Al-Hajj 4: It is written about him (the devil, shaytan); “Whoever takes him as a companion, (devil) will make them go astray and drive them to the punishment of the blazing fire.”

O people, which verse is this? The fifth verse of Surah Al-Hajj.

O people, if you are in doubt about being resurrected, know that We created you from dust, then from a sperm drop, then from a clinging clot, from a fertilized egg, then from a living lump of flesh whose limbs are first undefined and then defined, from an embryo whose limbs form over time, so that We may show you Our power; and whom We will We keep in the wombs for an appointed term. Then We bring you out as a baby, then We raise you so that you reach your prime. Some of you die, and some of you are taken to the most unproductive age of life, so that, after having been someone who knows, he comes to know nothing. And you see the earth parched and dead.

But when We send down rain upon it, it stirs, it swells and pleasing plants of every kind, or in pairs, are brought forth, says Allah Almighty. Now a prayer of the Prophet (peace be upon him) here comes to my mind. O my Lord, I take refuge in You from a life that brings senility, he says. From a life that brings senility. On what basis does he say it? He says it because he fears this verse. This verse. Which part of this verse does he fear? Look which part he fears. And some of you are taken to the most unproductive age of life. To the unproductive age. Today we see people at 85, 90, at 80, their backs bent, unproductive, unable to take care of themselves.

They have come to need this one and that one. Well, would a prophet of Allah want to fall into this state? We too say the same. O my Lord, while our hands and feet still work, while our mind is sound, yes, we have grown old, but there were old prophets like Noah, like Solomon, like Zechariah (peace be upon him), like Jacob (peace be upon him), many old prophets who, without losing their senses, while in their strong and vigorous age, (?); so we too, however long we live, before falling into our weak age, without needing anyone, wish that the time of (?) comes. That is why I take refuge in my Lord from a life that brings senility.

Yes. We too are 80, but in our own way we feel ourselves somewhat (?).

Surah Al-Hajj, verse 5: with this verse Allah Almighty explains that there is no god besides His divine Self and that all souls will be resurrected after tasting death, through examples. Allah Almighty's address to people, His saying: if you are in doubt about resurrection, We created you from clay, which is a piece of earth. Our bodies. Earlier, He had created our souls from His Self. He is not talking about that. (?) Allah Almighty created our souls. Here He tells us how He brought it to life in this world. He tells how He turned it into the visible (?). Referring to our forefather Adam, He tells that the body of our father Adam, whom He created as the first human, He created from earth.

Then His giving life to this piece of earth and making it a piece of flesh, then His creating our mother Eve so that the nafs of our forefather Adam might find rest, then people, in proportion to the covenants they gave, to the unseen world of dominion being sent; so that people, toward themselves, toward Allah Almighty, toward themselves and those around them, (?), His sending our forefather Adam to the world of dominion we call unseen: that is what this is. When we say unseen, it is not that those worlds are hidden, but a world where Allah Almighty's Self is not seen, an unseen world. Now someone is asking me a question, apparently he doesn't know us.

Hodja, what is meant by unseen? That is, are these worlds so that they will not be known? That is, an unseen world: is this place an unknown world, he asks. Thinking himself clever, he, (?), asks the question in such feeble words, as if we could not know this. Today children could know: does a place they see vanish? The world is visible, the manifest world.

Then Allah, who created people and His creatures in pairs, created their (?) from a male and a female.

Then Allah, who created people and creatures in pairs, made their reproduction from a male and a female. Therefore the human sperm cells in men's loins, which become visible when magnified a thousand times under a microscope, are mentioned as a nutfa, and it is told that although these nutfas carry the human form, their cells and organs are barely discernible. Now here, you will magnify it a thousand times under a microscope, you will see that cell a thousand times over. In that cell, in that human cell, all bodies, eyes, ears, hearts, lungs, kidneys, intestines, whatever there is in a human, brain cells, all of it is inscribed.

You will magnify this a thousand times under a microscope. After that, this you will grow, and these barely discernible limbs, if bone, will become bone, if muscle, muscle, if flesh, flesh, if kidney, kidney. The flesh of the kidney is different, the flesh of the heart is different, the flesh of the intestines different; the flesh of each part will be different and will be equipped with knowledge. All will benefit from somewhere, take their nourishment, and present us as a hajji like this, present us as a hodja. Yes, it will bring it into being. So is this an event that happens by itself, by chance?

Could this happen without someone creating it? In fact, since at the root all the limbs are inscribed into this nutfa, with the fertilization of this nutfa in the mother's womb the embryo changes shape over a certain time and takes on human form, and then its limbs appear in their proper places, then those who have no share in this world die or are taken in the mother's womb, then those who are to come into the world, after a certain time, are born as babies, then Allah Almighty, during these people's lifetimes, giving them their provision again as He decreed, brings them to adult age, that some migrate to the hereafter at the end of their life, while others, after reaching the strong age of their life, in proportion to the covenant they gave in mind and body, after reaching their strongest state, grow old, slowly forgetting what they knew, reaching the weakness of the childhood age as at first: giving this example, that Allah's verses are true, that He created all these worlds with knowledge, that Allah has power over everything, declaring this to people is necessary.

Continuing to declare to people the power of His Self, in His verse: you see the earth parched and dead, but when rain upon it We send down, it stirs, swells and brings forth, of every kind or in pairs, pleasing plants; by saying this, He makes known that Allah created everything from water. He created every living thing from water.

Allah Almighty, who has power over everything, makes known that He is the owner of all these worlds, that people should know His Self and serve Allah. Therefore Allah Almighty, in the Quran too, in a way all people will understand, brings (?) with His verses and gives examples. No person will be able to blame Allah Almighty in the face of these examples. Those who do not abide by Allah Almighty's command will, in the hereafter, be alone and without anyone. Accordingly, all souls will be called to account for the deeds they have done. Yes.