Al-Hajj 47: (Oh, My Messenger!) They desire to rush you to bring the punishment. Allah does not break Allah’s promise. And truly, in the sight of your Lord, a day is equal to a thousand years of your count (of years).

Verse 47 of Surah Al-Hajj. My Messenger, they ask you to hasten the punishment.

Whichever prophet came,

yes, if what you say is true, come on, bring the punishment upon us. They always say that. As if the same words had been passed down among them from their fathers, their ancestors.

Allah never goes back on His promise. That is, the Hour will surely come, He says. You be patient. I sent you to the world. To prove what kind of person you are. (?), He says. (?) the punishment. It does not affect My program, He says. Why? Because you are ignorant, still unaware of yourself, denying your Lord, someone who roams the earth like four-legged animals, He says. I will not bring about the Hour because you say so. Indeed, Allah never goes back on His promise.

Surely a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of what you count, it says. A thousand years here, a thousand years, are like one day of the hereafter.

Gentlemen, we live 60 years, 70 years, 80 years, right? He created time within time, Allah Almighty, time within time.

We actually live in the world for something like an hour or an hour and a half.

If you count a thousand years here as one day there, a thousand years — if you multiply a thousand years by 365 days, however many days that makes, however many days that makes,

and divide by the days of a human life, how many hours it is here you'll find. Yes.

Isn't that so, Ali? It is, Hodja. So it is. For example, this is simple. Like an hour, an hour and a half. When you divide, it'll come out as one, or one and a half, or two. Yes. For 60 years it comes out to 104 minutes, Hodja. Yes. It comes out to a hundred and four minutes. Sixty years of life (?) comes out more, too. A hundred and four minutes. Yes.

Yes. So according to Allah Almighty, the Hour is near.

The Prophet (peace be upon him), as his duty required, explains the truth to the polytheists. That Allah is one, that there is no other god besides Him, that all souls will die, that the Hour will come, and that Allah Almighty, reviving people again, on that Day of Reckoning they will be called to account in Allah's presence — when he made this known, the polytheists, denying it, would answer: if that Hour you speak of is really going to happen, then let it come, so that we too may see the punishment — and they would demand that punishment at once. Whereas Allah Almighty has programmed these worlds; in the beginning He raised our spirits to the realm of barzakh, and, bringing the spirits whose time has come to the world, after they have held themselves as witnesses before Allah in return for the covenant they gave, He will move them again to the barzakh in the hereafter.

Until not a single spirit remains in the realm of barzakh that has not come to the world, they will come to the world. And the Hour will come upon the last spirits to arrive. Before that, Allah does not disrupt the course of these worlds, nor does the Hour come.

That is, as I said a moment ago, Allah does not bring about the Hour because you say so. By people saying, come on, let the Hour come and let the punishment you speak of come, so we may see, people only reveal their rebelliousness toward Allah Almighty. Such people deny Allah and the hereafter. Therefore, the punishment Allah promised, by denying Allah, they have (?).

In this respect, just as everything has its time, the Hour too has its time. Allah never goes back on His promise. Because no created being can keep faith with its word as Allah does. Allah is complete and perfect. There is no deficiency in Him. So if He says the Hour will come, you say the Hour will come. With Allah, this is a very short time.

By creating time within time, Allah has made a thousand years of this world like one day of the hereafter. So since the Prophet (peace be upon him) graced the world with his coming, until our time 1424 years have passed. With Allah, the number of these days, by the measure of the hereafter, is not even a day and a half. A day and a half. Had it been fifteen hundred, it would have been a day and a half. Since it is fourteen hundred and some, it is not even a day and a half. Yes, according to spiritual signs and the changes the world has undergone, that the world has about 200 years of life left, today's technology tells us.

This is a book written 15 years ago.

What does it make? 185. We say around that; its life isn't even that long. It means the world, by the measure of the hereafter, will go on for about a fifth of a day more. A fifth. A fifth of the hereafter. Sir, in that case, what does a fifth of a day make? Four hours. No, six hours. It will go on for about six hours more in the presence of our Lord.

Since the punishment people expect quickly is very short in Allah's knowledge, Allah does not, at the words people ignorantly say with their mouths, bring about the Hour. But that His essence is one, that there is no other god besides Him, that the prophets were sent by Him, that the heavenly books are true, that with these heavenly books gathered in the Qur'an no religion other than Islam remains, that the hereafter and resurrection after death are true, that every soul will be called to account for what it did — this Allah never stops saying. Accordingly, just as people gave their covenant earlier, at Kâlû Belâ, so too do they come to this world.

Those who had their wishes written as destiny, within their destinies, through the actual deeds they bring about, hold themselves witnesses to themselves, to those around them and to Allah Almighty, and depart.

Accordingly, the duty that falls to people is to use their reason. Because Allah Almighty declares that, since you did not use your reason, He will call you to account. His intent in saying this: every mind knows that Allah exists. Because Allah programmed the mind as one that knows its Lord. Its Lord. That is, that there is a Lord; He did not program it to know His essence as such. Had He programmed it to know His essence, we would surely have known. But every mind: a Lord created me — you knew it. Yes.

Every mind knows that Allah exists. Because Allah has programmed the mind as one that knows its Lord, that is, knows a Lord created me. But people who follow their nafs and Satan do not take the right path the mind shows, and while in the world they buy the punishment of the hereafter.