Al-Baqarah 136: Oh you who believe! Say “We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us, in what was given to the Prophets Abraham, Ismaeel, Jacob and the offspring, Moses and Jesus and in what was given to all other Prophets without differentiating between them; we are Muslims who submitted to Allah”.

To Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Asbat, what was sent down, what was given to Moses and Jesus, what was given to the other prophets by their Lord — we have believed, making no distinction between any of them, and we (?). We are Muslims who submit only to Allah (?), it says.

In the Quran, Allah Almighty, with His verse, to the people who will come until the Day of Judgement — addressing them with this verse — tells us that there is no god but Allah and that all the prophets and books sent by Allah are true.

Those who believe in Allah deny none of what Allah says. Those who believe. They never oppose what comes from Allah with an ulterior thought. Whatever comes from Allah, they say: âmennâ ve saddaknâ, it is from Allah, they accept it.

They believe in the books Allah sent, according to the religion of Islam. According to the religion of Islam. What does the religion of Islam say? All the prophets and books Allah sent are true. We never make a distinction between them. We never make a distinction between the prophets. Now,

Muslims know that if they deliberately deny a verse of Allah or, not recognising any one of the prophets, deny him, they rebel against Allah, and in that case they become unbelievers. That is, according to this verse of Allah Almighty, if from the Quran you deliberately deny a verse, if you do not believe in one of the prophets, if of what Allah Almighty calls the People of the Book — the Gospel, the Torah and the Psalms — you deny one, you become an unbeliever. If you deny deliberately. But those who, unknowingly, follow every stubborn devil, whip up their carnal feelings and deify themselves, their nafs, and speak ignorantly, are an exception.

Why the exception? Because deeds depend on intention. They only become sinners. Because they do not go into denial. That is what they know, that is how they talk.

For this reason Allah Almighty says: say, we are on the religion of Islam. We are Muslims who have given our hearts to Allah, He says. Say, He says. All the prophets came upon the truth. Allah Almighty gathered the book each prophet brought in the Quran, bringing them together. What is it? The Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel — Allah Almighty brought them together in the Quran. Yes.

The Quran is a book that confirms all the prophets and shows the ways of Allah. What does the Prophet (peace be upon him) say? Whatever there is, wet and dry, is in the Quran. Allah Almighty (?): there is a book that is kept in the Preserved Tablet. After that, nothing is added to it and nothing is taken away. So the Quran was sent before all of humanity as a guide, a light. From it, deliberately denying a verse or deliberately denying a prophet, or not recognising one of the People of the Book, leads a person to kufr.

Whatever there is, wet and dry, is in the Quran. Someone of our time said to me: in 1,500-page doctoral books, in 2,000-page (?) books, all of it, he says — I mean, this much knowledge, he says. All those mathematics books, co-logs and whatnot, he says. Inside a six-page Quran, he says? These are certain people's intentions.

Even though we know what their intentions are, first of all we are obliged to convey the truth. We will convey the truth. What did we say? We said the word of Allah Almighty rests upon letters. What does Elif, Lâm, Mîm mean? Allahu âlem. What do Taha, Yasin mean? Allahu âlem. Because the words of Allah Almighty rest upon letters, if one letter came beside another, or in some other way a letter changed places with the others, in Allah Almighty's language of speech the meanings change. In that case, since all the secrets, all the secrets of creation are in the Quran, the books people wrote by their own minds in their language of speech are perhaps hidden within a formula of our Lord.

When he started going further, I said: look, I have now entrusted the truth to you. Now, I said, look what Allah Almighty says for you, I said. I said: you saints who love Allah, look what it says for you. If a person does not believe the Quran and hadith, don't answer him at all, don't talk, end the matter. Go on: leküm dinüküm veliye din — your religion (?), mine to me — so, I commend you to Allah, I said. I have entrusted the truth to you. What comes after this is up to you, I said. I left and went. So what does Allah Almighty say in this verse? We... to those who believe: say, we — in Allah and in what was sent down to us, to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Asbat.

Who are called the Asbat? The sons of Jacob are called that. What was sent down, what was given to Moses and Jesus, what was given to the other prophets by their Lord — we have believed, making no distinction between any of them, and we are only Muslims who submit to Allah (?), it says. This is the essence of the religion of Islam. This verse.

O you who believe, say: we have believed in Allah and in what was sent down to us, what was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Asbat, what was given to Moses and Jesus, what was given to the other prophets — we have believed, (?) between any of them. That Allah Almighty Himself sent what we listed here — even the Asbat He mentions, here Asbat means the grandchildren of Jacob — and to what was given to them (?) whatever He sent, He commands us to follow it. Yes.

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Our Lord, we believed in what You said to them and had faith. Because You are the creator of all beings. Going against Your command, not recognising what You made known, is nothing but a person's wronging of his own nafs. According to this verse, people who oppose what Allah Almighty says commit wrong against their own nafs. Wrong.

Allah Almighty, as the Creator, the Possessor of grandeur and power who has power over everything, in one verse says: even if men and jinn gathered, they could not overpower Allah. Whatever Allah Almighty created, from the atom to the globe, whatever He created, He created all of it within His own rule, in a way He can command, so that it does not step outside His rule and He is never unaware of it. This universe we see as so vast, the heav- ens and what is between them, and these created things that our minds and memories cannot contain — Allah Almighty sees them with His attribute Basîr, and with His attribute Semî He is aware of what they do; He hears.

In this case, all that He created is within Allah Almighty's power, and whatever exists, from the atom to the globe, all of it is within His rule. Yes, that is how He created.

And Allah Almighty created this through sciences, through sciences. There are many sciences. Many sciences. For example, we said this in our earlier lessons too. The atoms of matter, the nuclei of those atoms — their spinning around their own axes makes a sound. The heavens and the earth and what is between them have known the remembrance of their Lord, it says. That is, these created things, brought into being from nothing, by that one God besides whom there is no god — they were created by that Allah. He stamps His emblem on it. It is Mine, He says. Mine. Would Allah Almighty say that? He does. It is Mine, He says.

Is there proof, Hodja? Of course there is. Every soul shall taste death. The inheritance of the heavens and the earth and what is between them will remain to Allah. So Allah Almighty says: Mine. Mine. Allah's. All dominion is Allah's. If all created things in this dominion belong to Allah, no being can overpower Him. He created these beings, these worlds, in such a way that He has power over all of them. Now, in this case, if a person cannot bring his own nafs to perfection, cannot overcome the arrogance and might in his nafs, and keeps his being, toward Allah Almighty, in pride and arrogance, he cannot bow to Allah.

Following his own nafs, he cannot get out of the dark paths his nafs shows him either.

Those who do not accept the religion of Islam, those outside the religion of Islam who hold various ideologies — and Allah Almighty says exactly this: They will not see their Lord in the hereafter. Let them be lost in this world — in the hereafter they will not see their Lord. Because there is no such Lord as the one they imagine. There is no god but Allah. In this verse, the verse 'they will not see their Lord' too is the sign that there is no god but Allah.