Al-Isra 51: “Or a creature (whose resurrection) seems to be not possible. (These will not make it harder for Allah to resurrect you).” They will ask; “Who will return us (to life)?” Say; “The One Who has created you first.” Upon this, they will shake their heads with mockery and say; “When is the time for it?” reply to them, say; “It shall be soon!”

We have now come to verse 51 of Surah Al-Isra.

Or any creature that seems to you impossible to bring back to life, what beautiful examples Allah Almighty gives, what does He say? Or any creature that seems to you impossible to bring back to life, these do not make it hard for Allah to resurrect you. They will say: who will bring us back to life again? Say: He who created you the first time. Then they will shake their heads at you mockingly and say: when will that be? Say: it may well be near. How beautifully they speak. It may well be near. Well, weren't Allah's verses supposed to be unfailing? It says it may well be near. Yes, it has been 1436 years since the Prophet passed on to the hereafter.

How is this near? Of course it is near. What does Allah Almighty say in His verse? A thousand years of the world are like one day of the hereafter. So 1436 years have not even made a day and a half. If it becomes 1500 years, it will be a day and a half. Yes. Now if this isn't near, what is it?

To us it seems very far, like behind Mount Qaf. Life too seems long to us in the same way. This is Satan's deception of us. Allah Almighty, who creates time within time, created one year of this world like one day of the realm of the hereafter. Yes. Here, within an hour and a half by the reckoning of the hereafter, we are born, we grow, we walk and we pass on to the hereafter. Yes.

Those who disbelieve do not believe in resurrection after death. Those unaware of Allah's power to create. Since they judge by their reason, they try to fit Allah into their minds. People who, with short sight in the service of their own perception, (?) yet consider themselves enlightened, deny the re-creation and turn their backs on Allah. Yet not only man; as stated in the verse above, whether we be iron or stone, let us imagine a thing that we see as impossible to create, and Allah will still create us, and on that day of reckoning He will call what we did to account. Why? If we imagine a creature that seems hard to create, what does it say?

Allah created that too, and that too. He will create that one again too. However powerful an image you imagine. Yes.

So those among people who disbelieve, since they do not believe in resurrection in the hereafter, will mockingly say: who will bring us back to life again?

Allah Almighty, addressing His Beloved: say, He who first created you will bring you back to life. Yes. So after this answer, among themselves, according to their own reason, they themselves Yes. What page are we on? 1732

So, their talk of this kind: those who think themselves clever, (?) Allah and Allah's prophets, mockingly shaking their heads, would say: when will that resurrection be? Well, it may well be near. Allah Almighty does not assess this word of nearness by worldly time. It is not by the times of the hereafter. Because a thousand years of the world are like one day of the hereafter.

We seem to have written it backwards here. Say: it may well be near. Allah Almighty assesses this word of nearness by worldly time. It is not by the times of the hereafter, we wrote. Not by worldly times; He assesses it by the time of the hereafter. That's what we'll say. Right? Let's correct it there and then move on. Yes. We wrote this part backwards.

Allah Almighty assesses this word of nearness not by worldly time,

yes,

but by the times of the realm of the hereafter He assesses it, let's say.

Yes. Yes. Let's put the sentence together and see. (?) Does it sit right? Well, it may well be near. Allah Almighty assesses this word of nearness not by worldly time, but by the times of the realm of the hereafter. Isn't that right? It's right. Yes. Sometimes sentences come out like this, like a Ramadan tongue twister. Because a thousand years of the world are like one day of the hereafter. For this reason Allah Almighty, in His verse, to His Beloved: it may well be near, He says. Creating something for the first time, that is, bringing it into being from nothing, is hard. Once something has been created, its continuation, compared with the first creation, is surely easier. So for Allah, who brings into being from nothing, once He has brought something into being, sustaining or creating its continuation is not hard for Him.

If man used his reason a little: did these worlds come about in order and harmony by chance? Did so many creatures, living and non-living, just come about by themselves? Those who see these as a work of nature, who do not see these created things as created by Allah, out of their grudge and arrogance toward Allah, tie (?) to the world. Such people, even if they are scholars, are foolish people. Their foolishness: heedless of Allah's sublimity, His might and power, His being the absolute power in His dominion, although they know that no created being can stand against Allah, that even if all the worlds united they could not harm Allah, they are people captive to their carnal desires. They are people who turn their backs on Allah, who out of pride and arrogance toward Allah consent to the torment of Hell.

Surely such people are foolish people.

So man should use his reason and think well. Though man knows how it hurts in this world if a thorn pricks any part of him, how can he consent to the torment of Hell in the hereafter? The torment of the hereafter does not resemble the torment of this world either. So (?) your nafs before Allah, bow your neck, so that you find life. So that you pay no heed to the hints Satan gives you. One gives one's heart to Allah. If you are with Him, your heart is alive. You see the truth. So we wrote. Yes.