Al-Kahf 56: We send Messengers only to give them glad tidings and to warn them. But the infidels use falsehood to eliminate the truth. They mock Our verses and the things they are warned about.
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We send Messengers only to give them glad tidings and to warn them. But the infidels use falsehood to eliminate the truth. They mock Our verses and the things they are warned about.
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Allah (swt) has sent people to an unseen realm. He sends Prophets to people to inform them of His Essence. When Allah's messengers invite people to Allah, they give the good news that the worldly realm is temporary, that after people's souls taste death, the real worlds begin in the Hereafter, and that those who believe in Allah and the Hereafter will go to Paradise. They inform people that those who turn their backs on Allah in rebellion, those who associate partners with Allah, and those who do not believe in the Hereafter will go to Hell, and that in both places there will be no more death, and that people will remain eternal in the places they enter. It is also declared that those who are Muslims and go away as sinners will be punished and will leave Hell from that place of torment.
The disbelievers, those who ascribe partners to Allah, those who do not believe in Allah and the Hereafter, try to defend their false religion by using false words in order to destroy the true religion of Allah and to make people accept their false beliefs.
Since every mind knows the truth, they pretend to believe in their religion, when in fact they themselves do not believe in the religion they are defending, but they pretend to believe in their religion because they are obliged to believe in the religions they have invented willy-nilly by engaging in situations that flatter their pride and arrogance among themselves. In this respect, they are defending their false religion. Because in their superstitious beliefs, which they are defending, there are all kinds of evils that will please their ego. Those who cannot get rid of their egoistic desires follow superstition. In fact, they do not believe in this superstitious religion, but when they invent it as a religion, they apply their own rules because they have their own self-interest. And they call it religion. Because their lives deify their desires and wishes, because it suits their interests, they follow and try to defend the religion they have invented.
These people set the rules for their lives in a superstitious way, i.e. with invented words that have no basis in fact, no origin, and that suit their egoistic desires and their own interests. They commit a series of immoral acts. Profiteers, injustices, those who disregard human rights and law, those who oppress the strong, those who oppress the weak, those who turn their backs on Allah and His Messenger by being deceived by this mortal world, want to abolish the Truth by defending the falsehood they have invented against the Truth.
It is because of this that these people do not believe in the Prophets sent to them as saviors. They do not listen to the true Verses of Allah. They ridicule the Verses and become cruel to their own souls. Because these people follow their egoistic desires, they are deceived by the transient worldly world. They follow Satan and taghut and are deceived by the assurances provided to them by taghut by giving them a taste of the blessings of this world. Then they cannot stop themselves from following them. In this state, they trust in Allah's creatures and turn their backs on Allah. They buy the torment of the Hereafter, their eternal home.
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Verse fifty-six of Surah Al-Kahf. "We send the Messengers only as bringers of good news and as warners. But those who disbelieve, in order to abolish the truth by relying on falsehood, by false means struggle. They have mocked Our verses and what they were warned about," it says. Yes.
Allah Almighty sends prophets to a people as warners. Here, warner: to make known that Allah Almighty created these worlds, that there is one single God who creates, and besides Him there is no creator, that every soul will taste death and our return will be only to that Creator, Allah Almighty sends His Messengers to people, to nations. And to them: if we set out to deny these words that our Lord has decreed to us, tomorrow in the hereafter we remain subject to our Lord's punishment; saying we will (?) this transient world, we turn the eternal home of bliss of the hereafter into an eternal home of punishment, and there, as people of Hell, we remain subject to eternal punishment — so he comes as one who instils fear.
He comes as a warner. Yes.
The heirs of the Prophet say the same thing too. Yes. Allah Almighty sent people to an unseen world. So that His Being is made known to people, He sends prophets to people. Allah's messengers, while inviting people to Allah, that the world is transient, that after people's souls taste death, on the Day of Judgment, that is, in the hereafter, the real worlds begin, and that those who believe in Allah and the hereafter will go to Paradise — they give this good news. That those who rebel against Allah and turn their backs, who associate partners with Allah, who do not believe in the hereafter will go to Hell, and that in both places there is no more death, that people will stay forever where they enter — this news to people they give.
And it is also declared that those who are Muslims but depart as sinners will serve their punishment and come out of Hell, that place of punishment. The disbelievers, those who associate partners with Allah, who do not believe in Allah and the hereafter, in order to abolish Allah's true religion and make people accept their own false beliefs, relying on baseless words, try to defend the false religions they believe in. That is why Allah Almighty says in His verse, "The truth has come and falsehood has vanished." They have no foundation. Like a building without a foundation, it is doomed to collapse.
Since every mind knows what is right, in fact the religions they defend they themselves do not believe in; but among themselves, being in situations that flatter their pride and arrogance, since they are willy-nilly compelled to believe in the religions they invented, they appear as if they believe in their religion. That is why they defend their false religions. Because in the false beliefs they defend there is every kind of evil that flatters their own nafs. Those who cannot free themselves from the desires of the nafs follow falsehood. In fact these too do not believe in this false religion, but since in what they invented as religion lie their own selfish interests, they themselves apply their own rules.
And they call this religion. When this way of life, their desires and wishes, (?) suits their interests, they follow the religion they invented themselves and try to defend it.
These people, the false path, that is, baseless, rootless, made-up words, the desires of their nafs and the rules of a life that suits their own interests, they set themselves. They engage in a series of immoral acts. Plundering, injustices; those who disregard human rights and law, the strong crushing the weak, those who, deceived by this transient world, turn their backs on Allah and His Messenger, defending the falsehood they invented against the truth, want to abolish the truth. Because of these states of theirs, these people do not believe in the prophets sent to them as saviours. They do not listen to Allah's true verses.
By mocking the verses they become wrongdoers against their own nafs. Because these people follow the desires of their nafs and are deceived by the transient world. Following Satan and the taghut, as the taghut lets them taste a little of the world's blessings, they are deceived by the assurances provided to them by these. Like the members of FETÖ today, having turned their backs on Allah, for their interests, for money, for material things, for the world, for gain, people who turn their back on Allah and lean their back on the world, on the material things Allah created, those who (?) religion and faith.
Yes, in this situation, from following them, from going after them, they cannot hold themselves back. These, in these states, trust in what Allah created and turn their backs on Allah. They buy the punishment of the hereafter, their eternal home.