Al-Ma'idah 76: Say; “Do you abandon Allah, and worship the things that don’t have the power to benefit or harm you?” Allah is the only Samee (All-Hearing) and Aleem (All-Knowing).

I will try to explain that to you too. Say: leaving Allah, do you worship things that have no power to benefit or harm you? Yes, leaving Allah, those beings that Allah created – carving them with your own hands, to your Lord whom you have (?) in your imagination, to your Lord, to your Lord – do you associate partners with Him? Your Lord whom you have brought to consciousness in your imagination, that is, a Lord who is not so, bringing Him to consciousness in your own imagination, carving with your hands, making idols – do you associate partners with Allah? That's what it says. Say: leaving Allah, things that have no power to benefit or harm you, no power – do you worship them?

Only Allah truly hears and knows, it says. Look how beautifully it says it. Truly, only Allah is the One who hears. Truly. I hear too. I hear truly: I hear correctly what you say. But I cannot hear what someone else says. I cannot hear what is spoken on the other side. I cannot hear words my ears do not catch. But Allah Almighty hears everything said in the universe. “The One who truly hears,” it says. So it doesn't mean you or me. Here He says it with reference to His creatures. He says it with reference to His creatures.

Wherever it may be, in whichever corner of the universe, in whichever cell, He truly sees and truly hears. Yes.

Those who associate partners with Allah, idolaters, polytheists, polytheists – these are filth. Filth.

People who, leaving Allah who created them, shape Allah's creations with their hands and worship them as gods. Of course they are filth.

Why are they filth?

Their own reason was created deficient. That is, human reason was created deficient. With the light that Allah, God, holds before us, He makes known to us what is good and not good for our bodies. He makes known what traits we have in our bodies and how we are to wash and be cleansed.

Although He cleanses us, they, according to their own reason, live and, from washing, (?) being cleansed – he does wash, but perhaps cannot be cleansed according to that intention. Far from that too, smelling of foul odours – to remove those odours,

poor people who use perfume. There are still such people. And with these perfumes they pierce the ozone layer. With their own hands they cause the world, the world's (?). What does Allah Almighty say? We create what We create firmly. But you, with your own hands, it says, will bring about the Last Day. With your own hands. Yes, Allah created it firmly, but we, with our actions outside Allah's command, with these perfumes, pierce the ozone layer. The sun's (?) and (?) the (?) at the North Pole go on erasing. The earth's spinning around its own axis begins to slow, and finally one day, when the reverse rotation begins, when the sun sets in the west and rises in the west, then when the earth hurls out what is inside it, when, from that centrifugal force, it bursts, when the seas swell, when the mountains, it says, are thrown like (?), when the sky flows like molten metal – the Last Day has come.

Who brought it about? Allah didn't bring it about; again, we did. But all of it is programmed, of course. Within a program. Yes. These are filth. People who shape Allah's creations with their hands and worship them as gods – of course they are filth. If such people could use their reason, would they – what has neither (?) nor harm for them, what they made with their hands – worship it and expect help from it? From wood, from stone, from earth you make shapes and say: this is my god. “We don't worship it.” Well, why do you worship? “We put our Lord as we imagine Him, our Lord who created us, into this and worship it.” Look, like that: sunk in a swamp of guilt – while we say, “Give me your hand from the swamp, let us pull you out, save you,” all the more they sink into the swamp to justify themselves – such people.

Poor people.

Once people associate partners with Allah, Satan, deceiving them against their own selves, giving them the whims of the nafs, shows them every kind of violence and filth as life.

Shows them every kind of violence and filth as life. When it comes to the Muslim: “Hey, look at him, he's vegetating.” The vegetating Muslim – what does he do? He prays. The vegetating Muslim explains to his brother what halal and haram are. The vegetating person, that Muslim, gets his brother some benefits. Even to his own disadvantage. That vegetating Muslim has taken his brother on his back; the wrongs done against him, he tries to forgive. This vegetating Muslim, fearing his Lord, prays tahajjud prayers at night. This vegetating Muslim keeps away from fornication, usury, the forbidden, alcohol, gambling.

In order to carry out his Lord's command. Well, how do the people live who live saying there is life beyond vegetating? Chasing drink, chasing gambling, chasing fornication, outside Allah's commands – look at these people. Do they have peace? People who live without peace. Now which of them is vegetating?

He serves as a mirror for believers. A mirror. Poor person. He thinks that is life. Whereas he doesn't know that from his honour and dignity, even – we'll go further – even from his chastity he gives way.

Is this a human now, or the one whom he says to a Muslim is vegetating? So one is the Muslim called vegetating – (?) that human; the other is like the four-legged beasts roaming the earth, even more astray in his ways, it says – one will not be able to call him that. (?) person, if (?), is an animal.

Now which one is vegetating?

Yes. Let's compare these well. Let's think well. When they say a Muslim is vegetating, when they look down on them, that Muslim should take pride in himself. Pride. “So I am a good servant of my Lord, since the person who lives outside my Lord's command looks down on me like this. It's good that he does not deem me worthy of himself and see me, sir, at the same level as himself.” He should thank Allah. That Muslim should. Yes. Once people associate partners with Allah, Satan, deceiving them against their own selves, giving them the whims of the nafs, shows them every kind of violence and filth as life.

He makes them forget the truth. Where Allah is remembered, such people, since their own wishes and desires they cannot live out, against every word of truth contradicting their own ideas raise storms in their hearts, and from showing hatred and spite to the one who speaks the truth they do not hold back.

And if in their fitrah, that is, in their destiny, there is no turning to the truth either, this world – living in pride and arrogance, running after the desires of their nafs, chatting with their partisans, satisfying their own selves with swampy and deviant paths as life – they use up their lives. Their lives. Yes.

Within these lives, the One who feeds them, gives them drink and gives them every need – turning their backs on Allah, people who pass on to the hereafter, in their eternal lives, their lives, with a punishment humiliating, degrading and abasing for them, to an eternal fire are left exposed. Yes. Allah Almighty says in His verse: for them there is a humiliating punishment. What is this humiliating punishment? That person who disdained that Muslim he called vegetating, and who thinks he himself is living life, wandering in swamps and that filth, deifying his nafs and claiming superiority over that person – in the hereafter, that one he called vegetating, when he sees him in the highest places of Paradise, before him he will be humbled.

That is the humiliating punishment. Seeing that the person he disdained is in palaces and mansions, and that he himself has entered a punishment, he will be humbled. Here we have gathered all of the verse together – all, some verses. What do we say? People who turn their backs on Allah and pass on to the hereafter, in their eternal lives, that is, in the hereafter, with a punishment humiliating for them, degrading and abasing – with a punishment degrading and abasing for them – to an eternal fire are left exposed. Yes. Only Allah truly hears and knows. Allah, who created the universe and does not separate His creations from (?), who from the atom to the globe meets their needs, surely knows and sees everything best.

Yes.

As for His creations, from the atom to the globe, they are in need of Allah. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving. There is no better sovereign than Allah's sovereignty. Nor is there a better trustee, a (?), and a friend than Allah. Hasbünallâhu ve ni'me'l-vekîl, ni'me'l-mevlâ ve ni'me'n-nasîr. Gufrâneke Rabbenâ ve ileyke'l-masîr. Ve lâ havle ve lâ kuvvete illâ billâhi'l-aliyyi'l-azîm. Yes.

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