Al-Hajj 18: Don’t you see that the things in the heavens and in the earth and the sun and the moon and the stars and the mountains and the trees and the animals and most people prostrate to Allah? And punishment has become true for most of them. If someone desires despicableness from Allah, there is no one who can make that person valuable. Verily, Allah does what Allah desires.
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Don’t you see that the things in the heavens and in the earth and the sun and the moon and the stars and the mountains and the trees and the animals and most people prostrate to Allah? And punishment has become true for most of them. If someone desires despicableness from Allah, there is no one who can make that person valuable. Verily, Allah does what Allah desires.
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According to the verse (The heavens and the earth and all that is between them know the remembrance of their Lord), Allah (swt) proves the existence of Allah (swt) to those who deny Allah (swt) by showing examples to those who deny Allah (swt) that all His creations and some of the human beings prostrate themselves to Allah (swt).
Many of the people who disbelieved in Allah (swt) also deserved torment. This is because these people disbelieved in Allah (swt) when they made a covenant with Him at Kalu Bela, and these people have written their destiny as their fate. In this respect, no matter what beliefs and views they hold, they are happy in their lives, even if they are depressed within their own beliefs and views. In this world of trials, those who turn their backs on Allah by living outside of Allah's commandment, turn away from Allah because of their own egoistic feelings, by living outside of Allah's commandment, turn away from Allah. They deny Allah and the Hereafter. They associate shirk with Allah. These people have deserved torment for their sins, for their hatred against Allah.
(Whoever asks Allah for humiliation and insult, there is no one who can make him worthy). Allah creates His creatures on the basis of justice. With the value He has given to human beings, Allah, who has left human beings free in their own will, has made human beings accountable to His Essence. He made a covenant with human beings while they were still spirits. Each soul that made a covenant with Allah (swt) had its own will written down as its destiny. There is no one who can change what has been written except Allah. Whoever has made his covenant and had his destiny written down as a disbeliever in Allah, they will be stripped of their honor and dignity because they will act outside the command of Allah (swt) according to their own limited intellect. Allah (swt) is telling people that such people will be despised and despicable and that no one will be able to make them worthy.
For no power or might, except Allah, can change the destiny of man. Since Allah (swt) has written what every soul wants as its destiny, according to His Ayat-i Kerime, which says, "There is a Book in His sight, which is preserved in the Levh-i Mahfuz. There is no addition to it, nor is there any deficiency in it), Allah (swt) is no longer able to change the destiny of people. Such people have wronged and wronged their souls, and they are the real losers.
(Surely Allah does what He wills). Surely Allah's Word is the truth. He does what He says. There is no deficiency in Allah's speech. Allah willed what He willed, and in that will He created seventeen or eighteen thousand worlds and showed them the truth by creating human beings the most honorable among them, whom He made the interlocutors of His Essence. After that, whoever obeys the devil and his ego and goes against what Allah says, Allah will execute His will on these people, and no one can stand against it. In this respect, since no one can oppose what Allah wills, Allah, who is the absolute power in His property, fulfills what He wills in accordance with His Verses and in truth.
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We have come to the eighteenth verse. I wonder, is this a prostration verse? Let's take a look. Its eighteenth verse. Yes. Ten, the seventeenth verse, prostration verse, the eighteenth verse. The prostration verse is the eighteenth. We can tell that from here anyway. What does it say?
This is a prostration verse. We have read it. Let each of us prostrate. Then let's begin our lesson. Prostration verse. When we read this, we must prostrate. For those who don't know the prostration of recitation, I will do it aloud. They will follow me.
O my Lord, I intend to perform the prostration of recitation for Your command. Allahu ekber.
Semi'nâ ve eta'nâ gufrâneke rabbenâ ve ileyke'l-masîr. Yes, we have done our prostration. We can continue with our verse. Allah Almighty, addressing people's reason, lists those who prostrate to Him.
"The heavens and the earth, these two and what is between them, have known their Lord's (?)" — according to that verse, all the beings He created and some of mankind prostrate to Allah; showing this as examples to those who deny Allah, He proves the existence of His Essence to such people. Yes.
Upon many of the people who deny Allah, the punishment has become due. Because these people, when making the covenant with Allah Almighty at Qalu Bala, denied Allah, and these people had their wishes written for themselves as destiny. Therefore, whatever belief and view they may hold, within their own belief and views, even if in distress, in distress, they are happy with their lives. So in this world of trial, those people who live outside Allah's command and to Allah turn their backs, with their own carnal feelings, living outside Allah's command, turn away from Allah. They deny Allah and the hereafter.
They associate partners with Allah. Because these people, due to the sins they willed, bear resentment toward Allah, the punishment becomes due upon them. Whoever desires humiliation and abasement from Allah — then to make him honourable, an honourable one, there is no one. Allah, who creates His creatures upon justice, who with the value He gave man left man free in his own will — Allah has made man the one He addresses. While people were still spirits, He made a covenant with them; every spirit that made a covenant with Allah Almighty had its own wish written for itself as destiny.
Now there is no one but Allah to change what is written. Whoever gave his covenant as a denier of Allah and had his destiny written, these, in line with their own partial reason, will act outside Allah Almighty's command and so remain far from honour and dignity. That such people will be abased and despised, and that to make them honourable there will be no one — how beautifully Allah Almighty explains this to people. Because no power or might other than Allah can change a person's destiny. And since Allah Almighty writes for every soul what it wishes as its destiny — "With Me is a book that is preserved in the Preserved Tablet; nothing is later added to it nor taken from it," according to the verse in which He says this — Allah Almighty, too, no longer changes people's destinies.
Such people wrong and do injustice to their own souls, and those who suffer real loss are they. Surely Allah does what He wills. Indeed, Allah's word is true. Whatever He says, He does. There is no deficiency in Allah's word. Allah willed what He willed. Within this will, the 17 and 18 thousand worlds He created. Among them, creating man, whom He addresses, as the most honourable, He showed them the truth. After this, whoever follows Satan and his nafs and goes beyond what Allah says, on these people Allah carries out His rightful will, and no one can stand against it. Therefore, since no one can oppose what Allah wills, in His dominion Allah, the absolute power, carries out what He wills, in line with His verses, rightfully.
What He wills, in line with His verses. Yes.