the time of the Messenger, the time after it, let's say the time of some imams; if Allah Almighty had said, no, you will go in this time, you will go in this time, then I too would say: if only You had sent me in the time of the Prophet and I had come at that time.

I would have been a saint. I would have been a Companion. I will not be able to say it. And I am speaking personally. I am also speaking on your behalf. How do I speak? I have my name. How do I speak? Now I will prove it. I am also speaking on your behalf. If I say I will not be able to say it on my own behalf, you too, by all means, you will not be able to say it easily. Because when He showed that time, hunger, blood, (?), I shy away from that time.

But those who have not seen it, I mean those who come in this time, or come in other times, (?), those who did not come in the time of (?): Wouldn't a person want to come in that time? He says. But when he sees those feelings, that state there, those feelings, as we said, if his own desire and wish has become his destiny, that person, if he says, wouldn't a person want to come in the time of the noble Companions, he would be lying.

Because he wanted this time. It pleased his nafs. It pleased his nafs. I too wanted this time. I even know that I made a covenant with my Lord. If I did not know these things, I could not go into and open up these matters like this. That is why I say, may Allah let you come across someone on earth who opens these matters up. May Allah grant it.

He says to me, come, go in this time. I don't know what time it is, but when the field is being ploughed in pairs, there is no one. Come and go like a common person, He said here. And I say, my Lord, let my degree be high, and let me come in this time. Why is the degree of this time high? Ah, let me tell you that too. Nakedness, every kind of filth, ailment, every kind of (?). The one who can protect himself amid these, who amid these is governed by Allah's command, who withdraws into seclusion, who struggles with his nafs, who does not go outside Allah's commands, who makes no concession on His verses: of course there will be a difference between the person of that time and the people of this time.

So I said, let me come in this time. But, He said, you will slip.

Look at our Lord's mercy. But you will slip. I am telling it exactly as I said it to my Lord. My Lord, if I am going to slip, protect me by Your mercy. And take my soul before I slip, I said. There is the covenant for you.

That is the covenant-making. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Ve iz ehaze rabbüke min benî âdeme min zuhûrihim zürriyyetehüm ve eşhedehüm alâ enfüsihim e lestü bi rabbiküm. Or, as they say, in the mother's womb? Or on reaching maturity? Or in the hereafter? It is not clear. You cannot know, of course. Yes. So our Lord is free from deficient attributes. According to everyone's desires and wishes, according to the times, He programmed people. According to their desires and wishes, according to their aims, He placed characters. He sent them at a time they would like. Yes.

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Allah Almighty is free from all deficient attributes. No one will be able to say, if only You had sent me at such a time, if only I had come at such a time, if only this had been, if only that had been; there is no such thing. So if I speak on my own behalf, since I have seen these things, I also say it to you in the same way, on your behalf. Everyone chose this time according to his own desire and wish, or the future times, or the past times; they chose them themselves. So let no one say, how silly. Wouldn't a person come in the time of the Companions? Let him not say it. If he does, he deceives his own nafs.

He may say it because he does not know. Yes. His words themselves prove that he came in this time. If Allah Almighty is free from deficient attributes. Yes.

O my Allah! If only You had given me a little more life, I would have worshipped You a little more; or, on seeing the torment in the hereafter: in the world I had grown old, I had gained experience, I was about to begin worshipping You, and You took my soul, I would say. I would say, I mean. Or if He had lengthened or shortened my life: if only You had given me a little more life, what would it have mattered, I would have known You, something like that. Yes. No created being, and among these created beings no human, will be able to question or call Allah to account like this. Man, who was given his whole will and who chose his own way by that will, his desire and wish, to Allah Almighty, as his destiny, he had it written. All the responsibility on man's neck has been laid.

What people earn is the return of their own two hands.

For this reason, since Allah Almighty is the Owner of justice, every person's coming to the world of dominion at his request, in his time, and again in his time completing his life and dying, neither a breath ahead nor a breath behind: anything else is not possible. This might and power is only from Allah. No one but Allah can (?) the essence of these events. That is, their core. And with Allah there is an appointed term, there is a time of the term, and this term is, after the death of all people, the perishing of the living and non-living universe, the breaking out of the Last Day, and the created things being tossed like carded cotton and the order of the universe being torn apart.

When the mountains, like clouds, pass by,

when the earth throws out what is inside it,

when the seas swell,

when the sky (?) like molten metal,

then the Last Day has broken out. Its term too has ended. Its term has been completed. Everything is within a program. Then the heavens become another heaven. The earths another heaven. Being so, eternal, it says. (?) That is, Allah Almighty is Huwa'l-awwalu wa'l-akhiru wa'z-zahiru wa'l-batin. Allah Almighty, who is the First, after all beings (?), since with His essence again they vanish, He will remain.

After destroying these worlds, after destroying the outward worlds, He will set up the inner world, the world of the hereafter. The heavens another heaven, the earths another earth. It is speaking of the world of the hereafter. Eternal. As long as it lasts, it says. Eternal. No more (?), no Last Day. Paradise and Hell are everlasting, and there was no Last Day again. That day of reckoning: once that earth and those heavens are set up, at the Great Tribunal the day of reckoning, the day of questioning, will be set up. The Great Tribunal will be set up. Every person, every soul will be called to account.

Every person, every soul.

And with Allah there was an appointed term, and this term is, after the death of all people, the perishing of the living and non-living, the breaking out of the Last Day, and the order of the universe being torn apart, the created things tossed like carded cotton. After Allah Almighty makes all these beings die, according to His verse that says the dominion of the heavens and the earth and (?) of these two belongs to Allah, what He created will again remain with Him. The dominion belongs to Him. Because He has stamped His symbol on everything He created. The heavens and the earth and what is between them know the remembrance of their Lord.

La ilahe illallah. There is no god but Him. So the dominion belongs to its Creator. Hodja, we received the ownership of the building (?), didn't we? No. In trust: when you do a transaction, take (?) as witness, it says. And let a scribe write it down between you. Yes. That scribe, the laws of the government, the laws of the state, are the witness in that document. In your property, in your Lord's property, it is a trust given to you. They are trusts you received for working, in return for what is your due. Or do you own a single particle of your world? If that were so, it says, you would not have been given anything of your world.

So all of Allah's creations, all within our Lord's existence, all living and non-living, what He created within His power, and finally what He created will, within His dominion, come to an end. Again, these created things will remain with Allah. They will remain with Allah. Because He created them.

the order of the universe being torn apart, we say. After Allah makes all these beings die, the dominion of the heavens and the earth and (?) of these two belongs to Allah. According to the verse in which He says this, what He created will again remain with Him. There is no being that owns a particle of the things Allah created. If a person owned that particle, he would have to move to the hereafter with the particle he owns; yet it is plain that no person can take even a particle to the hereafter.

Some of our elders say, as a proverb: born naked, gone naked. That is, he was born bare, he left bare, it says.

He left the trust too. What was the trust? The body. He left that too.

That body, on the Day of Judgement, Allah Almighty will raise. When you come into My presence (?), He will make that body a witness against our soul.

We return you to the shape of your first creation, He says. Spirit, self and soul are one. Every soul will taste death and return to the shape of its first creation.

So existence and the dominion of this existence belong to Allah. And the right of disposal over this dominion is from Allah Almighty.

He disposes of it as He wishes. Since He sent people to the world, since He also made people the vicegerents on earth, because of the part He gave them, that is, because of His spirit, He made people the vicegerents on earth and also placed the disposal of His creatures in the world at people's command.

Yes.

Even so, you still doubt, He says. That is, after so many proofs, after so many truths, although our Lord proves to you Our existence in a way no reason can prove the opposite, you are still in doubt. In doubt.

If a person is weak in faith or by nature a denier: the one weak in faith doubts; the one whose nature is denying continues his enmity towards Allah. Yes. So by nature, that is, in that (?) of "Am I not your Lord?", if he gave his covenant to Allah Almighty with a rebellious spirit, he will continue that rebellion. And a Muslim whose faith is weak will also doubt within Islam out of weakness of faith, but he will not leave Islam. His doubting, the doubting of that Islam, of that Muslim, comes from weakness of faith. It is normal. Because it is a world he has not seen. He could not see it, weakness of faith, in this world.

He has listened wholeheartedly to this verse of our Lord. He is a person of faith. Believe in the unseen, it says. Yes. According to this verse, he is a Muslim through that faith in the unseen. But if you ask them, my faith is very strong. It is not. If faith were very strong, he would attain the manifestations. He would attain the rank of believer. Yes.

Even if, using their reason, they had become aware of Allah's oneness, from chasing after the desires and wishes of their nafs they cannot turn back to Allah Almighty. Although faith proves through man's reason that this universe has an Owner, since he cannot reform his nafs, that person passes on to the hereafter in weakness of faith. In the deeds he has done, without any injustice whatsoever, his good deeds and sins are weighed. If his good deeds are more, he still goes to Paradise. If his sins are more, in Hell until his faith is perfected, that is, until his nafs is perfected, he will be made to believe. He has faith.

Until his nafs is perfected, he suffers his torment, his punishment, as much as our Lord has decreed, he suffers it. Then he still goes to Paradise. But if by nature he is rebellious against Allah, since he will never know his Lord again, he remains in Hell forever.