Al-Isra 74: If you were not truly steadfast and firm, you would have been somewhat inclined to them.

You are listening to me, I suppose. How are the sound and picture on your end? If it is good on yours, it is good for everyone.

Is anyone

hearing me, I wonder? Is the sound reaching you?

I will look too, (?) Can you hear?

Or maybe he is turning a deaf ear. Yes. "Your sound and picture are good," it says. Okay. That is enough. The rest will just keep us busy. We read the translation of Surah Al-Isra, verse 74. "Had you not been steadfast, you would truly have inclined to them a little," it says. Yes. In the verse, the Prophet (peace be upon him), Allah Almighty Himself educated him and raised him. If he had truly not been under His education, or had Allah Almighty's raising not been there, just as every person slips a little toward others, since Allah Almighty knows what is in human nature, He says: you too would have inclined to them a little, He says.

What does it say? "Had you not been steadfast", that is, had We not raised you, had you not known the truth, you would surely, it says, have inclined to them a little. Allah Almighty created people in the realm of spirits. After the covenant with Allah Almighty, each person's own wish and desire was written for him as destiny.

Our spirits, whose destinies had been written, were taken up to the realm of barzakh. Until the time of coming into the world, our spirits waited in the realm of barzakh. When the time to come into the world arrives, the spirits are taken from barzakh, and by Allah's command, when the blood clot prepared in the mother's womb turns into a fetus, on the fortieth day it establishes its connection with this fetus. Now the spirit has left barzakh and come into the world. When it comes into the world, the realm of the hereafter is closed to the spirits, and man, as if he had existed in the world, as if he had come into being in the world, is created with a new creation.

Now, when our spirits were taken up to the realm of barzakh, each of us is aware of it. Each one of us. Because our true, original homeland is the realm of the hereafter. Allah Almighty created us in that realm of the hereafter. Then, after making a covenant with us, He took us up to the realm of barzakh. There each of us, each of us knows what we did. So Allah Almighty, according to the person's covenant, takes him from there at whatever time he is to come. The place He takes him to we call the realm of jabarut. Jabarut. From there, with a garment, garments, that is, that garment we speak of: a veil. What veil?

You enter a topic into a computer. You give that topic a password. Unless you open that password, you cannot get into that topic, or reach that program. From there, the state of his essence, after veiling it, after closing it, to the realm of malakut He sends him. This is called the spiritual spirit. It too is wrapped in a garment. That is, that realm too is (?) for him. In fact that realm has a place in memory. That is, it is locked. After that they are sent to the worldly realm, the spirits. They are sent to the realm of mulk. A situation arises as if man had found a new life in the realm of mulk.

Why does Allah Almighty do this? When He made the covenant with our spirits in the realm of spirits, we were divided there into three groups. When He said "I am your Lord", (?) three classes, He says. O you of the right, glad tidings to you. O you of the left, woe to you, He says. A third group, He says, the group of the foremost. They are the group of saints, prophets, martyrs, (?). Now here it is clear what people are. Had Allah Almighty said right away: you are an unbeliever, you are a Muslim, you are for Paradise, you to Hell; had You said that, those going to Hell would say: how would I even know Allah's name? Had You sent me to a (?) realm, that is, to the worldly realm or to some other realm; had You sent me to a realm where Your essence is not seen and made Your essence known, "I would have served You"; so that they would not say this, Allah, being free of any deficient attribute, these realms He created. Come on now, go (?).

Go. But you will not be able to go beyond the covenant you gave Me. This is your destiny. But go and prove yourself by yourself. Do not attribute any fault to Me. So our spirits taken from barzakh are brought to the worldly realm and placed there. If Allah Almighty, in the realm of the hereafter, had not raised the Prophet (peace be upon him) like this too, and had not (?) that state of unveiling to him; for ve mâ erselnâke illâ rahmeten li'l-âlemîn, he came as a mercy to both worlds. So what does He say to the Prophet? You too, He says, if you had not truly been steadfast, that is, had you not seen those realms and known that I Myself am the Lord of the worlds, had you not known that you, created by Me Myself, created by Me, are My envoy, My servant, you would have slipped a little toward people, you would have spoken like this a little.

Yes, we had now left barzakh and come into the world; when it comes into the world, the realm of the hereafter is closed to every spirit, and man, as if he had come into being in the world, is created with a new creation. Man is born, grows up, and with the religious upbringing he receives, living the longing in his nature, if he wishes he obeys Allah, believes and has faith; if he wishes, just as he denied Allah in the realm of the hereafter, with the same nature he rebels against Allah. He either associates partners with Allah, or does not believe in Allah and the hereafter. Since the realm of the hereafter is closed to the person who comes into the world, man believes in Allah unseen. Within this faith in the unseen, people whose nafs has not come to rest, that is, people who have not risen to the nafs at rest, who have not become true believers, yes, when, as a bribe, something material he cannot resist is offered to him, a person slips, even if only a little, toward the people offering him the bribe and tries to do what they say.

Today we see this. Among whom? Among the Parallelists. Although they have interests with one another, although they see the truth, they cannot break away. They cannot break away from the benefit. As if a circle of disaster would break over their heads. Well, is it only the Parallelists? No. Many among people are like this too. But a nafs that has come to rest: however much they offer bribes, these people will never accept these bribes. They never compromise on religion, on Allah and His Messenger. And all the more if this is a prophet, and this person is the master of the two worlds, and the universe is created for the sake of his honor, the one of whom He said "Had it not been for you, I would not have created these worlds", the Beloved of Majesty, whose education our Lord Himself (?) carried out, and who was raised so; would such a prophet, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), by the bribe the polytheists would give him or by worldly things, be deceived and turn his back on Allah?

Would he abandon Allah and incline toward people? Yes. With this verse, Allah Almighty declares to people that those who are not at rest should be careful too, that, deceived by the world, compromising on Allah and His Messenger, in a carnal life they must not buy the punishment of the hereafter; this He declares.