An-Nur 35: Allah is the (Divine Light) Enlightenment (Nur) of the heavens and the earth. The example of Allah’s Nur (Divine Light) resembles a lamp, in which there is a glass. That glass is inside a crystal lantern. And that lantern is like stars that resemble pearls, on which the shadows of the east and the west do not fall. It is set alight by a blessed (oil from) olive tree, its oil almost radiates light without fire touching it. (This is) Nur upon Nur (Divine Light). Allah makes those (who wish), attain Allah’s Nur. Allah brings examples (like these) to humankind. Verily, Allah knows everything.

In Surah An-Nur, verse 35, there is a mistake. What is it? Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth.

The likeness of His light is like a niche in which there is a lamp. That lamp is in a crystal globe. And that globe is like a pearl. It is like a star upon which the shadow of the east and the west does not fall. Let me open this up a little for you. (?)

When a person, like this, dives into the realm of (?) in his heart, the ones children play with, the glass marbles, you know; inside, the size of that glass marble, multicoloured rays chirp about like this. And they twinkle within a ray. That's what it speaks of. Look what it says. Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. Now, do you know how they explain this? Let's go on opening it up a bit more. These need to be opened up. We do open them up in the tafsir, but here, so that the mistakes are understood better, let's open them up. Allah, they say, with the sun, they say, lights up the surroundings, they say.

He is the light of the earth and sky (?), they say. Yes, the sun smiles (?). In the evening, at night, it gets dark. The moon comes out. Clouds come. It turns pitch dark.

When it says Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth: the seven layers of the heavens He created in harmony with one another, and every object He created keeps turning around its own axis. They neither come closer to one another nor move apart. That is how Allah is the pillar of the heavens and the earth. With the knowledge by which He made the pillar, Allah creates His creation firm. But you will spoil it with your own hands. And we do spoil it. Now, (He is) the light of the heavens and the earth. Now it says: the likeness of His light. The likeness. Like a niche in which there is a lamp.

It is giving the likeness of this light. If He brings a person to that light through that state of unveiling (?), with that light he watches the worlds. And the person who watches the worlds watches the universe before him, the universe. The world? The world, too, is like a marble under his feet. Under his feet. Yes.

That lamp is in a crystal globe. Children's marbles are glass marbles, you know. It is in a globe.

And that globe is like a pearl.

That marble. Like a star: when you look from here, don't you see the stars like this? Sometimes they twinkle, don't they; so inside it too, millions of cells move about twinkling inside such a marble.

And that globe is like a pearl, like a star upon which the shadow of the east and the west does not fall. It says: for the people in whose hearts We place Our light in this way, it likens the east to the rising of the sun. An inner knowledge. To the hearts of those We love, those people who draw close to Us, a knowledge We have given, it says. And it likens the setting of the sun to falsehood. It says: neither the sun of the east nor the sun of the west casts a shadow on it. That is, it likens the sun's rising to outward knowledge, and the sun's setting to falsehood. Neither falsehood, it says, nor the outward casts a shadow on the knowledge We have given to his heart, it says.

Now, aren't you witnesses to this? Can outward knowledge cast a shadow on our knowledge?

Aren't you witnesses to it in the verse? If there is a shadow, then you too, Hodja, are speaking wrongly. Don't let it cross your mind that the Hodja is praising himself. To you, into your mouths