Ash-Shu'ara 190: Verily, there is a great lesson in this, but most don’t believe.

We have come to verse 190 of Surah Ash-Shu'ara. Surely in this there is a great lesson, but most of them do not believe.

Whatever is in a person's nature, he will live that. For example, the apple tree, (?) the apple's nature exists. Wherever you plant it, (?) it will be an apple, it will give apples. The pear too, the orange too. And if a person has once rebelled against Allah, that is in his nature too; it does not change. Just like the plants before our eyes, their own seeds, (?), that is, what is written inside them. For us too, what is written is our own destiny; no difference. Whatever it is, we will bring that out. That seed, whatever it is, says "I am an apple" when it bears fruit, the other says "I am a pear", the other "I am an orange"; and a person too says with the deeds he does: "I am a non-Muslim, I am a Muslim, I am a believer, I am a liar, I am a swindler"; he tells what he does like this.

Yes, he brings his nature out into the open.

So everything before our eyes is an experiment. For the one who sees. As Allah Almighty says, hundreds of miracles before your eyes, (?), you do not see, He says, of course. Look, their counterparts are before our eyes. If we compare our own nature with those fruit trees and their seeds, we bring out what we are.

Surely in this there is a great lesson, but most of them do not believe. In all the verses of Allah Almighty, for those who use their reason and want to take a lesson, there are great lessons. Because with every verse Allah both tells people that His existence is the truth, that His being is eternal without beginning or end, and also shows people a way. The Holy Quran: 114 surahs, 6236 verses, 30 juz and six hundred-odd pages; in Allah's verses, Allah always speaks of Himself and also shows people a way. Moreover, within the verses, whose secret belongs to Allah alone, creation formulas that people cannot possibly find exist.

How do you know, Hodja? I know from the verse. Which verse? Whatever is wet and dry is in the Quran, it says. So there is a book with Us that is preserved in the Preserved Tablet. Nothing is added to it or taken away afterwards, it says. What do we do with the things we must not forget? We take notes. Although Allah is free of deficient attributes, still He put all His knowledge, completely, into the book He would send to people. All of it. In this case He limited people's minds. How much? To twelve percent. Four percent, it says, is used by shepherds in the mountains. Eight percent is used by those doing science.

And twelve percent is used by inventors, it says. After that it would go to creation, but that is closed. For this reason, since the mind was created deficient, the eighteen percents, the twenty- four percents, that is a tale. If there were that much mind, you would pierce through everything with that mind. But at twelve percent, with the inventor, the mind closes off. In this case, since Allah Almighty created the mind deficient, man makes mistakes in this way. And He wants him to make that mistake himself. That is, not knowingly, though. Unknowingly too. Knowingly too. Then he will know his helplessness.

He will know that there is no door to take refuge in other than Allah. That person will repent. When he repents, he will fit Allah Almighty's purpose in creating. No. Is creating him faulty His purpose? No. Why does He make him commit mistakes? Since there is no god other than Allah, so that man, making mistakes, does not remedy his mistake elsewhere but takes refuge only in Allah, so that he apologizes to Allah and asks for pardon and forgiveness, He has cast deficiencies like this.

Other than Allah, (?). When deficiencies are cast on us, when we sin, we take refuge in our Lord. Yes. We said the Holy Quran has 114 surahs. Consisting of six thousand two hundred thirty-six verses, thirty juz and six hundred-odd pages, in Allah's verses, Allah always speaks of Himself. And He also shows people a way. In every word. Do this like this, He says. Since He says "do", who is saying this? Allah says it. Well, He says this: You did this and that like this, He says. Who says it? Who did it? Allah did. In every verse He shows man both His essence and a way. In every verse, this. Now, if a man, if mankind and jinn gathered, they could not bring the like of a single surah.

Perhaps they could say the like of a few verses, but not the like of a surah.

Moreover, within the verses, whose secret belongs to Allah alone and which people cannot possibly find, there are creation formulas. For this reason the Quran is a remembrance and a miracle, its verses completing each other, no verse denying any other, supporting each other, far from human word. Yes. There is a point here that people do not understand. For example, even if we know Arabic and read the Quran knowingly, going through the words there, reading and understanding them, when we read it a second time we say: oh, I didn't read this part, did I skip it? You memorize it twenty times, thirty, fifty, seventy, a hundred times.

Even in your memorization you say: oh, so this meaning is like this, I had no idea about it, I read this part and passed over it. Because every verse speaks meaning upon meaning. And since you cannot grasp the meaning of every verse, each time you read, if you took the fifth meaning of this verse, at the next reading you will perhaps take its tenth meaning. At the next reading you will take the third meaning of another verse. Or you will take the fifth meaning of another verse. Since it rises meaning by meaning with each reading, if you can take it, that is. You will say: oh, I hadn't grasped this, look, so this is how it is.

And how beautiful the word of Allah Almighty is, how beautifully it shows people the way, and that it saves people from distress, and the surroundings, that is, the world, to you like a radar, as bright as the sunlight, clear and more beautiful, the whole world as if in the palm of your hand, or the thing in front of you, what do they call it, where earth and sky meet, the horizon, and before you on the horizon the whole world comes before your eyes as wide as the horizon, and you say: Allah, Allah, a world open at the top, a splendid life, a fine comprehension, a fine mind and a fine submission to Allah; but if you can understand it, if you can rise like this in those verses, yes, it is this tremendous. For this reason, people, amid so many miracles, and also in the face of the miracles Allah Almighty has sent, seen by people (?) in their outward form, remembered for generations and full of lessons, people still behave toward Allah Almighty without feeling and without sensitivity.

Going even further, they turn their backs on Allah and do not listen, and going further still, associating partners with Allah Almighty, who created them from nothing, if they abandon Allah, if people do not use their minds, in this way they move away from faith; they will have asked for their own destruction themselves.

While living in the world they benefit from Allah's mercy, and after, over a lifetime, they have stood as witnesses before Allah Almighty and against themselves, in the hereafter realm, deprived of Allah's mercy, with no one, alone, they remain subject to their Lord's wrath. May Allah protect us from such a life and such an end. Indeed, most people do not believe in the face of these situations and do not take lessons from these events.