Al-Isra 52: On the Day when Allah will call you (all), you will follow Allah’s call, praising Allah, and you will feel that you stayed (in the worldly life) for a short period of time.

Verse 52 of Surah Al-Isra says: on the day Allah calls you, you will answer His call, praising Him, and you will think you stayed only a very short while. Very short. When you rise from under the earth you will ask one another: how long did we lie under the earth? Some of you will say three days, some of you one day. We lay less than a day, they will say. Those who keep count of how long you lay under the earth, the noble angels on duty: ask them, it says. However many million years we may have lain. Yes. People live the life of this world and, according to the verse "every soul shall taste death", our bodies will taste death.

Our souls will go back again to the realm of barzakh. Death is upon the bodies. It is not upon the souls. Souls are immortal. So when the Last Day breaks out, Allah Almighty will create the worlds anew. Now, as I always say, it is worth reminding of this here too. There are pitiful people who, because of these words of ours, imagine us to be followers of wahdat al-wujud. We call them pitiful. Why do we call them pitiful?

If Allah Almighty gave us a portion of Himself, that is, gave us of His spirit,

if Paradise and Hell are everlasting, then to those pitiful people within that circle of ignorance who call us followers of wahdat al-wujud, I put a question. They are to answer the question. Is Allah Almighty immortal? I ask. He is immortal. If He gave a portion of His spirit, is that portion immortal too? It is immortal. It is immortal, but what does one say (?)? Are Paradise and Hell everlasting? They are everlasting. Along with His verses on Paradise and Hell, does Allah Almighty say that those in Paradise are everlasting and those in Hell are everlasting? He does. In that case, who will enter Paradise and Hell?

People will enter. That is, we will enter with our souls too. Spirit, nafs and soul are one; the body is separate. Now, to those people who in that ignorance, with that tiny mind, label others, I call out. These people enter Paradise and Hell with the body. Well then, you superstitious one in the circle of ignorance, if you enter Paradise and Hell with the body, when He says "We revive you a second time and cause you to die a second time", what did He cause to die? What did He put into Paradise and Hell? And where did the two remain everlasting? Can you think a little? Can you reflect in your mind?

In your being, the Creator is separate, the created is separate. If the created, the created being, is everlasting, that does not mean wahdat al-wujud. Wahdat al-wujud: the unity is Allah; He subsists by His essence. He creates what He wills. Superstitious one, don't put your finger on words you don't know. You don't even know what this is anyway. Your hodja cannot explain this wahdat al-wujud either. Yes.

Superstitious ones, as long as I live I will teach you the verses. By Allah's grace and generosity.

What do we say? Souls are immortal. So when the Last Day breaks out, Allah Almighty will create the worlds anew. When Israfil (peace be upon him) blows the trumpet, people will rise from their graves. Our souls, at Allah Almighty's call, coming to the realm of barzakh, will be gathered at the place of assembly. The souls of each of us, meeting our bodies, will in Allah Almighty's presence wait (?). Yes. When Allah Almighty calls our souls, praising our Lord, bowing to His command, to this call of Allah Almighty Muslims and disbelievers will surely respond. What does it say? (?), it says. That is, everyone will go to the place of gathering.

Because every soul, knowing it was created, has been called by its Creator. It is not possible for them not to follow. So when they hear that they will go before their Lord, all souls, praising Him, will answer this call. If our souls were asked: how long in the realm of barzakh, how long did you stay? That is, if they asked how long you waited there, our souls would answer: we stayed only a short time. Because a thousand years of the world are like one day of the hereafter. That is why they say: we stayed a short time. Also, when our bodies rise revived from the earth, if you asked them too how long you stayed under the earth, their answer too will be like that of our souls.

In His verse Allah Almighty will say: how long you lay under the earth, ask the noble angels on duty who keep count of it. Just as man knows that he exists through being created, he should likewise know that the hereafter is true. Heeding these events of the hereafter that Allah Almighty has told, he should keep obeying Allah. He should seek to win Allah's good pleasure. Because Allah Almighty tells what will befall people and what events they will face. He created us in the realm of lahut. Then He made a covenant with us. Then He raised us to barzakh. Are we aware of it? But we did. We did. Is there a verse?

Of course there is. Surah Al-A'raf (?). (?) What does it say? Ve iz ehaze rabbüke min benî âdeme min zuhûrihim zürriyyetehüm ve eşhedehüm alâ enfüsihim e lestü bi rabbiküm. We made a covenant with those who would come forth from the offspring of the children of Adam, it says. We made a covenant. And We said: We are your Lord, it says. Is that so? We said: We are your Lord. Are you aware of it?

Those who go back out (?) know of it. But there, in the realm of souls, we were created and made the covenant. According to our covenant, our wish became our destiny. Our scripts were written. According to that script, we, as actors in the world, play out the script we ourselves had written. We prove what kind of person we are. Yes. Now in this case, in this case,

well, how long under the earth we lay — if we asked each body, how long, it will say one day, or less than a day, or three days. For that, it says, (?) how long under the earth; the angels on duty, the noble angels, ask them. Yes. Before our eyes, people die every day. Our loved ones pass on to the hereafter.

And we, helpless before these truths, just stand and watch them go. Is that so? Can you turn death back? In Surah Al-Waqi'ah, Allah Almighty: fe levlâ izâ beleğati'l-hulkûm, when the soul reaches the throat, ve entüm hîne izin tenzurûn. Then turn it back, He says. Ve nahnu akrabu ileyhi minküm ve lâkin lâ tubsirûn. All the relatives, it says, gather and wait for the soul to leave.

In Our power, are you closer to him, or are We closer to him, He says. How beautifully He puts it with His verses.

Have you ever reflected where these came from and where they went, He says. Where it came from, where it is going. where it came to, where it is going.

One day the event called death will befall us too. We too will go like those who went before us. Where to? If we ask ourselves this question, one finds the truth. Through the verse we want to explain, one understands the verse Allah Almighty has made known to us. We solve the secret of the matter, I say. We solve the secret of the matter. There is one Allah. The world is a place of testing for man. After this comes death, or our souls waiting in the realm of barzakh, then the Last Day breaking out, the order of this whole universe collapsing, then, created anew, the bodies brought out of the earth and revived, the gathering, the Supreme Court, Paradise and Hell.

This is the cycle, this is the truth, these are the verses. As long as you have life in the world, the judgment before these truths is in your hands. After death, the questioning and being called to account are in Allah's will, and the judgment is Allah's. So, to attain a good reward, bow to Allah, (?). If you bow to your nafs, then you will have neither a helper nor an intercessor, we wrote.

Yes.

Let's read that part once more. Look, I'll read it one by one. Here, we say, the verses. As long as you have life in the world, the judgment before these truths is in your hands. Is that so? We have sent so many truths. You are the one who will judge. After death, the questioning.

Being called to account. It is in Allah's will, and the judgment is Allah's. According to the verse, there each of us gives an account. So, to attain a good reward, we must bow to Allah in the world. We must obey Him. We must give thanks for the blessings He has given. We must pray to prove that we are His servants.

We must preserve Allah's unity and togetherness (?). We must not stay estranged from our brothers in Islam. In the religion of Islam there is no estrangement beyond three days anyway. Whoever makes peace first receives the greater reward. Yes. Bow to Allah, (?). If you bow to your nafs, then you will have neither a helper nor an intercessor. All the good deeds you have done, we say, go to waste. It is not I who say it. Allah Almighty says it. There you will remain alone and without anyone, He says. Allah Almighty will lift His mercy from such people. Remaining alone and without anyone there, they will become not the guards of the eternal abode of Hell but its permanent residents. Yes.