Ash-Shuraa 13: Allah has established for you the religion—what was preached upon Noah, what was revealed to you, and what was preached upon Abraham, Moses, and Jesus—so that you should uphold the faith and not be divided therein. What you call them to accept has become difficult for those who associate partners with Allah. Allah has chosen Messengers from among the earliest of creation (The first humans created by Allah, the first souls originating from the soul of our Prophet Muhammad, P.B.U.H.). Whoever turns toward Allah attains guidance.

He gives provision abundantly, and restricts it for those who will. He knows all things, it says.

Verse 13. 'Keep the religion standing and do not fall into division from it, in it.' Keep the religion standing. Why? Hodjas, why? Scholars always say, to strengthen the religion: behave well, be good. Well, the religion: perform your prayers. Keep your fast, give your zakat, turn to good, they say. To soften people's hearts, to help their brothers, their brothers in Islam, to support one another, that is why they say it. And so Allah Almighty, too: keep the religion standing and do not fall into division in it. Now, is there no one who falls into division? 'You are you, I am me,' he says. 'Who are you?' he says. 'Who are you?' 'I am the director of such-and-such place,' he says.

Or 'I'll make a call right now and have you arrested here,' he says.

or he trusts in his money and pushes you around. It is not like that.

Neither fame, nor rank, nor glory, nor pride and arrogance, nor worldly goods count in the eyes of a human being. If he is truly human, he sees man above the worlds. Because Allah created man precious. He gave from His spirit. Yes. 'Keep the religion standing and do not fall into division in it': what He enjoined on Noah, what We revealed to you, what We enjoined on Abraham, Moses and Jesus, Allah has made a religion for you too.

See how beautifully it says it. Let me look at this again. Look what comes out here now. What comes out.

Let's say: keep the religion standing and do not fall into division in it. What He enjoined on Noah. Noah, though for 960 years his people shunned him, still said Allah. There is none but Allah. Still he kept it standing. He did not lose heart, that is. When Prophet Yunus fled from his people, it brought about despair. He was thrown into the sea. After he repented, he was brought out. So we will keep the religion standing. We will be upright, upright. We will be upright in religion. Looking at a person's money, a person's rank, a person's, well, strength, power, strength, we will not bow down under his protection.

What does it say now? What He enjoined on Noah, to you, that is, to the Prophet, what He revealed, what We revealed, what We enjoined on Abraham, Moses and Jesus. With Moses the Torah, with Jesus the Gospel; the four books are in the Quran. See how beautiful. What comes out here? 'Whatever We said at the beginning, so it is in eternity too,' He says. 'There is no change in what We say,' says Allah Almighty.

what We enjoined on Moses and Jesus, Allah has made a religion for you too. But this religion you call them to weighed heavily on those who associate partners with Allah. Yes, because it did not suit them. And although they knew that those could bring them no benefit, because they drew strength from being with one another, they could not part from them.

Since they had earlier denied Allah, being lying disbelievers, because their hearts are restless and scattered, they try to cheer themselves up beside one another. They try to get rid of their restlessness. And so they cannot part from one another.

Whereas, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Everyone,

it says, even if they are all on one side, it says, even if they abandon you, even if you are alone, say: the heavens and the earth, the mighty Throne, Allah who owns them is enough for me, it says.

Loneliness does not come from not being together with people.

Many people are with others, yet they are lonely. Loneliness comes from being apart from Allah.

Two shopkeepers; one of them sees that the other keeps not opening his shop. In the morning he sits thinking like this.

The one in the shop opposite says: the man probably has some trouble. He must be bored from loneliness, too. 'Let me go and keep him company,' he says. His friend comes over from across the way and says 'Assalamu alaikum.' The man raises his head and says 'Wa alaikum assalam.' 'I saw you,' he says. 'You are sitting here thinking alone,' he says. 'I said: he is alone, let me go and keep him company. Maybe he has some trouble,' I said. 'I was not alone; when you came to me, I became alone,' he says.

Let's go through it again, reading from the start. I won't explain again what I have explained. 'Keep the religion standing and do not fall into division in it': what He enjoined on Noah, what We revealed to you, what We enjoined on Abraham, Moses and Jesus, Allah has made a religion for you too. 'But this religion you call them to weighed heavily on those who associate partners with Allah.'

What did we say? They try to find peace beside one another. Whereas Allah Almighty says this in a verse: 'If you seek glory and fame, glory and fame are with Allah,' it says. How beautifully He says it. Yes.

'Allah chooses for Himself as prophet whom He wills.' Now look, here: 'whom He wills'.

There is no willing by man here. Here there is Allah's willing. 'Allah chooses for Himself as prophet whom He wills.' Because the prophets, at one time, according to this verse, He created from the spirit of the Prophet. He created them one by one. He Himself created them. He created them all and made a covenant with them. 'I will send you to your people as a great father. Do you accept? And that you will help the prophet I send after you, have you borne witness?' He says. 'Do you accept?' And they say, 'We do.' 'And I too am among the witnesses with you.' So those chosen ones Allah Himself sends, in their time, in His own time.

This is the meaning here. But for the meaning of 'willing', the Turkish wording falls short. We wrote it this way. It falls short. It needs to be opened up a lot. It needs to be talked about as here, but it doesn't fit in there. So we open it up. Those who are curious come and listen to the videos. Yes. What do we say? 'Allah chooses for Himself as prophet whom He wills.' That is, whichever people He will send someone to, He sends him. It is within His own purpose. He created him that way, programmed him that way.

'And whoever turns to Allah attains guidance.' How beautiful. Whoever turns to Allah attains guidance. Yes.

Him who turns to Him, it says, He guides to the right path, it says. No. Whoever turns to Allah attains guidance. Yes.