Al-Baqarah 210: They wait for Allah and the angels to come from the clouds in shadows; but the matter is completed. All matters return to Allah.

They insist on waiting for Allah and the angels to come in shadows from the clouds, so they wait. Look, pay attention. We told you these verses before. But if you said, Hodja, I don't know which surah this is in, but I am telling you these verses. The verses are in his memory, but which surah is not clear. One: I don't know which surah it is in. Not everyone can know this easily. Not easily. It can only be known by researching. Even a hodja cannot know which surah it is in. Even if he is a hafiz, even if he has knowledge. I mean, even if he knows the Arabic. Yes. He reads it in Arabic. But he can hardly remember the surah.

They insist on waiting for Allah and the angels to come from the clouds, in shadows. Whereas the matter has been concluded. All matters are returned to Allah alone. This verse carries a very great meaning. All verses carry a very great meaning, but this is entirely related to our faith, a verse. What does it rest on there? Which word of Allah Almighty does it rest on? Whereas the matter has been concluded, look how beautifully He says it. The matter has been concluded. There are many meanings here. In the first meaning, by our Lord's will, in the realm of lahut, according to Allah Almighty's verse 'I am your Lord', by Our command.

Because it is so, We concluded the matter this way. That is, We did it this way by giving people their will into their own hands. In the second meaning, by His saying to those people 'I am your Lord', in response to their knowing or not knowing Me by their own will, We gave them their wishes and desires as their destiny. The matter has been concluded, He says. In a third meaning, by the will of Allah Almighty these worlds would be created, and He would create a human who programs himself, and this human would have his own will written as his destiny. In this way, without pressuring anyone, by their own will, He willed that His essence be known.

That is why the matter has been concluded. Fourth: without putting any pressure on you, without insisting 'I am your Lord', without pressure, We left you alone with your own will. In this respect, without frightening you, without coming among the clouds with the angels and having to say 'I am your Lord', We had you program yourselves by yourselves. Through your own wishes, by your not aiming at Us, We had you program yourselves. And to prove what kind of person you are, We sent you to an unseen world. In this respect the matter is concluded. That is, there is no going back on it. It means many things. Again, the matter is concluded.

You know how people say, if Allah Almighty wished, He would not put people into hell. Of course He wouldn't. He wouldn't, but that was not Allah Almighty's will. It was for people to know their Lord by their own will. So if they have denied Allah, Allah Almighty is not going to force them, saying 'know Me', by pressure. In this respect too the matter is concluded. Plus, the matter is concluded: if Allah Almighty wished, He would have programmed us so; like the angels we would be obedient too. So this means many things. Yes, all matters are returned to Allah alone, He says. Surely everything will be returned to Allah Almighty.

In the first meaning here, they insist on waiting for Allah and the angels to come in shadows in the clouds. That is, Allah will appear. And they, yes, will prostrate to this Allah. Or they will fall on their faces. Prostrating out of that fear is not knowing Allah. The aim is to know Allah with your faith within your own will; this is iman. This is iman. Indeed, by iman (?) the faithless become distinct here. That is, those who place Allah within the clouds, those who turn their backs on Allah, or those who know Allah by their own will.

People constantly expect miracles from Allah and, that through these miracles they will turn to Allah, they think. They think so. Did they not say it to the Prophet too? Or did the peoples not say it to their prophets? No, if you are a prophet, bring us a miracle from Allah. They always expect miracles. Yet even though the prophets brought miracles, there were those who did not believe. So what do we say about them accordingly? They think they will turn to Allah. That is, even if a miracle comes from Allah; whereas if his covenant was denial, one miracle, or a thousand miracles may come, they are not going to come to Allah.

They want Allah to be seen from the sky among the clouds with the angels. Even if Allah Almighty were seen among the clouds with the angels, they still would not believe. Yes. Still they would not believe. Because Allah Almighty, in Ezel-i Bezat, in the address 'Alastu bi-Rabbikum', showed His essence.

We say these things with certainty. All written by seeing, words that are the exact counterpart of the (?) and of the verses. (?) In this case some people did not believe in Allah. They waited for the Lord of their own imagination. Now, if in this world Allah Almighty (?) from the sky together with the angels and even said 'I am your Lord', these people would still not believe in Allah. These people asked for a miracle to testify to the prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him), and in the face of so many miracles shown, they said of the Prophet (peace be upon him): what a great sorcerer he is.

That is what they said. Despite seeing the miracles. So even if Allah showed them miracles, they would still say this is a kind of sorcery. Because their covenants, wishes and desires were written as their destiny for them. No created being can now change its destiny. Yes. Now look at how this tafsir is written. (?) I'm not saying it because I wrote it, but maybe it just seems good to me. I don't know. How does it seem to you? Of course everyone likes what they wrote themselves, but I'm not saying I alone wrote it. It was made to be written. All in spoken language, the meanings of the verses in words that never contradict one another.

So what is meant by tafsir? The verses: on the luminous path Allah has shown us, bringing people closer to their Lord. Proving that their Lord exists. And making known what effect Allah's miracles will have on people. Well, we are explaining that here. Only, it is not like those who with these words go to Sufism, to (?), and then drift toward denial and the like. May Allah protect us. Whereas the matter is concluded. Look how beautifully He says it now. In Ezel-i Berdat, whatever covenants people wished, their covenants were written for them as destiny. That is, regarding 'Alastu bi-Rabbikum'. 'I am your Lord.' According to that verse, there the people who said 'Yes, You are my Lord' concluded their matter.

As for the one who rebelled, that one, may Allah protect us.

The worlds are programmed; as a result of this program the Creator created the worlds. This world will continue until a set time, that is, until the Day of Judgment. Each soul, by living out in the world the covenant it gave, will keep itself bound to Allah. All matters will be returned to Allah alone.

What is meant by this, as I mentioned in the sentences above, is that the worlds are programmed on the covenants given. Everything has been calculated in fine detail; it is no longer possible for these programs to change. From now on the course of things, life, pasts and futures will unfold within events, and in the end everything will return to Allah. Everything. From us, we said we are travellers. We are travellers. We were created in the realm of lahut. We made a covenant with Allah Almighty. Then our souls were raised to the realm of barzakh. And a traveller. The soul whose time came, came to the world.

After living its life in the world and proving what kind of person it is, it will taste its death and go to barzakh again. There it will wait for the Day of Judgment to come. After the Day of Judgment breaks, our bodies will be resurrected again. And together with our bodies we will go into the presence of Allah Almighty. There, after our bodies testify about us, they will die a second time, and our soul, with the good deeds and sins it did in the world, will be called to account and then go either to paradise or to hell. It will go to the place of torment. Look, we are on a constant journey. A traveller. Yes.

Allah Almighty created such an event. And why was this event created? When He said in the address 'Alastu bi-Rabbikum', 'I am your Lord', you know, 'Allah is not seen', this too is a beautiful word. A word also for the one who says 'Am I not?' When He says 'Am I not', not 'is it not', surely he will see Him, so that to those people Allah Almighty will speak, saying 'Bismillahirrahmanirrahim'. Sir, there our will becomes our destiny. Our wishes and desires. And because Allah Almighty created them close to His essence, because He gave people of His spirit, He creates these worlds. What does that mean? People: 'My Lord, we saw You (?).' 'Had You sent us an unseen world, we would have worshipped You in a world where You are not seen.' So, both an unseen world and a world in which His essence is made known.

That too is an arena. But whatever your characteristics are, you will live that. When you plant the seed of a pear tree in the ground, it becomes neither an apple nor a lemon. It will again give pears. Because the characteristics in it are written that way. It was created that way. Whatever it is, it will be a pear. If an apple, an apple; if a lemon, a lemon. Yes.