Al-Kahf 53: When the wrongdoers will see the fire, they will understand well that they will fall into it, but they will not be able to find an escape.

Yes, Surah Al-Kahf, verse 53. As soon as those guilty against their own nafs saw the Fire, they well understood that they would end up in it. And they found no way to escape from it. Because in the presence of Allah Almighty, who can run where? One who cannot flee anywhere in this universe, in all this existence, in the seven heavens — in the presence of Allah Almighty, can he flee anywhere there? Yes. What does Surah Al-Kahf, verse 53 say? As soon as the guilty saw the Fire, they understood well that they would end up in it. And they found no way to escape from it. Those who wrong their own nafs, realising from the records laid before them that they were guilty, and as soon as they saw the Fire, understood that they would end up there.

They realised that Hell was inevitable for them. Yes. Because they had not believed in Allah. They had not believed in that Hereafter. In the Great Court, in the Judge of judges, who is Eleysallahu bi-ahkemi'l-hakimin, they had not believed. They had not believed they would be called to account there. Nor will they find any way of escape out of Hell. Because Allah, as the Judge of judges, does no injustice in His judgment. Since those who leave the straight path Allah Almighty showed in worldly life — the end of those who on deviant and dark paths live as rebels against Allah is Hell, no one will be able to step outside Allah's decision.

The walls of Hell have surrounded them. According to the verse, no being with a will can step outside Allah's encirclement and escape; since they cannot escape or be saved, they will find no way of escape leading out of Hell either. So those who, associating partners with Allah, follow what Allah created, those who turn their backs on Allah, choose the abode of eternal punishment instead of the abode of eternal bliss. In that case Allah Almighty has not wronged them; they, whose wills were in their own hands, on the paths they drew themselves, have left themselves (?) to eternal punishment. Now let me give you an example.

Worldly life is the likeness and shadow of the Hereafter. Is that so? Allah Almighty says it. I am not the one saying it. The worldly realm, He says, is the likeness and shadow of the Hereafter. In the worldly realm a person committed theft. Or killed someone else. Or defrauded someone else. What happened? When he came before the judge, because it went against the laws of that state, he sentenced him and sent him to prison. Now, did the judge send him to prison? Or, because the person went against the laws of that state, because this person committed a crime against the laws of that state, did he send himself to prison?

Of course he sent himself to prison. If the judge sent people to prison, he would have to send all people. Yet whom does the judge send? Those who commit crimes against that state — in return for the penalties corresponding to the offender's crime he sends them to hell, to prison. In that case, Allah Almighty also has a law. He created us, and as His servants we too must follow that law — we are obliged to. Those who step outside that law, of course, just as one commits a crime in this world and goes to prison, will in the Hereafter be subjected to the punishment of Hell. It's that simple. So Allah Almighty does not put whomever He wishes into Paradise and whomever He wishes into Hell.

Whoever wishes goes to Paradise, and whoever wishes goes to Hell. Yes. Here we say, we call out to people: O people! Come to your senses. Deceived for the fleeting worldly life, deceived by this worldly life, do not turn your life of a few hours into punishment in the abode of eternal bliss.

Do not follow Satan. Do not follow the deceptions of the two-legged taghut, people of their own kind, and mortgage your minds to them. By following Allah's verses and His religious rulings, find the truth, find peace, and build up both your world and your Hereafter. Yes.