Al-Hajj 50: For those who believe and commit good deeds, there is forgiveness and plentiful provisions.

Surah Al-Hajj, verse 50. For those who believe and do righteous deeds there is forgiveness and abundant provision. The word of Allah Almighty is both outward and inward. A person who has believed in Allah, in this world, however much hardship he suffers, even if he is driven into a tight corner, because this person nourishes his Lord in his heart with love and affection, that hardship feels to him like a festive mood on earth. What are you saying, Hodja, is it really so? Say: by Allah, I live it and I smile. Sometimes I get so distressed. And I also know what will come out of that distress. I smile in my peace.

He says: what a beautiful test from my Lord. Yes. A person lives in a festive mood. But the person who is unaware of his religion and faith, who with his words says "I am a Muslim" and lives with faith in his heart the size of a pinhead, tries to get through all events with rebellion either against those around him or against his Lord. Therefore my advice to you: whatever situation you are in, never compromise on Allah, do not fall behind in worship, continue your duty of servanthood to Allah. If you say it like this: the one who does righteous deeds, that is, who harbors no ill will in his heart toward any person, who to the needy extends his hand, who shares his morsel with someone else, who rushes to help people as much as he can: such a person.

Even toward one who is his enemy, he makes himself loved by him, then puts a curtain between them, and without cutting off dialogue with him in a certain way, with that curtain between them continues his life, preventing people's wrongdoing.

How will you prevent it? How will you help? The Prophet says in his hadith: help the oppressed and help the oppressor too. O Messenger of Allah, we understand helping the oppressed, but how do we help the oppressor? He says: preventing his wrongdoing is helping him. So making yourself loved by him, removing the feelings he has against you, knowing that he is an oppressor, and preventing his oppression through his love for you — that is helping him. When you are such a person, you will have done righteous deeds. You will have risen at night for worship. You will have prayed tahajjud prayers. In your free times between prayers you will have remembered your Lord.

Then, if you continue your prayers together with the night tahajjud prayers, you will attain the Gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow. For those who believe and do righteous deeds there is forgiveness and abundant provision. When it says abundant provision, it is both worldly and otherworldly. Believe me, if you are tight-fisted when giving someone five kuruş, if when giving ten kuruş you don't give it to him, Allah restricts you too. He really does restrict. But the more you give, your Lord pours down and pours down. I am living this. I used to say: my Allah, give to me, and I will give too.

So that I may give, I mean. I give, and Allah gives through Ahmet, Mehmet, Hasan. He gives. And I give too, I distribute it. Thanks be to Allah.

If I see someone destitute, I help.

Some call me, I send three thousand, five thousand.

Those in difficulty call. I help as much as I can.

But you see, Allah Almighty opens your way from the most unexpected places. He opens your way. Anyway, what does it say? Give charity, it wards off much calamity, it says. And they say it well.

As for those who believe in Allah and His prophets, they are under Allah's mercy.

And those under Allah's mercy would not collapse even if you fired cannons at them.

Allah Almighty grants them abundant provision. Those devoted to Allah from the heart, who do not lie for their nafs, who are God-fearing, who pray, who fast and who give zakat, both in this world and in the hereafter attain abundant provision. Just as Allah Almighty does not let the God-fearing believer be overwhelmed in this world, in the realm of the hereafter He also places him in His gardens beneath which rivers flow. Yes.