Al-Baqarah 17: Their (the hypocrites) situation is like the example of a fire that burns (during the night). Who extinguish the fire while it enlightens its surroundings, will cause themselves to stay in darkness. They won’t be able to see anymore.

We come to verse 17 of Surah Al-Baqarah.

Their state, the hypocrites' state, is like one who kindles a fire on a dark night, it says. The hypocrites lit a fire, on a dark night. Those so pitiful that they don't even know what the dark night is, get up and give translations of the verses of the Quran. I call them pitiful.

These people, running after material gain or after fame and glory, saying "this is how I write it", without fearing Allah and His Messenger, without fearing Allah, without shame before the Prophet, they write their writings. Now to you...

look, now: dark... their state, the hypocrites' state, is like one who on a dark night kindles a fire. What is the meaning of the darkness? If he had known the meaning of this darkness, this person would not have fallen into this mistake. Forget the meaning, if he had known the verses, forget the meaning, if he had known the verses, he would not have made the mistake here. And he would not have explained it this way. What does it say now? It is like one who kindles a fire on a dark night. When the fire lights up its surroundings, Allah at once takes away their light and leaves them in darkness, it says.

And yet Allah Almighty sends the Quran to the worlds. A light, a radiance. A book that scatters the darkness in the worlds, brightness, and lights up people's way in light. What are you saying, Hodja? Are you telling the truth? Surah Ibrahim, verse one, listen. Elif Lâm Râ. This Quran is a book We sent down to you, so that by their Lord's permission you bring people out of darkness into light, that is, onto the path of Allah, the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. If He says that, and if the words of Allah Almighty do not contradict each other, these hypocrites will on a dark night light a fire, and Allah will put out their darkness, their fire, and leave them in darkness?

I'm going to say "shame" now, shame. It's shameful. Shameful, a sin.

You, Allah both one... what does it say in that verse? Allah sends the Quran down to earth to bring them out of darkness into light. And those hypocrites light a fire among themselves. And Allah says: why are you lighting a fire? He drowns them in darkness. He leaves them in darkness. What kind of understanding is this?

What does it mean? They cannot light a fire. The fire. The fire is the Holy Quran. Light: just as, in the darkness of the night, when you light a fire it lights up the surroundings, in the same way the Quran lights up the way before people. Their state, the hypocrites' state, is like a fire burning on a dark night. Now, like a fire burning on a dark night. The state of the hypocrites. The fire is burning. The surroundings are lit up. What? The Holy Quran has come before them as proof.

When the fire lights up its surroundings, those who put out the fire leave themselves in darkness. They no longer see. Or those who turn their backs on the fire, who put out the fire within themselves and turn their backs on the fire, leave themselves in darkness. If you say, "So what if I stay in the dark, what's wrong with that?", the road of that darkness goes straight to Hell, right into the very heart of the fire of Hell. The path of light, however, keeps to the straight path, the road to Paradise.

Yes.

So then, so then, They found the field open, unchecked. They gave the Quran meanings. When I was a child I was very naughty, they say.

My mother had a saying for me that I never forget.

"Son, you've found a village without dogs, so you walk around without a stick," she would say.

These too have found a village without dogs and walk around without a stick. But don't worry, Allah will raise a scholar who will break that stick of yours, and on your head He will thus have that stick brought down. He will have that cudgel brought down. Yes.