Talk of 27 January 2026

People's writings, what this one or that one says, this one's or that one's name, doesn't concern me.

Yes. The light is on. Good.

We've done this part. The Holy Quran from the Mushaf (?), what did we say here? He says peace be upon you. Let me take this part. Like this, the text, OK, let it come up, let me close this. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

Misafir says: peace be upon you, sir. In our last talk, on the day of Elest, Allah said "I am your Lord," and they split into 3 groups. Then, when making the covenant one by one, there is an "idare" in man. Instead of "irade" (will), it says "idare" in man. There is will. From what you explained, there are screens, screens. Yes. Didn't man say "With whom am I making a covenant?" or during the covenant, did Allah address them saying "I am your Lord, you, I created you"? Because in the one-by-one covenant, since it reaches a point of no return, the person has his covenant written as his destiny. I kiss your blessed hands.

May Allah be pleased with you, sir. I'm trying to understand. I apologize.

Misafir, my child. I have been explaining this for years. Every time I explain it, another question comes up. Without seeing this place, it is impossible for you to comprehend it. It must be seen. But we will still explain it to you in a way you can understand. First of all, people do not accept that Allah Almighty appears in human form. That's one. However much I tell you, you'll say "With whom am I agreeing?" Second, they say Allah cannot be seen. They say He cannot be seen. If Allah cannot be seen, did we make a covenant there with an Allah who cannot be seen? That's two.

You cannot liken Allah to a creature, it says. But Allah gave a part of His spirit to Adam, and even made the angels prostrate. In Adam there is a part of His spirit. In a creature. Everything created other than Allah is a creature. I haven't come to your question yet. I'm opening it up a little so you can understand.

Allah Almighty, on the other hand, creates in proportion to His wish; He is the sought one. That is, He creates what He wishes.

You will know it this way. You will see your Lord before you. In human form, and beside Him the Prophet will say, "Yes, this is our Lord," trying to introduce Him to people. And you will know that this is the adhan itself.

The adhan itself, Allah Almighty (?)? What does it say? Look, in the adhan: Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allah is great, Allah is great. Eşhedü en la ilahe illallah, eşhedü en la ilahe illallah, I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. Now, there he believes. Eşhedü enne Muhammeden Resulullah, eşhedü enne Muhammeden Resulullah, again I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. Well now, would a man bear witness without seeing? Look, look at the scene.

Then, if you have believed in these, hayya ala's-salah, the prayer; hayya ala'l-falah, find salvation. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, there is none greater than Allah. There is no god but Him. Yes. And it is the very "Elestü bi-Rabbiküm." But if man doesn't know this, he doesn't understand. How would he know? He thinks they're reading something (?) and walks on by.

I'll get the news from the postman, from the postman.

Now we're coming to your question. However many people were created, they split into three groups when Allah Almighty said "I am your Lord." One group is those of the left. Those who saw Allah as like themselves and did not believe.

And Allah Almighty is free of deficient attributes; listen carefully to each of my words. If you skip a word of mine, again you won't understand. Allah Almighty is free of deficient attributes; what does that mean? "You saw Me as like yourselves; I will send you to a hidden world where My essence is not seen." Allah, who is free of deficient attributes, created these worlds. I'll still get to your question. Let me explain the surroundings a bit (?) so that it's better understood. If they ask me this question again, I won't explain it to anyone. Why won't I explain it? If I explained it 50 thousand times, 100 thousand questions come out.

Because it is an unseen world. I'm describing a world I will believe in, on top of something that isn't believed. If a person has filled his head with superstition, he puts my words behind him, puts forward what his own mind suggests, and still doesn't understand my words. That's why if they ask this question again, I won't explain it. Read it on the website. Is it on the website? It's there, isn't it? It is. Read it on the website. There's no need for you to tell me. And Allah Almighty has the attribute of Godhood. Before getting to your question, I'm opening it up a little. Why am I opening it up? I'm explaining why we came into the world.

Because they say Allah cannot be seen. Whereas Allah appears in human form. Because there are forms of the essence. And He created man the noblest of creatures, because He gave him of His spirit above the worlds. And it was not an unseen Allah who made the covenant with man. It was the visible Allah who made the covenant with man.

And man will not be able to object to this, saying "I didn't see You, so how could I know You as my Lord?" Allah Almighty, who is free of every deficiency (?), in Surah Taha, verse 134, in its verse, it says this very beautifully. But people who know nothing of the verses and do not see these places cannot reinforce the verses with one another.

One person will see a place, and when another, in his imagination, explains the verse outwardly to him, that person will say what he imagined fits here, here and here. Now, did the one who reads it, the one who imagines it, understand, or the one who sees understood? Yes. Now in this case He says, "We made a covenant with you." In verse 134 of Surah Ta-Ha: had We destroyed them before the Quran it says. That is, before sending you to the world, We made a covenant with you. And We know that you are people of hell, by your own account people of paradise (?). "If We had destroyed you before the Quran, you would have said this," it says: "If only You had sent me prophets and books, I wouldn't have fallen into this lowly disgrace (?)." Here you go, a hidden world, a world where our Lord's essence is not seen. There are much deeper secrets here, but your minds can't grasp them, and then question upon question, question upon question, and then, because your minds can't grasp it, you go astray, you lose your way. This much is enough; this much is already too much, this much is too much, anyway.

we are opening this up a bit wider now; here you took on flesh and bone, a second creation you entered human form. The first creation: spirit, nafs and soul, in the world of Lahut. When we pass on to the hereafter, too, with spirit, nafs and soul we will enter paradise. Not as the superstitions say, entering a body again and then entering paradise. Those superstitions also say this: when paradise is entered, the angels greet you, "You have come pure." They don't even know the meaning of "pure." They invent a lake at the gate of paradise. They wash you in the lake and then take you in. May Allah reform you.

Yes. The meaning of "pure" is: you have entered here without sin. You haven't the slightest sin. Because if you had sin, you couldn't enter here. There you have the meaning of "pure." A person becomes sinful. He goes to Mecca. He goes on Hajj. After the pilgrimage to the House of Allah, doing the sa'y seven times, (?), with Safa and Marwa, when he prays two rak'ahs at the Station of Abraham, Allah Almighty, in the verse, do you know what He says? "Now you are pure, as if newly born from your mother," it says. They don't even know the meaning of "pure." There is no verse about entering a second body either.

They go from superstition to superstition (?). I'll now prove to you in two words that this verse is superstition. Superstition. When the body bears witness and the witnessing over the spirit ends, "You are returned to the One who first created you," it says. The body dies there a second time. Allah Almighty turns to our spirits. He says: you will not taste the pain of death again, other than the first death. And blessed people, where did you put it into a body and then put it into paradise again? Huh? People unaware of the verses. These people are writing Qurans.

Now we've closed this part too. In that world of Lahut, of mankind split into three classes, those of the left denied. Allah Almighty gave them a share of reflection (?). He lifted them to the barzakh. However long we stayed in the barzakh, I don't know that. Thousands of years compared to here; a day there is a thousand years here. Then, because Allah Almighty made His essence known, one by one He calls them. What does He say? Elestü bi-Rabbiküm. I am your Lord. Look, I am your Lord.

So, at what time will you go? They choose a time by their own wishes and desires. When he chooses it, Allah Almighty knows all the characters in his heart. Here's a verse for you. "What is hidden in your hearts, in the deepest corner of the cell, that you yourselves don't know, We know," it says. So He gives him his feelings as character and writes his destiny. And however long a time he needs to prove that destiny in the world, that many breaths become his lifespan. Now do you understand? If you ask me this again, I won't explain it to you. "Ha, the Hodja doesn't know," say it, say he doesn't know.

It's on the website. Read it. How many times now: explain, explain, explain, explain. Because every time I explain it, there's a question again. He hasn't seen, doesn't know. Even as I explain this, there's a question. He doesn't know where. Where were we? Where is this?

A difficult world. One shouldn't enter these places, but we do these things so as to enlighten you better.

Because the questions don't end. On everything, as our boy says, he builds, turns, turns and builds again.

No questions.

I'm asking you too. Or do you have a question here? Do you have a question? Do you have a question?

Do you have a question? Let me open a place here for you.

Yes. On the verses, let me explain why the wrong ones are wrong.

Here Surah Al-Ahzab came up. "Among the believers there are many men who stood by the promise they gave to Allah." First of all, the opening is wrong from the start.

If you don't know the meaning of the verses, each word expresses a separate meaning. Look what it says now; if you give me from the start, I'll open these one by one for you.

"Among the believers there are many men who stood by the promise they gave to Allah." First of all, who is called a believer? One who has risen to the tranquil nafs. 27 to 30. In the verse: "O tranquil soul! Return to your Lord well pleased and well pleasing; enter among My servants, enter My paradise," the person He says this to. What does "there are many men who keep their word" mean? They're all believers, man! They all keep their word. Huh? Being human, since our Lord created us among those who forget, we can all forget some things. Even many of the prophets committed slips. They sinned. A slip is a sin, though.

O Lord, look at the opening of the verse (?) here.

Yes. From the start (?), the verse is wrong from the start.

"So among them is he who fulfilled his promise and gave his life on that path," he fulfilled his word. Look, he gave his life. That is, he fulfilled his word. He became a martyr, "and among them is he who awaits martyrdom." Now the words are ambiguous, they wobble like this. With a stone it can shift from its place; you can pull this in every direction. How do you pull it? "So among them," it says. Whereas among them, some are martyrs and some are waiting to become martyrs. That's the meaning. If you open these ambiguously, this way and that, like stones that shift from their place, like an angel stone (?), people get confused.

Fine, let's pass these. Let's pass these.

"They have not changed their words in any way." Hey, what is the covenant, the covenant?

The covenant is man having his destiny written. Is there a hero who can change his destiny? Tell me. They didn't change their words. So, according to your understanding, the Allah you imagine couldn't bind destinies firmly, and there are those who broke their word too. That's what you say anyway. That he gave it there and then broke his word in the world. The Allah I comprehend, if He wrote that destiny, then until the Day of Judgment, not by a millimetre, so that it can't be weighed (?), not by a millionth of a millimetre, perfectly straight, no one can go back on his word.

And that destiny doesn't change either.

Now do you understand how the verses are opened up? They've made these the basis of the Quran. This is not the basis of the Quran.

This is the story of Zionism or of some ideology.

There's another verse below it. Surah Al-Ahzab, verse 24. "For Allah will reward the truthful because of their truthfulness." Correct. Not all of the verse is wrong. Whoever does what Allah says, if Allah says, whoever carries out Allah's commands, of course He will reward him. He will reward him with paradise.

"He will punish the hypocrites if He wills." Oh no! "He will punish the hypocrites if He wills." Here it turns into arbitrariness now. That is, it takes away man's will from him. "However much hypocrisy you commit, I love you. Come over here." Well, in that case, where is Allah's justice?

How do you open this up? Where have you hidden Allah's justice?

"He will punish the hypocrites if He wills," if He wills He will punish. "Or if they repent, He will accept their repentance." Whereas no matter how sinful the hypocrites are, Allah's door of repentance is open until the soul reaches the throat. He is the One who accepts repentance abundantly. Say that here. It can't say it. If He wills, He will accept. Arbitrary. Arbitrary, arbitrary. They don't know what Allah is. When I say that, they truly don't know. "Or if they repent, their repentance He will accept; surely Allah is forgiving and merciful." This time, look how nicely it says it; the end is good: Allah Almighty is forgiving and merciful, just come. The Quran was sent down to the worlds. The Quran, among what Allah created, never makes distinctions, whether a pole (?) or not.

Or an assembly, whoever it may be. Mevlana, too, uses this saying accordingly: "Even if you broke your repentance a thousand times, a hundred thousand times, come again. Our lodge is not a lodge of despair," he says. In the Quran, too, Allah Almighty says only the disbelievers lose hope in Allah, He says. There you go.

That is, you say you read the verses and pass on, but these verses are not verses to read and pass by.

May Allah grant all of us an awakening.

May He also, with a fine awareness of Allah, those who write these Qurans of Allah. Rank, worldly desire, however much one needs it, may He grant them to see Allah's command as higher and to write the Quran accordingly.

Yes.

Was I able to explain it this way?

As far as it goes, slowly, you prepare yourself in your own way.

There's no need for me to prepare. If I prepared, I couldn't explain anyway. From here, open a place and give it to me. Open it for me. Give me a place.

Look, there's a question here.

Are those old?

So no more questions. Give it here, let me see. Which one do you want? From which side shall I start? Are you a leftist? He says start from the left. Let me start from the left. Just give it. Give the leftist one too. Look at how the verses are opened up. Look.

Look here. In the book. Always wrongly opened. There are many more. Many. If we were to do it. We took the main branches. Their main branches.

Surah Al-Ma'idah, verse fourteen. "From those who say 'We are Christians' We also took their firm promise."

There you go. They make the mistake at the start.

So, in the world, Allah Almighty took promises from people part by part. So there are those it wasn't taken from too. He set the Christians aside at the very end. He took a promise from them too. Look now what it says. "From those who say 'We are Christians' We also took their firm promise."

Whereas, Christian or not, of all the people who would come into the world, before they even came into the world, He took the promise of all of them. He wrote each one's destiny according to his wish and desire. Then He began sending to the world those whose time had come. He said Bismillah and sent Adam, together with our mother Eve.

That is, those people came into the world. Well, they came into the world; how did they become Christians? So it means those who came earlier from the prophets made Allah's commands known to people. "From those who say 'We are Christians' We also took their firm promise." "We had taken." "From the Christians too We had taken their firm promise." So after the Christians became Christians, Allah took a promise from them. Elestü bi-Rabbiküm. Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172. Unaware of that verse. If they had known it, they wouldn't write this text, wouldn't write this commentary (?).

"But of what was mentioned to them, the advice given to them and the book, they forgot a significant part. For this reason, We cast enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Judgment." Allah, Allah. They put Allah into human form. They clothe Him, wind Him, equip Him with human feelings. Then, just as a person does something spiteful to someone and that one becomes his enemy, they make Allah likewise make people enemies and put hatred among them. What a shame.

Shame on them (?). I'm telling you, these people don't know Allah.

"Yes, soon Allah will inform them of what they did," it says. Since you put hatred, yes, since You did this thing, what would a person say? No offence in a comparison: You are Allah, You put hatred between us. I'd say, Your power suffices for everything; had You not put Your hatred, I would have turned back. I would have known You. He'd say this, wouldn't he?

Now look, I'm reading the correct version of this.

"With those who say 'We are Christians' too, We made a covenant." Where? Already in the address of 'Am I not your Lord?'

We told them as well.

"But they too abandoned a significant part of the remembrance given to them, that is, the book. For this reason, there is enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Judgment," it says. Among themselves. Allah doesn't put hatred into anyone.

In this verse, if Allah says "For this reason We cast enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Judgment." It says that, doesn't it? I'm not saying it, it says it.

Well (?), this book, Allah Almighty, why did Allah send this book to the world? He sent it as a light, a radiance to the worlds. Well, why did He send the Prophet last, or the prophets?

He sent the prophets to invite people to Allah. Since the Gospel is here, the Torah is here, the Psalms are here, since the prophets came as mercy to people, since Allah Almighty says to people, "Whatever you are, come back," would the words "We put hatred among these people" ever befit Allah? I'm asking you. Huh? Of course it doesn't befit Him. How have they opened up the Quran like this? And people read it and pass on like that. That's how they know it, that's how they recognize it.

How they have deceived people, the Muslims! This within a century. They've worked for centuries to change this.

Yes.

Verse 16 again, in Surah Al-Ma'idah. "Whoever seeks His pleasure, Allah leads him through it to the paths of salvation."

Which Muslim doesn't seek Allah's pleasure? I'm asking you. Everyone with faith seeks Allah's pleasure. But he seeks his nafs, seeks evil, and does it. You take away this person's will and, because he seeks My pleasure, you take hold of him and lead him on your own path; that's the mistake here.

Allah leads no one, neither to paradise on the right path nor onto the crooked (?) path. Allah gave man will. He willed that man know His essence by his own will. And with people, in Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172, He made a covenant. He wrote each person's own wish for him as his destiny. He sent the Book, the prophets, the scholars to show people the paths of guidance. No one can force anyone. No one can change anyone's mind and lead him to the truth or to disbelief. Only through enjoining good, if it is in the person's own nature, he of his own nature he turns of his own will and enters the path of truth. Otherwise Allah doesn't take hold of him and lead him onto the path of truth.

One must pay great attention to the words.

I'd say, I'm a sinner, Allah forbid, You took him, I was Your servant too, I was a Muslim too, You should have taken me too.

Well, among Muslims, aren't there those who will enter hell despite knowing Allah? There are. He'll say the same: You took him. You should have taken me too. They're right (?).

That's how it is. No one, I won't even say an atom. Allah Almighty has, beyond anything that could come to our minds, a justice attribute. No one can (?) question Him. With His justice.

In this case, man cannot accuse Allah of injustice with this tiny mind of his.

Now, "whoever seeks His pleasure, Allah leads him through it to the paths of salvation," it says. "And by His will He brings them out of darkness into light, and guides them to a straight path," it says. Now here it shifts a pivot stone.

Where is the part that shifts?

Nowhere. Look what it says. Listen well.

"And by His will He brings them out of darkness into light, and guides them to a straight path."

The place where it shifts the pivot stone here? Here.

"And by His will He brings them out of darkness into light," it says. By His will. By his own will? By the servant's own will? (?) Look, here the meaning comes out as by Allah's will. But if it wants, it turns the skewer so the hearts don't burn, brings the other side. Look now, what does it say? "And them by His will," let's read from the start. "Whoever seeks His pleasure, Allah leads them to the paths of salvation, and by His will brings them out of darkness," into what? Brings them out. Here, when it says "them," it means people too, and takes them. By His own will, them, that is, takes those who will turn, or else takes whom He Himself chose and leads them to the right path.

When it says "brings them out of darkness into light," it ties this entirely to Allah's will. "Guides them to a straight path," it says. What does "guide" mean? It means He showed me the way. He showed the way. He showed them the straight path. He didn't show the disbeliever.

That is, these are all words opened up ambiguously. You can't understand anything from this. Now I'm reading you the correct version. "To whoever seeks His pleasure, Allah shows through it," through the Quran, "the paths of salvation." He shows the paths of salvation. "And they," people that is, "by their own will come out of darkness into light,

and enter a straight path." There you go. Look at the meaning of the verse, look at the meaning.

May Allah reform them.

And if they don't know Allah, if they don't know who Allah is,

if they don't know with whom they made the covenant,

according to their own world of imagination, they extend the meaning of the verses and together with the world of imagination it merges with ideologies.

In this case the foundation of the Quran disappears.

Do you have questions, children? Ask your questions.

Has it come? Let's see. Let's see what he asks. (?) says: peace be upon you, sir. Anyway, let's not read the (?), I kiss your blessed hands, he says. "Hodja, for the wretched the paths of the wretched, for the God-fearing the paths of the God-fearing are made easy. Is that right?" It's the very truth.

Why is it the very truth?

Man's destiny is written according to his wish and desire. He has the wish and desire for that path. The wretched one has the wish and desire for that path. And the God-fearing one, on the path of the promise he gave to Allah. In this case, when they come into the world, according to those characters the wretched one will do his wretchedness and prove himself, and the God-fearing one his God-fearing; he too will prove himself, will act in the direction he likes. Now, let me give you an example like this. Say you're a radio repairman. I bring you a part. A part that needs welding. You know neither welding nor how that weld is to be done.

If I forced you, saying you must do this weld, you'd always steer your nice life on jobs you don't know. Or, you're a radio man; if radio repairs always came to you, would you enjoy that? So if you're a radio repairman, you'd say, "Brother, I don't understand welding, go about your business." That is, if you're wretched, you'll do wretchedness; its path for you, easy, you yourself found those paths easy.

And you, God-fearing one, the God-fearing paths will be made easy for you. Because you'll enjoy that.

Now, let me give you an example from myself. I'll give an example from myself. Simple. It's been two months since I came to Istanbul from Ankara.

I put my car in the garage. I haven't gone out once to drive around here. For two months I've been lying in the garage.

I, too, like being alone in a single room. I get bored going among people. For me too, this path has been made easy. If I shut you in a room, would you stay two months? You'd barely throw yourself outside. But I have work to do in that room. I enjoy it, and I don't know how the days pass.

For everyone the paths are made easy like this. Whatever destiny he wanted by his own wish and desire, whatever he wanted, if he goes on that destiny, that path of his is made easy. This is a fine hadith. Yes.

I suppose it was understood, right? What an example! How nice. Are there any other questions?

Let's see, are there any?

Bring it, let's see.

All of it from here down. The surah, Al-Waqi'ah. Surah Al-Waqi'ah. The last page.

Let's do it like this from the start. From here, with the translations, 534. On page, probably. 539, after Al-Qamar (?), after Surah Ar-Rahman, Surah Al-Waqi'ah, 535. Yes. From here downwards, he says.

Now he says, from verse 77 downwards, translate it for me, says one of the children. OK, let's translate, let's translate. İnnehu le Kur'anün kerim. Surely this is a noble Quran. Now what does it say? Surely this is a noble Quran. Innehu le Kur'anün kerim, a noble Quran. Where does its value come from? One must know this. Its value: the pure, Lord of the worlds, possessor of all the Quran revealed with the word of Allah Almighty, the Owner of knowledge The word is the Quran. Every word of Allah is precious. Every word of Allah is, within our hearts, the soul within the soul. This doesn't change, because Allah did not create man for oppression.

Allah created man so that he would know Him, His essence. That's why, above the worlds, He gave man a part of His spirit, with which He made him honourable. Like this. Just as a person loves his father and obeys his father, if he's a good child and does everything he says, beyond comparison, Allah, the Lord of the worlds, who brought us from nothing into being and gave us life, what He tells us, every word of it increases within our hearts the love and affection of our Lord. That's why it is a noble word. Because Allah did not create man to suffer oppression. Nor did He load on our backs a burden we can't bear.

Like this. Now we're coming. "In a hidden Book," it is a protected book, it says. So what does this mean? Just as they changed the Gospel, the Torah and the Psalms, this book, its main branch, this Quran written in Arabic, no power can change.

Why can't it be changed? Because "We sent down the Quran, and We are its guardian," it says. In a single letter of it, a single dot, neither damage is done nor distortion, that is, nothing is removed.

Its owner is Allah. If He is the absolute owner of the universe, if He says "Be" to His wish and does it, and it happens, if He says this too like this, no hero can change a single letter of it. Yes.

La yemessuhu ille'l-mutahharun. "None touch it except the purified," it says. Who are these purified ones? This, a non-Muslim cannot touch it. Of the Muslims, those in a state of major impurity can't touch it either. But one who is a Muslim can touch it without ablution, because he is clean. When is a Muslim unclean? When he is in a state of major impurity. If he has cleansed himself of major impurity, that person is clean. Only, he doesn't have the ablution for prayer. He doesn't have it to read the Quran (?). To take it and read. But he can take it and put it somewhere. He can touch it. It says "touch" anyway.

Yes. If it had also forbidden this touching, people come to get a Quran to read. Most of them sometimes can't keep their ablution, they're without ablution. But he takes it, goes home, performs ablution, reads it. Then a man couldn't even buy a Quran. He wouldn't do it.

"It is sent down from the Lord of the worlds," it says. Look now, what we said, here Allah Almighty confirms it here in His own words. From the Lord of the worlds.

One single Lord of all the worlds. What does "the worlds" mean? A cat is a world, a dog is a world, an ant is a world, a human is a world. In one narration there are 17 thousand worlds. Some say 18 thousand worlds. To hold in my head the worlds Allah created, or to understand them, the strength I don't have. Nor does anyone have the understanding to hold them all in his head at once. But if the Lord of the worlds sent it down, it is a book He sent down. No one can deny it. Why can't they deny it? Let's tell you this too. "If this were put together by man (?)," it says, "there would be many words in it that don't agree with one another," it says.

So this is a book sent down by Allah, who is free of all deficient attributes.

Allah Almighty, in a verse, says "I speak the truth." In another verse He says "I always speak the truth anyway." And since He didn't create people to suffer oppression, He shows them the truth, the right path. And He takes them from darkness and brings them out into light. But the one who listens to Allah's word. Yes.

"Do you now belittle this word?" it says.

He brought you from nothing into being, He provided you all your sustenance, He created you the most honoured, you forgot your Creator, you forgot your origin, in pleasure and amusement, enjoying what Allah created, forgetting Allah, you grew proud on the earth. You grew arrogant. You turned your back on Allah.

If it were you, what would you do?

If you were in our Lord's place, what would you do? Down. Such a thing can't be, of course. Imagine such a thing, let's see. Maybe when you sent him to the world, for what he did you'd at once destroy him.

Well, didn't Allah destroy? There are those Allah destroyed; do you know why? Those who won't reform (?), Allah Almighty knows them from when He made the covenant; so that the people coming after won't look at them, sir, and, these being like this, follow them and lead themselves into sin, He destroys them and creates a new generation. That this is so, which verse proves to us? Look what it says in the verse: "Though only a short time had passed over the peoples We destroyed, how they followed their forefathers!" Yes. "Is it by denying it that you show thanks for the sustenance Allah gave?" it says. How nicely it puts it.

"Will you never reflect?" it says. Will you never think? You were brought from nothing. Your Lord created you the most honoured; He created you in the most beautiful form; the reason: He gave you a part of His spirit, He clothed (?) you with the forms of the essence, He gave you all sustenance; not reaping that sustenance well and turning your back, not giving thanks by turning, your own pride and fame and glory, as if you had no need of Allah, with such senselessness, such ignorance (?), are you aware that you're dragging yourself to destruction? it says.

What does it say? "Is it by denying it that you show thanks?" it says.

There's much more, but I'll pass through these parts reading to you; we explain briefly like this. These matters open up much more, that is.

"Then when the soul reaches the throat," it says. What does "when the soul reaches the throat" mean? One narration says it's this (?). Another narration says it's the wishbone.

Here the door of repentance closes.

Why does it close? The breath hasn't left yet.

Why does it close? Let me tell you what's on your mind (?). My Lord made me live through all of these.

When the moment of death came, when the soul reached here, from my childhood, when I ran in those streets, until that moment of death came, in an instant, until a puff of cigarette smoke dispersed before my eyes, I watched my life.

That's where it closes. The moment that world opened, it closed. There was no going back.

Now I suppose you understand this part.

As I said a moment ago, I'll get the news from the postman.

Yes.

"Then when the soul reaches the throat, at that time you just stand and look," I say.

The man is dying. There's no remedy. You can't turn it back.

The time, the hour has come.

There's nothing to be done. Helpless. You just stand and look.

Look now what it says there. At that moment. "At that moment We are closer to him than you, but you do not see," it says.

The body will see.

Allah Almighty created man; had He sent spirit, nafs and soul to the world without clothing them in a body, as spirit, nafs and soul they couldn't have been seen. He put on flesh and bone; He sent him outwardly into this world. From what we did in the outward world, when the command of the Truth comes, we'll leave the body. We'll go again as spirit, nafs and soul. When we're resurrected again in the world of the hereafter, spirit, nafs and soul will come from the barzakh. Our bodies will come out of the earth like grass. "When you come into My presence with a driver," it says. The driver: the spirit says this to the body.

When you come into My presence with a driver, He will silence our mouths, bind our feet and make our hands speak; after the testimony ends, after the testimony over the spirit ends, a second time the body will die. "We give you life twice and death twice," it says. So the first resurrection is here, the first death here; the second resurrection in the world of the hereafter, the second death of the body there. Then after that He turns to the spirit; Allah Almighty says: you will not taste the pain of death other than the first death. Then the reckoning begins after that.

Yes.

Of course Allah is closer.

"At that moment We are closer to him than you, but you do not see." "Since you supposedly won't be punished," it says.

What do the Jews say? "Punishment won't touch us for more than three days." And Allah Almighty says, since it's so, is that so, it says. Then suffer the punishment for three days and live in paradise in pleasure. Yes. He answers that beforehand too.

"Since you supposedly won't be punished, then bring the soul back, if you are truthful in your claim," it says. Come on, bring the soul back; of the created ones, none is capable of this, because Allah has a command: "Every soul will taste death; your return is to Me," it says. In this respect, if that departing soul anyone could bring back, it would be one who has the power to bring into being from nothing. And that is Allah. But a word has come from Allah too. What did He say? All souls will die. The inheritance of the heavens and the earth will remain to Allah.

Everyone is mortal in this world. In a guesthouse, in a guesthouse, within two prisons: the first prison is the body, the second prison the world. When man tastes death, he is freed from the body and from the world too; then, if he gave Allah a fine covenant, he has won his freedom, he has won paradise. He is a free man; then he will gain his liberty. Our liberty isn't in our hands yet; on our necks there is a yoke. But if he has earned hell, he's a captive here and a captive there; here too not free, there too not free. Yes. Man reads the verses, reads and reads and passes on, but can't comprehend their meanings, what it is, what it's after. Look at that.

"Then bring the soul back, if you are truthful in your claim." "But if the deceased is one of those brought near to Allah," now it says here what I was explaining: "for him there is rest, good sustenance and the Garden of Bliss," it says. So he has received his freedom. Death doesn't mean nonexistence. Death is being freed from a double prison. Yes, if you go saying Allah.

Not like a non-Muslim. He also says Allah. But he doesn't say La ilahe illallah. He knows Allah. But he knows Allah with a son and a wife (?). Yes.

"And if he is of those on the right: O you on the right, peace be upon you." And ashab-ı meymeneti ma ashab-ı meymenet. "Those on the right, how happy they are," it says.

He has carried out what Allah said. He knew his Lord as his Lord. There was no disobedience to Him in him. With courtesy and good manners, close to His essence he spent his life; of course Allah's mercy he has attained. Now, if I loved you very much, loved you very much, and you did some shameful things, and they complained to me about you, I'd be upset. So Allah Almighty loves man so much that He is truly saddened when they go on the bad path; He wants them to turn back and repent so that He may forgive them. But man, after carnal feelings, after glory and fame, has set his eyes on this rubbish-heap world Allah created, turned his back on Allah, and wanders around the world like a shining (?) horse.

But "if he is of the lying, the astray," then for him too there is a feast of boiling water. These two verses, in the words I gave a moment ago, those two seconds (?), two prisons, two freedoms, already take in their meaning.

"And his end is being thrown into hell," it says. Now who is the intelligent person? Not the one who gains much of the world and becomes rich.

The intelligent person is one who knows he was created, the person who knows his Creator.

This is the intelligent person. And here what does it say? "And his end is being thrown into hell." If that person is clever, has gained the world, and with pride, arrogance, glory, fame, egotism, grandeur, has furnished himself with worldly desire, and has turned his back on Allah too,

is this person intelligent? A thousand years here are like one day of the hereafter; living here, his whole life, an hour and a half's life, and turning his eternal, endless life into a dungeon, into torment, this person, is he intelligent? Isn't he a fool (?)?

Where is the intelligence in this?

But Allah is such an Allah that: "I sent you to the world, but I clothed you in a body, but work," He says, "both prove yourself and eat and drink of what is lawful," He says. "Thank Me; if you do this, I will please you, I will make you content." Content. He will let you live with dreams that never came to your mind. He doesn't tell you not to work, not to earn money.

But the people of our time forget Allah when they find money.

They lean their back on money.

Even if this whole world were yours, the man says "it's mine." Not even an atom of it is yours. Not even an atom of it is yours. Even if this whole world were yours, a responsibility would arise from this world. Because the owner of the world is Allah. What does He say? Every soul will taste death. The inheritance of the heavens and the earth will remain to Allah. If the world had become yours, in a verse Allah Almighty says this: "Or do you own a speck of the world? If that were so, from your world not even as much as a seed, the seed of a (?), would be given to you." Yes. If you in the world, on your own, created a speck from nothing?

"Then," He says, "you'd see to your own affairs, and I wouldn't give you anything."

Then what do you own? Tell me. Which property is yours? All is a trust.

Yes.

Did we pass this without reading it? "For him We have given rest, good sustenance and the Garden of Bliss. If he is of those on the right: O you on the right, peace be upon you." We didn't say this (?) I suppose, did we? "O you on the right, peace be upon you." Who? Allah is greeting you. In the world of the hereafter there isn't an empty word either. "Peace be upon you" — he can also say "selamün aleyküm." Saying "selamün aleyküm" means "may Allah's mercy be upon you." That person has attained mercy; there's no more mercy there. "Peace be upon you," He says; peace there; in paradise we'll keep greeting each other with peace. That is, "you are safe here," He says, "you are secure here."

"Surely this is the certain truth," it says. These events are a certain truth, because nothing comes into being from nothing, and what exists doesn't become nothing. This is said about man. Man didn't come into being from nothing; there is One who created him. From existence to nothing it doesn't go. Death isn't nonexistence; he has such a cell that neither rots nor disappears. In the hereafter it is resurrected. After the reckoning, it dies there again. Then after that the spirit remains. So it is immortal.

"So glorify the name of your Lord, the Most Great."

Subhane Rabbiyel Azim.

Allahu Akbar. Allah, the Greatest. We have no other place to go but Him. We have no other owner but Him. We have no other place at all to take refuge but Him. Yes.

There's an important question anyway, isn't there? No, sir.

Yes. That's how it is. It's two o'clock, well, it's eight o'clock.

Stay well, may you be entrusted to Allah. For the sake of Allah, Al-Fatiha.

Amen.