Talk of 22 March 2025

Peace be upon you.

Yes. Let me see. Do we start here? Is there more further up?

Now, there is this question here. This is a good question. Let's answer this. Sir. Let's answer that. And let's see if there is more further up.

I think we read this one. Yes, sir, we read it. Now a guest says: peace be upon you, sir; within society, let's say a Christian is telling these things, telling what, telling this; this person, after being called by the relevant people and having the truth explained, and himself accepting it, that is, after accepting the truth, if he again tries to spread falsehood within society, can I say there is a punishment? A Christian, if he is telling about Christianity within society, and let's say some people strong in religion or some official bodies call him in: sir, you are telling about Christianity, but the religion of Islam is this.

When you say that and he says, all right, I have become a Muslim, this person says so. And after he himself has accepted, accepted what? After accepting Islam, if he goes again and tells about Christianity, do you know what they call him? A hypocrite. This hypocrite comes to you and looks like one of you, goes to the other and looks like one of them; yes, and these are in the seventh level of hell, deep down in the depths, yes, inside. Again telling falsehood, the matter of punishment, he says; punishment; this one is a hypocrite; I know no one is touched until the truth can be explained to them, what does he say. But the truth is not explained to him.

Or if it cannot be explained, I know that this person is not touched until the truth can be explained to him. Can you explain the real reason for this? You cannot touch anyone.

Nor can you turn anyone away from their religion. There is no compulsion. There is no compulsion in religion. There is a notification. A notification. Why? There is no compulsion in religion. In Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172, Allah Almighty made a covenant with us and wrote our destiny. He wrote our wish as our destiny. Neither can you change this, nor can the person himself change it, nor does Allah change it. So there is no compulsion on man. You only enjoin what is right. After that, if he wants, he plays the hypocrite. Again he goes to his own people, or to someone, and tells about Christianity.

If he is telling about Christianity, then you go and, if you know Islam, tell about Islam. No one has any business interfering in anyone's religion. Because our religion, Islam, is a secular religion. Secular. You know, that man who appears as a Muslim called me secular, the priest hodja, he said, the priest hodja; but himself, now the moment has come, so I am telling it, otherwise I wasn't going to. It is not right even to address him. Because he does not know his own religion. He does not know what secularism is. In Surah Al-Kafirun it says: to you your religion, to me mine. Look, there is no forcing anyone.

Why is there no forcing? Because in Surah Al-A'raf, verse 2, everyone made a covenant with Allah Almighty. Allah wrote his wish as his destiny. Since no one can change this destiny, no one can force anyone. Everyone will live their own destiny. Why did we come here, to this world? We came to prove what kind of person we are. So however much you force me, maybe you can turn my tongue, but you cannot turn my heart. You cannot turn my being. Now, say you are (?), you are a Muslim. A man is torturing you, sir. You, sir, (?). That is, worship the idol, he says. If you say it with your tongue, can he turn your heart?

No. Indeed Allah Almighty says this in a verse: If they compel and force you, say it with your tongue, but in your heart affirm Me. The verses cover it.

That is why there is no forcing in religion. Everyone says what they want.

Speak, one says. Say a word to me. And I will tell you where you stand, he says. How beautiful. Now another one here, Ömer Sefa says: peace be upon you, sir. Surah As-Sajdah, verse 14, page 415. It is written as "In truth, We too have forgotten you." Allah forgets no one. Is that how it is written there? Those will be corrected. We said there is much more; there are omissions in it. It is not 400; it has more than 500, more than 600 mistakes. Why? There are mistakes in how they explained the Quran. They did not write the Quran's main foundation. They wrote the Quran's main foundation by basing it on the word of Zionism.

In the word of Zionism they always blame Allah. Whereas Allah Almighty is free from deficient attributes. Allah Almighty sent man into the world to prove what kind of person he is. And man will receive reward and sin for the deeds he actually does. So all the blaming of Allah fits the religion of Zionism. There is no such thing as a religion there, nothing. There is no religion other than the religion of Islam anyway. They have written this according to Zionism's (?). And when we say this truth, the Quran in terms of the verses, it turns out to be contrary to the language of Islam. He is right.

Because what I say is contrary to Zionism. This is the origin of Islam. You cannot ascribe attributes to Allah. You cannot blame Allah. You cannot attribute a fault to Allah.

To me, the verse in the verse, this man says, he said it this way, he says. You know, Allah turned, he says. That is, it was confirmed. Allah said: they had themselves sealed by Allah, he says. Whereas what do they themselves say there? Allah sealed them, they say. Now look at their words.

The person does not recognise Allah at the covenant. I don't recognise You, he says. I am waiting for the Lord in my own imagination, he says. I am waiting for that one, he says. And Allah Almighty says: although I was before you, you did not see Me. Why? There is a veil on you, He says. You do not see. Their ears are deaf too. You do not hear the truth. In their hearts, He said, they are closed. Now, did I seal you? Or did you have yourself sealed?

When I say "he had himself sealed" this way, he had himself sealed by Allah. Whereas he says Allah sealed him. Is there then a god other than Allah who would seal him? So why did Allah make a covenant with us? He made the covenant on knowing or not knowing His essence. When we made the covenant on knowing or not knowing His essence, the heart of the one who denies Him, if Allah sealed it, did He seal it, or did the person have himself sealed? Why did He not seal the heart of the Muslim? So, according to your mindset, Allah discriminated. He sealed the heart of whom He wanted. He threw whom He wanted into paradise and hell.

That is your understanding.

This is not in Islam. In Islam everyone is an individual himself. Responsible, sir, for what he does. So no one can blame Allah. And no one can say Allah did it this way. He cannot be made to discriminate among His servants. Allah is the owner of justice. Justice.

Did you think Allah unjust? By your own reason, by the ideas of Zionism, the translations of the Quran you wrote.

Yes. Did you get your fee? Sit down. Okay.

There is one more here.

Hodja, the Prophet's: Istanbul will surely be conquered. What a fine commander is the commander who conquers it. What a fine army is that army. Is this hadith true? It is true. That is a hadith. What a fine commander is the commander who takes it. And so are his armies. And it will surely be conquered, he says, and it is. It is true, and if the word "will be conquered" is true, that is true too. Yes. Is anyone else asking a question from here?

Kerem, is there a question?

A question came, sir: Islam. What? Did it come? What is this? If that question comes (?), we'll teach it, sir. Where will we read it from? Where will we read it from? We'll refresh it then. Yes, there is nothing above it right now. Yes. Write your questions or messages, it says. Please do not ask for dream interpretation, it says. It is right. It didn't come. Then we'll refresh this part. Is that right? Yes.

Yes.

Hodja, peace be upon you. Oruç: sayım, savm. What is siyam?

What is savm? What is siyam? Sir, fasting also has an Arabic word. It means fasting. Siyam: fasts. Fasts. Yes. What does it mean, he asks? Fasting is fasting. Whether you say "fasting" in English, or in Persian, or in Turkish, or in Arabic. What does Allah Almighty say? Fasting, He says, fasting. What is fasting? Ah! If perhaps you don't know that, what is fasting; these are not names. What is the difference between them? There is no difference at all. No difference at all. He calls fasting fasting, that's all. If you knew the words, I'd separate them. Fasting is eating until the white thread and the black thread, the white spool and the black spool, are distinguished.

Look! I will explain now, I will open this up for you too. Let me open it up like this.

What does the black thread and the white thread mean, Hodja? If you ask. At dawn, before the sun rises, between 42 and 45, between 42 and 45 minutes, if you look at the place where the sun will rise, one side is pitch black, on the other side it is bright, like this; you see this. Whoever is curious, let him go and look; let him not sleep in the morning, let him watch for about 40 minutes, let him look at where the sun rises; when there are no clouds, one side, just like a sharp sword, is black and the other white; until then, He says, until the black thread and the white thread are distinguished, eat, He says; but we, hoping there would be no separating, they started at imsak.

That is, an hour and a half before sunrise, an hour seventy, forty-five minutes or so, or forty hours twenty minutes; it varies. They tied it to the imsak time. When the sun sets, how do we know the sun has set? A redness begins in the sky; that is the evening time. Until the evening time there is no intercourse.

No gossip, no backbiting. No looking at the forbidden. You will pray your prayers. And if you don't, the sin is on you. Sir, no drinking water. No eating. What breaks the fast? If you vomit a handful, it breaks. A handful. If you have intercourse, if you have relations with a woman, it breaks. And you eat for 61 days. And if you break it knowingly, there is the penalty of fasting sixty-one days in a row. Sir, bathing also breaks the fast. Bathing for pleasure also breaks the fast. Going into the sea also breaks the fast. Chewing gum also breaks the fast. But unfortunately they issue fatwas. Which gum doesn't break it? There is a gum, and because they don't know that gum, they extend this to all gums.

They say this: from a pine tree or an odourless tree; I don't know its origin. It has neither a taste nor anything. There is no harm in chewing it, they say, that gum. They call it mastic gum, I think, mastic. Yes, a gum like that. Otherwise you don't chew ordinary gum. Just so that a non-Muslim makes money, or this gum company makes money, you cannot change your religion. Then, you cannot bathe for pleasure. Because all the pores in the skin take away your heat, remove it. You make going into the sea permissible. According to which hadith, which event, do you make going into the sea permissible?

Well, can you not bathe at all? Ah, you do bathe. You slept during the day. You became junub in your dream. You are obliged to bathe. Here there is the permission to bathe. You will clean yourself.

Yes.

There are people who call themselves hodjas and say that nothing about it being thirty days is written in the Quran. These are not hodjas, (?). These are Jews in hodja's clothing, Jews. Yes. A man worked as a hodja in Medina (?). Saying, I added three thousand hadiths, three thousand (?). If there is a (?), let him sort it out. And I said, I will be the one to sort out that (?). And I did sort it out. Seven thousand three hundred hadiths. The hadiths they call sahih. Yes.

Allah Almighty writes the fast as thirty days, very beautifully. According to the calendar. He doesn't say thirty days; He says a month. A month. Where does He say a month? The one who says that is not a hodja but a hypocrite in hodja's clothing. With the rising of the crescent, He says. At the crescent, then, your fast you break. The sighting of the crescent. And with the setting of the crescent. And you continue with the lunar calendar. It lasts twenty-nine days. It lasts 30 days. Counted by the moon. The lunar, counted by the moon. And Allah Almighty defines it by the month.

There is no such thing as Him coming down before you and saying: O My servant, you will fast this as 30 days. There is none. But the month of Ramadan always lasts 30 days by the lunar calendar. By the lunar calendar. Sometimes, some months last 28. We'll have 29, but just as with us February always lasts 29; in the end, one day, the 24th, in the thing, in a year it lasts 28.

If you add up the multiples of four, the thing, the dates. For example, let's say 2025: 2025, what number does it make? 2025 makes 4, 9. February will again last twenty-nine. But if the sum of these figures is twelve, this is a multiple of four, then it will last twenty-eight. Why does it do this? The Earth's rotation around its own axis is three hundred sixty-five days and six hours. This completes once every four years; there is one day extra. And that one extra day, the shortfall, makes it last twenty-eight. Allah Almighty created the (?) of the universe for these, and set down all its reckoning, all its dates.

Insisting that He must stand before you and it must be 30 days, or saying this is not in the Quran, that is not in the Quran, and confusing the mind of Muslims, of Islam, sir, that is the Jewish mentality. And now the young people have come up with a haircut. A haircut. They cut it from here. On the heads of Jews there is a black skullcap like this. A black skullcap. It has them put exactly that skullcap there. Who is it that says this? He doesn't even know what it is.

Man lives unaware of himself. Yes. Is there anything else? Surah Al-Baqarah, 35. (?) This Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 185. The month of Ramadan, as guidance for people, the right and the right, as clear proofs of distinguishing, is the month in which the Quran was sent down. The month in which the Quran was sent down. On the 27th night of Ramadan, at Sidrat al-Muntaha, to the place called Qadr, it is the month in which it was sent down. Therefore, whoever of you reaches the month of Ramadan, let them fast in it. It says in one month, in the month of Ramadan. The month of Ramadan is one month. If it's Ramadan, if Ramadan passes among the months, just as we say Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, there are Dhu al-Hijjah, Dhu al-Qa'dah and so on, the names of the months are Arabic; so he fasted in the month of Ramadan; what should it tell you? Whoever is ill at that time or travelling, let him make up as many other days as the days he could not fast; Allah for you okay it came, the broadcast, the broadcast came yes let's see if there are questions while fasting, he says, when we sweat, under our arms can we apply scent or soap? Scent, you cannot even smell it.

not even scent; you know, we put on essence when going to the mosque, so that you smell nice; not even that, nothing at all. only, when eating you can wash your hands; when taking ablution you put water in your mouth, in your nose, your face, you wipe your head, you wash your arms up to the elbows; that is the ablution for prayer; this much is permitted. You wash your feet too, and that's done.

Go on.

Now, Satan wants to keep you busy with water.

Pray the prayer the easy way, take the ablution like (?). Allah makes it easy (?). Now Satan keeps you busy with water and whispers to you. Oh, it got into my mouth, oh, it got into my nose, oh, it went down my throat; it always goes on. Slap Satan, let it pass. Take it into your mouth. Three times. And three times into your nose.

If you know its supplication, you say its supplication. if you don't, you recite (?). Sorry? You take your ablution. You come out nicely. You pray your prayer. Why should you be defeated by Satan?

Satan even does this to you. After you've taken ablution: oh, I didn't wipe my head. Let me take ablution once more, you say. No. Go back and start again, say.

Hodja, where do you get this authority from? (?) Let me tell you its origin, then.

One of the Companions comes to the Prophet and says (?). I, he says, the four-rak'ah prayer, he says, I prayed two rak'ahs, thinking I had completed it in four minutes (?). Shall I pray it from the beginning? Or shall I continue from where I left off? He will continue from where he left off now. I owe you a debt. Ten thousand lira. You paid five thousand of it. How much is left? Five thousand.

Yes. Look what it says. We just read it, didn't we. Was it verse 147? Verse 145. 145? Verse 185. Read it, look, it says there is no hardship there. Allah does not want hardship for you, it says. Yes. Are you going to ask? Bilal. You had a look. You thought it was (?). A lot, a lot came.

Questions are coming in now, below. That's good. Hodja, Allah has left everyone free with their free will. Not "has left"; He left. Look, let's understand the words well. Because He gave us from His spirit. He left us free with our own will. What is this? We are free with our free will. I mean, when you say "has left", even in the world where it is not left there is proof. Proof for you, He says. Of what you do, He says, you will record the good of an atom's weight and the evil of an atom's weight. Well, what does this mean? It means you are free in your own will. And He sent us into the world as vicegerents.

Ourselves, people. Every person in the world is a vicegerent. What is a vicegerent? A person who looks after things in someone's place is called a vicegerent. Who is the owner of this world that will die, the owner of the universe? Allah. Who is the owner of His creatures? Allah. He created you as vicegerent over His creatures, over His creation. But not to waste and do wrong.

Yes. You either believe or you don't. Now, right. This is right. But what should be done about people who live in women-with-women relationships and men-with-men relationships, which all the revealed religions also forbid, what should be done? Give it to me, let me see. Surah An-Nisa, verse 16.

Surah An-Nisa, verse 16.

Punish both parties among you who commit indecency, it says. The answer to the question: now, punish them.

If they repent and reform, then stop punishing and tormenting them. Now those who cannot understand these verses say there is no stoning. That is how it is. What does it say? The two persons among you who commit indecency. You know, when a married man and a married woman committed adultery, there was stoning.

When single people did it, there was the stick. Well, what does it say here now? Punish them. That is, punish. If they repent and reform, then stop punishing and tormenting them. These are for homosexuals. For women who love women. This verse. Because Allah accepts repentance much and is most merciful. If these repent and reform, there is no offence on them. Now the punishment of what you did is with Allah; a person may be found in some filth, may go through a period of ignorance; Allah does not wrong His servants; Allah Almighty forgives these (?), there is no sin; you see, he goes to the Kaaba, a repentance happens, he repents, he circumambulates; they say: I've become a total unbeliever now, there is no one to save me; and on that, in the world, He says, there is nothing for which Allah will not accept repentance; He accepts repentance.

What will you do then?

You will go on Hajj.

You will circumambulate the Kaaba.

You will do the sa'y seven times. And at the Station of Abraham you will pray two rak'ahs. Allah's word is said once. It does not become two. What does He say? You are as if newly born from your mother, He says. It's done.

Their repentance is accepted.

As long as a person repents.

All over the world their numbers are growing, and they claim that their rights are violated and that they are excluded from society. Of course they will be excluded from society. Who will treat you as a human being? You are like the four-legged ones roaming the earth, says Allah Almighty in the verse. Even more astray than that, He says. More astray. That's them. More astray. You are in human form; in form human, you are (?) than an animal. In form human, you are (?) than an animal. I am not saying it; Allah is saying this. Allah has laws. You, man with man, woman with woman, and of course you will be excluded from society.

Who will treat you as a human being and talk to you? Dishonourable. If you had any honour, dignity, shame, chastity at all, which, he said, they no longer recognise. These are the foundation of Islam.

Well, if you don't have these, in my eyes you are like the four-legged ones roaming the earth. Yes. They even hold marches, rallies; Hodja, what do you think about such people being regarded as equal to everyone in society? Could you explain, may Allah be pleased with you. These, in society, equal rights like everyone, perhaps by law, as human beings by law, equal rights they have; but in Allah's sight, by law, by Allah's law, equal rights they do not have. To have equal rights, he must act in the direction Allah wants so that he earns reward. If he keeps to the paths opposite to Allah, he earns sin.

Now can someone who commits sin and someone who does good have equal rights? Why did Allah Almighty destroy Lot's people? He destroyed them with such people. Can you grant equal rights to this? Yes. These are people who are the disgrace of the earth.

Yes. Even the pope goes further. Whatever kind of pope he is, whatever kind of religious teacher, sir, they can do this, he says. It's free, he says. Didn't you fear Allah at all, your Allah? If there were one above Him, God forbid. Man, a person would hesitate. Does your Gospel say such a thing?

Is this written in any book? You issue a fatwa. Yes.

And you, in this world, a guesthouse; here, living in a guesthouse. We are on a passing, temporary world. The One who sent you here will one day call you to account. You are wary of Ahmet and Mehmet. If, to do Ahmet's and Mehmet's bidding, to look good to people, you turn your back on your Creator who will call you to account, woe to you.

I am calling out to the pope from here too. Say: no such thing happened, there was a mistake. Say: they misunderstood me, and declare your apology to Allah; come back. Yes. are there other questions? Hodja, on what basis has the 61-day penalty been set, may Allah be pleased with you. It has been set according to 2 months. 2 months: give me that from somewhere, from something. Surah Al-Mujadilah: whoever cannot find the means, it says, before touching his wife, fasts two months in a row, fasts in a row; whoever cannot manage this either feeds sixty poor people; this follows from what comes above.

Those who want to separate from their wives by zihar and then go back on what they said before touching their wives, a slave they must set free. This is what you are advised. Allah is aware of what you do, it says. This is separate too. Again, here two months; this comes up in many places. Here too you will fast two months. Because it was done knowingly. And it writes this anyway. Yes.

What did we say, look? Everything wet and dry is in the Quran's words.

Let's look up here, are there some things?

Surah Al-Baqarah, 160, he could not understand a word in the verse. Let's see what verse 160 says.

160. Except those who repent and correct their state and openly make the truth known. For I accept their repentance. I am the One who accepts repentance much and is most merciful. Now what you didn't understand is this. It says: those who openly make it known are different. Well, you made it openly known. You say: my Allah. Look, my Allah, I am sinful for what I did. I became sinful. Forgive me. Isn't this openly declaring it to Allah? I regret what I did. Yes. Now, this is the real point anyway. As I said. For example, you insulted a traveller. You committed a sin. The man passed by and left. Or you swindled him.

You took his money too. Or you took too much money. Or the man dropped something and you saw it. You didn't give it back. You took it and put it in your pocket. And the man left. How should he openly confess it to the man? Saying, you did this and this and this. Then Allah Almighty says: I do not love those who expose their sins. Then present the sin to Allah. That is what "openly" is.

Because that is our page. (?)

One more question, if you ask, we'll open it. After that we'll close our lesson. Come, let me see, Ebu Bekir. Ask, let's see. Hodja, in the situation you just answered, but the prayer, in its time, I think, 4 (?) of prayer, praying 3 (?); I sir, the other day, wouldn't I answer, at the mosque. I was a bit late, alone. And I gave the salam, I had answered. I kept joining inside. I prayed two more rak'ahs. And there, while praying, with something natural (?) I met. Look, I said it just now, the answer is coming. He does it like this. He's talking, of course.

Two more times will remain now.

But when praying, how did you pray those two rak'ahs? Did you pray them with an additional surah? Or without an additional surah? Because you caught those last two rak'ahs. Without an additional surah. You didn't recite an additional surah. In those first two rak'ahs he recited the additional surah. You should have prayed with an additional surah. That's how I prayed. Okay. It's fine.

For all of us. We'll ask one more, sir. right? Let me see. This one?

There is, there is, there is.

Ihvan says: peace be upon you, Hodja. I kiss your hands. Has the Night of Qadr passed, I wonder? May Allah be pleased with you. The Night of Qadr has passed or has not passed. Even if it has passed, I won't say. Even if it hasn't, I won't say. Even if I find it, I won't say. Even if I don't find it, I won't say.

If it were to be told, the Prophet would have told it. How beautifully he says it: after the 20th of Ramadan, seek it in the odd nights. In the odd nights. Yes.

But mostly the Night of Qadr falls on the 27th night of Ramadan. Then you see it falls on the 21st. Then you see it falls on the 29th. On the 29th it is (?). Then you see it falls on the 25th. Then you see it falls on the 23rd. After that it falls on the 27th. You see, once again it has come to the 27th. Then the next month you see it has come to the 25th. It jumps. (?) Allah knows best.

Now it has passed, now. Those who asked should not take offence. While (?), you know, there are jokes too. Waiting for the pear to ripen and fall into your mouth.

We will work.

We will work. Yes.

Stay well. May you be in Allah's care. Lillâhi teâlâ el-Fâtiha.

Amen, O Lord.