An-Naml 16: Solomon inherited from David and said, “Oh mankind! We were taught the language of birds and We have been given provisions from all things. Verily, this is a clear blessing.”

We have come to verse 16 of Surah An-Naml. Solomon inherited from David and said, O people! We have been taught the language of birds, and of everything a share has been given to us. Truly, this is a manifest grace, it says. Allah Almighty gives as much as He wills.

As much as He wills. To whom He wills, He gives as much as He wills. Solomon (peace be upon him) became, in prophethood, the heir of his father David (peace be upon him). When Solomon (peace be upon him) became a prophet, Allah Almighty granted him, too, certain kinds of knowledge. The language of birds and speaking with some animals He taught to Solomon. For Allah Almighty there is no concept of time. If Allah Almighty wills, He guides people in an instant. That is, Allah, who created the worlds with knowledge, has programmed all His creatures according to the duties they will carry out. Now, here such a statement appears.

If Allah Almighty wills, He guides people in an instant. How does He guide? Each of our wishes and desires, our aims, whatever we have wished for, our characters, our speech, even before we came into the world, were first programmed in the brain. Ready.

When He opens it instantly, even if you are in swaddling clothes, even if newborn, you speak. Like Jesus. This was programmed beforehand, and He opens Jesus' speech memory. And what does he say? I am fasting today; point to the child, she says. She brings the child to her people, you see. And he says, I will, by Allah's permission, come to you as a messenger, he says. I am a servant of Allah. When Jesus speaks there, the people are astonished. So, as it says, If Allah Almighty wills, He guides people in an instant, He opens you to unveiling, shows you those worlds, and that load, the load that was loaded, the memory, you grasp all at once. And in this way, through the openness of unveiling, you are guided.

Yes.

Allah, who created the worlds with knowledge, has programmed all His creatures according to the duties they will carry out. Since the Quran addresses all ages, and since our age is the computer age, I said that, by giving an example with computers, we will learn how Allah Almighty points to His creations in an instant. Now, I explained it briefly; here I go into some detail. Take a computer: if you load various programs onto this computer, then on these programs you can carry out operations specific to those programs. Since this computer recognizes these programs, in carrying out operations on these programs you become (?).

Allah Almighty, too, so that all creatures may understand one another, has programmed them with a (?) character. With these characters they have come to possess a language in which they can talk among themselves. For all creatures, the work they will do with these characters from birth, and the conversations by which they will understand one another, have been loaded, and since their programs are very clear, without learning the speech or the work from one another, as if they had gained experience and knew these tasks, they know them by themselves. You see, an animal is born and immediately gets up to its mother's udder, or immediately crouches down and shields itself to escape from that creature.

Well, who teaches you this? You were just born. You know nothing about anything. Well, if Allah Almighty, for this animal, makes known from birth the work it will do in life like this to His creature, then when He places the same program in human memory, people too become aware of these animals' speech in an instant. However many programs of the speech of various animals Allah Almighty loads into human memory, to that extent people come to know these animals' speech. So Allah Almighty loaded into Solomon (peace be upon him), too, as much as He willed, the animals' speech programs, and Solomon was able to talk with these animals.

Well, as I said earlier, what we will do and our memory are also determined. What we will do? That is why there is not a single living being to come until the Day of Judgment whose deeds We do not know, according to the verse. All are programmed. So why did He send us to this world like that? Although Allah Almighty knows, Surah Ta-Ha, verse 134, the verse I always remind you of. They, it says, if We had wished, We would have destroyed them with a punishment, it says. We would have destroyed them with a punishment. They too would have said, it says: if You had sent us to a (?) world, if You had sent us prophets and books, we would have worshipped You.

That is why Allah Almighty sends us to this world. So now, here is the challenge: in a world where He is not seen anyway, what kind of person we are we prove to Allah Almighty. We prove it both to ourselves and to those around us. Now, in this case, if Allah Almighty opens that program of ours from birth, we too will speak like Jesus.

These are the miracles of Allah Almighty. That Allah possesses knowledge and that Allah created the whole universe, how He created the created beings, how He programmed them, that there is no other god besides Him, that the creatures He created were created by His Essence; being aware of their state, by loading onto a human being things that a mortal or created beings cannot do, Allah thereby proves His existence and that He is the absolute owner of the worlds, in this case, in this case, to people.

So, Allah, in a way people can understand, His Essence, His existence, through various miracles proves. Of course, for those who see and can understand these, who use their reason, it is a lesson. Allah Almighty makes thousands of miracles appear before your eyes every day; you do not see them, (?). So Allah Almighty, through the miracles He gave Solomon (peace be upon him), proves to people His existence, and so that people may turn to Allah's Essence, miracles He never refrains from showing them.

Solomon (peace be upon him), too, would say: for our being superior to many of His believing servants, praise be to Allah. Believers are people who have risen to the contented self, who have come to know the divine manifestations, who have no return to kufr ever again. So David (peace be upon him), too, and Solomon (peace be upon him): for our being superior to many of His believing servants, praise be to Allah. That is, because He granted us prophethood, because our covenant was good, because our Lord (?), to Allah Almighty he gives thanks. For our being superior to many of His believing servants, praise be to Allah. To Allah, who gave us this prophethood and brought us ever closer to His Essence, praise and glory be, they said, giving thanks to Allah Almighty.