Al-Baqarah 148: Everyone has a qiblah that they face. Compete in doing good deeds. Wherever you are, Allah will finally summon you. Verily, Allah is Almighty.

To Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 148. To Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 148:

Everyone has a qibla to which he turns, it says, and it says it well, but the qibla is one; everyone has a belief, has an ideology; everyone serves that ideology; his qibla is the ideology he believes in. You, in good deeds, compete in good deeds; wherever you may be, in the end Allah will gather you together. Surely Allah has power over all things, it says. Surely the end of all deaths will be returned to Allah. The end of everything will return to Allah. Why will everything return to Allah? That nothing is left to itself; where a person sees himself (?), this body of his that will bear witness against him, you know; people whose minds can by no means grasp that it will bear witness against him say, I am not seen, and wherever they like, they think that, although Allah sees, since people don't see, there is no one to witness against me, they think. Yet his body is a witness against him, and he is unaware of it.

How is his body a witness against him? Look what it says. When you come into My presence with a driver, We will bind your mouth, silence it, bind your feet, make your arms speak. And that soul will say, why are you bearing witness against me? Against me. And it says, Allah, who makes me speak, is making me speak, it says. So whether you or we leave the earth, this world, go to the most remote corner of the heavens, or behind the strongest fortresses hide, still what we did there, these bodies of ours, by bearing witness to it, show we have nowhere to run; Allah Almighty proves it to us. So either you will be as you appear, or you will appear as you are.

There is no other way.

In the verse in which He says everyone had a qibla to which he turned, Allah Almighty's intended sign: people, in your nafs, the wishes and desires of your whims never end and are never exhausted, He says. Whoever turns to the whims and fancies of the wishes and desires in his nafs and forgets his Lord has turned toward the direction his nafs shows. That is his qibla. Within his own ideology. He has forgotten the direction Allah showed, that is, that sirat al-mustaqim, the straight path; he has forgotten it and followed the qibla of his own direction. In a verse: have you not seen the one who deifies his nafs; he is subject to that verse.

Those who turned to the wishes and desires of their own nafs, forgot their Lord, and followed the direction the wishes and desires of their nafs showed: these have themselves determined their own qibla. Such people are in shirk. Why? They are in shirk; what does it say? Have you not seen the one who deifies his nafs? That is, not what Allah Almighty says; on the path his own nafs and Satan show him, acting as his guide, following Satan's footsteps, if he leaves Allah's straight path and follows the whims of his own nafs, since he has deified his own nafs, he is in shirk. Yes. Compete in good deeds, it says.

Why compete in good deeds? The believer is the brother of the believer.

There is a proverb: a brother may throw his brother, but, it says, he holds him at the edge of the cliff. So if we are all servants created by Allah, in this world Allah Almighty, who set up an order for us, with mother and father, with their children, other siblings, relatives, kin, formed a tribe. If we widen this tribe further, if we know our Lord who created us as Lord and know His creations as His servants, we are all brothers. A brother cannot want evil for his brother. In this case, too, Allah Almighty says, among people, whoever causes estrangement, the one who first makes peace receives the greatest reward.

He removes estrangement among people, removes discrimination; the main foundation of Islam, unity and togetherness, is what Allah Almighty recommends. Yes.

Compete in good deeds. So how will I do good? If I love my brother, I will reach out my hand to him in goodness. If I don't love him, why would I do good to him? Does a person do good deeds for his enemy? So, whom should you purify your hearts of? Do not be hostile. A person can be an enemy to a person. A person can be an enemy to a person. How? He has been hurt. He has done him evil. Evil. In this case he is his enemy. He has also usurped his right. And the person who became an enemy: the one who ate his right has done him wrong. Sir, and the person whose right was eaten can become hostile to the one who ate his right.

Normal. Qisas. Qisas too. After you have taken your right, then do not reach over to the other side, it says. Do not reach over to the other side. That is, if you return the evil done to you with an equal evil, you have carried out qisas. Do not go beyond that, it says. After that you will have transgressed the limit. This time you will have wronged the other side. For example, party A owes me. Party A. Party A ate my right. And I took it to court, and from party A I got my right. After I got my right, states that run the institution of interest, which is outside the shari'a ruling, apply interest for the past period to him, you will pay this much interest too, they say.

After that, even that is not enough; he says, I also want compensation from him because he hurt me; here is a compensation suit for you too; and money; this time they completely ruin the person over that right. Whose law is this? This is the law of the unbelievers.

Yes, I got my money; brother, I don't want interest and the like; did I get my right? I did. He is my brother too. Even if he ate my right, I got my right, I am done with this. If you say that, you have applied the qisas Allah Almighty speaks of, eye for an eye, nose for a nose, ear for an ear. And within the shari'a ruling you may even have earned reward. Because by taking your right from that person, you have prevented the wrong he would do to someone else. But if you go after this person and also take the interest, go even further and also take compensation too, this time, while you were the victim, you fall into the position of the oppressor, the oppressor.

How can you have judged by Allah's verses in this case? That is not possible. That is not possible. So when they say Islam is finer than a hair, sharper than a sword, this is what they mean anyway. Islam is a very beautiful, life-giving law for Allah's servants. Islam is a religion that removes the hatred, grief and gloom among all people and strengthens brotherhood. If you can live it, if you can understand it, if you can say stop to the game your nafs plays on you; if, drawn by the lure of the world that looks rosy to you, you go after someone else saying this is my right, saying he ate my right, and usurp his right, these are events outside Islam that then turn people into enemies of each other and open rifts in Islam.

If after taking my right from party A I return his interest to him, if I don't file a compensation suit against him, wherever he sees me he (?).

But if I take his interest and also take his compensation, wherever he sees you, (?).

That is why, compete in good deeds. Good is not only the alms you give to Ahmet or Mehmet. Good is not only the help you give to a mosque. These are good too. And the most important good. These are the most important good. Giving life to a person's family and children. Protecting them. Do not stray from the path Allah showed. Help the destitute, the oppressed, the elderly. Do not stray from the path of Islam that Allah Almighty showed. If you break your own wishes and desires, your nafs-driven side, reform your nafs and unite in the unity of Islam Allah speaks of, your direction is the direction of Islam.

That is, it becomes Allah's direction, which is the single direction. There is no other direction besides it.

In this direction, the qibla you all turn to becomes the House of Allah. That is, just as at the House of Allah; we wrote these parts briefly, we are passing over them. At the House of Allah people come from every country, and there, blended, bonded, with no separation among them, all in the same state, around Allah, like moths, they circle in tawaf. Yes.

That house is, in a figurative sense, the house of Allah. Turning to that direction, gathering in the spiritual presence of that house, is gathering in Allah Almighty's presence and turning to Allah Almighty. Earlier we opened this part up in wider detail.

Wherever people may be and wherever they die, whether they die in the world or in space, for Allah Almighty to gather them together on the Day of Judgment is not hard for Allah. What does it say in Ya-Sin?

Sir, those enemies of religion, We created man, it says, from a lowly drop of water. Today they have become open, outright rebels, it says.

They say, it says, after we die, will we be resurrected? Tell them, it says, for the One who created you first, the last creating is not hard. Why is it not hard? Now let us think like this. I have a grain of wheat in my hand.

How hard is it to bring this grain of wheat into being from nothing? There is nothing, because there is nothing. He will create elements, combine them within those elements, set its genes, work all the characteristics into it, create this; is it harder to create this? Or to produce this seed? Of course, creating it first is harder. So we have been created; the last creating is not hard for Allah. There is a cell in the human body that the soil does not eat up, nor does it rot away. What does it say anyway? Allah Almighty: to the world, We, to the soil, to the world revealed, He says. We revealed.

What? Which part of the human body it will eat up and which part it will not be able to eat up. So this cell exists in man. It cannot finish it off. That cell, down to your fingertips, in that cell it is written. It is worked into those genes. Down to your fingertips We will gather you together again, He says. In this case, whatever we do, since our return is to Allah Almighty, let us use our minds in this world. The mind is a great blessing; what does Allah Almighty say? Do you never use your minds, He says. Do you never think, do you never reflect, He says. Yes, wherever people may be and wherever they die, whether they die in the world or in space, for Allah Almighty, on the Day of Judgment, to gather them together is not hard for Allah.

Think of a person's mobile phone; as long as this phone is on, wherever in the world you are called, the caller finds the owner of that switched-on mobile phone at once. So with people's death, the death of the bodies, while the soul tastes this death and stays alive; the soul's and the body's frequencies being receiver and transmitter; the soul rising to the barzakh and waiting; the body rotting in the grave but that cell staying alive; then, with the coming of the Hour, on the Day of Judgment Allah Almighty gathering these creations of His together again, and when from that water, the (?) sea on the sixth layer, He sprinkles that cell, just like rain, people sprouting from the ground again like grass; then the body's receiving and transmitting with the soul, they will find each other.

Even if there are billions of people. They will meet. When you come into My presence with a driver, that is when they find each other.

Or think of a radio set. On separate frequencies people find each other in a second with receiver and transmitter. In this case, the human body also produces electricity. Just as no two people's fingerprints match, since this electricity produced by the human body also has its own frequency, the frequency of the electricity the human body produces is never the same as the frequency of the electricity any other person produces. How many radios there are, aren't there? Their frequencies are all separate. Allah Almighty too created human bodies within frequencies. If, if I had knowledge that could decode that frequency, I would instantly kill a person at any end of the world with a reverse frequency.

I would kill him. So the frequencies of all people, of these beings He created, are known to Allah Almighty. He reveals to His prophets. And look what it says about revelation. It is a pure revelation. Pure. Both revelation and pure. How is that? Pure. I know the frequency of the human I created, He says. Allah Almighty. Satan cannot whisper into this frequency, cannot enter here, He says. I know that frequency. I know that frequency of (?). Even if he whispers to him, the whisper I will give him, the thing, the revelation I will give with verses, in place of the revelation, for the accursed one to find that frequency and give a contrary whisper there is not possible, He says.

So this is a pure revelation, He says, pure. That is, verses given to His servant by Allah alone. Satan cannot interfere in this, He says. So that frequency belongs to Allah alone. Yes, Satan circulates in man's blood vessels and whispers to him. But the revelation Allah Almighty gives, in revelation Satan cannot interfere. That is, he cannot twist it. He cannot slip anything into those verses. Now, most people do not know inspiration, He says. Inspiration. There are inspirations our Lord gives us too. But right behind them come whisperings. Whisperings. That Satan cannot add anything to the inspiration He gives.

He can only say the opposite. With whispering he says the opposite. When he says the opposite, with the inspiration our Lord gives and the verses coinciding, and the whisper falling into a sea, the whisper Satan gives being outside the shari'a ruling, its ignorance shows at once. Here is a verse for you. The whisper the accursed one gives to My servant who knows Me is ignorant. So when he at once tests the inspiration Allah Almighty gave (?) His servant, and the whisper the accursed one gave, against His shari'a ruling, he sees that it is contrary. And this is a prophet, and a verse comes too. At once, when he tests that whisper given against it, when he tests it against the verses, it becomes clear that the whisper, Satan's, is ignorant.

That is a pure revelation. It is a verse given by Allah alone, without a dot being changed.

Yes.

These frequencies are never one with the frequency of the electricity any person produces; it is not possible for them to pass to others; and also man has a spirit, and the spirit is (?); in these spirits the frequencies they emit do not match one another; He created them separately too, those spirit frequencies. For this reason the frequencies emitted by the spirit and by the body belonging to that spirit are receiver and transmitter to each other on the same wave. For this reason they find each other at once on the Day of Judgment. On the Day of Judgment, in a verse: when the souls are paired, that is, when your body and soul are brought together, the body and the soul belonging to these bodies, instantly on the same frequency, will find each other through that.

Accordingly, Allah Almighty says: wherever you are, We will bring you together, gather you. According to what? The frequencies they emit, whether bodily or spiritual, whatever they are, are all programmed to Allah Almighty. In any atom of this universe, at any point of it, when a wish, a desire, a vibration, a formation of the universe arises, these at once appear in our Lord like Morse code. That is why He is present and seeing in every atom of the universe, it says. Nothing is lost for Allah. For this reason, what does He say in His verse? The darkness of night, He says, its pitch darkness, and the light of day are one for Allah.

Yes.

Surely Allah has power over all things. Allah Almighty created all the worlds with His knowledge. He created all the beings He created under His own rule. He created nothing that would remain outside His rule, unknown to His Self. For this reason, with Allah Almighty's verse külli şey'in kadîr, all beings are under His rule. In this case Allah Almighty has power over all beings and everything, knows them fully, is all-hearing, all-seeing, we said.