Al-Isra 67: When a calamity comes upon you in the ocean, all the things you pray to other than Allah vanish away. When Allah saves you and brings you to the land, you go back (to your earlier ways praying to idols). Those are the people who are ungrateful.

Verse 67 of Surah Al-Isra is a verse that has been explained wrongly. The mistake is that at the end of the verse they have attributed something to Allah Almighty. Look how they attribute it. When misfortune strikes you at sea, all those you implore besides Him vanish away. Correct. When He saves you and brings you ashore, you go back to your old ways. Mankind is very ungrateful, it says. Now this last sentence, this last sentence attributes it to Allah Almighty. Mankind is very ungrateful. And I would say to Allah Almighty: You created us like that, what can we do? We would say that, wouldn't we? I mean, we would have a right to ask.

Having created us this way, what do You want from us? But if we change this part, the verse falls into place. What do we say? (?) Such people are very ungrateful. That is, such people. (?) After all these people are saved from the sea, are there not some who stay true to their word? Are there not those who worship Allah Almighty continually? There are. So in that case, if we generalize this to everyone, to everyone if we generalize it, we would be attributing it to Allah Almighty. So what shall we say? Since Allah Almighty is free of both attributes, if you return again to your old ways, such people are very ungrateful, says Allah Almighty.

Yes. That is the correct form of the verse.

When people feel themselves on land, as long as their feet stand on the ground, they think they are safe. Yet what will befall us a moment later? We are people unaware of that. Because the keys of the unseen are with Allah. What lies in our destiny a moment later, what we will live through, we cannot know. So Allah Almighty says: are you sure of your lives? That no calamity will come upon you from the sky, or that no calamity will come from (?), are you sure of that, it says. Now, according to these verses, we are not sure of our life one moment later. That is up to our Lord's decree. Where will our life come to an end?

Since we do not know that either, people, when they have brought themselves to a certain place, think themselves safe there. Yet safety lies in taking refuge in Allah. Yes. People will live whatever is in their destiny. So people, as long as they (?) Allah, when a calamity befalls them on the ships or rafts they board, that is, a hurricane, a storm, and along with it the seas swelling into huge waves, when the ships, struggling with these waves, face the danger of sinking, people are suddenly filled with the fear of death. Then they immediately take refuge in Allah. The partners they had earlier associated with Allah are forgotten.

Because Allah has given man a mind that (?) His Being. But man, turning his back on Allah out of rancour and arrogance, associates partners with Allah. But in the face of such danger, the rancour and arrogance in man are broken; for fear of their lives they take refuge in Allah. People: if only we set foot on land, look how I will worship or help the poor or sacrifice animals in Allah's name, they say, and make requests to Allah. Before people implore Allah Almighty like this, before misfortune befalls them, that is, before they set out to sea, they never remember Allah, or else, following every stubborn devil, they would associate partners with Allah.

But when their feet were cut off from land and misfortune befell them, the partners they had associated with Allah were forgotten, and the imploring of Allah began. So Allah, in such situations, makes such wrongdoers witnesses against themselves, and thus proves His existence to such people who deny Allah. Once they reach safety, they again forget Allah and return to their former errors. On the Day of Resurrection, at the great tribunal, on that Day of Reckoning, when, as wrongdoers against their own selves, they are sentenced to punishment, they will not be able to find any word to say against Allah Almighty. Mankind is very ungrateful: it asks for Allah's mercy, then, if he turns his back on it, such people do not abide by Allah's judgment; he opposes Allah, eats and drinks, and if he does not see the Giver of this provision, man with these ungrateful acts rebels against Allah, and has bought an eternal life in Hell.

Yes.

Such people truly

This part it is worth correcting. A word was missing a letter. We corrected that. Yes. Such people are very ungrateful. We had put (?) there. (?) there 'is very ungrateful'. It asks for Allah's mercy. Then, if he turns his back on it, he does not abide by Allah's judgment. He opposes Allah, eats and drinks. If he does not see the Giver of this provision, man with these ungrateful acts rebels against Allah, and has bought an eternal life in Hell. In that case he has sold the life of this world in exchange for the punishment of the Hereafter, and for a few hours', a few hours' life of pleasure in this world, he has agreed to an eternal life in Hell.

Such people are truly foolish people. Fools. Again, such people are people who do not reflect, who do not use their reason. With what shall we reflect, Hodja? With what shall one use one's reason? If you say that, if you say that, you will think like this.

You will look at these worlds. Everything has been created in order and harmony. That nothing is by chance, that everything was created with knowledge and firmly, you will see. If man, without looking much around him, considers his own inner world, with what knowledge he has been equipped, he knows that a being created with such knowledge surely has an owner, has a Creator. Every mind knows this. So the one who has reason, through such reflection, surrenders himself to the One who created him and, towards Allah Almighty, towards our Lord who created him, tries to fulfil his due duty. Yes.