Talk of 26 July 2025

Kuzey İmanlı, a guest Where... let's wait a little Guest Kuzey İmanlı says: Hodja, I kiss your hands, may many more kiss them. First of all First of all my question: can you tell the benefits of completing the Quran in Ramadan, he says. I'm very curious about it. I completed it too. Last Ramadan. Next Ramadan too I want to complete it right away. Hodja, I was curious about the question. I'd be glad if you read it.

Which question is he curious about? Is he curious about this question? Yes.

He says, I was curious about the question I asked, Hodja. I was curious about the question I asked. Yes. He's curious about the question he asked. Well, let the children come (?). Where are they? They're coming. Are they eating? They're coming. Let them come. Come on, then.

A guest once asked a question like this.

Someone told me that there is a pen on the Preserved Tablet,

and it keeps on writing without ever stopping. From what I know, I said that there is no such thing, that the wet and the dry are in the Quran, that the Quran is in the Preserved Tablet, that Allah has programmed everything and that there is no longer any new writing or change there. Did I understand correctly? I wanted to ask you, he says. Of course he understood correctly. With Us is a book which in the Preserved Tablet is preserved; nothing is later added to it or taken from it, it says, so I understood correctly. These are superstitious words, but some words, according to their own minds, they stretch and then say, for example...

what did he stretch and say according to his own mind? Allah Almighty says in a verse: If the seas were ink, and the trees were pens, and as much again, Allah's words would not run out, He says. What does this mean? It doesn't mean that it is writing. I mean, all this speech that encompasses the universe is all within the Quran. Allah's speech comes about through letters. What does Alif mean, what does Mim mean, when these combine with one another what meaning arises? If it combines with another letter, what meaning arises? Such speech belongs to Allah alone. People stretch such words according to their own minds and start talking.

If they knew the true meaning of the verses, that is, the true basis of the Quran, they would never say these things.

Yes. Yes.

However many questions there are here,

all of them

have been explained. I'm going up to see if there's any we didn't explain; all have been explained.

Have these folks come too? They're coming, Hodja, they're doing their ablutions. They're doing ablutions. Then let's start our lesson. They've come. Go ahead.

There is a question. The question says: As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Hodja, I kiss your hands. First of all, my question: completing the Quran in Ramadan, can you tell its benefit, he says. I'm very curious, I completed it too. Next Ramadan too, the coming Ramadan too, I want to complete it. Hodja, I was curious about that question. I'd be glad if you read it. Good evening, he says. Now, completing the Quran in Ramadan, about its reward let us say this. Deeds depend on intentions. You complete the Quran so that people say, he completed it. Another says, look how nicely I completed it, and takes a share of pride for his own nafs.

And someone completes it with tears. Now their ranks are not the same. That's one. Secondly, there is a superstitious saying. When Ramadan comes, it says, the devils are chained. Tell that to someone else. Which devil are you going to chain?

I'll explain the matter further.

Chain the devils if you can. If you can catch the devil. The Prophet says this: I have chained my devil.

Well, weren't they not chained, Hodja, he says. Well, don't rush, I'll explain. I too have chained my devil.

Hodja, how did you see the devil to chain him? The devil doesn't appear to you anyway. How did you chain him? Look how you chained him. For My servant who knows Me, the temptation the devil gives is for the ignorant, He says. When the temptation he puts in your heart goes against the verses, taqwa strikes it, He says. You understand that. You know the sword of "la", that is, that you have no god but Allah. With this dhikr you start beating your devil's head. Spiritually. You knock him out well. You put him into a coffin. Then you nail the lid of that coffin down well. From then on, the devil's temptation has no effect on you.

Then if you move a little with your nafs, if you side with your nafs, that devil stirs inside the coffin. If you pay no attention, the devil pulls out the coffin's nails and begins to come out. If you pay no attention to that either, the devil coming out of that coffin confronts you. This time you end up becoming his plaything. This is how the devil flares up, spiritually. Through the strength of your faith, through knowing the verses well, the temptation he puts in your heart you sift out by the verses; that's how it is done. That's why the devil's temptation to you, He says, is for the ignorant.

Yes, you don't follow it. Here too, in Ramadan, Allah Almighty... the one who completes the Quran in Ramadan, while fasting, a person, let me say, doesn't curse, doesn't speak bad words, doesn't want to break anyone's heart. Well, the reward of the Quran read with such a mouth is surely somewhat more virtuous.

If you go on with the same life and just fast, merely, and complete the Quran as well, it's not that you won't get the reward. Fe men ya'mel miskâle zerratin hayran yerah: I write an atom's weight of good, He says. Fe men ya'mel miskâle zerratin şerran yerah: I write an atom's weight of evil, says Allah Almighty. I write your rewards and your sins for you.

Completing the Quran in Ramadan... fasting is what Allah has made obligatory upon us. He did not make completing the Quran obligatory, He made fasting obligatory. But as Muslims, if we also read the whole Quran, we receive an extra reward.

If He had made completing the Quran obligatory too, then in Ramadan all who didn't complete it would be at a loss.

However, with a sinless mouth, with that day's sinless mouth, reading the Quran is, compared to reading it on other days, a higher reward. You are fasting, and with the tenderness of your heart, turning to Allah Almighty as you read increases your reward.

Now, is it only in Ramadan that a person reaches this state? If you ask that: if a person strives to reform his nafs, Allah Almighty says in a verse this: I have servants whom neither buying and selling nor trade distracts from remembering Me, He says. these servants who constantly remember Allah, probably... His Holiness Ahmad al-Badawi says this: if I forget Allah for one moment, I burn, he says. I burn. This word is lacking. A lacking word. Because Allah created man of the forgetful kind. In this respect, states of heedlessness are excepted. May Allah protect me, this is not boasting: as long as I am in my right mind, except when I'm absent-minded, I do not forget my Lord.

He is always in my heart. This too corresponds to the verse I just mentioned. Neither buying and selling nor trade distracts them from remembering Me, He says. The buying and selling and trade here doesn't necessarily mean the person must be trading. I mean, be it an occupation or buying and selling. Even in his every trade Allah is on his mind, and he grasps the other person's situation, whether he needs this or not he understands. If it will benefit him, if with the price he pays he saves himself, or saves his (?), or if he is very poor and really has to buy it, then even at a small loss, for Allah's sake he either gives it to him as a gift or sells it.

These are the ones who are in constant remembrance.

So don't say, I'll complete the Quran only in Ramadan, I'll get a lot of reward; don't say that. On other days too, sit down, half an hour, forty-five minutes, whatever, read one juz.

Until evening a person works for himself, for the world. If at least for half an hour, forty-five minutes, a person, within the life and sustenance his Lord gave, turns to his Lord and also performs some worship for Him, then at least in return for his daily worldly work he has done his duty toward his Lord as well. Yes. Yes. Now tell us your very big question. Come here and ask. He said there's a very big question. No, Hodja, it's not big. Yes. I said difficult. Difficult. He said there's a difficult question. Now, Hodja, you have taught us up to today. You said man has seven states. Yes. You said the nafs that has become content has no turning back.

Yes. Isn't that right, Hodja? Right. Well then. Satan, in Allah's presence, by the body of Adam, at what level did he deny Allah, Hodja? I mean in which state of his nafs, though I don't know if they have a nafs, in which state does he deny Allah while seeing Him, knowingly, and defy Him? Is this the difficult question you meant? In which state of his nafs? What audacity? Now let me first tell you about the nafs, then. Let me tell you about the seven states of the nafs, then. So it's understood better.

Nafs al-ammara. First, he has said the shahada. He is in nafs al-ammara. In nafs al-ammara he doesn't pray, doesn't fast, doesn't give zakat, doesn't go on Hajj. There's something in my eye here, tell me.

My eye, my right eye has a slight injury. So please excuse me.

Now, let's start again. We said nafs al-ammara. First state. He doesn't pray, doesn't fast, doesn't give zakat, doesn't go on Hajj. He has merely said the shahada, nothing more. When it comes to talking, he says: don't look at me, look at my heart. My heart is pure, he says.

With this talk he throws himself into the middle of Paradise. This is nafs al-ammara. Nafs al-lawwama prays, fasts, gives zakat, goes on Hajj, if he has money of course; these need money, zakat and Hajj. These... it has two faces, the nafs al-lawwama. If he abandons prayer, he falls to nafs al-ammara. Yes, if he turns to taqwa, he rises to nafs al-mulhima. What is taqwa? Avoiding doubtful things. Paying attention to halal and haram. Let's say Ahmet Efendi gives me a fruit. Here you go, Hodja, he offers. And I know that this Ahmet Efendi, or Mehmet Efendi, is a thief. Not to break his heart, I take it, I don't eat it. I give it to a poor person.

This is taqwa.

In this way he deepens taqwa. If he continues in his worship and ecstasy, he rises to nafs al-mutmainna. Nafs al-mutmainna: Surah Al-Fajr, verses 27, 28, 29, 30. Verse 30. Open it and read. O soul at rest, pleased with your Lord and your Lord pleased with you, enter among My servants, enter My Paradise: the person He says this to.

There is no turning back for this one. He'd give his head, but not leave Islam. He doesn't fall into the other states. After this there is nafs al-radiya. Nafs al-radiya: ilm al-yaqin. In the seventh verse of Surah Al Imran He said "ve'r-râsihûne". It means people kneaded with Allah's knowledge. Ve'r-râsihûne. And people whom Allah Almighty Himself has raised, raised in the religion, people. They come from the line of Uways al-Qarani, you see. Not his lineage, but they come through that door.

If he rises from there, the one who comes once every hundred years, the Qutb al-Azam; he too, by Allah Almighty's knowledge, is raised, and opens up the verses according to the time.

After that, the Qutb al-Aqtab, who comes once every two hundred years, comes. The duty of the Qutb al-Aqtab: the superstitions that entered the religion,

he removes them. Every two hundred years the religion changes in forty-year phases. In the first forty, superstition enters, falsehood enters. In its second forty years, falsehood is weeded out. In its third forty years, Islam rises. In its fourth forty years, Islam stays at the peak. In its fifth forty years, Islam declines. Then falsehood enters again. Now we have explained the states of the nafs to you like this. Now we come to Satan not prostrating to Adam. Not at his grave. Listen. Allah Almighty said, I will create a human. The angels said, will You create a being that will shed blood on earth?

How was this known? Satan is the head of the jinn on earth. Their commander, their head. On earth, he says, there is not a span of soil where my forehead has not come down in prostration to the Most Merciful. Such a miser of worship. Because he's a miser of worship, they call him Abu Murra. The meaning of Abu Murra is miser of worship.

The angels admire his state. Allah Almighty raises him even to being the teacher of the angels.

Allah is the Owner of justice. He gives everyone the return of what they do. He too rose up to there. Then, when He said, I will create a human, Adam's clay, to create his body, a mud from the earth called black clay He had brought. He shaped it and breathed the spirit into it.

Now I'm saying it with its exact meaning, I'm giving the meaning of the verse. When He breathed from His spirit: that is the exact meaning of the verse. Pay close attention. These parts are very important. When I breathe into him from My spirit, prostrate to him, He said. The angels prostrated. Satan did not prostrate.

He said to Satan, what is this stance of yours that sets you against My command, He says. You created him from mud, You created me from fire. If He had said then that He created him within frequencies, no one would have known. And frequency is anyway a kind of magnetic field.

Fire doesn't cleanse mud. Mud doesn't cleanse fire. Fire cleanses mud, he said. He played a game of logic there. Yet instead of playing this game of logic, pay attention to Allah Almighty's word. When I breathe into him from My spirit, prostrate, He said. Allah has no one prostrate to any being other than His essence. Other than His essence. Since He had them prostrate to him, there is a part of it in him. He gave a part of His essence. And He created man honoured above the worlds. So he envied Adam. He grew arrogant, gave in to his nafs, grew arrogant, was seized by pride and arrogance. So he didn't prostrate to him, and Allah Almighty said, get down from there, you are accursed, He said.

Seeing him cursed, the noble angels went into prostration once more, saying, how good that we prostrated. That is, we didn't follow him. He had risen to be their teacher, after all. This is where our two prostrations come from. Yes. Then Satan said, give me life until the Day of Judgement. You are not of those who are given life, He said. I will sit in front of Your servants. I will turn away Your servants who come to You. I will take my share of them, he said.

And Allah Almighty permitted him: go, He said. Now in this case, as you said, it is not prostration at his grave. The prostration at the grave is a separate matter. Allah Almighty tells Satan: you will go to My Beloved. He will ask you. You will tell. If you lie, it will burn you. And I'll scatter your ashes into the air, He says.

Upon this he comes to the Prophet.

He says, you will ask, I will answer. Allah Almighty sends you His greetings, he says. Fine, he says. Who is the person you dislike most in the world, he says. It's you, he says.

Where do you take shelter, he says. Under women's fingernails. With whom do you sleep, he says. I sleep with drunkards and those without underwear, he says. Where do you roam, he says. I roam the markets and bazaars, he says. For each of them he brings a verse. Upon this he says, you've brought me verses, otherwise I wouldn't have believed you. O Abu Amr, come, he says. Prostrate once at the grave of our father Adam, and I'll have Allah Almighty forgive you, he says.

He says, I didn't prostrate to him alive, so why would I prostrate to him dead? Anyway, he says, what was written is written, and the pen is broken, he says. And saying this: by Allah, who made you the preacher of Paradise and me the preacher of Hell, I swear, he says, I didn't prostrate to him alive, I will never prostrate to him dead. Look at the pride and arrogance in this.

That's why there are seven traits in man. According to the seven states of the nafs, there are seven traits. Man is fond of fame, renown, pride, arrogance, ego, grandeur, and love of the world. Allah does not want to see this in people. The person who struggles with his nafs attains Allah's mercy. His spiritual unveiling opens too.

Was this the question you called difficult?

Ask whatever you like.

Let me see, is there a question up here?

There is.

Wait now.

Here. This part is done. Bayram, a member, this one is done too. Aydanur, a member, is telling. A member, a guest, says. Questions have come, let's see. We explained this part. Now we come to member Bayram's question. As-salamu alaykum, sir. I respectfully kiss your blessed hands. Bless your hands. May many more kiss them. My question. Page ninety-seven. Can you open Surah An-Nisa, verse thirteen, sir, he says. I kiss your blessed hands, he says. Let's open it. Yes. How nice. Page ninety-seven, he says. Page ninety-seven.

Eighty-seven. Sir?

Ninety-seven. Verse thirteen, he says. On 97 there is no verse 13.

He had probably said something there, here. Let's look there. He said, I probably said it wrong. Let's look at Bayram's here.

Yes. Bayram's was supposed to be 123, he says. Let's look at verse 123, what is it?

Verse 123, look what it says. Neither your wishful thinking nor the wishful thinking of the People of the Book is real, it says.

Whoever does evil, whoever does an evil, will see its punishment and will find for himself no friend or helper besides Allah, it says. Now if we read this from one verse back: those who believe and do good deeds We will put in gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein forever, it says. Right. Allah Almighty willed that His essence be known by us. Whoever says the shahada to Allah and does what He says, on the straight path, one of the two ways, goes to Paradise. Allah promised these things as a true word, it says. A true word. I don't go back on My word, He says. Then, Allah speaks the truth, it says.

I always speak the truth anyway, He says. In giving one's word and keeping it, who could be more truthful than Allah, it says. That is right too. Now, neither your wishful thinking nor the People of the Book's wishful thinking is real. Now here, our wishful thinking is our fancies about ourselves. For example: Allah, if I worship, sends me to Paradise, takes me there, but I wonder, does Paradise exist? I wonder if it exists? That is wishful thinking. Or else: I wonder, if I worship, will He put me into Hell? Here too he has a point. Why does he have a point? Because, saying Allah will put whom He wills into Paradise and whom He wills into Hell, they've put superstitions into the Quran.

In this case this man, believing these, may fall into such wishful thinking. And the person who writes it this way bears the burden of sin. Whoever wills goes to Paradise, and whoever wills goes to Hell. Will is twofold: there is universal will and there is partial will. Universal will: He willed and created us. He left us free in our will, wrote our own wish as our destiny, and, to have us witness ourselves what kind of person we are, He sent us to the world. Our Lord, who says, an atom's weight of evil and an atom's weight of good, I will write your good, says: did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are? According to this verse, since good of an atom's weight and evil of an atom's weight are being written, according to this record, if my good is more at the Supreme Court, if He tells us in the verse, who speaks more truly than Allah, if He says here too, who is as faithful to his word as Allah, then I'm for Paradise, then.

If I go on like that, of course, if I go on like that. Those who write it this way, these people bear the burden of sin. Saying Allah will put whom He wills into Paradise and whom He wills into Hell, they bear sin toward people. This is what He calls our wishful thinking. Nor the wishful thinking of the People of the Book. What is the wishful thinking of the People of the Book? Jesus is the son of Allah. He will intercede for him. Their religion is the true religion. Jesus will come and spread not Islam but his own Christian religion. Jesus is the son of Allah, they say. There is no such fancy, He says.

Mary is Allah's wife, they say. Ezra is Allah's son, they say. There is no such fancy either, He says. Allah is one in His essence. Hüve'l-evvelü ve'l-âhiru ve'z-zâhiru ve'l-bâtın. He is the Owner of the first, the last, the outward and the inward realms. He is the one sovereign of this universe. La ilahe illallah. There is no god but Him. Yes. Therefore don't fall into these fancies, He says. And for himself, besides Allah, no friend... let's continue: whoever does evil, its punishment he will see, He says. As I said earlier, if an atom's weight of evil is written, he will see its punishment. And he will find for himself no friend or helper besides Allah, He says.

Because Allah Almighty, at the Supreme Court, for the person from whom He lifts His mercy, not even a prophet will intercede for him. Because Allah has neither a helper beside Him nor anyone to advise Him. Nor an equal. So the word coming from between Allah Almighty's two lips frightens a person.

That's why in this world a person will know his Owner.

My owner is not my mother and father.

They are those who have rights over me. The One who truly created my mother, my father and all people is Allah. Our Owner is Allah.

Yes.

Our child Arzanur says. Let's see what our child Arzanur has said here.

You go like this. So your hand can move a bit more freely. Yes. Hodja, as-salamu alaykum, I kiss your hands, she says. My husband has set his mind on divorcing me. And I'm trying to do everything I possibly can. Sometimes I get angry. Then he stands up: I'm divorcing you. We're not compatible, he says. He feels as if we argue every day. He doesn't want to argue even once a month. He is very affected. I have no strength left. I don't want to divorce. I don't know what to do. I await your prayers, she says.

My child Ayzanur, you are a person of faith. If you weren't, you wouldn't be listening to me here anyway. There is a verse of Allah Almighty. Men are managers and in charge over women, He says. If he forces you, if he wrongs you, and if you cannot bear his wrongdoing,

Allah Almighty says this to men: your wives, do not keep them bound in your marriage. If you have nowhere to go, mother, father, siblings, or if you'd be in a situation where you'd be left wronged, think of our mother Asiya. Pharaoh... in Pharaoh's palace she prayed to Allah. O my Lord, do not make me Pharaoh's mate, she said. And though she lived in the palace, Pharaoh could not see our mother Asiya. She entered among the four women.

The world is not a realm that is perfect on all four sides.

Three sides are torment and suffering, and one side is in good order.

That's why Allah Almighty recommends patience to us in the Quran.

If he is going to divorce, let him divorce. Whatever he tells you, obey like our mother Asiya. Even if he (?), he is not an unbeliever, he's a Muslim. If he earns, if it's halal, sir, if he doesn't talk to you, even if he says I'll divorce you, don't mind it. You carry out Allah's command. You will rise. As long as you do so, Allah will also, through spiritual feelings, open your spiritual unveiling. Since you are such a person of faith and you listen to me like this, with verses, as long as you master your nafs, preventing wrongdoing is also a good deed. The Prophet says this: help the oppressed, and help the oppressor too, he says.

O Messenger of Allah, we understand helping the oppressed, but how do we help the oppressor, they asked, and he said, preventing the oppressor's evil is helping him. Yes. God willing, as long as you are like this, as long as you obey this way, may my Exalted Lord, God willing, give his heart feelings of mercy and bring him to his senses. Stay well. Yes.

A member, a guest, says: sir, Surah Al-Hadid, verse 16, in the 8th volume of the tafsir, the last paragraph I couldn't understand; can you explain it?

Verse sixteen, the eighth... Sir, Al-Hadid.

Six, seven, where's the eighth in the series here? Eight. Are these hadith? Surah Al-Hadid. Does it say Hadid here? Surah Al-Hadid. Surah Al-Hadid. In the eighth volume of the tafsir, he says. Eighth. At the end of the tafsir in the eighth volume, he says. Surah Al-Hadid. Now let's find Hadid here. Surah Al-Hadid. Which page have I read? If you ask the page, I'll find it faster.

Surah At-Tariq. Surah Al-Asr. Not this one. Well, let me see the question. Find me the page.

Al-Qari'a. Surah Al-Qadr. Those are further back. Further back. Surah Al-Hadid Surah An-Nazi'at, Surah An-Naba; is it even further back than that? Surah Al-Hadid, look, it'll be after Ar-Rahman and Al-Waqi'a, after Surah Ar-Rahman, after Surah Ar-Rahman; which page is that? Sir, Ar-Rahman, An-Naba, further back (?) Al-Muddaththir, Al-Haqqa Al-Qalam, Surah Al-Mulk Surah At-Talaq, Surah Al-Munafiqun This 8th... the surah isn't in the 8th. Ah, I found Surah Al-Hadid. You should have said it's at the beginning of the book. Verse 16 of Surah Al-Hadid. Yes, I found it.

What does it say? Has the time not yet come for those who believe, through remembering Allah and the Quran sent down from Him, for their hearts to tremble? Let them not be like those who were given the Book before. A long time passed over them and their hearts hardened. Many of them are those who have gone astray, it says. Before these came, I said something to you.

What did I say? I said, imagine a building. A very beautiful building. Wonderful.

What did you mean, Hodja, one asks. Let me tell you this later. Let's read this part first.

This verse, to people who gave Allah Almighty a good covenant, who believed, yet upon coming into the world conformed to their surroundings and do not fulfil the duties and obligations of the religion of Islam, is an address, it says.

It warns them. Thus: O you who believe, conforming to the life of the surroundings you are in, you go against Allah's commands half-heartedly. When will your hearts tremble when Allah's verses are recited, and you remember your Lord? And when will you be saved from this heedlessness you live in? Let them not be like those who were given the Book before. A long time passed over them and their hearts hardened. Many of them are those who have gone astray; it reminds us of those who were destroyed. In this verse attention is drawn to the Jews and Christians. Before, prophets were sent to them with books.

A long time passed over the prophets and the people, and the people who came into the world: their hearts darkened. They became those who deny Allah and the Hereafter. They associated partners with Allah. And many of them are those who have gone astray. Allah Almighty, addressing the believers: O you who believe, do not be like them, He commands. He said he didn't understand the last paragraph; now we're coming to it. It is narrated, this narration, that when the Muslims emigrated to Medina the Illuminated, they increased in number and attained abundant provision and blessings. A period of 13 years had passed when some of them, in living the religion of Islam, seemed to show some slackness, as it were. Upon this, this verse was revealed.

It is also narrated that this verse, near Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, this too says may Allah be pleased with him, near him was recited, and in his presence a delegation from the people of Yemen was present. This delegation, on hearing this verse, began to weep. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq looked at them and said: this is how we were too, until hearts fell into hardness, he says. Meaning what? He understood this last part. Yes, he probably understood this last part. That is, Siddiq looked at them and said, this is how we were too. That is, we used to worship idols before. But then we turned to the Truth, he says.

That is, with the coming of the Prophet, they abandoned the idols. They accepted the religion of Islam. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq: our mother Aisha is the daughter of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. Sir, at the same time he is also his father-in-law. And where did he get the name Siddiq from? When the Prophet ascended in the Mi'raj, he says, tonight I ascended and came back. I met with Allah Almighty, he says. The unbelievers, the idolaters, sir, say, this one is a madman, he said such and such, they say. And, they say, let's tell Abu Bakr. I wonder what Abu Bakr will say about this, they say. They come and tell Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.

They say, Muhammad said such and such. He went up to the heavens, spoke with Allah and came back, they say. Who said this, he asks. Muhammad said it, they say. I confirm it, he says, it is true, he says.

Yes. He gets the name Siddiq from there.

If you didn't understand, ask again.

This is how we were too, he says. Until hearts fell into hardness. That is, we were in such a state back then, he says. But now, praise be to Allah, thanks be to Him, we have been honoured with Islam, he says. Of course. Of course.

If anyone else wants to ask, my friend, let's see, is there a question here? Let's look once more.

Sir?

Aydanur says, may Allah be pleased with you. Amen, Hodja.

Amen, Hodja, amen, she says. God willing.

Sir, there is. There is. She's asking one more question. Sir, I understood it like this. I wonder if it's right? Before Allah Almighty even said Elestü bi-rabbiküm, all people's souls He had divided into three groups according to their ranks: those of the right, those of the left and the group of those brought near. That is, since our Lord knows the secrets of people's hearts, before people gave their covenant, even before they were addressed with Elestü bi-rabbiküm, He knows their ranks and divided them into three according to their state.

Exactly that. Just so. She's right. Because I too see three groups opposite. Three groups. If these were mixed, I would see some mixing as they separate. There's no mixing. Three groups. They're already separated. There He doesn't allow any mixing either. And Allah Almighty knows the secrets of our hearts from this too. Yes.

Aysanur also says, may Allah be pleased with you, amen, amen, Hodja. Here a guest says the same. If anyone else has a question, let them ask. Let's look once more, is there one? (?)

No. To my children listening to me, my advice: don't you only learn. Both learn and teach. This is my first advice. Second advice: research. The hardest questions in religion, material or spiritual, whatever there is, as questions, from the Quran's verses, ask the hardest questions. You learn, and let our other Muslim brothers and sisters learn too. Search the books for the hardest questions, ones nobody puts to you like this. Be it spiritual, Sufi, inner or outer, ask.

Yes.

Stay well, may Allah keep you.

Here, for 3 to 5 minutes, if you can ask questions, ask. I'll leave it open.

We work here for an hour, you see, one hour. We have 10 more minutes to the hour.

It doesn't matter if it runs over. This place is (?) around the clock. We can broadcast to the world, but I've grown old now. I used to talk for a week, day and night. A week.

There's a question. As-salamu alaykum, sir. Is this sentence a hadith? If there are no people who look at you and long for Islam, reconsider your faith. May Allah be pleased with you. We kiss your hands, he says. What does the Truth say? If there are no people who look at you and long for Islam, then all people should doubt their faith. Reconsider your faith, it says. Now those superstitious people said it based on this. One person, he says, if he is a friend of Allah, people who see him immediately remember Allah, he says. This is how they made it up.

It is not a hadith. That's what they say.

Yes. I told you the right of it. If a person who sees a friend of Allah remembers Allah, he knows that this person is a friend of Allah, but he remembers Him. Now we too, for example, sometimes walking through the market, well, I don't stroll, but going to the mosque, for example, see very beautiful people with luminous faces. Right? Don't you immediately remember Allah? Seeing him like that pleases you. Yes.

But it doesn't mean one should reconsider one's faith. From what one hasn't seen, doesn't know. He too is a person of faith.

A security report came up here.

Telling me to go to the security report. Never mind. Close it. Yes.

Stay well. May Allah keep you. Lillahi Teala el-Fatiha.

Amin Ya Rabbil Alemin.