Talk of 25 July 2026

Here there is one guest, I have a guest. There are quite a few questions here. No sir, those were answered, we have one question, is that it? This one? Look. Here: As-salamu alaykum sir, could you explain Surah Ad-Duha? Surah Ad-Duha won't be explained here, ah, here there's something. Did we open it? Just one question? Just one question? A big one. As-salamu alaykum, Hodja. I have a friend. He says prayer is not described in the Quran the way we know and perform it. "Namaz" is a Persian word. What is known as namaz appears as salat in the Quran, he says. Since we did not and cannot see this form of prayer from the Prophet in his time exactly like this, and since there are so many fabricated Umayyad hadiths, I won't pray this way, he says.

I go to the mosque, sit and read the Quran, and only, only think of Allah and pray to Him. This way I draw near to Him in the true Arabic sense of salat and remember Him, he says. With normal prayer, however I tried, I could never enter this devotion. Only when I do it my way can I enter that devotion, he says. Where should I start, what should I tell this friend so that he understands properly? We need your advice and knowledge, Hodja. May Allah be pleased with you.

First of all, let us say this. Then, if Allah wills, we'll explain it to you. You cannot change people's destiny. That's one. This young man, or this friend of yours, has befriended the words of Zionism, that is, of a godless person, and has judged by those words. If the Quran says salat, salat in Arabic is prayer. There are no kinds of prayer. Prayer is the way we know it. We said before, many, many years ago, you will hear some words that are not in the religion, I said. Don't believe them. These are deceived people. Or else these are words spoken with such a mindset to keep people away from prayer.

Some people have fallen for Satan's temptation. Satan's temptation makes such talk look attractive to him.

Prayer has been performed since the time of the Prophet (peace be upon him) in the very same way. The standing, the bowing, the sitting and the prostration of prayer are the states of the angels. Allah Almighty has man do all of them. That's one. Prayer contains many of the movements that doctors recommend to people. What do they call them? Exercises, physical therapy. It is a state that relaxes you without any need for physical therapy. For example, Allah Almighty knows that people work. With that they'll provide for their homes and their children. These are the five daily prayers, as in the verse.

It describes five times.

When you sit in tahiyyat, in tahiyyat, when the big toe of your right foot is stretched, the muscles from your hips down to the tip of your foot are stretched and your tiredness goes away. Ablution too cures heart disease. Allah Almighty, in bowing and prostration, melts the fat gathered around your waist in your belly. Ablution prevents heart disease. These are facts that are established by science as well. Words that people like among themselves, though they have no knowledge, take a person away from his religion. Allah Almighty says in a verse: When you stand up for prayer it is heavy on you, but keep going, He says.

What does He say? When you stand up for prayer, prayer is heavy on you, but keep going. That's the part where he can't find devotion. He enjoys sitting where he is. When he sinks into that contemplation sitting there, I wonder what he sees?

Or in what devotion, what is happening? Satan gives him a very beautiful worship. He whips up his lower desires, he wants to live in that world, and gives up prayer. This is a satanic state. That's why, when he stands for prayer, it feels heavy to him.

Satan says this:

When the call to prayer is recited and you're about to go and pray, I say to him, there's still time, still time. Let the adhan be called. It hasn't been called yet. It's only two steps away anyway. You'll go. If he doesn't listen to me and goes to prayer, I tell him, look right, look left. If he doesn't look and carries on, I tell him, pray quickly, quickly. Like a hen or a rooster pecking feed off the ground, he says. He prays like that. I take him strolling around the market, he says. Now, that's why many people rise to prayer lazily, stooping. But, He says, prayer benefits the believer. That is, he prays with devotion.

The believer. Who is the believer? He has passed through the commanding self, the blaming self, the inspired self, the tranquil self. Huh? Until a person turned toward Allah reaches this state, Muslims feel reluctant to rise for prayer. Or some difficulty comes over them. But after praying they feel at ease. Still, Allah gives his heart a peace. So this child of ours, let's say, is someone who fell for Satan's temptation; if not that, someone who became the victim of an ideology, deceived; and if not that either, someone within that ideology who wants to turn people from their religion.

There are no kinds of prayer.

Religion has gone through many philosophies and events.

In the time of the Umayyads, Ali, may Allah have mercy on him, they came face to face with the Kharijites.

But since Allah Almighty will keep His religion going until Judgment Day, every two hundred years, so that superstitions are cleared from the religion, He raises scholars and sends them. In a verse He says: Do they think that with the blowing of their mouths They thought they would extinguish Allah's religion. Allah will keep His religion going until Judgment Day. These are wretches who want to put out Allah's religion with the blowing of their mouths. Or else deceived people. But aren't there people who fall for those who fell for them? There are. If they deceive even one person, they count it a gain.

That's why, though Allah did not say it, and Allah made the five daily prayers obligatory for us, whoever says such a thing Allah did not say, that is, lies, slanders Allah, let him prepare his place in the punishment, He says. Yes.

Hodja, verse 17 of Surah Maryam, he says. Could you bring my phone over there? Yes, what superstitions there are, do you see? He won't pray, he sits and finds it nicer in devotion. While people pray he sits, how nice. He's been deceived, that's all. Millions of people, in fact we'll say billions, billions of people pray. Billions.

How many? There are three billion people, right?

Muslims who pray. Two and a half, three billion. Billion, not million. They perform prayer as prayer. Among these two and a half, three billion people, smart alecks

will again invent a language.

Yes.

What does it say here? Which one? Surah Maryam 17. Let's type it and see. Surah Maryam. From here. We hear it better from here.

Surah Maryam 17.

She had drawn a curtain between herself and them. Then We sent her Our spirit, and it appeared to her as a perfect human being.

For this matter, which we'll explain according to the sharia ruling, they'll call us heretics. But that's the truth of it. Whatever anyone says.

Isn't it? Truly. If those people who call us heretics, those who say we've left the religion, though we've proven this with verses, still use the same words, that person only wrongs himself. Mary, when she became pregnant, before she became pregnant, withdrew from people and went to a deserted place. There Allah Almighty, in the place where she had withdrawn, says, I sent My spirit, My spirit; and when she said, how can I become pregnant when no human hand has touched me, He says, this matter was settled long before. Your Lord says, this is easy for Me, He says. There's a word here.

It says "your Lord".

Now, if this word had said "my Lord", it would have been breathed through an intermediary. "Your Lord says, this is easy for Me" — the breathing is not the angel's. An angel can't do this. The breathing of the spirit happens only it happens with the essence of Allah Almighty, because to Adam too Allah His spirit into Adam, and people, Hazrat Mary, our mother, slander the verse says this: Mary's becoming pregnant is like the creation of Adam, it says. I breathed into him of My spirit. Who breathed into him? Allah. I breathed of My spirit, He says. And what does it say here? It appeared as a perfect human being, it says.

Allah is beyond any fixed form. If it appeared as a perfect human being, what does it say? "Your Lord," it says. Not "the Lord". Had it said "the Lord", it would be general. It would have to say: Your Lord said this is easy for Him. There's no such wording there. "Your Lord said" — the Lord doesn't introduce Himself. Your Lord said: this is easy for Me.

Because in this world you can't see Him with the eye and encompass Him. You can't grasp Allah. But He grasps all eyes. So if the world is a lost world, even if He appeared to you, you could not know, could not recognize Him.

Now, there's your answer with verses. Now call us heretics if you like, say whatever you like. We explain from the verses.

Maryam 17. I'll look at another one, who's here?

Hodja, I told a friend that in our history so many great rulers and scholars of ours prayed the way we pray now, I said. He told me, I don't want to believe this. But they were all wrong. And they followed fabricated Umayyad hadiths, he said. May Allah guide him, I said. Only inwardly, Hodja. That's all. Nobody's — look, what did I tell you at the start? We can't change anyone's destiny. Nobody can change his own destiny either. You prayed well. May Allah be pleased with you. Yes.

What you said, Allah Almighty says to the Prophet in a verse. You cannot force people into the religion, you cannot force people into Islam, He says. Into Islam. Your duty, He says, is only to invite. To invite. Yes. Because in Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, We made a covenant with those who would emerge from the offspring of the children of Adam, look. They can't understand this there either. He brought out those who would emerge from the loins. He doesn't know whether it's in this world, the hereafter or the mother's womb. Well, with those who would emerge from Adam's offspring.

Its meaning goes all the way back to Allah's realm. We were created there. When Allah Almighty said there, I am your Lord, we split into three groups. After we split into three groups, Allah Almighty made a covenant with people one by one. made a covenant. Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172. verse 72. He took them up to the barzakh. Whoever's time comes, comes into the world. At whatever time he wishes. Everyone made a covenant with Allah Almighty. He gave Him a pledge, his covenant. He chose a time he liked and wanted. At that chosen time, Allah Almighty, who says, We know your secrets in the farthest corner of your heart that you don't know, wrote this wish of ours for us as our destiny.

Will is twofold: universal will and partial will. Because He gave us of His spirit, man has a will. But ignorant people who don't know put this will into cats, dogs, animals, plants. Those just now learning from us, or from Allah's word, let's say. We too learned from Allah's word. Sir, those learning are slowly saying, only man has will, they say. Slowly. And Allah Almighty gave him what he wanted by his own will. Allah did not impose His rule on people. He put no pressure on them. He didn't force them. He gave them whatever they wanted. Man is free in his own will, and Allah wrote his will for him as his destiny. And we came into the world to be tested.

We are being tested here now. Come on, there. Why? He didn't put us straight into hell. There are secrets here. Secrets.

Let me open the secret to you a little. As I opened it. As I said before. Just as you didn't know they were secrets, we told it to you casually. I mean, casually, I said. We told you from the middle. We said our first creation was in the realm of lahut. The realm of lahut. That is, where the spirits were created. Our origin is spirit, nafs and soul. We weren't there with a body. Spirit, nafs and soul. Let's prove its origin with a verse. After you taste death you will come to Me in your first form of creation, He says. We'll leave the body. What is our first form of creation? Spirit, self and soul. With that we will go into the Divine Presence.

And we won't enter a body again. We bring you to life twice and make you die twice, He says. The body's first coming to life is here. Its first death is in this world. The second resurrection is in the hereafter. When you come into My presence with a driver, He says. Who is the driver? The spirit. It comes driving the body into Allah's presence. There the body bears witness against the spirit. It made me do this, it made me do that, it says. And the spirit says, why do you testify against me? All I'm saying is what the verses mean. And it says, my Lord, who makes me speak, makes me speak. After the testimony is over, the body says to the spirit, you are returning to the First Creator, it says. It tastes death a second time there.

A second time. There is no death upon the spirit. And Allah Almighty says to the spirit, you won't taste any pain of death other than the first. These are verses. If a person can't understand their meaning, sir, if man returns in his first form of creation, if he returns to Allah, then here with a second creation: Verse 14 of Surah Al-Mu'minun: We clothed you with flesh and bone, it says. With a second creation We put you into human form, He says. The reason for putting you into human form: when in the realm of lahut I said I am your Lord, I appeared to you in human form. And since you saw Me in human form, you couldn't believe in Me.

But My Messenger was also beside Me, He says. Who is he? Muhammad (peace be upon him). Even though he told people, yes, this is our Lord, there you split into three groups. Who are they? Ve ashab-ı meymeneti ma ashab-ı meymeneh, those on the right. Ve ashab-ı meş'emeti ma ashab-ı meş'emeh, those on the left. These are the class of the muqarrabin. You split into three groups. And I called you one by one, separately; we made a covenant. We showed you the times you would go, like a plan. We gave you your wishes, desires and aims in full. And because you saw Me here in human form and could not believe, I will send you to a lost world He says. That's why He created the world.

Did you think you'd die without proving what kind of person you are? He says. He tells us this in the world.

Who knows about these verses? Who says it like this? Who explains the truth of the matter?

Everyone makes it up as he sees fit and says it. Zionism's words. That's what Zionism says anyway. It says the Quran is not the Quran revealed to Muhammad. We can't touch the Arabic, it says. The translation is exactly as we wrote it, it says. Otherwise, it says, it's not the translation revealed to Muhammad. That is, it's not the Quran. The Arabic of the Quran is something else. Who makes verses speak through verses?

Yes.

Let's see. As-salamu alaykum sir, sorry for the trouble, sir, my question is Al-Baqarah 123. Let's see what it says in Al-Baqarah 123. This is a wrongly translated verse. First let's read the wrong one, and where is the mistake? After we correct that, let's explain the verse.

And beware of the day when no one can pay anything for anyone. Right. Now, when I say they rendered the verse wrongly, not all of it is wrong, inside one word spoils the verse. What does it say here now? No ransom will be accepted from anyone. This is also correct. Intercession will benefit no one. That's not right. Allah has saintly servants, there is a verse. There are people who will be given the right of intercession. Nor will they be helped from any side. It says.

Whereas: beware of this day when no one can pay anything for anyone. No ransom is accepted from anyone. Intercession does not benefit the unbeliever. That's it. Not that intercession benefits no one here. Intercession does not benefit the unbeliever. This corresponds to this verse: For the person from whom We cut off Our mercy, even a prophet will not intercede. A verse.

From whom will He cut off His mercy? From the unbelievers. There they are without anyone and alone, He says. They will remain in hell forever. Yes.

Nor will they be helped from any side. Of course, since Allah cut off His mercy, since no one will intercede for him, since Allah Almighty cut off His mercy from him, he will stay in hell forever in the denial he committed. Yes, let's see if there's another question.

Sir, if we scroll up, there. Is there one here? Yes, yes. This one? Scroll up. Now we explained Maryam. We explained this part. Is it this?

I explained Maryam 37. You explained Maryam 17, sir. Maryam 37. Did we explain 17? We'll explain 37. Okay. Okay, let's explain that.

Let's type Maryam here. Maryam 37, sir. Maryam 37. There it is. Then the groups fell into dispute among themselves. Woe to the unbelievers when they witness the great day. Now what did you understand from this? Then the groups fell into dispute among themselves. But this has a lead-up from above. When it says groups, there are people falling into dispute among themselves. On matters of religion fall into division, sir, so that the journeys be lengthened, they fall into division over lengthening the time between the dawns. To learn this dispute properly, I'll explain a single verse; now here there are those who defend Mary, and those who don't defend Mary but persist in evil. It's speaking of that group, I suppose. Let's see now, is it that? Jesus also said: Surely Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him. This is the straight path. Here they split into two paths. Here, regarding Jesus, Jesus announced that he was a prophet.

But they didn't believe it. Those who didn't believe tried to kill him. And they seized him and locked him in the synagogue.

Allah Almighty raised him up to the heavens. Took him. He is still alive. Making the commander who went inside resemble Jesus, they crucified that commander. In this situation people fell into dispute among themselves.

Then these groups, then the groups fell into dispute among themselves. When they witness a great one, woe to the unbelievers. Because they knowingly denied the truth. They did not believe in Allah's existence. Jesus was left alone among them. There were 40 disciples who believed him. These disciples say: We believe in you, but so that our hearts may be at rest, tell Allah to send us food, and Allah Almighty sends them food from Paradise. They spread out to the 40 corners of the world, scattering everywhere. Forty people. According to one tradition, there is the Dark Church in Göreme. They came there too.

The Dark Church. We visited it too, we saw it. People come to visit it. Separately, all of them, as Jesus said, wrote the Gospel, but forty Gospels, and none of the forty agree.

They don't agree with one another. That's why Allah Almighty sent the four books in the Quran. The essence of the four books is the Quran. In the Quran not a single error, damage or distortion occurs. They can't damage it, nor remove even a dot of it. Because its guardian is Allah Almighty. They can't touch it. But what about the translation? The translation is not the equivalent of the Quran. I'm announcing this. It's not the equivalent of the Quran. Many, many words were written, and according to Zionism at that. Yes.

You'll soon see the proof of this. You'll soon see its proof.

The book I have written, I will give it to the right places.

Then each person, with his own desire, will be answerable to Allah Almighty. Either he sets his eyes on this world and stays here. Or he sets his eyes on material things and chases after them. Or he sets his eyes on position, sets his eyes on position, and stays in his position. But the best place to stay is Allah's place. It is Allah's presence.

Hodja, Al-Anbiya 35? Did we explain it? No, sir. We explained it. Look whether the verses have come. Yes. There's Al Imran 86. Right? Yes. We'll start from there. The verses come further down. We start from Az-Zumar 37, sir. What? There is Az-Zumar 37. Az-Zumar 37. Yes. Let's start there.

This too is a wrongly translated verse. Where, let's see? It's translated wrong here. Whomever Allah guides, whomever Allah guides, there is none to lead him astray then. This has fallen into fatalism (Jabriyya). Allah's justice is gone. Man's will has been taken away from him. Allah is now a dictator over people. A dictator who puts whom He wishes into Paradise and whom He wishes into hell. And if you seek a friend, Allah suffices you, He said. And where did the verses go that say He brings you out of darkness into light?

Is Allah not Almighty and the Avenger? it says. This verse is wrong from the start. Allah takes revenge on no one. Do you bring Allah down to human level and make Him helpless? Is Allah helpless, that He'd take revenge on you? Allah is the One who commands. Allah will give you your punishment, your punishment. He'll settle your account, give you your punishment. In return for the deeds you did. Allah is not one who takes revenge. You'll be taking revenge on your own self.

Deny the One who feeds you, gives you drink, created you from nothing.

Don't acknowledge Him. Eat and drink what you eat and enjoy it. Deny Him. Then, if you worked in a factory, and sat in the tea room there drinking tea, and didn't work for that factory, would the owner keep you there? He'd kick you in the backside and throw you out. So do you see a flaw in Allah's justice? He'll take revenge on you. That is, He'll set a trap for you, sir, wrong you. They'll take revenge on their own selves. Whoever asks Allah for guidance, there is none to lead him astray. Whoever wishes, because the person expects help from Allah. What does he say? He has said the testimony of faith. I have submitted to Your command.

One who carries out His command, who carries out Allah's sharia ruling, what He wishes. The servant who carries out what Allah wishes, what does he ask of Allah? I ask for Your mercy, he says. Your mercy; and Allah showers His mercy on a person who asks for His mercy. In fact He showers mercy on everyone, but those who turn their backs on that mercy can't benefit.

Because for the person who attains Allah's mercy, the heart is honored with the truth. The heart of a person who knows the truth, to crooked words and superstitions that corrupt the religion, pays no heed. The brain filters.

The verses put the heart at rest. A heart at rest finds peace. Peace comes with the truth.

In this situation no one can blame Allah Almighty. With guidance. He would supposedly put whom He wishes into Paradise. What does it say here? Whoever is guided by Allah, there is none to lead him astray. Allah is surely the possessor of power. They misuse this power. Allah is the Possessor of power. He does what He wills. He loads faith onto man as well. I'll hold you to account for this, He says. Look, Allah's power and might: He does what He wills, creates everything. His word, because He's Almighty. They take this and load it onto the servant. Onto the servant, onto Himself. He'll put you in like this.

He gives faith to man as well. You did this, He says. Then to Him: You made me do this. They take his will away from him. He makes him sin. And the servant says, what could I do, I did what You wanted.

They've translated these nonsensically like this.

Out of their enmity toward Allah.

Surah Al Imran, verse 86.

Sir.

This too is a wrongly translated verse. Who writes its errors here? Let them write "wrongly translated", of course. After believing, after bearing witness that the Messenger is true, and after clear proofs came to them, a people that turned to disbelief, how would Allah grant them guidance? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people, it says. This last part is the wrongly translated place. What does it say? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people. And here: how would Allah guide a people that turned to disbelief? Once you've turned to disbelief, there's no turning back. The door is closed to you. The door of guidance is closed.

Then once he became an unbeliever, the doors of guidance are closed. The door of mercy is closed. The door of repentance is closed. The door of forgiveness is closed.

Are there none among the unbelievers who become Muslim? There are. 'Allah does not guide the disbelieving people,' it says. Before that, he was guided. So did Allah lie? Did you know this person's destiny? You're closing the door of repentance. The man you look at as an unbeliever ends up a better person than you. How? There's a verse. Don't mock any people, don't ridicule them. Perhaps that people is better than you, it says. Tomorrow, when he turns back, he rises above you with faith, he shoots up. His rank rises. Yes. These people prejudge.

Did we cover this, Surah Al-Hajj 66? No sir, we're there. We're here. Let's come to Surah Al-Hajj 66.

Yes. 66. He is the One who first gave you life, then will cause you to die, then will bring you to life again. Truly, some people are very ungrateful. This too was wrongly translated. We corrected some of these. It said here, people are very ungrateful. In the verse. In Surah Al-Hajj? Sir.

When it says people are very ungrateful, are the prophets ungrateful too? The prophet who came as a mercy to the worlds too? Is Muhammad (peace be upon him) ungrateful too? Are the saints and prophets ungrateful too? So here we made a distinction. Some people are very ungrateful, we said.

Every ummah — what does it say? The One who gives life. Then will cause you to die. Then is the One who will bring you to life again. Allah Almighty here, the One who gives death and gives life, proves that there is no other god besides Himself. There is no god but Me, He says. I am the One who creates life and death and resurrection, sir, I am your one Master, Allah, He says.

Truly, people, He says, are ungrateful. Some are ungrateful. Allah gives, feeds, gives drink, and they don't give thanks. Would We diminish the wealth of one who gives thanks? He says in a verse. Look, He asks us for gratitude, for thanks, for the blessing He gave. He wants to raise our honor and dignity as human beings. Give thanks, He says. If you give thanks, if you thank Me for what I gave, I too will increase your wealth, He says. It's a verse. Would We ever diminish the wealth of one who gives thanks? He says. Ha.

Here they corrupt the verses. People are very ungrateful, it says. And then they muddle people's minds. Surah Al-Anbiya, verse 35. Al-Anbiya. Again a wrongly translated verse. Every soul shall taste death. Correct. We test you with good and evil as a trial. Allah tries no one. "Trying" contradicts this verse: There is not a single living being until Judgment Day whose deeds We don't know. "Trying" contradicts the words: what is in the farthest corner of your heart, which you don't know, We know. It contradicts. Because in Allah Almighty's Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172, we made a covenant. Our covenant, Allah who wrote our wish for us as destiny, doesn't He know us?

Now here: Every soul shall taste death. This it says correctly. We test you with good and evil as a trial. There is a test here, this is correct. Our Lord, who sent us into the world to show what kind of person we are, tests us with evil and with good. Sometimes with life, sometimes with wealth. Do we give thanks? To prove ourselves to ourselves; so that Allah can learn what kind of person we are, no. Pay attention to this. In people's tests with one another, their dealings, their talk, each proves what kind of person he is. And the verse says, the proof of this test is this verse. Did you think you would die without proving in the world what kind of person you are, it says. Our actual deeds, our speech, our dealings, our actions prove what kind of person we are, and when we complete our lifetime we pass on to the hereafter.

On the Day of Judgment, at the Great Court before Allah Almighty, we'll have no evasive words left. Because whatever we said, whatever we'd say, we did these things in the world; they'll be laid out before us. That's why there we'll be spared the questioning. There's no interrogation there. Yes. We did not send you into the world to be eternal, He says; then your return is to Me, He says. We didn't send you into the world to be eternal. That's your temporary state as a guest. Eat and drink here, but in the end you'll come to Me. When He says eat and drink here: while you eat and drink, will you prove what kind of person you are?

Will you do what your Master says? Or will you go outside it and deny? Or will you give thanks for what He gave you? We are in a test here.

Verse 29 of Al-Furqan.

Sir? 29. Because, though the reminder, the Quran, had come to me, he truly led me astray from it. Satan drags man to the cliff and then leaves him in the lurch, leaves him and disgraces him, it says. Because the Quran is recited constantly, it is a remembrance, a dhikr. Because what is dhikr? When you say something twice, three times, that is dhikr. For example, if I now said to Haluk, Haluk, Haluk, Haluk, Haluk, he'd say to me, why are you repeating my name? So the Quran is a dhikr. Dhikr: by reading the Quran you remember Allah. Yes. Though the Quran had come to me, this one truly led me astray from it. Who leads astray?

Satan drags man to ruin, leaves him in the lurch and ruins him. One who has faith, who gave Allah Almighty a good covenant, does not stray from the Quran. However much Satan deceives him, however much he leads him into sin, in the end he turns back and repents. Repentance. The door of repentance is open. But if a person stays astray and goes to the hereafter without faith, he wrote his own destiny back in pre-eternity, in Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172. That is the real main point. If he strayed there, however Muslim he looks in the world, in the end he denies and goes. If there he gave his covenant to Allah as a Muslim, however long he lives as an unbeliever, in the end he repents and enters Islam.

Allah Almighty is free from deficient attributes. He puts a Muslim spirit into an unbeliever's loins. He is born there, in the world of the unbelievers. He goes to church too. He even calls Jesus the son of God. But in the end he searches. He starts searching for religion. In the end he finds the truth and turns to Islam. He becomes Muslim. What is the reason for this? No one will be able to say, on seeing the punishment there: if You had created me in a Muslim country, I would have been Muslim. Here, this. You created a Muslim in an unbelievers' country; look, he became Muslim. You could have too.

What does this resemble? Hz. Ibrahim's father Azar was a disbeliever. His son a mercy to the worlds. Sir, the Prophet's great-grandfather.

Hz. Nuh's son went as a disbeliever. There you go, even a prophet's son died an unbeliever. This is the proof, in the world, of what kind of person the one who had his destiny written beforehand is.

That's why Allah Almighty says there's not a single living being until Judgment Day whose doings We don't know.

Hodja, I told this friend, this is the same as that.

It's below this, isn't it?

This one?

We talked about this too, right? The page, in a new place. The new one further on.

This one? As-salamu alaykum sir, worldly reason and hereafter reason, how do they work for the Muslim and the unbeliever? May Allah be pleased with you, he says. What does he say? Worldly... As-salamu alaykum sir. Worldly reason and hereafter reason, for the Muslim and the unbeliever, how do they work? How well he puts it. The reason of the Muslim and of the unbeliever is knowing Allah in the realm of spirits with the reason we call akl-ı maad, the reason for the hereafter, or else denying Him.

In the world, when we enter a second body and live with akl-ı maaş, which helps our livelihood in the world, sir, our dealings, that's akl-ı maaş. If as a person of faith you gave your covenant, akl-ı maaş and akl-ı maad go the same way, the same way. Because it doesn't want to eat the forbidden; when it does, your heart aches. You don't want to deceive anyone. If you don't pray you're sad; it's my duty, you say. Because akl-ı maaş knew its Lord. In the world too you're a Muslim, you live as a Muslim. If you gave your covenant as a Muslim, then with akl-ı maaş it goes more or less in balance. He does not lean much toward the world, and even if he does, he grieves over it or knows it will be sinful.

It commits sins. But the unbeliever gave his covenant denying Allah. In akl-ı maad too he gave his covenant as a denier. He did not know. He denied. In that first creation in the realm of lahut, that akl-ı maad which denied, when it made the covenant with Allah Almighty, Surah Al-A'raf 172, denies in the verse too. And when he comes into the world, akl-ı maaş works together with akl-ı maad.

In balance.

That's why, if akl-ı maad and akl-ı maaş had worked separately, in the unbeliever, according to the verse that says their hearts are scattered and restless, they would constantly live in turmoil. They are restless. According to the verse that says peace is in Islam. That is, for a person who says the testimony of faith, peace is in Islam. This servant who gave his heart to Allah, knowing that in the end he will turn to Allah, realizing the world is a temporary place, surrendering to Allah, has escaped the swamp of the world; one who lives the mercy of the Truth in his heart. That person is at peace.

So, both the worldly mind and the mind of the hereafter. Because there he knew Allah.

Yes.

Again Hazaranü, again to Hazaranü he says. My Ömer, between Muslim and unbeliever, do worldly reason and hereafter reason show a difference at all? Do they? Worldly reason and hereafter reason, between Muslim or unbeliever, do they show a difference? They show no difference at all. Everyone knows himself to be right. The difference is here. The unbeliever sees himself as right. He too goes to Paradise. Some even buy their key to Paradise from their priests.

And the Muslim doesn't believe them. That's where the difference is. Faith and no faith. The difference is here. With faith and without faith. Faith is in Allah, that there is no god but Allah, and that we will surely taste death; before Allah Almighty, that Muhammad is the last prophet, that the Holy Quran is true. We make no distinction between any of the prophets. Those who make distinctions between prophets are unbelievers, it says. And because they don't believe in the Prophet, they are unbelievers. That's how the distinctions are. Otherwise between minds there's no distinction. Believer and unbeliever, each travels his own road.

Yes, my time is up. Stay well. May you be in Allah's care. Lillahi Teâlâ'l-Fatiha.

Amin.

There, my child has come.

Sit, I'm coming, sit, I'm coming. I'm coming, sit.