Talk of 12 April 2025

There are a lot of questions. Do you know?

Mostly brother Ömer does something. He makes the ones that have been read grey, like this. If it hasn't been read, it's white. So it stays below. These are in grey. Have these been read? They're white. The white ones. He marks the grey ones as read. Brother Ömer, as far as I know. Have these been read? Yes. I remember this from last lesson.

No, wait.

There's a question here, Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 187, right here. Let's look. Peace be upon you, sir. In Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 187, Allah Almighty, may His majesty be exalted, says: approach. Let me see.

Yes. But I don't like this situation, she says.

I feel that this feeling is a result of the ego and unruliness in my nafs. That is why I am repelled by it. According to this verse, is this an obligation, is it compulsory to do it? If I don't want to, can I stay away from this all my life? Now, there is no such thing as "I don't want" a verse of the Quran. If you don't want it, if you deliberately deny a verse, you become a disbeliever. But let's see now, this verse 187 you mention, what does it say? Let's learn that first, then maybe you have understood these things wrongly. Let's have a look.

Verse 187. Glasses. My glasses were left over there. Bring me my glasses. Yes. Verse 187 is a verse that has been explained wrongly. Because it was explained wrongly, you may have seen it this way. Or you may have understood the verse wrongly. Let's see.

It has been made lawful for you to approach your wives on the night of the fast, it says. What does it say here, sir? Surah Al-Baqarah says approach. Now I,

it has been made lawful for you to approach. They are a garment for you and you are a garment for them. It says it rightly. Let me explain the part up to here for you. Now let me explain this sentence to you. Allah Almighty created man from a woman and a man.

We are a garment for them, that is, breaking the feelings of lust. And they are a garment for us. They take on our feelings of lust and break them. And in this way they keep people away from adultery. They fulfil Allah's command lawfully. And at the same time, and indeed, they help people come into the world.

In this case a woman and a man are a human factory. If, when lust strikes a person, he had not united with his wife, perhaps he would fall into sin. Because Allah knows what kind of feelings the servant He created will have, for him, in these months of Ramadan, on the nights of fasting, when you are not fasting, that is, you fast by day until evening, at night you are free. He has made this lawful for you. Keep your body healthy, or, sir, break your nafs and continue your worship. He also says this to the Prophet (peace be upon him). When lust strikes you, go to your homes, he says. How well he says it. When lust strikes you, go to your homes.

The unmarried say: what should we do? You fast, he says. It breaks lust. Up to here Allah Almighty protects us from sin. He does not put on our backs what we cannot carry. This part is right.

Because Allah knows that you would wrong your own souls, He accepts your repentance and forgives you. Look how beautiful. As I said, what does wronging our souls mean? Going to others and committing adultery. So the verse "marry as far as you are able" also comes from here. They support each other anyway. Marry as far as you are able. But the civil code tied it to just one, so that Islam would turn to these comforts, sir, people would commit adultery and drift away from their religion. Yes.

On the nights of Ramadan approach your wives, it says. Now when it says approach your wives, it does not mean that, because it's Allah's command, I must approach every night because Allah said so.

Sir, seek what Allah has decreed for you. That is, do you want a girl or a boy as a child? You say: my Lord, give me whichever is good for me. You don't say give me a girl, give me a boy. Girls and boys are both servants of Allah. You say: give the good one. What is a bad one? Well, there are those who kill their mother and father.

And what is a good one? There are those who obey their mother and father.

The white thread of the morning. Eat and drink until it is distinguished from the black thread, it says. Right. What is this? The white thread of the morning. With a black spool, it says. Until the white spool is distinguished.

They tied this to imsak. In fact, after imsak, forty-five minutes before sunrise, forty-two or forty-five minutes before, if you look to the east, at the time the sun will rise, but before it rises, forty-five minutes before it rises, when you look, one side is completely bright and the other side completely black. Like two spools, a black spool and a white spool, side by side. Pay attention to this. You can eat up to this time. My Lord allows you this. So that you would not fail to find the time of every form of worship at its hour, when Allah created the universe, when He created the world too, as the sun, the moon and the world turn around their own axes, the times for you, the times of worship too, the hours according to the turning of the world, in the sky He wrote.

Now, the noon prayer: when the sun comes right overhead, when you plant a stick upright, plant a stick, the shadow will fall right at its foot; at that moment, (?), a few minutes after that has passed, you pray the noon prayer. When the length of this stick, two shadow lengths, when the shadow stretches to twice the stick's length, the afternoon prayer time begins.

When the sky turns red as the sun sets, the evening prayer time begins. The redness passes, a brightness appears, the night prayer time begins. No. You don't even need your watch. He put it all here. So at night too, it says, during the fast, eat and drink until the white spool and the black spool are distinguished, it says.

Then, from dawn, eat and drink until the white thread of the morning is distinguished from the black thread, then from dawn complete the fast until evening, it says. From dawn. The time of dawn begins. That is, after those 45 minutes, stop eating and drinking, it says. And pray your prayer before the sun rises. The Hanafi school, at dawn, after these 45 minutes, 45 minutes before sunrise, prays the morning prayer. The others, Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali, pray 15 minutes after the imsak time. It has fully begun. They pray their prayers fifteen minutes later. So the morning prayer is also prayed from the imsak time right up until sunrise.

When you are in seclusion in the mosques, complete the fast until evening. When you are in seclusion in the mosques, do not unite with women. Fine. I, the Conqueror, will save a town. They call me the Conqueror. The Prophet used to go into seclusion every Ramadan between the 20th and the 30th. And it is a strong Sunnah.

At least one person in that town, even for a single day, goes into seclusion, as the Conqueror, the saviour of that town. For everyone it is an obligation. But if one person does it, it falls away from the others.

In this case you cannot even see a woman's face in seclusion. Nor can you consult with her either, for the duration of the seclusion. These are the limits Allah has set. Do not go near these limits. Thus Allah makes His verses clear to people. It is hoped that you will be protected, it says. The wrong part here is "it is hoped".

Everything else is right. The word "it is hoped" does not befit Allah. Because when you say "it is hoped", it means Allah does not know what people will do. He will judge according to what they do. Yet Allah Almighty, according to His verse that there is no living being until the Day of Judgement whose deeds We do not know. Moreover, verse 72 of Surah Al-A'raf, they deliberately covered it up and did not explain it. Or they could not explain it. If you put your finger on it, they call you a fatalist. If you go a bit further, they call you a Mu'tazilite. If you go a bit further still, they call you a disbeliever.

They have frightened people. Yet man made a covenant with Allah Almighty quite beautifully in Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172. Whatever he asked of our Lord by his own will, Allah Almighty wrote his fate according to what he asked. Because He gave a part of His spirit, will is twofold. Universal will is Allah's will. Partial will is the will in man. Whatever man asked of Allah by his own will, Allah Almighty, without interfering in his will, gave what he wished, (?), and wrote his fate. And of these He says "We create a second creation", and He created and sent them to the world. That is, we were spirit, nafs and soul together.

We were created in the world of Lahut. Moreover, He created Adam's body from clay, and when He said "when I breathe My spirit into it, prostrate", He puts it into a (?) body. That is a second creation. And that second creation He describes in verse fourteen of Surah Al-Mu'minun. So then, since Allah knows what we will do, why did He send us to the world? That is where the secret lies.

If you knew Allah, you wouldn't say Gabriel is Allah. If you knew Allah, you wouldn't say He is the Quran. If you knew Allah, you wouldn't say He is Jesus.

And this man says: now they say it about me. Because in such and such a place, in ten places, the Being of Allah Almighty is mentioned, here, he says, he will say Gabriel, he says. Gabriel. Gabriel is created from light. Allah Almighty, the holy spirit is Allah.

Sir, the Trustworthy Spirit is Allah. The universal spirit is Allah. How did you deny these? On what basis did you deny them? What is the name Hu? Self-subsisting, created by no one, not begotten. He did not beget. Self-subsisting. A being that needs nothing. Allah. This name. And who is this? It is Allah. He is Allah. La ilahe illa hu. There is no god but Him. How did you deny this, that Hu, or Allah, and declare Gabriel a god? Gabriel, who went as far as (?), on the highest horizon (?), as he ascended with the Prophet on the Mi'raj, you put him there in place of Allah, you made him speak with Allah.

Weren't you ashamed?

Yes.

If you say "it is hoped" here, this Quran written by Zionism is accepted by the Diyanet as its main basis, and in no way does it add guilt to man; man came to prove what kind of person he is. It attributes no guilt to any person. Doesn't it always load the guilt onto Allah? That is the root of Zionism. The Quran too has been written on this basis. When we tell the truth, what do those responsible at the Diyanet say? What is the basis of the Quran? Contrary, they say. Of course mine is the right basis of the Quran; the contrary one is really yours.

Yes. That is why you are under responsibility, under responsibility. If I am under responsibility, you will call me to the truth. To be freed from responsibility, to be able to serve that office, to give it its due, you will tell the truth. You will come to what is right. Allah Almighty says: I will write down your good, even an atom's weight, I will write down his evil, even an atom's weight. Open the Quran: in any place, did you attribute guilt to that person? You always ascribed attributes to Allah. Before that, at the Diyanet too, you said this is a book written 100 years ago, don't say we didn't say it, you said it, you said we will write a new Quran. What happened that you didn't write it? Yes. Now, did you understand, guest? Guest, it is not as you understood it.

Here she says: peace be upon you, Hodja. I kiss your hands. Does a person who reaches this night gain reward equal to eighty-three years of worship? May Allah be pleased with you.

Whichever night

you reach, whichever night, even if it is the Night of Power, no created being can give the reward that Allah Almighty will give in Allah's place. Where did he get 43 years of worship from? This is entirely according to the understanding of Zionism, on their own beliefs; they hand out reward by the ton, too. And you spend that night in worship. You say: I've received my reward of eighty-three years of worship. You lie back on your back. May Allah grant safety.

Look at the prophets. None of them, though they were prophets, not even the Prophet (peace be upon him), who came as a mercy to the worlds, ever said: if you do this, it is this much reward. Whoever says this has slandered the Prophet.

Because none of the created beings can give the reward Allah will give.

Why can't they? They cannot know the secrets of his heart. They cannot know his intention. And they cannot know how precious that reward is. Nor can they know how much it is worth, how much reward will be given. These belong to Allah alone. Yes.

Brother Bekir says: Hodja, peace be upon you. Surah An-Nur 61. verse, in the matter mentioned, Allah, for us, or: there is no harm in your eating from your friends' houses. There is no harm in your eating together or separately. Could you enlighten us on this verse where He says this? Who are the friends? I understood it as separate quarters for women and men. When I first read it: together with close friends' families who are not relatives, can one eat? May Allah be pleased with you, I say. Now, if we are to live Islam, here in our religion there are separate quarters, for women and for men. The women sit in one place and talk, and the men sit in one place and talk.

When we say friends, our close relatives: my mother, my father, my paternal uncle, my maternal uncle, my maternal aunt, my paternal aunt, maternal cousins, paternal cousins. These are relatives. Here separate quarters are not needed, because they cannot marry one another. Those who cannot marry one another are each other's friends, relatives. In addition, we also have friends among people.

When we talk with these friends, the women again sit in a separate place and the men sit in a separate place. The relatives I just listed can be together. Because they cannot marry one another. People who could marry one another sit apart. Today I'll say eighty percent.

It's nearly reaching a hundred percent.

Families sit with one another stark naked, for show. They invite each other to meals. This one eyes that one's wife. And that one eyes the other's wife. How do you know, Hodja?

There are people who tell me, who tell me. There are women who tell me. Hodja, she says, my friend, dear father, when we eat with my husband's friend, he eyes me, she says. He waylays me, she says. What should I do?

These are bitter matters.

If you present your wife stark naked, the man will eye her. He says nice sweet words to you, and you take him for a friend.

Don't tell your secret to your friend. The friend tells it to his friend's friend.

Your friend is your faith, your reason, and the inspiration our Lord gives you. These are your friends. Allah's commands are your friend. And Allah Almighty, again in Surah Al-Baqarah, what does He say? Look, let me open this place.

Yes.

Allah is your friend, it says. Your friend.

Yes, probably in 77 here, let's look here now. 220. Allah is the friend of people, it says. Look how beautiful. Allah is the friend of people. Because Allah created people. (?) He loves them. And those who talk about 10 years', 20 years', 100 years' worship: Allah Almighty sent one percent of His mercy to the world. He set aside ninety-nine percent for His servants. On the Day of Judgement, at the Great Court, I will judge My servants with it, He says.

If you turn your back on Allah, eat and drink what Allah gave and don't remember Allah, and while He commands stoning for adultery, when a married man commits adultery with a married woman, you turn your back on these, and, for a Muslim, a Muslim's life, property and honour are sacred. What was it? Life, property and honour are sacred. You make these your friends, these I listed, and to this one's and that one's wife and daughter you cling. Leave your (?) at home. Enjoy yourself outside.

Let me worship one night worth 83 years. Ah, let it all be wiped away. These are the words of Jewish Zionism.

Now look what it says here. Allah is the friend of people. He brings them out of darkness into light. As for those who disbelieve, their friends are the taghut. That's it. Two-legged people. Devils. They take them out of light and lead them into darkness. Together with the deeds they do. These are the people of Hell. They will stay there for ever.

Who are our friends then? Who are our enemies? One must know that well. Together or separately, there is no harm in our eating, it says. Yes, in the time of the Prophet the noble Companions used to invite the Prophet. They would go to the house together. They went to the house of the Companion who had invited them. Did they take their wives? Have you ever heard that? They themselves would go. I wonder, in that house, would the person who invited them bring his wife and seat her at the table? He brings the food and leaves, or he prepares the table beforehand and leaves. Yes.

Who lives Islam, who knows Allah?

If they knew Allah, they would not call Gabriel Allah. They would not call Jesus a god. The creation of Jesus, He says, is like the creation of Adam, says Allah Almighty. Yes.

Yes. You understood it as separate quarters? You understood correctly. Yes. When I first read it: can one eat together with close friends' families who are not relatives? They cannot. Even if they are close friends, they cannot.

Even if they are close friends, separate quarters. Let me tell you what happened to me. I was transferred from Diyarbakır to Ankara. My friends were very fond of me. One day we'll come to you, they said. If you come, I said, we'll have separate quarters. They didn't believe it. Why did it happen like this? I'm in Diyarbakır, a friend invited us to his home. Well, let's go, we said. One or two other friends came too.

We're talking, his wife and so on were around; she asked something. And I'm explaining. At that moment my right eye twitched.

It twitched. Exactly as if I'd winked at the woman. That's how it came across. I was so embarrassed. I turned my head away. But my eye is twitching.

I got up and left.

The lady, the lady. That lady told our friend's wife that I had winked at her. Well, there you go. And the situation as it was, they tell it to my wife too. Now this story goes round among the ladies. They tell it to my wife. And I explained the situation to my wife, like this and like this; that's why, I said, I got up and came home, I said. My wife knows anyway that I wouldn't do such a thing.

So I told the friends: there are separate quarters. Oh, how can that be, they said; that's what I said, they didn't believe it. They came; women to the other side, men to this side. Oh, you really told the truth. Did you come for me, or did you come here for my wife? And what did I come for? Not a sound. After that they neither came to me again nor invited me, nor did I invite them. I don't go to anyone anyway. How nice. Yes. (?) says: peace be upon you, our Hodja won't teach today because he had eye surgery, she says. That's right, I had eye surgery; I had a cataract in my left eye, I couldn't read; look, now I'm reading. Peace be upon you, Hodja.

Are "Allahu la ilahe illa hu" and "huvallahu" the same in meaning? Or is there a closeness between them? They are exactly the same. Exactly. Let me tell you. Allah, Hu, the Self-subsisting, is Allah anyway. La, no, ilahe, god, other than Him, hu: you are saying here there is no god other than Him, no self-subsisting god. And the other, huvallahu, in terms of meaning: Hu, you are saying Allah is the Self-subsisting. Exactly the same. Ah, there you have added a bit, la ilahe illallahu. Ah, and there you said huvallahu. There is no difference. Exactly so. You are saying a bit less with huvallahu. When you say it, you are saying Allah is self-subsisting.

And its continuation, Allahu la ilahe illa hu: that too, there is no god but Allah. That too is its continuation. The same.

Surah Ar-Rum, verse 27, she says.

In the verse: the highest attribute manifest in the heavens and on earth is His. Could you explain the sentence? I kiss your hands, she says. Surah Ar-Rum, verse 27, open this place, let's see. Surah Ar-Rum will be on page four-one-three. Surah Ar-Rum. Two hundred thirty-three. Ninety-five. Sir.

Al-Ankabut. Surah Ar-Rum. Which verse? The twenty-seventh verse.

He first creates His creation, (?) creates His creation. It is He who repeats this creation after death, He said "yuhyi wa yumit": He causes to die and gives life. Allah, what He first creates is hard. What He first creates. Because He will create again what He created. Is it harder to create the first time, or to create again what He created, He actually asks. After creating what He first creates, He places in it such a cell that it, until the Day of Judgement, neither dies again, nor rots, nor breaks, nor is lost. In the hereafter We will water that cell again, He says, with water, We will water it, He says. With water.

We will water it with water. That water is a water called the Sea of Secrets on the sixth level. The reason for that Sea of Secrets: no water can turn this cell into its own kind. Only that water brings it to perfection. If it is a human, in human form. Down to the (?) of the fingertips it will unite with the spirit; in all the animals, when the animals too are gathered in the hereafter, He says, they too will be resurrected with those cells. The horned and the hornless; the hornless takes its due and vanishes. Look at this justice. There is justice even among animals. The justice of Allah. Yes.

This is very easy for Him, it says. Very easy for Allah. The highest attribute manifest in the heavens and on earth is His. Who is manifest in the heavens and on earth? Is there anyone manifest other than Allah? Who created the heavens and the earth? Who is present and watching everywhere?

Manifest in the heavens and on earth. Through what He created in the heavens and on earth, that no other being created His Being, that there is no god other than His Being, with verses He proves. What does it say? The heavens, the earth and what is between the two have known the remembrance of their Lord. If the heavens and the earth knew the remembrance of their Lord, Allah Almighty is manifest everywhere, in the heavens and on earth. Everything remembers Him and everything subsists through Him. So how does it remember Him?

In the atoms of magnetic or anti-magnetic substances, their positive and negative nuclei, as they spin around their own axes, make a sound. Even though we don't hear it, they make that sound. Allah Almighty does not make that sound for nothing. He makes them remember His Being. So, of the verse "the heavens, the earth and what is between the two have known the remembrance of their Lord", the meaning: His making the beings He created with His knowledge remember His Being. What is the reason, Hodja? The reason: a factory or a state puts out a product, and says: I am the inventor of this product, no one can imitate it. So the inventor of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, from the atom to the whole, their owner and creator is Allah. No one, in His place, "I created this too" can say. Yes.

Or, He says, did you count a seed from your world? If that were so, nothing from your world, down to a sprout, a seed, would have been given to you. I have a car, a house, a yacht, (?), money: all are things Allah has offered you, blessings He created, created for you. If you could create a seed from nothing in the palms of your own hands, if you could create a being with your own knowledge, then, He says, you would see to your own needs yourself and I would give you nothing, He says. In this universe, from the atom to the whole, all living beings need Allah. Allah has the attribute Al-Hayy, the Ever-Living.

All beings need Allah, but Allah is free of what He created. And the proof of this: the seven heavens surrounded by the Throne of Allah, beyond where time and space end, where there is no time and space, Allah Almighty reveals to the hearts of His servants, to the hearts of His prophets, by way of communication. Let Him not make the verses known.

Do you know Allah?

If we knew Allah, as the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, you would laugh little and weep much, he says.

Allah Almighty, in Surah Ar-Rahman: which of Allah's favours will you deny, He says. You eat and drink, at stark naked tables with drinks, at drinking tables, enjoying yourself, you don't see the one who provides, the one who offers you, who puts taste in your mouth and tongue with all kinds of flavours; you eat and drink the blessings Allah Almighty gives without knowing Him, and on top of that you act against His command. Honestly, this weighs on a person. If a person constantly looked after another person, constantly fed him, constantly gave him drink, constantly protected him, constantly met his needs, and that person constantly tormented the one helping him, denied him, ate and drank and said "who are you?", wouldn't it weigh on people?

Would a person with a conscience do this? There, no one knows Allah. If they knew Allah, they would not commit this heartlessness.

They would thank Allah.

Yes.

Do you have any other questions? Whoever has a question, ask.

Do you have a question? Ask, Abu Bakr. You're going to ask, I suppose.

Who is this? A guest, it says. Surah Ar-Rum 27. (?). You left the heavens. Where is this? Let's refresh this here. Let's refresh and see. Has it come? Yes, it has. Fatoş Boz says: peace be upon you, sir. In what is said to be a hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him): if a person curses something in anger, no good comes from it. Leave it, it is said. Can we learn about this from you? May Allah be pleased with you. I respectfully kiss your blessed hands, she says.

They have said it a bit incompletely.

Cursing also falls within this. When you are angry, it says. I'm quoting a verse. When you are angry, you pray for evil as you would pray for good, it says. For evil. So when a person gets angry, he will do the actions that answer to this hadith. If you are angry with someone, it says, (?), take ablution, it says. If that doesn't work, change your place, it says. If you're standing, sit down, it says. If you're sitting, it says, get up and walk around, it says. That is, don't answer the person right away, it says; don't answer the person, so that later you don't say something you will regret. When you are angry, or to the person who has wronged you and spoken to you in his anger, if you, it says, treat him well, you'll see, it says, that person has become your bosom friend, it says.

This is a verse too. That is why, when we are angry, we cannot curse our brothers and sisters. I say it to everyone. I say it again. I say it from here too. I have forgiven everyone what they owe me. If they have any right on me, let them come and take it. I say it to everyone. Whoever has a right on me, let them come and take it.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said so too. A Jew said: I have a right on you.

You struck me with a whip. I will whip you too, he said. Don't (?), they said. Don't. Let us give you what you want. No, he said. Even if you gave me the world, (?). I will whip him, he said. The Prophet said: let him be, let him take his right. Uncover your back, he said. He uncovered it, and he kissed his seal. I did this only to kiss this seal, he said. Yes. I am a grandson of the Messenger. Whoever has a right on us, let them come and take it. Yes.

We are concluding our lesson here. Stay well, may Allah keep you; it's time for prayer, I think.