Al-Baqarah 253: Some Prophets have a higher degree than others. Allah has spoken to some of them, and some of them, Allah has raised by degrees. We have given Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles and We have supported him with Rooh al Quds. If Allah had wished, the nations that came after the Prophets would not have fought against each other after clear proof came to them. But they went into conflict and some of them believed and some others have denied. If Allah had wanted, they would not have fought. But Allah does that which has been determined.

We are coming to verse 253 To verse 253.

What does it say here?

In verse 253, among the wrongly interpreted verses, we said. Let us see. Verse 253 is among the wrongly interpreted ones, we said.

We made some of those prophets superior to others, it says.

We read it once more. We made some of those prophets superior to others. God forbid. There is no such thing. Now, if there were such a thing, everything they recount would contradict each other, and an attribute would be ascribed to Allah. You know, first He created the Prophet. Then from his spirit, first of all, He created the prophets. He took a covenant with them. From their spirits He created the people of their nations, the nations of the prophets. In this respect the prophets are in the position of elders and fathers of their nations, we said. Now, in this situation, in this situation, when Allah Almighty says: we made some of those prophets superior to others, that ascribes an attribute to Allah.

Why did He create that one so, and create that one so? It would. Yet the meaning of the verse is not so.

Some of the prophets are superior to others. Of course. People are also superior to one another. By their ranks in Allah's religion. The prophets too are superior to one another among themselves. The highest of them is Muhammad (peace be upon him). Because all of them were created from his spirit. That is the verse. Otherwise, as it says here: we made some of those prophets superior to others. This ascribes an attribute to Allah.

First He created his light, then gave it His spirit. Muhammad (peace be upon him). Then from his spirit He created a spirit. He made a covenant with it. He gave it its wish and desire as its destiny. Then He created another spirit. Then He created another spirit. According to one narration, He created 124,000 prophets. That is one narration. We don't know how many. From their spirits He created the spirits of the nations. Just as He made a covenant with each person and their wishes became their destiny, He made a covenant with the prophets in the same way. Their wishes, too, according to each one's wish and desire, came in degrees.

Came in degrees. So some are superior to others. Yes. Allah spoke with some of them. With whom? With Moses.

And some He raised by degrees. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles. And we strengthened him with Ruh al-Qudus. You need to pay attention to this verse. You need to pay great attention. They are always mistaken. They say Ruh al-Qudus is Gabriel (peace be upon him). Gabriel (peace be upon him) is not Ruh al-Qudus. He has no spirit either. Among all created beings, only man has a spirit. So after saying Ruh al-Qudus, that spirit which holds the secret can only be Allah Almighty. He supported him with His essence. Did Allah Almighty not say to Mary: today I am fasting; the child in your womb, the child in your arms, show it.

That child in her arms said: I will be sent to you by Allah as a prophet. He said 'I am sent by Allah' and spoke as a child. Still in swaddling clothes.

Did Gabriel make him do this? Gentlemen, ladies, use your reason. This is exactly how superstitions begin in religion. Allah's existence, that exalted, holy, exalted knowledge, His miracles, they hide in this way. They (?) to Gabriel.

Had Allah willed, the nations that came after those prophets, after clear proofs had come to them, would not have fought one another. Look how beautifully it says it. We supported him with Ruh al-Qudus, it says, we strengthened him. Had Allah willed; it says that right after. The nations that came after the prophets, after clear proofs had come to them, would not have fought one another. But they fell into disagreement, and among them, of them, some believed and some disbelieved. Had Allah willed, they would not have fought. What Allah says, surely. So look, just as all the verses always support one another, pay attention: my words, too, always support one another.

Use your open reason. If you say 'like what, Hodja', look what it says now. Pay good attention. You will see that what we say always corresponds to the verses.

And some disbelieved. Had Allah willed, they would not have fought. So Allah has no ruling over people. People become holders of judgment through the decisions they make with their own will. And through the actual deeds they do with that judgment, they earn reward and sin. But Allah Almighty says: as the Owner of the worlds, we would have directed you too as we wished. But no, we left everyone's will free. Look how beautifully the verses always support one another. So pay attention to the verses; open the commentaries and read them, according to reason: here it says this, there it says that, with (?) words, sir, they try to explain something.

Yes, Allah here, very nicely: if He wills He does this, if He wills He does that, but nobody explains the essence of the matter. Not even the essence; nobody puts a full stop to it. There is no full stop; the sentence doesn't end. Question mark, question mark, question mark. But note: we put the full stop. Why? With verses. Never let something like this cross your mind: Hodja, how they praise themselves. May Allah protect us. We have no need of this praise. With these words of mine I want to tell you one single thing. One single thing. Superstitions have entered the religion of Islam. They took superstitions for knowledge.

In this situation, reason came into play, supposedly as if explaining Allah. That is what I want to explain. I want to remove these superstitions. Let us put a full stop to the essence of the matter, I say, let us put a full stop. If we say 'Allah', if we love Allah, if we serve people for Allah, if we want to make Allah known to people, let us leave this nafs of ours. Let us leave our nafs and truly take our place in Allah's ranks. Taking our place beside truth and right, all together as one power, as the power of Islam, not the power of a person, let us turn to Allah. That is my whole aim. Yes, that is why we are obliged to show these superstitions.

Nobody puts a full stop. Bring me one person who explains this verse the way I explained it. Well, Hodja, in such a surah, or such a man, like you explained, has put a full stop to it like this. No. Because this knowledge does not exist. If this knowledge existed, a person who puts a full stop only here, who puts a full stop here like this, would connect all the knowledge to one another. This knowledge does not exist.

If you say 'only with you, Hodja?', I am already telling you my duty. I say: I am the imam of the time. I will explain this. So in this situation, I am not saying everyone's is superstition. That all they know is superstition. Alongside the truths there are also superstitions. They are in contradiction within themselves. They themselves are witnesses to it. They too are in a crisis. We want you to leave your nafs, truly find the truth, and explain the truth to these people, explain what is right. And the religion of Islam truly is the star of the universe. Its star. Man too is the star of the universe anyway.

Yes. In that star, Allah's word will come as a star. Of course, it will come as a light. So let us never bury it in swamps and darkness. For our nafs, for the nest of Satan, for worldly gain. May Allah protect us. Yes.

Some of the prophets are superior to others. Allah spoke with some of them, and some He raised by degrees. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles and strengthened him with Ruh al-Qudus. Had Allah willed, the nations that came after these prophets, after clear proofs had come to them, would not have fought one another.

But they fell into disagreement, and among them some believed and some disbelieved. Had Allah willed, they would not have fought. But Allah does whatever He intends. What does Allah intend? He would create a being that would govern itself. That is what Allah Almighty intended, intended. He wished it. And in this respect He left man free in his own will. So, had Allah willed, they would not have fought. That is, is He saying it is beyond our power? Never. So (?). If I left your will free, you are not without responsibility, He says. So there are many meanings. Some prophets, in terms of rank, are superior to others.

Allah Almighty gave each of them superhuman strength and knowledge. Each of them. Because He gave them the verses. The verses. If inspiration is given to us, revelation is not given to us; inspiration is given. Revelation is for the prophet. That is, the verse comes. Inspiration is the meanings of the verses. So the prophets possess superhuman knowledge and possess wisdom. And they possess strength. Yes. Their being like this, as we explained at the beginning of our book: Allah first, from His light, the light of the Prophet (peace be upon him), then giving that light of His spirit, then creating the spirits of the prophets from the Prophet's spirit, then creating the spirits of their nations from the spirit of those prophets.

The prophets were created stronger and mightier than people, and in reason wiser than people. I want to remind you of that once more. Think of the spirit of the Prophet (peace be upon him) by comparison; this is an example. Let us accept this. He takes a part of it.

He says to it: I will create from you, from your spirit, your nation, from your spirit I will create people. I will send you to them as a prophet. Do you accept? All the first created ones, yes. They gave their word to Allah saying: we accept. There is the verse for you. Allah took a covenant from the prophets. This is the verse. Allah took a covenant from the prophets. To what? In return for that word, when they came as the elders of their nations, when they came, since those spirits were created from his spirit with his nation, when those nations come, He sends him to that nation as the elder, as the prophet.

When the fitra and the characters in them mature over time, they explain Allah to them with that faith. Yes. In this respect, of course, from the spirits created from his spirit, that prophet will be strong and wise.

The Prophet (peace be upon him), by being created first, and

by standing as witness over all the prophets, is superior to the other prophets in rank. In rank he is superior to them.

In coming to the world, too, his being created the wisest and strongest, his being given a heavy burden like the Holy Quran, whose rule will continue until the Last Day, his coming as the last prophet and the Seal of the Prophets, the Prophet (peace be upon him) being superior in rank to the other prophets: this is what it shows. Yes. Above all of them.

Allah Almighty spoke directly with some prophets. As He spoke to Moses on Mount Tur and in Tuwa, appearing in the form of fire. He also spoke with Muhammad (peace be upon him) on the Mi'raj. On the Mi'raj. Among them too, the prophets were raised by degrees according to their state. According to the state of the prophets. Allah Almighty gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles. Jesus's (?), that is, making those born blind able to see, raising the dead, making them speak, and raising the dead; with such miracles He had people confirm that he was a prophet. That He strengthened Jesus with a being He calls Ruh al-Qudus, with His essence, Allah Almighty declares.

(?). Now what does it say here?

At the end of this verse, look what it says now. Open the books, the translations of the Holy Quran. By Ruh al-Qudus, Gabriel is meant. Yes, the knowledge of a person who knows it like this, the degree of his (?), imagine it yourselves. I am not saying anything. So the knowledge learned by learning from one another is one thing; Allah Almighty Himself raising someone is another. What does it say? Even if a person had a life of 500 years and for 500 years they taught that person knowledge, Allah Almighty raising a person in an instant is above that, it says. Because one of them, by hearsay, by hearsay, will put into his head in 500 years however much he can.

But our Lord, with (?), with the inspiration He gives, with the unfolding of his reason, will raise him in an entirely different world. Well now, one of them sees and the other doesn't.

The one who doesn't see: the guide before him with outward knowledge, the guide beside him; however much he explains to him, the guide of the one who doesn't see, the leader beside him, however much he explains to him, if, or rightly, and however much the person understands of it, but the one who sees, who sees (?), if his guide is Allah, he cannot be compared with that one. Yes.

This place, it is worth opening up a little, we said. What? This Ruh al-Qudus. Some commentators, here and in many verses of the Quran, attribute Allah Almighty's miracles to Gabriel the Trustworthy.

These verses will be opened to you as their turn comes. You know, the verses where they keep saying Gabriel, Gabriel, Gabriel, will be opened to you.

Since explaining many verses in the Holy Quran requires the information at the beginning of the book, so as not to explain the same information in detail again, it is worth reading the book from the beginning. For example, in the verses at the very beginning of Surah Al-Baqarah, like Allah Almighty speaking of those who are enemies of Michael and Gabriel, we open them here. That is why these places are not read with half-baked knowledge. This book is a teaching book. You will take it from the beginning. You will go on reading from the beginning. And we too have been explaining to you from the beginning.

And it is impossible for those who have listened to me from the beginning not to see the shortcomings in what those people called scholars say. This is not possible. Because the verses have grown, settled, subconsciously in their memories. This is not my word, but Allah's word has settled in them as a concept. When what people, people called scholars, explain clashes with those verses, people can immediately call it superstition and judge it. But because they don't yet have confidence in themselves, they wonder whether it's right, this person explained it this way, let me ask my hodja, it shouldn't be so; because they lack confidence in themselves, they can get stuck in such a thought.

Yes.

These will be opened to you in these verses when their turn comes, we said. Since explaining many verses in the Holy Quran requires the information at the beginning of the book, so as not to explain the same information in detail again, it is worth reading the book from the beginning. Here we will try to explain these events briefly, specially, we said.

Now in this verse, in terms of meaning, not Gabriel the Trustworthy but Allah Almighty's essence is meant. Let us see how Allah Almighty supported Jesus (peace be upon him) with His essence. The verses of the Holy Quran are built on letters. Allah Almighty, in the Holy Quran, again in Surah Al-Baqarah, in verses 97 and 98, says Gabriel the Trustworthy to Gabriel the Trustworthy.

In one verse Gabriel the Trustworthy is called Ruh al-Qudus.

In one verse Gabriel the Trustworthy is called Ruh al-Qudus. Ruh al-Qudus is separate, Gabriel the Trustworthy is separate. Allah's verses were on letters, you know; they say, don't they, in a verse it is said that Ruh al-Qudus is Gabriel the Trustworthy. Well, if Allah Almighty's verses are on letters, if they are on letters, then here Ruh al-Qudus is separate, Gabriel the Trustworthy is separate. Now in verses 97 and 98, look what it says now: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Man kana aduwwan lillahi wa mala'ikatihi wa rusulihi wa Jibrila wa Mikala fa inna Allaha aduwwun lil-kafirin. Yes, what does it say now?

Say: whoever is an enemy to Gabriel, let him know well that, by Allah's leave, the Quran to your heart as a guide of guidance (?) and in contentment (?) He has sent it down, it says. Here, because they (?), it is a wrongly interpreted verse. Yes, we correct that too, with verse 97, in this way. On condition of saying (?), Allah Almighty sending it down to his heart. Sir: whoever is an enemy to Allah, His angels, His prophets, Gabriel and Michael, let him know that Allah too is the enemy of the (?) disbelievers. This too is a wrongly interpreted verse. We came correcting those anyway. Sir, here a building was built on the wrongly interpreted verses, and superstitions began. Allah's glory and majesty, that miraculous Lord of ours, (?) over people.

Here, if we take the verses as if speaking Turkish, just as we use many words in different meanings with the same word, and compare Allah's word with our speech and take different verses in the same meaning, we will be mistaken, we say. If Ruh al-Qudus is Gabriel, and Gabriel is Gabriel, is Gabriel Gabriel, is Gabriel Ruh al-Qudus, Ruh al-Qudus, who is Ruh al-Qudus? Yes. The whole spirit, the whole self, the whole life, the whole reason is Allah. Ah, the man ascribed attributes to Allah. They say. Allah has eternal attributes, of course. Allah resembles nothing. Well, so Allah has no reason, then?

I am asking now.

How did He create these worlds? If Allah is not the whole spirit, then: they ask you about the spirits, say it is a command of my Lord. So what is this? If not the whole life, what is it? Lifeless, then? Lifeless? Life? He speaks.

Look, this man says He even speaks. I'm not saying it; Allah Almighty says it. Look what He says? Or do they have hands that grasp? Or do they have feet that walk? Or do they have eyes that see? Or do they have tongues that speak? Or do they have ears that hear? Allah says this. You can't draw meanings from it here. What am I to do with you? Yes.

The whole spirit, the whole self, the whole life, the whole reason is Allah. Allah Almighty has also given parts of these to people. What did we say? (?). If you take a drop from the sea, that drop the properties of the sea carries. The words always confirm one another. (?). What does Allah Almighty say? To whomever we gave knowledge, we gave wisdom, He says. What did we say? Wisdom is the ability of insight. That insight is sensed with a knowledge that always knows the right and the truth. In that insight, all the verses come before a person's eyes, and a judgment is given under those verses. Wisdom, this is wisdom.

Wisdom. Allah does not make a person speak wrongly. He makes him speak incompletely. He does not make him speak wrongly. Hodja, what is incomplete, what is wrong? Wrong is words that don't fit together; incomplete speaks the second meaning, the third meaning, the fifth meaning, the seventh meaning, the tenth meaning. Yes.

Let us listen to the words well, weigh them well.

The whole spirit, the whole self, the whole life, the whole reason is Allah. Allah Almighty has also given parts of these to people. In this respect man has become: laqad khalaqnal insana fi ahsani taqwim. I created man in the most beautiful form, says Allah Almighty. That is, man, has been honoured with the address: I created man in the most beautiful form. Allah Almighty addressed only man with His word. (?). He willed that His essence be known through man.

Why did He will that His essence be known through man? Did He not create the jinn and the angels before man? No. He did not. Well, Hodja, you really are very ignorant. Don't we know that the jinn lived before coming into the world? Now I will explain. Let us see who is ignorant. Before the worlds were created, in order to see His essence as a (?), Allah Almighty, who created the light of His Beloved, then gave it of His spirit, then from those spirits the spirits of the prophets, and from the spirits of those prophets created the spirits of people, raised them to the barzakh. So long before that, after that, you know, from the light of the Prophet He created a substance.

He divided that substance into four. From one quarter of it the earths, the earth; from one quarter the heavens; from one quarter what is between them; from one quarter water He created. And we said: settle upon the water, He says. That is, that the life of everything is from water, that without water there is no living. Sir, in this case, were those created from his light created first, or were those created from the existence of that being created first? In the order of coming to the world, the first created, the first of the universe, the first of the creation of the universe. Who? The Prophet.

The first of creation.

Look, I'm not saying of the Creator. The Creator is first anyway. Huwal awwalu wal akhiru waz zahiru wal batin. Pay good attention to my words, don't be mistaken. That first created one, and the universe was created from him: although these worlds were created from the light of Muhammad (peace be upon him), does his coming last as the Seal of the Prophets indicate that the Prophet was created last? People's knowledge is very incomplete, very incomplete. That is why, without the root of that knowledge, the verses cannot be opened. You cannot know these. You cannot translate these verses with Arabic words. Because those worlds have no visible appearance.

You can only stay with the outward meaning. (?). If you try to open them, you fall into disbelief.

Yes.

Pay good attention to my words. Now we are saying many things here.

He willed that His essence be known through man. In this situation man has become subsistent through Allah. Look. Will you be able to understand this? He has become subsistent through Allah. That is, Allah Almighty gave him of His spirit. Since that spirit is immortal, in paradise and in hell they are eternal, these. Because they are immortal. And since Allah is eternal, they became subsistent through Allah. Yes. But if you can't fit this into your small mind, you go to disbelief; ah, if there is a problem that would lead to disbelief, tell me and I'll explain it to you more deeply, or more knowledgeably, or more with verses; otherwise some listen to me, (?) they listen too, they fall into great error here.

When they fall into error, let them ask. Let them ask with questions.

In this situation man has become subsistent through Allah. Leaving the bodies, which are a trust, through death in the material world, in the hereafter Allah Almighty will resurrect our bodies so that they are made to testify to the spirit, and after they are made to testify to the spirit, He will make our bodies die again. So the verse 'we bring you to life twice and cause you to die twice' will be manifested both in this world and in the hereafter. The death here is the death of the bodies. There is no death over spirits. In this respect people are everlasting in paradise and hell. So people's being subsistent through Allah is that in the hereafter too, being in need of Allah, in an eternal life, there is no more death.

Yes, in this situation, if it says Ruh al-Qudus, Qudus means exalted and holder of the secret. And this can only be Allah's essence. Since the whole spirit is Allah, Ruh al- Qudus, that is, that spirit which holds the secret, is nothing other than Allah Almighty's divine essence. All beings were created to serve man. And man, by creation, is the most excellent of all beings. He is superior to the angel and to Gabriel. Man's superiority comes from Allah Almighty giving man a part of His spirit. From his being from His essence. In this respect, apart from Allah, no one can teach man, and from His directing them.

'Cannot teach', what do we say? And from His directing them. In this respect, apart from Allah, no one can teach man and no one can direct them. No one can direct man. Only those who follow their nafs, who with their own nafs follow Satan's temptation, follow Satan with their own wishes and desires. Allah Almighty, in a verse: had we wished, we would have created you as a single nation, He declares. Accordingly, since Allah Almighty left man free in his own will, people, by directing themselves, become subject to good and bad deeds.

What does it say? Of the prophets, some are superior to others. This belongs to the group of wrongly interpreted verses. We have opened this place correctly. What does it say? Verse 253: we made some of those prophets superior to others, it says. We made them superior. Allah Almighty did not interfere even with the will of the prophets He created. Within their understanding He made a covenant with them, and in proportion to that covenant He gave everyone their wish as their destiny. In this situation, if Allah Almighty had removed people's will and used His own will over people, those prophets too, like the others, would have said: why did you not create me in the state of Muhammad (peace be upon him)?

That is, an attribute would be ascribed. In this respect, if everyone's own wish and desire became their destiny, if their wish became their destiny, Allah Almighty created none superior to another. He created all of them equal, but He classified them according to their wishes and desires, ranked them. And accordingly, what did He say now? Some of the prophets are superior to others. Yes. That is the origin of it anyway, according to the verses. We always speak according to the verses. So because people interpret the verses wrongly, what do they say, for example? Allah created some prophets superior to others, they say.

Right, our Prophet is above all the prophets, they say. For example, Jesus and Moses are superior to the others. Superior to the prophets created from other things, to the prophets whose names are not mentioned. With such things they draw a path for themselves by reason. By reason. Because a path is drawn by reason, some matters end in dead ends. But here the verses are always rooted. Never did Allah Almighty create some people superior to others. He created all of them equal. He even says in a verse: we divided even the world equally among you. Yes. We divided even the world equally among you.

In this situation Allah Almighty did not create some people superior to others. But people, the Prophet, I mean the prophets, since from the first spirit of the Prophet (peace be upon him) they were created, their wishes they desired became their destiny, and Allah Almighty, who knows these destinies best, ranked them. So some of the prophets are superior to others. Look how the order fits according to the verses. If there is the opposite, let it convince me, the opposite. But here, as they say, that is, as they interpret it. In our Quran it is interpreted that way anyway. Among the wrongly interpreted verses.

Yes. Allah Almighty never creates certain ones. But you will say: why? The Prophet is superior to all of them. He is the first created. This reason is our Lord's wish. That wish, what was the wish? He would create a human. A human. Yes. And that human would know his Lord by his own will. So in this situation. Because he is the first created, he is the most senior, the very first of the created. The first of the created. Yes. And since our universe was created from his light and people from his spirit, the Prophet (peace be upon him) has a distinction. In this respect, too, Allah Almighty says to him: wa ma arsalnaka (peace be upon him) illa rahmatan lil alamin, I sent you as a mercy to the worlds.

Yes. We read the verse now; after explaining it this much, we read the verse. Some of the prophets are superior to others. Allah spoke with some of them. With whom? With Moses, and with the Messenger of Allah on the Mi'raj. And some He raised by degrees. By degrees. Sir, like Moses and Jesus, He raised them by degrees. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles. And we strengthened him with Ruh al-Qudus. So when they say this Ruh al-Qudus, this Ruh al-Qudus they describe as Gabriel the Trustworthy. Never can Gabriel support a prophet, strengthen him. What does it say? We strengthened. He cannot strengthen.

A prophet, I say it again, no angel can strengthen. Because people are far superior to angels. Because in man there is the spirit of Allah Almighty. In this situation Ruh al-Qudus is Allah Almighty Himself. Look: the one who holds the secret, Qudus, the very exalted, the very exalted Qudus, the holder of the secret, with the very exalted holder of the secret we supported. Who? From His essence. So all the commentaries: no, Gabriel did this, Gabriel did that. And here too, in some things, in the translations, what does it say? Sir, by Ruh al-Qudus Gabriel is meant, it says. (?). Gabriel is meant. Yes.

Gabriel cannot strengthen anyone. (?). Sir, Gabriel taught the Prophet. That's what they say. If Gabriel had taught the Prophet, an attribute would be ascribed to Allah. What would He have done? He would have had that holy spirit, which He created from his light, taught. Then an imbalance would have arisen. In this situation the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: my Lord educated me, He educated me well.

Allah Almighty, who created the Prophet before the worlds were created, when sending His verses to us, by using the words 'remember' and 'have you not seen' in His verses, speaks of the realm of the Messenger of Allah before he came into the world. Look what it even says in the wording of a verse. You were hoping that this Quran would be given to you, it says. He knew it way back there. He knew it from the beginning. The Messenger of Allah. For them to be able to grasp the secret of the verses, Allah Almighty must raise a person from among us. Otherwise for a person to open these by learning Arabic words from his teachers is not possible. It is possible to open the verses.

I always say this. Yes. And look, I always support what I say with verses. Every reason knows its Lord. Every reason. It knows what is right and good. When I explain according to my own reason, I don't take the wrong for right. I explain according to the verses. I know the right as right, and the wrong as wrong. Yes. In this situation Ruh al-Qudus is not Gabriel. It is Allah Almighty Himself. Let me remind you of one more thing, one more verse. O Mary, today they will ask you questions. Say: I am fasting, He says. Show the child, He says. Allah Almighty, with His power, makes Jesus speak. With whom did He support him then?

I am asking now. Is this Gabriel (peace be upon him)? Did Gabriel (peace be upon him) enter his spirit and make him speak? Did Gabriel (peace be upon him) say this to Mary, and so the child spoke like this?

Yes. These are not things to be said by reason. One must know the verses thoroughly.

Let us come reading the verse once more. Some of the prophets are superior to others. Allah spoke with some of them. And some He raised by degrees. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles. And we strengthened him with Ruh al-Qudus. Yes. Had Allah willed, the nations that came after those prophets, after clear proofs had come to them, is Gabriel bringing these proofs? Is Gabriel creating these proofs? Yes. He Himself already says here that it is Allah. It is also understood from the rest of the verses. The nations that came, after clear proofs had come to them, would not have fought one another.

Because Allah Almighty did not create people to shed blood on earth. As servants of their Lord, if they had known their Lord as La ilaha illallah, as a single god, and had known that their return is to Allah, if after so many clear miracles they had not associated partners with Allah and had relied on Him, the earth would have turned into a festive atmosphere, says Allah Almighty. Yes.

They would not have fought one another, but they fell into disagreement, and it is shown that among them some believed and some disbelieved. They fell into disagreement. Why did they fall into disagreement? Because our spirits created in the realm of lahut, when at the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm they were honoured with our Lord's word, their wishes and desires were written for them as destiny, and the writing of that script they will act out in the material world, of course.

Had Allah willed, they would not have fought. But Allah does whatever He intends. Of course. What does it say? Had Allah willed, they would not have fought. That is, what does He say in a verse too? Had we willed, we would have created you as a single nation. In support of that verse. Had we willed, we would have created you as a single nation. And you would only have obeyed like the angels. But Allah does whatever He intends. Do you know what lies beneath this? But whatever Allah intends: I will create a being that will know me by its own will, He says. Without any pressure on its own will, without in any way using force with torment, I will leave it free in its own will.

So Allah's willing upon this wish of His: the part He gave of His spirit, from which He created man, some of it believed in the whole, some separated from the whole, turned its back on it, went to shirk. So Allah's intention was to create a being that knows me by its own will. Yes. What does it say? But Allah does whatever He intends; He does, of course. They did. He created it this way. So some believed and some disbelieved.

How clear the verses are. How beautifully Allah speaks with people. How beautiful. As if He has come before you and advises you this way.

Is such clear speech possible in people's writings? Yes.

Let us read our commentary.

Some prophets are superior to others in terms of rank;

Allah spoke with some of them, and some He raised by degrees. In the meaning of the verse: Allah Almighty: some prophets are superior to others in terms of rank. Allah Almighty gave each of them superhuman strength and knowledge. Here, although they are prophets, compared to people they possess a distinct knowledge and a superhuman power and strength, the prophets. Because the spirits of their nations were created from them, and they are strong. They are strong-willed. They are knowledgeable, raised by Allah.

That is the meaning of what I said. Some prophets are superior to others in terms of rank. Allah Almighty gave each of them superhuman strength and knowledge. Their being like this, as we explained at the beginning of our book: Allah first, from His light, the light of the Prophet (peace be upon him), then giving that light of His spirit. Then from the spirit of the Prophet (peace be upon him) creating the spirits of the prophets. Then by creating the spirits of the nations from the spirit of those prophets, the prophets were created stronger and mightier than people, and in reason wiser than people.

Yes. They are wiser. Because they are the first created from the Prophet. In this respect the Prophet (peace be upon him), by being created first and

by being held as witness over all the prophets, is superior to the other prophets in rank. In coming to the world too, his being created the wisest and strongest, his being given a heavy burden like the Holy Quran, whose rule will continue until the Last Day, his coming as the last prophet and the Seal of the Prophets: this is the Prophet (peace be upon him) being superior to the other prophets in rank. Yes.

Allah Almighty spoke directly with some prophets. As He spoke to Moses on Mount Tur and in Tuwa, appearing in the form of fire. He also spoke with Muhammad (peace be upon him) on the Mi'raj. Among them too, according to the state of the prophets, they were raised by degrees. Allah Almighty gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles. Jesus's (?), that is, making those born blind able to see, this is among Jesus's miracles. Making a bird of clay and making it fly, saying 'by Allah's leave', making it fly, raising the dead: He gives Jesus clear miracles. And with miracles such as raising the dead He had people confirm that he was a prophet.

That He strengthened Jesus with what He calls Ruh al-Qudus, His very essence, Allah Almighty declares.

It is worth opening this place a little, we said. Before opening it, let us first say this. One more confirmation, a stronger confirmation. A strong confirmation that Allah Almighty strengthened Jesus.

When they seized Jesus and imprisoned him in the synagogue, Allah Almighty calling him to His presence, his remaining alive in the first heaven. That is, waiting there. He is still alive. Sir, he too will taste death.

When He strengthened him with Gabriel, was it Gabriel who took him out of there and carried him away? And maybe even if Gabriel had taken him out and carried him away. Now listen well. Even if Gabriel had taken him out and carried him away, was he the one who strengthened him? Gabriel too is a trustworthy servant. So here it proves that Allah Almighty strengthened Jesus with His essence Himself. I do not consent at all to people running left and right and sinking into a swamp like that. Let them finally say yes to this. Let them say yes now. The Gabriel era is over.

The Gabriel era is over. That is, in the Quran, Gabriel did that, Gabriel did this. Gabriel (?) that, Gabriel taught this.

Is there no Gabriel role? There is. Where? In bringing the revelation to the Prophet (peace be upon him). He cannot reveal, mind you. Pay attention to the words. Gabriel cannot reveal. If he had the ability to reveal, he too would have to be outside time and space. Because revelation is Allah Almighty, who is outside time and space, Himself speaking to the heart of His prophet by way of communication. This is revelation. That revelation's (?), Allah Almighty sending down the Holy Quran at the Sidrat al-Muntaha to the place called Qadr, and the Holy Quran from that place called (?), taken within surahs, that is, taking the revelation, by Allah's command Gabriel (peace be upon him) reading it to the Prophet (peace be upon him). Reading it.

And when Gabriel (peace be upon him) also read the verse already revealed to the heart of the Messenger of Allah, the two being in the same meaning, the same letters, the same dots, complete, the heart was at peace. Yes. It is worth opening this place a little, we said. Why? This is the holy spirit. That is, Allah Almighty gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles. Jesus's (?), that is, making those born blind able to see, and with miracles such as (?) He had people confirm that he was a prophet. That He strengthened Jesus with what He calls Ruh al-Qudus, His very essence, Allah Almighty declares.

We say it is worth opening this Ruh al-Qudus a little here. Some commentators, here and in many verses of the Quran, attribute Allah Almighty's miracles to Gabriel the Trustworthy. These will be opened to you in these verses as their turn comes. We will open them. They too will come and open them for you. Since explaining many verses in the Holy Quran requires the information at the beginning of the book, so as not to explain the same information in detail again, it is worth reading the book from the beginning, we said to people. Because we come as teachers from the beginning of the book. Here we will try to explain these events briefly, specially.

But although we said so, we explain to you in more detail. Both what we wrote and, beyond what we wrote, more of what our Lord granted us with inspiration, the word I said a moment ago. What does it say? Say: when he was imprisoned in the synagogue, was it Gabriel who strengthened him, and was it Gabriel who, by his own decision, raised him up? It is all Allah's command. So Allah strengthened him with His essence. Yes, so the verses being opened degree by degree, meaning by meaning, together with the verses. Now in this verse, in terms of meaning, not Gabriel the Trustworthy but Allah Almighty's essence is meant.

We have been able to see how Allah Almighty supported Jesus (peace be upon him) with His essence. The verses of the Holy Quran are built on letters. Allah Almighty, in the Holy Quran, again in Surah Al-Baqarah, in verses 97 and 98, says Gabriel the Trustworthy to Gabriel the Trustworthy. In one of His verses Gabriel the Trustworthy is called Ruh al-Qudus. Here Ruh al-Qudus is separate, Gabriel the Trustworthy is separate. Allah's verses were on letters, you know, the letters lined up side by side formed other meanings, you know; here, if we take the verses as if speaking Turkish, just as we use many words in different meanings with the same word, and compare Allah's word too with our speech and take different verses in the same meaning, we will be mistaken.

How well we say it. For example, we say 'gelin terledi' (?), it can be 'gelin' the bride, and it can be 'gelin', come here. Gelin. But what is this 'gelin'? That is Ruh al-Qudus. If this too is Gabriel, if Gabriel too is Gabriel, (?). Allah's essence disappears. His power, His might, His verses, what do they say anyway? In the verse: we gave you clear miracles. Clear signs, we gave clear miracles. Here the name of Gabriel the Trustworthy isn't even there. It can't be. Verses 97 and 98 of Surah Al-Baqarah, look what Allah Almighty says in those verses now. Sir, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Man kana aduwwan lillahi wa mala'ikatihi wa rusulihi wa Jibrila wa Mikala fa innallaha aduwwun lil-kafirin. You know, they interpreted these verses wrongly too.

You know: whoever is an enemy to them, I too am an enemy to them. May Allah protect us. Allah is not their enemy. Look what it says now. Well: whoever is an enemy to Gabriel, let him know well that by Allah's leave the Quran (?) whoever is an enemy to Gabriel and Michael, let him know that Allah too is the enemy of the (?) disbelievers. May Allah protect us. Giving such meanings to these verses leads a person to disbelief. It ascribes attributes to Allah. Allah is no one's enemy. But what does He say? It is the return of the deeds you have earned, and every soul will be called to account with what it has earned.

Today, so that none of you is wronged, everyone will receive the due, the return, of the deed he earned, He says. Allah Almighty. So those people are enemies to their own nafs. The enemies to them are they themselves; they are enemies to their own nafs. Now, since many verses were interpreted wrongly anyway, they always ended up in these dead ends.

Just as you use many words in different meanings with the same word, if we compare Allah's word with our speech and take different verses in the same meaning, we (?). The whole spirit, the whole self, the whole life, the whole reason is Allah. Oh, look, Hoca Efendi says it like this. He says it like this. Allah has eternal attributes. Allah cannot be likened to anything. And Allah the whole life, the whole self? That can't be, they say. Yes, we say it. We say it again. Listen well. Don't look at people's sophistries. If you say 'Hodja, shall we listen to your sophistry then?', I will tell you the verses.

If the verses are sophistry, then I am sophistry too. I will tell you the verses. Be patient a little. What does it say now? The whole spirit, the whole self, the whole life, the whole reason is Allah. (?) is very simple. Very simple. We say Allah Almighty gave man of His spirit. Of His spirit. Those who don't know themselves, besides man, put (?) into some other things, you know; may Allah protect us, these are truly in the very heart of ignorance. Of ignorance; however much knowledge he has, a person unaware of himself who puts the spirit into the cat, the dog, the plant, this and that: truly these are people who hear it from Ahmet and Mehmet, who are in the very heart of ignorance with some words.

Now the spirit is Allah Almighty; what does it say? The verses. My Beloved, they ask you about the spirits; say: it is a command of my Lord. Here you go. So if He gave man of His spirit, the partial spirit is also in man. And we said: from the oceans, if you take a drop, that drop carries the property of the oceans. Just as in man there is reason, there is self, there is life, our Lord too has reason and self and life. (?). It is that simple. But if you can explain it to a person who (?), explain it. If a person has become fixed, a bit more stubborn, it is harder than making a camel jump over a ditch to explain to him.

The camel jumps over the ditch more easily. Compared to him. Yes.

In this respect man has become: laqad khalaqnal insana fi ahsani taqwim. Let us come up a little. What do we say?

The whole self, the whole life, the whole reason is Allah. Allah Almighty has given people parts of these. Of His spirit, that is. In this respect man has become: laqad khalaqnal insana fi ahsani taqwim. That is, I created man in the most beautiful form, He says. That is, man has been honoured with the address: I created man in the most beautiful form.

Allah Almighty, with His word, took only man, man, as His addressee. In the universe Allah Almighty did not take any created being as addressee.

I say it again. Among the beings He created, Allah Almighty did not take any created being as addressee of His essence. Only man was made His addressee. Why? Because He gave him of His spirit. Man is a part of Him. In this respect, if we use our reason a bit like this: in our world there are many created creatures. The wolf, the bird, the dog, the cat, the parrot, the lion, the tiger, or the plants. A person who knows himself, a person who knows himself, does he ever take an animal as his addressee, sit with it, talk with it, can he keep company with it? Even if, like Solomon, he spoke the language of wolves and birds.

For example Solomon, although he spoke with all the wolves, the birds, the flying animals, those walking on the ground, was not the addressee of any of them; he was the addressee only of people. So Allah Almighty too created so many beings; He is the addressee of none of them, He is the addressee only of people. Why? Well, today a father, a mother, with your own child is your addressee, that is, your own kind is your addressee; man with man. Well, if Allah Almighty had taken another being as His addressee, we would say: since our Lord took that as His addressee, then the most honourable created being is that. Since He took it as addressee and speaks with it.

So the most honourable created being is us. What are we? And His saying: I created man in the most beautiful form, in the most beautiful form. Yes. Because the most beautiful attributes and forms, from those forms of Allah Almighty, He has given. (?). Form is separate, attribute is separate, they say. Attribute. Well, isn't this form of mine an attribute? Ignorance? Ignorance. Ignorance. So Allah Almighty made the man He created in the most beautiful form His addressee and spoke with him. With him. Here Allah Almighty, with His word, took only man as addressee. He willed that His essence be known through man.

Through man. Why? What is this? He willed that He be known in His essence through man. So in the universe He gave partial will only to man. Don't forget this partial will. These people have abolished partial will. These people have also abolished the covenant. Nobody knows these. The real main branches. Main branches. If you can't generate current, you can light neither your lamp nor run your motors, your electric motors, nor your television, nor your electric appliances; you can run none of them. The main line is essential. So there is the main line, there is the main line, but if these branches are missing, you fall into the state of an object that doesn't know itself.

What is the main line? Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu. La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah. What else? He knows nothing else. Well, it's there, but you are unaware of yourself. You are unaware of yourself. (?). Yes. In this situation you are neither a lamp nor an object that can serve your surroundings.

We are coming to it.

(?), it says, doesn't it; in this situation man has become subsistent through Allah. Pay attention: each word is an ocean. In this situation man has become subsistent through Allah. Why? Each of them is an ocean.

Let us explain that to you here too. Because Allah Almighty gave man of His spirit. This whole universe will fall into nonexistence. When our Lord creates again, our spirits and our bodies will meet. After our bodies testify against our spirits, they will die a second time. Paradise and hell are everlasting. The spirits too will remain everlasting in paradise and hell. Everlasting. In Allah Almighty: Huwal awwalu wal akhiru waz zahiru wal batin. If He is the First, the Last, the Outward and the Inward, if there is no death for Him, and if people are immortal, if they are immortal as spirits in the hereafter, they are subsistent through Allah.

Because they are a part of Him. It is a being that is subsistent through Allah, in need of Allah. Yes. Yes. Somewhat deep knowledge.

Leaving the bodies, which are a trust, through death in the material world, in the hereafter Allah Almighty resurrects our bodies so that they are made to testify to the spirit; we have tried to open up a little here this word 'subsistent through Allah'. After they are made to testify to the spirit, He will make our bodies die again. So the verse 'we bring you to life twice and cause you to die twice' will be manifested both in this world and in the hereafter. The death here is the death of the bodies. There is no death over spirits. In this respect people are everlasting in paradise and hell; so people's being subsistent through Allah is that in the hereafter too, being in need of Allah, in an eternal life, there is no more death.

In this situation, if it says Ruh al-Qudus, Qudus means exalted and holder of the secret. And this can only be Allah's essence. Since the whole spirit is Allah, Ruh al-Qudus is nothing other than Allah Almighty's divine essence. All beings were created to serve man. This corresponds to the verse: we made man the vicegerent on earth. And man, by creation, is the most excellent of all beings. Wa laqad khalaqnal insana fi ahsani taqwim. He is superior to the angel and to Gabriel. Yes, according to the verse. Man's superiority comes from Allah Almighty giving man a part of His spirit.

What was it? His giving a part of His spirit. Now again our Lord, upon the heart, a beautiful inspiration gives. Look. All the verses of the Holy Quran, He says, (?). When we created people's spirits in the realm of lahut, when we gave them life and said 'I am your Lord', I wonder, in which of the 6,600-some verses of the Holy Quran have we created a spirit other than man and taken it as addressee? How beautifully He says it.

That is Ruh al-Qudus. A part of His spirit that He gave man. And man's creation as the noblest of creatures. And man's being left free in his will. Yes. Man's superiority comes from Allah Almighty giving man a part of His spirit. Yes. So we gave of our spirit only to man, He says. In that verse, in verse 172 of Surah Al-A'raf, we made a covenant with people, that is, with those to be the offspring of the children of Adam. We said: we are your Lord. When He created those spirits in the realm of lahut,

that, (?). Yes, those spirits, those created (?), is there a spirit created other than man, He says. Did we create a spirit? Never. Those spirits He created, He gives to man. Even when He created our father Adam, after putting the spirit into him, after breathing that spirit into him, after giving it, He said to Iblis and the angels: prostrate to him.

They had created this spirit before. Besides it, He created no spirit at all other than man. He gave His spirit to man. Sir, to Jesus, of Mary, by placing his spirit in Mary, by placing it in Mary: the spirit. So that spirit is a part from his Lord. In this respect, apart from Allah, no one can teach man, how well we say it, and no one can direct them, apart from Allah, no one. Only man directs himself, either with Iblis's temptation or with Allah's divine law, if he is using that divine part. Only those who follow their nafs, who with their own nafs follow Satan's temptation, are those who follow Satan with their own wishes and desires.

So nobody can direct man, look. He will again direct himself. Allah Almighty, in a verse: had we wished, we would have created you as a single nation, He declares. That is, we gave your will into your hands. With this partial will, the accursed one will tempt you. And I will show you the truth. Whichever one you follow, you take your place on that side, in its rank, you hold its rank, He says. Allah Almighty, in a verse: (?), He declares. Accordingly, since Allah Almighty too left man free in his own will, people, by directing themselves, become subject to good and bad deeds. Yes.

So in this verse His saying 'we supported him with Ruh al-Qudus' is his being supported by His essence. Here you go: despite my explaining to you with so many verses who Ruh al-Qudus is, if you are still worried,

we can only explain. We are not in a position to make anyone's reason unfold. Because we cannot change anyone's destiny. Not even our own destiny. Because we cannot know what our destiny is. In this respect, we explain. Yes.

One miracle showing that Jesus was supported by Allah is also this: people killed some prophets they did not believe in. And those who sought to kill Jesus too did not succeed. Why did they not succeed? They also killed Zechariah. When he was going to rescue John, the Jews in this situation tried to kill Jesus too. Why could they not kill him? Because he was strengthened by Ruh al-Qudus itself.

Yes. He was strengthened by Ruh al-Qudus. By Allah, with Gabriel. On what Allah protects no power and might can have effect. What Allah protects, no power and might can protect. On the Prophet's emigration from Mecca the Honoured to Medina the Illuminated, as he left his house, his throwing a handful of earth into the eyes of the polytheists: what does Allah Almighty say? My Beloved, it was not you but I who threw that earth into their eyes, He says. Let us see, is it so, as far as one remembers? One: it should be in Surah Ya-Sin, I think. Yes.

Yes.

What does it say? By the Quran full of wisdom, you are surely among the messengers. You are on a straight path. It was sent down by Allah, the Mighty, the Most Merciful. That is, the Quran: their forefathers were warned. For this reason it was sent down so that you warn a people who themselves remained heedless. By oath, most of them have deserved the punishment of their heedlessness. Because they do not believe. It continues here.

What does it say? Surely it is only we who give them life. The miracles given to Jesus.

Now, here, (?), but we will find that too one day, God willing, in the verse; in this situation, what Allah Almighty protects, what do we say, no one can protect. At Badr, Allah Almighty helped the Prophet with three thousand angels. Three thousand angels standing in rows. Sir, it says of them: you did not throw, (?), in the Hadith it isn't. It was not you who threw them; we threw with our power, He says. We threw. Their being struck, the angels killing the marked enemies who were to be struck.

By Allah Almighty's miracles, from the opening where the bell was in the synagogue, he was brought to the first level of heaven; he could not be killed. This too, showing us that Jesus was supported and protected by Allah, is among his clear miracles. Had Allah willed, the nations that came after the prophets, after clear proofs had come to them, would not have fought one another. Allah Almighty declares thus. Surely, if Allah had a willing over people, since no one would go against His command, people as a single nation would have been created. No one would fall into division in worshipping Allah.

By Allah Almighty leaving people free in their own will, making His essence known to them in the unseen realm through prophets and books, making a covenant with each at the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm and giving people their covenant as their destiny, through people committing good and bad deeds within their own will, they will be called to account in Allah's presence. So people's destinies were written for them as a script. People who come to the world, within their destinies, act out this script as actors. In this situation every soul holds itself as witness before Allah. Yes. So

people, in order to be able to earn good and bad deeds, were left free in their own will. Why were they left free? He would create a human who, by his own wish and desire, without any pressure or coercion on him, would know his own Creator.

So this knowing or not knowing would be left to man's own wish and desire. Within this wish and desire that was left to them, people would act in the direction of knowing their Lord or not. In this respect these people on earth, those who know and those who don't, since they fell into opposite divisions, would fight one another. Just as in Islam one's life, blood, property and honour are forbidden to one another, his life, blood, honour and property are forbidden to the other, sir, of course property too, except (?). That is not counted forbidden. Actually his life, blood and honour are forbidden to him.

If we had been a single nation, since our lives, our honour, our blood would have been forbidden to one another, we would have spread an atmosphere of brotherhood on earth. Just as Allah Almighty in His verse says a believer can never kill a believer. It only happens by accident. So it explains it in the verse. In this situation the earth too would have turned into a festive atmosphere. So since our Lord left people free in their own will, people on earth, with their own wishes and desires, the script they had written in the hereafter, in that realm of lahut, pouring it with their wishes and desires into actual deeds in this world, they act as the actors of that written script.

And in this situation they receive, they earn, good and bad deeds.

After that, in this situation, every soul holds itself as witness to itself, to its surroundings and to Allah Almighty. But Allah does whatever He intends. Surely Allah the Creator is free in His own will. This 'free' is supported by this verse: When we intend a thing, to create a thing, we only say to it 'be', and it is. So what did we say? According to this verse, sir: but Allah does whatever He intends. This is a verse that corresponds to that word and confirms it. In our word, surely Allah the Creator is free in His own will, we said. No one can interfere with what Allah Almighty creates, and no one can call Him to account. He only does; He creates without fault and creates everything in its proper place. No one can question Him. Yes. No one can encompass and perceive Him. That is, in this world no one can see with this eye and say this is Allah. And this supports this verse: We are in an unseen world in this realm.

We came in the unseen. We came to faith in the unseen. Not in the unseen realm, but in the world realm we came to faith in the unseen. To faith in the unseen. That is, a realm where our Lord is not seen; here the meaning goes very deep, very deep. Like what? He encompasses and perceives all that He created, that is, He knows and sees everything. But we, in an unseen realm, cannot encompass and perceive. In an unseen realm. How do we know? As Mary saw, you know, Mary saw him in human form and said 'I take refuge in Allah from him', it was Ruh al-Qudus; and it says: they ask you about the spirits, say it is a command of my Lord. Just as from His spirit He created the spirit of the Prophet, and from his spirit the spirits of the prophets, so from His own existence too He manifests His spirit whenever He wishes, wherever He wishes.

This is Allah's (?). He is aware of everything. He created everything under His rule. So we cannot know who is who. Our ancestors said this in a veiled phrase like this: Count every day of yours as a feast day, and everyone who comes to your door as Khidr, they said. Yes. What if it's Khidr? What will Khidr do for me?

But he is a servant of Allah; I love him, of course. I love him. Loving those who love Allah is one thing, they say. Expecting something from them is quite another. A person goes to shirk; may Allah protect us. So it is a hidden realm. What are we saying here now? (?). But Allah does whatever He intends. Surely Allah the Creator is free in His own will. We opened that place. No one can interfere with what Allah Almighty creates, and no one can call Him to account. We opened this place too. No one can encompass and perceive Him. We opened this place too. But Allah encompasses and perceives all that He created.

Amen. So, since people were created deficient in reason, we cannot know what Allah, who is the whole reason and who created the universe, intends. Completely, without fault, only Allah knows. Whatever He intends, He creates it in the best way, without fault, and carries it out.

We said. Put a full stop to the verse. Yes.