Talk of 11 January 2024

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First (?) let me look; because of the kandil night it says there are 19 lessons, okay.

We left off at page 300,000.

Now it shows up well, doesn't it? Yes, Hodja, it shows. We made this smaller.

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We had left off at Surah Al-Furqan, verse 70. Peace be upon you. Good evening.

Because it is a kandil night, I'll take the chance to tell you a bit from the footnotes. Then we'll talk about tonight's (?), God willing.

Your questions, if you have questions, we'll answer them. Al-Furqan, we left off at verse 70 of the surah. The verse rendered wrongly, we open it for you. Except those who repent, believe and do good deeds; Allah turns their bad deeds into good deeds. Allah is Most Forgiving, Possessor of vast mercy. Yes.

We're reading the, um, thing. Except those who repent and believe; we're reading the correct one. Those who repent, believe and do good deeds are different. What does it say here? Except those who repent, believe and do good deeds are different. Both are the same. They ward off bad deeds with good deeds. Allah (?) their bad deeds with good deeds, it says.

Now here Allah Almighty (?). Yes. But you didn't understand anything at the first reading, did you? Yes. At the first reading, because people are believers. It sounds so nice. They too, good deeds, bad deeds, I mean bad deeds, with their good deeds they ward off. Our Lord is Most Forgiving, Possessor of vast mercy. The wrongly rendered part in this verse is this: Allah turns their bad deeds into good deeds. The correct one: they ward off bad deeds with their good deeds. Now every person, every person, will be called to account for the deeds they have done. In that case, why did Allah Almighty send us to the world?

If He is going to have our bad deeds warded off with good, then why does He make the others do evil? The reason we came into the world is somewhat here; it is deep, but I won't go into the depth, I'll speak on the surface. When I go deep anyway, your minds can't grasp it.

Our Lord, when He made the covenant with us, whether we belong to Paradise or Hell, He knows. But since Allah Almighty is free of deficient attributes, this world He creates, and so that we may be witnesses over ourselves, He creates this world, and with our deeds, our good or bad deeds, we make ourselves witnesses to ourselves, to those around and to Allah, and we go. No one has a word left to say to anyone. That is why Allah Almighty does not interfere with anyone in this world. Although He knows what everyone will do, since every person will receive reward and sin for the deeds they have done, according to His verse saying, every soul shall taste death and to Me is your return, on the Day of Resurrection, at the Great Court, He will take our account.

If a person behaves in the world accordingly, he is cleansed of evil, turns toward good, and strives to be a servant to Allah and of the community of His beloved. Yes. We've explained the wrongly rendered part of this verse. Our Lord does not turn anyone's evil into good; but with His attribute Tawwab He forgives the evils and sins of those who repent. Such people, after repenting, ward off the evil of those who treat them badly with good. Yes. In Surah Ash-Shu'ara, verse 77, there is an error. Know well that they are my enemies. But the Lord of the worlds is my friend.

What does it say? Know well that they are my enemies. Who says this? Abraham. About whom? He says this about the idols. But the Lord of the worlds is my friend.

Where is the mistake? Look now. I'm reading the correct one. Know well that I am their enemy.

Now there is no life or soul in idols, so how could they be enemies to Abraham (peace be upon him)? But actually here, since a further word, the Arabic word, has many meanings, this part much better needs to be explained. It needs to be explained much better. But they'll say, where did you get this from? Where did you get this (?) from, they'll say. They find excuses against a person. Now why am I saying this?

Let me explain this a bit for you here. I didn't explain it that much there. Let me explain this. What does the wrong one say now? Know well that they are my enemies. Allah Almighty does not give any lifeless being, the idols, life and soul and reason and tell them: be enemies to man. Allah Almighty has given all lifeless beings in the world to be used in people's favour.

Yes. Had they too had life and soul, had they been enemies to Abraham (peace be upon him),

Allah would have created beings to be hostile to the prophets, which is how they render the verse. In one of the verses it is like that.

Yes. Now that verse doesn't come to my mind. Its meaning: of people, um, of the devils, many We made enemies to the prophets, it says. Look, Allah made them enemies. Well, if you were an enemy, if You made them enemies, and Satan is doing hostility, why should he burn in Hell? He is doing his duty. These are seeds of the same mentality. These renderings. So in this one too, although lifeless beings have no power at all over people, people worship them, and the prophet too is not the enemy of it, but of those who worship it. He is not an enemy of what Allah created. You can't explain these subtleties here.

You can't tell it here. Where did you get this from, you'd say. This needs to be explained so that one says, ah, that's right. Because here we only give the equivalents of the verses. Yes. But the meanings of the verse are deep. It's a very subtle point, Hodja. Not everyone can understand it here. They can't understand. These are subtle points. Yes.

While rendering the verses wrongly, they were apparently spreading superstitions. Here the idols are shown as enemies of Abraham (peace be upon him). Yet the idols have neither life nor soul. Since when have lifeless shapes made by people's hands become enemies to people?

We're describing here the (?) form of people. Whereas Abraham (peace be upon him): they are my enemies, that is, imagining a Lord that does not exist in their fantasies, the people who worship the idols they shaped are my enemies. I've said it already. I've said it briefly here.

He is saying: I do not worship idols. Abraham (peace be upon him) is a Hanif. He never worshipped anyone other than our Lord, who is One and self-existent. Yes.

In Surah Ash-Shu'ara, verse 200, there is a wrongly rendered part. Thus We inserted it into the hearts of the sinners, it says. Into the hearts of the sinners.

We came to the world to prove what kind of person we are, didn't we? Allah Almighty, after we made the covenant, was not going to interfere with us again, right? Whatever we asked of Allah Almighty, He gave us exactly what we wished, right? Then, outside of our wish, (?) You sealed us so that we would be sinners in those sinners' hearts. Is that so? What does it say? Thus We inserted it into the hearts of the sinners. Whereas the guilty denied this, the Quran, with their hearts. That is the meaning of the verse. (?) the Arabic text is also like this. What does it say? The guilty denied this, that is the Quran, with their hearts.

(?) For example, what are you saying here too? Thus We inserted it into the hearts of the sinners. That is, tomorrow, when I face the reckoning with Allah Almighty at the Great Court, if I say: I would have been Your servant, but You are the Creator, You placed in my heart "rebel", what will He say? We inserted it like that, it says. They have always (?) Allah.

You can't learn this knowledge of the Quran from Ahmet or Mehmet. You can't learn it by knowing Arabic either. Yes. At least tell people the translations of the verses as explained by the people Allah Almighty raised, at least. Yes. If you want to serve Allah's religion.

This verse has been rendered wrongly to you from the start. Constantly accusing our Lord of making distinctions among people, they undermine His justice. They remove our Lord's attribute Tawwab.

If He inserted it into his heart, He will never forgive him again, however much he repents. Here the attribute Tawwab is removed as well. Can't those who render and write this think about these things at all? They have done so many doctorates. They know Arabic.

They make our Lord discriminate among people. They undermine our Lord's justice. By removing their free will from people, our Lord's, our Lord's... having people do evil by His will, they then make Him punish them. By giving meaning to the verses with their own minds, with lots of superstitions, they turn Islam into superstitions. Isn't that so? Don't give fatwas or render verses according to your own mind.

Our Lord does not insert anything into anyone's heart and then punish them. It must be known clearly and definitely that our Lord, (?) when He made the covenant with people, wrote their own desire and wish as their destiny. Then, when people came into the world, what kind of person they are, like an actor of the covenant they gave and the script they had written, playing it, they proved what kind of person they are. In this case our Lord does not interfere with what anyone will do. The correct verse: the guilty denied this, the Quran, with their hearts. That is, they rejected it. Yes.

Don't they? They do. They don't recognise the Quran. I said the same to the Pope. Hey, I said, Pope, what kind of man of religion are you? What kind of pope are you? Your Torah, Gospel and Psalms, I said, are within the Quran. This one, I said, when he burns the Quran, he's burning your book too. Do you know that, I said. Why don't you raise your voice? Yes.

As a nation, let's say, among the flags of 50 or 60 states, if they trampled your flag, would you be at ease? Since the four books are in the Quran, and since you pass yourself off as a man of religion, your flag, your symbol, that word of Allah, your book within the Quran, you're letting it be trampled. You don't raise your voice at all about the Quran being trampled. Look at the mindset, the mindset. These are men of religion, these. Some men of religion. I don't acknowledge that they are men of religion, and they are not men of religion. Why not? Because with Allah, religion is Islam. Inne'd-dîne inda'llâhi'l-İslâm.

There is no religion other than the religion of Islam. Religions other than this are superstition.

The former, past religions excepted. According to people's states, understanding, mental make-up, capacity, since Allah burdens no one beyond what they can bear, according to the time, He commanded them and sent books. Those who follow their prophets are upon the religion of Islam.

Then Allah Almighty sends the Quran as a mercy to all the worlds and gathers all the books in the Quran, saying from now on these people I have created, believing in the one Quran alone, will be judged by it until the Day of Resurrection. When He sent down this verse in Ramadan, on the Night of Qadr, the 27th night, from the Preserved Tablet to the world, if one says, no, I don't believe in this Quran, with Allah's words I say: you have become a kafir. What does kafir mean? You have been left to the fire of an eternal life in Hell, an endless life, in a place where you neither live nor die. Yes.

We've come to verse 201 of Surah Ash-Shu'ara.

If they render the Quran like this without reading this verse, the people of this time become like this too: no morals, no decency, no manners, no respect for elders, no love for the young; everyone goes the way his own mind fixed on. Whoever weighs every matter by his own mind is like people on artificial legs, it says; something he did yesterday, he tries to change today. Allah Almighty, who (?) our covenant, shows us the way. Although He sends us into the world amid darkness, Allah Almighty sends the Quran to light our way. He sends His prophets. He sends His scholars. In this case, the verses Allah Almighty sent, the darkness to dispel; those who turn their backs on the light of those verses are people who leave themselves in darkness.

Poor people who live in what they think is light.

Like the cicada, who enjoys its days and spends the summer with song, and in winter becomes dependent on others, poor creatures on the verge of starving. What difference is there between that one and this?

Can you base what you say on a verse? Of course. You say I made man an animal. You say I compared him to it. Doesn't Allah Almighty say they are like the four-legged creatures roaming the earth? Yes.

Personally, I am ashamed of my humanity, I don't go outside. Allah created man honoured above the worlds. Besides walking around uncovered outside, those who have tattoos done all over their bodies. Even if they say I'm Muslim and act with faith, with the tattoos they have had done, when they are in a state of janabah, their filth stays under those tattoos, and since they can't get their filth out, they are still impure. These are rotten people, these. Hodja, how harshly you speak; (?) the man smells lovely. You're right, he smells lovely. Lovely what? Trying to disperse their own smell of filth with lotions, poor people. There it is: in the verse where He says, We create what We create firmly, verse. When He says, you will spoil this order with your own hands, there it is: these lotions piercing the ozone layer, the North Pole's magnetism being erased, the North Pole's force weakening against the South Pole, the world around its own axis turning a second or two less every year.

We spoil it with our own hands. We, of those people who chase their carnal feelings, who have taken Satan as their guide and are enemies of their own Creator, bear the burden of sin. Yes.

Anyway. Let's continue our lesson.

They asked the frog: why don't you croak more? It says, into my mouth, I'm afraid a lot of water will fill it, it says. Surah Ash-Shu'ara, verse 201, we're reading its wrongly rendered part: therefore, until they see the painful punishment, in it, the Quran, they will not believe.

Where is it wrong? It says it so nicely. Therefore, therefore, until they see the painful punishment, in it, the Quran, they will not believe. Do you know whose writing this is? Do you know who writes this? Only people who say what the Jews said, the fire will not touch me more than three days, write this. After that he'll enter Paradise. What does it say? Therefore they will not believe in it, the Quran, until they see the painful punishment. But whoever doesn't believe here won't believe in the Hereafter either, and they are eternally in Hell. Where did you get that from? That he became a Muslim when he saw the painful punishment?

You've closed down Hell, haven't you. Hell. You see, don't you? Can you understand the subtleties here? It's good when it's explained.

Therefore, even if they see the painful punishment, in it, the Quran, they will not believe.

Now a person in front of me is asking me a question. Hodja, didn't Allah have the attribute Tawwab? Now he is asking me. Didn't Allah have the attribute Tawwab? When they see the painful punishment there, why shouldn't Allah Almighty forgive them? Then what became of the attribute Tawwab? Is that so? He's asking me. Now I'm answering his question. At the address "Am I not your Lord?" they had their characters written so as not to recognise Allah Almighty. He came to the world to prove what kind of person he is. Those who depart from here as deniers, since their character won't change in the Hereafter either, such a person does not turn to Allah.

He doesn't repent to Allah either. The verse for this is as follows. As they see the punishment, they will say to Malik: O Malik, tell your Lord to lighten the punishment on us a little.

Here it says whoever is blind is blind in the Hereafter too. Now people take this meaning of blind: in the Hereafter they will be gathered blind, sightless, they say. Poor people who don't understand the verse try to render it this way.

What does blind mean? What does the verse mean by blind?

Allah Almighty speaks in a figurative sense. In a figurative sense. Allah Almighty speaks in a literal sense. Allah Almighty speaks by comparison. He makes comparisons. What does it say? We do not refrain from giving the example of a mosquito and what is greater. That is, this Quran will address even the one whose mind works least. The Quran will address the one whose mind works most, too, and he will understand. The literal meaning is the basis of the Quran, the rulings of the Sharia. Everyone will understand. The figurative meaning: when Allah Almighty says blind, We sent you prophets, scholars, books.

According to the verse, We do not call anyone to account for what We did not make known. We struck your ears with (?). That is, We had drums beaten like this. We tried to tear the veil from your eyes. We tried to open your hearts, but you did not open your hearts that you had sealed. You closed the veil over your eyes too. You turned your backs so as not to see the truth. You had your ears plugged too. That is how you are blind. It is not about the seeing eye.

Well, is there a verse that they see, Hodja? There is. There is a verse that they see in the Hereafter. Now I'll read you the verse. Let me look.

Let me look now, let me read you the verse.

Yes.

Look what it says. Surah As-Sajdah, verse 12. Those sinners, before their Lord, with their heads bowed: Our Lord, we have seen, we have heard. Now send us back to the world so that we may do good deeds. We now firmly believe, if only you could see the time they will say this, it says. Look. So they do not go blind. Blind to Allah's verses, to Allah's prophets, these are the blind who turn their backs on Allah's scholarly servants and do not want to see. These are words said in a figurative sense.

Yes.

What does it say? Therefore, until they see a painful punishment they will not believe, it says. I repent, I seek Allah's forgiveness. By speaking like this they have abolished Hell. They'll become Muslims when they see the punishment. Because the Jew says, no punishment will touch me but three days. In those three days, seeing the punishment there, they'll all (?), get out, and Hell will close.

This verse too has been rendered wrongly from the start. A verse rendered this way has been rendered deliberately. The Jews say, the fire will not touch us more than three days; against their saying, we are close to Allah, our Lord says to them: if that is so, then wish for death, it says. A verse rendered with these feelings is a deliberately rendered verse. Because Paradise and Hell, for those of the right and those of the left, our Lord created. People are everlasting in Paradise and Hell. People who pass to the Hereafter outside Islam are eternally people of Hell. In this case, even if they see the painful punishment, people who depart as non-Muslims will not believe in the Quran.

Why don't they believe? With those characters of theirs, a god of their imagination who created them will come, and they will take revenge on the god who put them into Hell. With these feelings he is willing to burn, he will take revenge on Him, take revenge on Allah. I came across a Satan worshipper. Satan. We talked and talked. We worship Satan, he said, there is such a religion. Son, I said, Satan is cursed, Allah (?) him; Allah created Satan too. No, he said. We are following him, he said. We will take revenge on Allah, he says. I talked with him with my own ears, Allah is my witness to this, like this. We will take revenge on Allah, he says.

That is how my Lord brings us face to face with such people, and trains us like this. Yes.

People who pass to the Hereafter outside Islam are eternally people of Hell. In this case, even if they see the painful punishment, people who depart as non-Muslims will not believe in the Quran. What do those who render the verse wrongly say? Therefore they will not believe in it, the Quran, until they see the painful punishment. People in this state will do what they will do in the world. They will deny our Lord. In the Hereafter, when they see the painful punishment, they will believe in the Quran and come out of Hell. What a nice world that is.

There's a (?) missing here, let me put it there.

Its (?) was also rendered wrongly. Let's cross this out. Let's write the opposite. Then Hell has been abolished. Even if they see a little of the punishment, they will not believe in the Quran. Because those who denied our Lord in their covenant, waiting for the Lord of their imagination, who gave their covenant so rebelliously, who had their destinies written so, even if they see a little more, even if they see a little more, they will not believe.

We've stopped at verse 213 of Surah Ash-Shu'ara. We end our lesson here. Hodja, we were going well. Now tonight is the Regaip Kandil. Let's talk a bit about the kandil too. Then let's end our lesson. Yes.

Someone asks a question like this. Kandils. He says, Kandils. Let's read it. I had read it to you. Let's read it here too.

Hodja, he says, I had a question for you. The Night of Qadr is mentioned in the Holy Quran. Better than a thousand months, it says; that we celebrate today, that we accept as blessed, about the important nights and months, can you give me information, he says. Now we'll give the information here. Whoever wants can come in here and read. He himself, too, can benefit from it here. I know kandils began to be celebrated in Ottoman times. Did these come down to our day as tradition? Or does each kandil really have spiritual value?

Are there special acts of worship for these nights? He asks. Let's explain these.

Kandils are just like a state: when a state goes to war and wins, when it wins the war, a Victory Day is declared, right? The 30 August holiday, Victory Day; every state declares a war it won as a holiday, as a symbol of that state. Allah Almighty too, since He loves His servants very much, on a night when they attain forgiveness He leaves an open door for them. A few open doors. Within the year. And most of these fall in the three months. The three months: why do they fall in the three months? The month of Rajab is the month of Allah Almighty.

The month of Sha'ban is the month of the Prophet (peace be upon him).

And the month of Ramadan is the month of Allah's servants.

That is why they fall in these three months. In other months too there are some fine nights, but they are not kandils. The kandils are here.

This is called the Regaip Kandil. As you all know, I too take regaib, as you all know it, in the sense of desire. But why desire? Desire for what? They don't know this.

Allah Almighty was a treasure. A treasure. A hidden treasure. He willed to be known. From His light the light of the Prophet, then He gave him of His spirit. And so man was created honoured above the worlds. And Allah Almighty held man as one addressed by His Being. And He wanted to be known through man. Pay attention here. He wanted to be known through man. Because He gave him of His spirit.

In this case Allah Almighty is the friend of the one who knows the essence of man. Look what it says here.

People who get through the Nights of Qadr, the kandils like this, with mawlid recitals without telling people the truth are responsible. Responsible.

But they don't know, (?).

Look what it says in Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 257. Allah is the friend of people.

To take someone as a friend, they must be of your own kind. Would you take a cat, a dog, an animal as a friend? Look at the subtleties here.

Allah is the friend of people. He brings them out of darkness into light. Then why did He send us into darkness? He gave us reason. We are able to govern ourselves with our reason, but He sends us to such a world, a foreign world. A foreign world. You have no money at all; what will you eat, what will you drink. So first He created our father Adam. Then He created our mother Eve as his wife. He set up the first human factory. He sent them to the world. He fed them with what they sowed and reaped, with the seeds He sent. Those who multiplied from them ate and drank by producing these seeds, and adapted themselves to this world, and also wanted the One who created them to be known. Look, He established a law that goes (?).

Now here it says Satan too; it says the taghut is their friend. It takes them from light to darkness, it says, Satan. Two-legged people. Now, in this case, since Allah Almighty created people very honoured, taking people as friends, He also gave people deficient reason, deficient. With deficient reason people will err, will sin with deficient reason, knowingly or unknowingly. Then, as he reaches maturity, the person will seek repentance and forgiveness from Allah Almighty. And since Allah Almighty knows His Being as great, and (?), He will accept his repentance. There is the friend. There is the beauty. Look, people, within the months of the year, within the days, commit many sins.

Allah Almighty: those people are far from repentance. They go on in their own lives. They have set their eyes on the world. Well, they live unaware of Me. Let Me open a door of light for them. Let those who gave Me a good covenant come in through this door and be cleansed, He says. That is the whole reason for the kandils.

Yes. He befriends people. He wants them to be cleansed. Now I'll call him poor like that. I'm not insulting him.

In his helplessness he has believed so. Now what does he say? He says Paradise will be entered with bodies. At the gate of Paradise he makes a pool for these bodies of ours. Before going in. There he washes it. When he goes in, the angel apparently says to him, you have come here spotless.

Truly, one's conscience aches. I get very upset like this.

The angel telling him you've come here spotless means Allah Almighty has purified him of sins, made him (?) of all sins, and sent him to Paradise spotless.

How will this work?

Has He forgiven your sins? Has He sent you with your rewards, with ranks? So that you don't sin inside, We will do a new upload for you there, He says. What does this mean? Look now, you'll ask, is there such a verse? There's nothing called upload, but there is a verse like this. We will tear out the rancour in your hearts and cast it away, He says. How will He tear out and cast away the rancour from your hearts? Well, you install a program on a computer. If you want, you tear that program out and throw it away. Right? A program in the brain. Allah Almighty created us with that knowledge of His.

He will erase the rancour, grief, (?) in our brain, whatever there is, hostility, all of it. There, in Paradise, like the angels, we will all live in a festive air.

Well, isn't that a new upload?

Yes. But a person who doesn't understand the internet, whose head doesn't work, says the Quran has no such (?).

This night has another distinct virtue. The father of the Prophet (peace be upon him), Abdullah, the Prophet's mother, the night he married our mother Amina is this night; also, the Prophet's conception in the womb is this night. Come and don't make it a kandil, come and don't celebrate it, don't repent to the Lord of the worlds. Yes, every kandil has its own feature; within this feature people are moved according to their own nature, worship Allah Almighty, and ask His forgiveness. That is the beauty of the kandils. Miraj Kandil: for example, prayer comes as a gift. Mawlid Kandil: our celebrating the Prophet's coming into the world.

We have kandils like this. Allah has opened the doors of repentance here. There is a door of repentance at every moment. But those who cannot repent, and those whose ranks are good and who wait for a chance, on such nights repent and return to Allah. What does Allah Almighty say? Do not mock any people, do not ridicule them. It may be that those people are better than you. You may find he has repented and risen high on nights like these. Yes.

Well, are there acts of worship for this night, he asks.

Those who listen to me, who listen, and want to pass it on as far as they can reach, let them pass it on. Let them tell whoever they meet. There is no form of worship specific to such nights, gentlemen. Superstitions; poor people who, saying we know something, tell people, you'll pray fifty rakats, sixty rakats like this, in every rakat you'll recite this much, after doing this you'll rise like this, rise like that; these people believe Jewish fabrications and drag people into superstitions. Jewish fabrications are like this: recite so many verses, this verse so many times, you'll see what happens in ten days or what happens in two hours.

You keep trying, keep reciting, keep reciting, and when nothing happens in two hours you become resentful of the religion too. That is how these men steer you against your religion. You become an enemy of your religion.

These are nonsense words. Hodja, you said something, now prove what you said. What is it you said? If you don't show us a verse, you told us not to believe you either. Right, will you show us a verse now like this? You're preventing a man's worship. Ah, I'm not preventing worship. Look, I'll tell you. At the address "Am I not your Lord?", did you make a covenant with Allah Almighty? You did. In Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172: Ve iz ehaze rabbüke min benî Âdeme min zuhûrihim zürriyyetehüm ve eşhedehüm alâ enfüsihim, elestü bi-rabbiküm. We made a covenant with Adam and those of his sons' offspring who would come forth.

We made their souls witnesses over themselves: We said, am I not your Lord, it says. Here, in return for the covenant with Allah Almighty, with their degree of faith or lack of faith, Allah Almighty writes these into their destinies. That is, the script is written. Man, you may complete the Quran a hundred thousand times a day here. Complete it a hundred thousand times. If it's outside your destiny, it won't happen. It won't happen. And if it's within your destiny, there's no need for him to say it anyway. With the degree of your faith, you'll do it yourself anyway. These people are superstition, these.

Don't believe them. Ah, I want to worship, Hodja. How do I do it? Ah! That's different. Now, whoever wants to worship tonight does not pray the witr wajib. Why not? The witr wajib closes the night prayers.

(?) according to your strength; I'm quoting a verse again: We burden you with nothing beyond your strength, says Allah Almighty. So according to my strength: if my strength is enough for two rakats, I pray two rakats. If my strength is enough for four rakats, I pray four rakats. As much as your strength allows, eight rakats, ten rakats, twelve rakats, you pray them just like ordinary prayer. Then you sit and make your dua, and you receive its reward. This means: you'll recite this much in these (?), you'll do this dhikr this many times. Well, these are absurd people, don't believe them. These are superstition. Now,

look what one of the superstitions tells. Listen well.

God willing I'll find it and show it to you. Well, Here, not this one.

Let's look at this thing. Did we put it here?

I'll read that to you.

It's not here.

When I look for it, I can't find it. It's very important, I mean. What I want to find is very important. Well.

Let's go in here.

Not here either. I wonder, shall I look among the ones I deleted? I was keeping that too, here. Well.

If I read it, there's worse. I'll tell you a milder one.

He went on television and says this: A person who prays two rakats on Sunday, a person who prays two rakats on Sunday. Perhaps you've heard it, gentlemen.

You also know who said it.

The reward of seventy Hajj. The reward of I don't know how many hundred Umrahs. Look. The reward of I don't know what, as many as the unbelievers. Then don't pray at all, blessed man. Pray two rakats, don't go to Hajj at all either. You'll get seventy rewards. You'll get the reward of I don't know how many hundred Umrahs. Well, as long as there are unbelievers, as long as their number lasts, you'll get the reward.

Well, on what basis do you say this, blessed man? What kind of draft of a hodja are you?

What kind of enemy of religion are you? Let me say that too. Cübbeli says this.

There's no harm in my saying it. He has told it to the whole world. Who are you, man? Who are you to decide in Allah's place? You weigh its reward. On what basis do you say this? Let me pray two rakats, I won't do anything else. Seventy Hajj rewards. (?), do you know? Everyone who goes on Hajj is as if newly born from his mother. Look. As if newly born.

Having circled, having circled the Kaaba, having walked between Safa and Marwa, having prayed two rakats at the Station of Abraham, the person, Allah says, you are spotless as if newly born from your mother. Allah says this. Our Lord, the Owner of the worlds, says this. How do you put a person into Paradise with the body, saying you've entered spotless? The body: according to the verse, We make you live twice and die twice. At the Great Court, after the body finishes its testimony, we die a second time; Allah Almighty kills the body and casts it into Hell, it becomes earth and goes to Hell; and according to the verse saying you will taste no death but the first death, He frees us from the body, and our going, united as spirit, nafs and life, to Paradise spotless and sinless: by what reasoning did you put that into the body, build a pool at Paradise's gate and have it washed?

Unaware of the verses, poor people. The Diyanet will not allow this to such people. They have turned the religion into superstitions. Yes. People unaware of the verses.

Anyway. God willing, he will repent. He will repent. God willing. He will know the truth and return to the truth. Allah's door of repentance, repentance, is open. God willing, from now on he won't be carried away by such superstitions and, claiming I know, tell people things and ruin the religion of Islam. Otherwise, according to the verse that says whoever says Allah said so, though Allah did not say it, let him prepare his place in the punishment, while still in the world you will have bought Hell.

Shameless men. Yes. We end our lesson here. Lillahi Teâlâ el-Fâtiha.