Al-Fath 25: They are the ones who deny, and who prevent you from visiting Masjid al-Haram and prevent the sacrifices to reach their destination. Had it not been that you would unknowingly clash against mu’min men and mu’min women—whom you don’t know and be saddened by it (Then, Allah would allow that fight). Allah has made so to have mercy upon those who desire (from Allah). If they would be separated from each other, We surely would make the deniers suffer a severe punishment.

Yes, let us read verse 25 of Surah Al-Fath, a bit at length; we read the wrong one. They are the ones who disbelieved and your visit to the Masjid al-Haram and barred the detained sacrificial animals from reaching their place." The Prophet, to Mecca, to circumambulate the House, and when he took the sacrificial animals and set out, well, at a place called Aqaba, well, they block their way, and there they come to an agreement.

That year they will not go. They will visit in the following years. In this situation all the noble Companions, to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, they pledge allegiance, they make the pledge. Yes, "they are the ones who disbelieved and barred you from your visit to the Masjid al-Haram, and barred the detained sacrificial animals from reaching their place."

Here, when it is said 'those who prevented the sacrificial animals held back from reaching their place' the sacrifice does not reach Allah. However, it says, the meat and the blood of the sacrifice reach as far as the Ancient House. To the Ancient House, that is, they slaughter the sacrificial animals there, up to the House of Allah. Your acts of worship reach Allah, it says. That is the verse. So what does it say here? "Those who barred the detained sacrificial animals from reaching their place." But people have made these sacrificial animals up into the Sirat Bridge. Well, they say it will carry him swiftly across the Sirat Bridge, it will (?) to Allah.

How beautifully the verses are opened up, and although they are beautiful, how far people have gone into superstition. They even built the Sirat Bridge, you know; even the prophets, while going to the Sirat Bridge, fell into Hell. People who do not know the verses deny, at the very simplest, this verse. "Today, so that no one is wronged, what you have earned, in full, as the recompense of your own (?), will be given to you in full," it says. Well, if before reaching the presence of Allah Almighty, at the Supreme Court, I fell into Hell and, as the Prophet (peace be upon him), suffered all the torments there and then went into His presence, would this befit the glory of Allah?

Would Allah (?) the reckoning and inflict this much torment? Allah, you know, is the Owner of justice. So Allah (?). First a person will be called to account, then he will receive his punishment. Yes. "If it were not for the possibility that you would be grieved because you unknowingly trampled believing men and believing women in Mecca whom you did not yet know, Allah would not have prevented the war," it says. Yes. Among them there were believing men and believing women who could not find a way to emigrate. So Allah Almighty did not let a battle take place there so that no harm would come to them.

"So that He may show mercy to whom He wills" — now here it goes wrong. "Allah did this so that He may show mercy to whom He wills. If they had been separated from one another, We would surely have struck those of them who disbelieved with a painful punishment," it says. Everything in it is correct, and that "whom He wills" part is wrong. Now we read the correct one. "They are the ones who disbelieved and obstructed your visit to the Masjid al-Haram and the detained sacrificial animals' reaching their place, those who prevented it. If, in Mecca, believing men and believing women whom you did not yet know, unknowingly trampling them, there were not the possibility of your being grieved, Allah would not have prevented the war.

Allah did this so that He may show mercy to whoever among you wills it."

Our videos, in which we open up the verses anyway, each verse, opening it up and writing its commentary, and opening up the commentaries even further, are available on our website. But here too some emotional matters arise, and it is not possible to tell them as well. For example, what does it say: if, in Mecca, the (?) men and the (?) women whom you did not yet know, unknowingly trampling them, there were not the possibility of your being grieved. Indeed, you engaged in battle and you were going to take that place. Allah Almighty would certainly have helped the Muslims to break the back of disbelief.

Just as He helped at Badr with three thousand angels, and after that with two thousand angels, just as He would help with five thousand angels. Well, here too, breaking the back of disbelief, well, He made them take that place. But those believing men and women whom you did not know, well, because they would be crushed in between, that is, perhaps they would be killed, they would be crushed, it says. Because you would kill them unknowingly, and later, when you understood that they were believing men and women, you would be grieved, Allah Almighty prevented this grief Almighty for you, it says. How beautifully it says it.

How nicely He puts it. Look, "if, in Mecca, believing men and believing women whom you did not yet know, unknowingly trampling them, there were not the possibility of your being grieved," it says, "Allah would not have prevented the war." He would not want you to grieve either, it says. Allah Almighty loves the noble Companions so much. "Allah did this so that He may show mercy to whoever among you wills it," it says. Whoever wills it. "If they had been separated from one another, We would surely have struck those of them who disbelieved with a painful punishment," it says. If the believers had been separated from among the polytheists of Mecca, We would have struck those Meccans, He says, with a painful punishment, He says.

Yes, how nicely Allah Almighty puts it, how nicely He opens up His verses to people. Yes.