Al-Fath 10: Behold! Those who pledge allegiance to you (the Prophet) are indeed pledging allegiance to Allah. Allah’s hand is over their hands. So, whoever breaks their oath, breaks it only against themselves; but whoever remains true to what they have pledged to Allah, upon them will be a supreme reward.

In Surah Al-Fath, let us see, in which verses is there a mistake? There is a mistake in verse 10. In verse 10. What does it say? "Surely those who worship you, er, those who pledge allegiance to you are only pledging allegiance to Allah." Yes. Now in a verse, in a hadith, there is a hand above every hand, up to the Supreme Throne, it says. What does this mean? Let us learn this. Then we will understand the verse better. There is a hand above every hand, up to the Supreme Throne. The Prophet ascended in the Mi'raj. In the Mi'raj, the highest horizon's, the highest horizon. What is the horizon? We call the horizon the place where the sky and the earth, that is, the air and the earth meet.

On the horizon, for example. We say, at sea for example, we say a ship appeared on the horizon. Well, in the hereafter too, the place where time and space end and the place where time and space exist. The highest horizon. That is, there is nothing beyond it anymore. He goes outside time and space. There he meets with Allah Almighty. And he takes the hand from Allah Almighty. So the secret of the hadith that says there is a hand above every hand, up to the Supreme Throne, is this as well. The Prophet ascended in the Mi'raj. He met with Allah Almighty. Having taken the hand from Him, those in the world who pledge allegiance to the Prophet have pledged allegiance to Allah. That is exactly what it says.

"Surely those who pledge allegiance to you are only pledging allegiance to Allah. The hand of Allah is over their hands." Oh, how nice, there, we have opened this up. All hands, from hand to hand, from hand to hand to the Prophet, from the Prophet they know Allah (?). "Whoever of Allah's, whoever breaks his pledge" — this part was rendered wrongly, nobody can break his pledge. "Well, he breaks it only to his own harm. And whoever fulfils his pledge with Allah, Allah will give him a great reward," it says. Nobody can break his pledge or step outside his pledge. So what is this? Allah Almighty made a covenant with people at the address "Elestü bi-Rabbiküm".

He wrote their wishes and desires as a scenario for them and wove into each of them as character. Nobody is authorized to change his own character. What does Allah Almighty say? In a verse He says: unless We will, you cannot will. What does this mean? Unless We will, you cannot will. However, He says, changing your destinies is within My power. But, He says, We will, well, never reach into your will and never interfere with you. Because We programmed all the worlds according to your wishes and desires, and with Us there is a book which is preserved in the Preserved Tablet. And accordingly, He says, in this book there is neither any deficiency nor any excess.

And a word has gone forth from Us. What is it? Paradise and Hell. From now on everyone, nobody can change his pledge either. Nor can he step outside his pledge. People assess this matter of not being able to step outside one's pledge like this, but this is not an assessment, it is the truth.

They, He says, set a trap. And Allah Almighty says, We too set a trap. But We are the best of those who set traps, He says. So what is this? A person tries to set a trap outside his destiny. When he sets that trap outside his destiny, he will have harmed the destiny of others. So in the universe, the traps that such people set outside their destiny, Allah Almighty undoes them and puts them back within their own destiny, those people's own destiny. So when He says, We too prepare a trap, but the trap We have prepared is better, He means: without interfering with any human being, within their own destinies, He lets people live their lives to the end, and what kind of person they are He will make them prove to themselves through the deeds they have done, in the hereafter.

Now let us read this once more, after having opened it up this much. "Surely those who pledge allegiance to you are only pledging allegiance to Allah. The hand of Allah is over their hands. Whoever breaks his pledge breaks it only to his own harm. And whoever fulfils his pledge with Allah, Allah will give him a great reward," it says. These verses have been interpreted wrongly here. Now we read the correct one. "Surely those who pledge allegiance to you are only pledging allegiance to Allah. The hand of Allah is over their hands. Whoever turns his back on Allah's covenant and backs out, backs out only to his own harm.

And whoever is true to Allah's words, Allah will give him a great reward." Now here, whoever turns his back on Allah's covenant and backs out — where is that covenant? To Allah Almighty at the address "Elestü bi-Rabbiküm": you are not my Lord, he waited for the Lord in his own imagination. So Allah Almighty too says in His verse: if We had, He says, from the clouds, He says, together with the angels let down (?), He says, We would have made them prostrate, He says. What does this mean? We did not interfere with their own will, and We left them free in their own wills. So what does it say here? Whoever turns his back on Allah's covenant.

That is, when He says, I am your Lord, if he turns his back on Him and waits for the Lord in his own imagination and backs out of Allah's true path, he backs out only to his own harm. And whoever is true to Allah's words, Allah will give him a great reward.