Al-Hajj 52: (Oh My Messenger!) We have not sent any Messenger before you whom Shaytan has not tried to mix into (worldly desires) when they asked for something. But Allah places Allah’s verses solidly (in terms of wording and meaning). Then, what Shaytan tries to mix in (against the truth) becomes invalid (inside the person’s heart). Allah is Aleem (All-knowing) and Hakeem (All-Wise).

Surah Al-Hajj, verse 52, a wrongly interpreted verse. Let's look at it in the translation we have written, let's look, let's look. Surah Al-Hajj, verse 52.

What is the wrong one I am reading to you? Listen carefully. Where is the mistake?

There is no mistake in the verse, mind you. Allah forbid. Allah Almighty says in His verse: We sent down the Quran. And We are its guardian until the Day of Judgment. No (?) or (?) is made in a single letter of it, He says. Yes. O Muhammad! We sent no messenger or prophet before you but that, when he made a wish, Satan would by all means try to add human desires to his wish. Correct. Now listen. However, Allah cancels what Satan adds. Tell it to the back of my ear. Allah does not cancel what comes into anyone's heart, even if he is a prophet. Even if he is a prophet. So what happens? Look what the verse says: To My servant who knows Me, Satan's temptation is ignorant.

It is ignorant. Look, what do we say? However, Allah establishes His own verses firmly in wording and meaning. Then what Satan adds is false; in the face of truth, in the person's heart it is cancelled.

We will settle the verse firmly in your heart, He says. Do not move your tongue ahead of Me, He says. We will place it firmly in your heart, He says. In this case, in the face of the verses coming into the heart of the Prophet (peace be upon him), with the temptation Satan gives that person, the Prophet, through the manifestation of those verses in his heart with one another or their support, knows that Satan's temptation is ignorant, and Satan's temptation is cancelled.

I don't know Arabic. But this is the meaning of the Arabic. How do you know? Most people do not know inspiration. When Allah makes known the meanings of the verses to our hearts through inspiration, it is impossible that Satan does not also slip something in from the side.

You compare. You compare it with what comes through inspiration. When you set it against hadiths and verses, you know his temptation is ignorant, and it is cancelled, it passes and goes. Just as if sinking into darkness.

Writing a translation of the Quran is not done by knowing Arabic. You write this much. Because your understanding is only that much. And then you get irritated with Metin Hodja. Of course you do. Instead of being irritated with Metin Hodja, if you paid attention to Metin Hodja's words, and in your capacity as holders of a certain position gave this man a direction, or else, if it is true, as people worthy of that position, to hold that place, embraced the truth and helped, what would happen? You would raise your rank in Allah's sight — but if your rank is not at that level, of course you will oppose.

Yes.

Now the situation is understood, I suppose.

Now we will read the verse once more, the wrong version and the correct version. Listen carefully. O Muhammad! We sent no messenger or prophet before you but that, when he made a wish, Satan into his wish — into his wish would by all means try to add human desires — into his wish, it says. Whereas the Prophet has no wishing of his own. Our Lord raised him. I swear by my Lord who (?) the hand of power over my soul, he says. So, according to the verse "he does not speak from whim," he says only what Allah Almighty says. So listen carefully. Satan would by all means try to add human desires to his wish.

However, Allah cancels what Satan adds. Then Allah establishes His own verses firmly in wording and meaning. Allah is All-Knowing, possessor of judgment and wisdom. Now I read the correct one. O Muhammad! We sent no messenger or prophet before you but that, when he made a wish, Satan would by all means try to add human desires to his wish. However, Allah sets His own verses firmly, in wording and meaning, in place. Then what Satan adds — cancelled. The thing is false. In the face of truth it is cancelled in the person's heart. Allah is All-Knowing. He is the possessor of judgment and wisdom. It is cancelled in the person's heart.

This is general. Revelation to the prophets. That is, the verse comes.

And inspiration comes into the hearts of the heirs too. With that inspiration the meaning comes together in this way. Then what Satan adds is false. In the face of truth it is cancelled in the person's heart, we say. This happens with the prophet. If revelation comes. If it comes with its meaning clear: the meaning of the verse, as inspiration, to the prophet's heirs; they too, in the face of the verses, understand that this is false, and Satan's temptation is cancelled. Yes. Allah Almighty speaks with His prophets by way of revelation. We also explained revelation in earlier verses.

Since Allah Almighty is beyond time and space, it is His speaking to His prophets, who are in time and space, to their hearts by way of communication. So, all the prophets who came before the Prophet (peace be upon him), when they made a wish to Allah Almighty, in response to this wish the accursed one immediately steps in, and, as if it were revelation from Allah, mixing worldly desires with some truths, wants to confuse the prophets. Yes.

These words — although we say "prophet", the heirs of the prophet are also included in this, in these words. That is, with the prophets who receive revelation, in response to revelation, the verses clearly — when Allah Almighty makes known to a scholar's heart through inspiration the meaning of the verse, with Satan's same treatment again — I am combining the words here. What am I saying? When they made a wish to Allah Almighty, in response to this wish the accursed one immediately steps in, and as if it were revelation from Allah, mixing some truths with worldly desires, wants to confuse the prophets.

When inspiration comes, he wants to do the same thing. Against this confusion by Satan, Allah Almighty sets His own verses firmly, in wording and meaning, in the heart. This is (?). In inspiration He supports; He supports a verse with verses. This verse from that verse, this verse from that verse, in this hadith, in the way you should take it, He settles it in your heart. If you are not at such a station, you are not a scholar. If you are not at such a station, you are not qualified to write Quran translations. Because you cannot grasp the meaning in the verses of the Quran.

There are verses about this. What does it say in the verse? If We give someone knowledge, We give wisdom along with it, He says.

So, the knowledge of the people raised by our Lord — what is the wisdom within it?

Being able to understand the essence of the meaning in that verse is its wisdom. What does He mean in this verse? If this person cannot understand these, he cannot bring the verses together.

This is what Allah Almighty gives to the heart of a person He has raised: a wisdom.

These people are charged with a duty. Charged with a duty. I don't know how much more plainly I can say it.

May Allah grant awakening.

Allah Almighty speaks with His prophet by way of revelation. We also explained revelation in the earlier verses. Since Allah Almighty is beyond time and space, it is His speaking to the hearts of His prophets who are in time and space, by way of communication. So, all the prophets who came before the Prophet (peace be upon him), when they made a wish to Allah Almighty, in response to this wish the accursed one immediately steps in and, as if it were revelation from Allah, with some truths mixing worldly desires, wants to confuse the prophets.

Against this confusion, this confusion of Satan, Allah Almighty places His own verses firmly in the heart, in wording and meaning. He does not look at what Satan says. Allah Almighty places His own wording in the heart, the verses in the heart of the prophet. Then what Satan adds is false. In the face of truth it is cancelled in the person's heart. He sees that the mind will know what is right. Allah's verses will support one another. Satan's, however, is false, and this (?). In that person's heart the temptation Satan gives becomes evident. And in this case it is cancelled. it is because we live it, but with what is called revelation — Allah forbid — regarding the meanings of the verses, with the wisdom our Lord gave him, gave us, understanding what meaning they carry — meanwhile, while explaining, by way of communication, while it is made known through inspiration, he too gives a temptation from the side; it is clear, a second person, it becomes clear, but you don't look at it at all, because on the other side strong verses are opening up.

It drops you into an ocean. If you throw a stone into the sea, it spreads out wave after wave, like this. When, with that inspiration Allah gives to a person's heart, the verses are made known to you, meaning after meaning opens up like this. Meaning after meaning. A person drowns in an ocean. An ocean. Yes. This is Allah's mercy.

Allah's word, however, is complete and meaningful. As these meanings open up, it is like an ocean in which they support one another. So, in response to the temptation that Satan presents as revelation, Allah Almighty, when He places His own word in His prophet's heart, deep-rooted and firm in wording and meaning, the temptation that Satan wants to give the heart as if it were revelation disappears of its own accord.

A person who cannot live these things cannot possibly explain them either. Open this verse. Whatever anyone has written — can you find the commentary there? Go through all the commentaries. Because people have no lived experience. Yes.

So the temptation given by the accursed one is thus cancelled in the face of knowledge and truth. At that moment the prophets' hearts, with guidance, in peace and with zeal, affirm the truth. Although we speak of the prophets' word — revelation to them — as heirs we too live these things. Inheritance. If the father has a trillion, that child is his heir. If the father has a house, he will live there. An heir. Yes. Allah Almighty sending this verse in this way is also an answer to people who would speak as follows.

Yes.

Is there no human addition in the Quran? For those who can say: how do we know Muhammad (peace be upon him) did not transfer his own feelings into the Quran and add them — He sent it as an answer to them. In short, if we are to answer this too: Muhammad (peace be upon him) came as a mercy to the worlds. When the prophets before him came with feelings, with wishes to Allah, the accursed one would step in. But as explained above, when Allah, deep-rooted and in wording and meaning, places His word firmly in the prophets' hearts, the temptation of the accursed one is cancelled in the prophet's heart and disappears.

In this case the prophets are continually guided. The prophets took a pledge from Allah. And Allah confirmed their word. And Allah is their witness. I will send you to your peoples as great ones, as messengers. Do you accept? Yes, we accept, they said. Yes, He will send them as such. And I am among those who bear witness with you, says Allah Almighty. So, apart from Allah's revelation, to people they do not speak by adding their own words. So when Allah Almighty, who will not send another prophet, ended prophethood with Muhammad (peace be upon him), then to remove the questions that would come to people's minds, in the Quran, in a way every mind can understand, He gives examples with His verses.

Muhammad (peace be upon him) is not like the other prophets. Since he is the first created, he is a prophet raised by Allah in the realm of the hereafter. For this reason, the Prophet (peace be upon him) saying in one hadith: my Lord educated me, and educated me well; and in another hadith: by Allah, in the hand of whose power my soul is, I swear — shows that into the feelings of the Prophet (peace be upon him) Satan cannot enter and can never give him temptation. Thus this hadith supports it as well. He says: I have tied up my satan. That is, Satan can no longer approach the Prophet (peace be upon him) and cannot tempt him. Yes, and I sincerely say: I too have tied up my satan.

Look, this shuts off sometimes. Yes, it shuts off. You'll say, Hodja, how did you tie him up? Doesn't Satan tempt you?

Satan's circulating in the blood vessels, his tempting you doesn't affect us. The verse says: to My servant who knows Me, Satan's temptation is ignorant, doesn't it? If Allah Almighty raised His scholars and made the scholars heirs of the prophet, and if the prophet tied up his satan, we tied ours up too. How did you tie him? Is there a rope in front? We tied him with Allah's verses. Because all our talks are verses. And hadith. In this case, since I don't speak from reason, using reason, rationally, here, we speak. Inspiration that comes to the heart is filtered in the mind, and put into words.

Before being put into words it descends to the heart again; after being affirmed in the heart it is put into words. Therefore the temptation Satan gives us, according to the verse, is ignorant, and in this case Satan is tied up. He has nothing more to do with you. Yes.

We were at two thousand sixty- eight. Yes.

Forty-eight, forty-nine.

He says: I have tied up my satan, it says. That is, Satan can no longer approach the Prophet (peace be upon him) and cannot tempt him. Therefore, so that people have no doubt left, in the Quran Allah lays out all events so clearly and plainly.

He also makes known that the feelings, the feelings of Muhammad (peace be upon him) did not mix into the verses of the Quran. Therefore Allah Almighty says: if this were a human fabrication, there would be in it many contradictions that do not agree with one another. That is, not even the prophet's feelings were mixed into it. His own human feelings are not in it. Since it says he does not speak from whim, all of it corresponds to the verses. Allah Almighty is the All-Knowing. Because Allah is the Creator. Since He programmed His creations into His being, He is the one who knows everything down to the finest detail.