Al-Isra 99: Did they not see that Allah is the One Who created the heavens and the earth, has the power to create their likes? Allah has determined a duration for them. There is no doubt about this. But the oppressors accepted nothing but denial.

Let's go one verse back, from verse ninety-eight; the topic will be understood better. What does it say in verse ninety-two, ninety-eight? This is their punishment. What is it? A complete punishment. The punishment of those who deny Allah, well, of those who, in the face of so many blessings, are ungrateful to our Lord, is a complete punishment, it says. That is, eternal life in hell. Because they denied Our verses. That is, they denied Allah's word. Although they know His existence, that is, that they themselves were created by a Lord, although they know it, those who take a stand against Allah Almighty and associate partners with Him.

They denied Our verses. "Really, after we become a heap of bones and rotten earth, in a new creation will we be raised?" they said, it says. Now we come to verse 99. Here we will give the meaning of both. Indeed, in the verse below, in verse 99, how beautifully Allah Almighty addresses them. Have they not considered, it says, that Allah, who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create the like of them? Allah has appointed a term for them. There is no doubt about it. But the wrongdoers accepted nothing but disbelief. Now what does it say? Have they not considered that Allah, who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create the like of them as well?

Where does this meaning go? All the way to the world of lahut. To the world where our spirits were created.

Have they not considered, in their original homeland, with the oneness of spirit, nafs and soul, that before giving them bodies, first We created them there, and said to them, "I am your Lord," and made a covenant with them; have these not considered this: is He not able to create the like of them? That is, have they not considered that their bodies in this world, exactly alike, were also, well, created as their likeness? Yunus Emre says it so beautifully. "I clothed myself in flesh and bone, I appeared as Yunus," he says. Yes. So in the outward world, in an outward body, a likeness is created through the reflection of the spirit.

Then, this being of ours, created in the world of spirits; since in the world of mulk, that is, in this world, we were created as a likeness, is Allah Almighty not able to create the same again?

Is creating the first time harder? Or is it harder to create that created object afterwards? Of course the first creation is harder. That is, to bring something into being from nothing. Then, if He places into the root of that object brought into being its essence, that is, if He plants its seed, the same, exact, one-to-one being appears anew again.

Does man not think? That the prints on his fingers, none of them resembling another, of billions of people, billions; since our father Adam, we do not know how many people have come into the world. Maybe a trillion.

Right now the world's population is probably over 5 billion. 6-7 billion (?), I don't know, of course.

Do they not think: although the fingerprints of so many people do not resemble each other, Allah Almighty, those people, having destroyed them, that is, having made them die, to call them to account again in the same way, at the Great Tribunal, does He not have the power to gather them?

We said that in man there is a cell that neither dies nor rots nor disappears.

This outward cell, at the sixth level, with a water called the (?) sea will be watered.

The meaning of their calling it the (?) sea: only that water, that cell, (?) and bringing it to life, our bodies will again in the same way appear. The signal emitted by our bodies and the signal emitted by our spirit, as receiver and transmitter, will find each other instantly, and the verse of the time when you come with a driver into My presence will come to pass. Yes.

Have they not considered that Allah, who created the heavens and the earths, is able to create the like of them as well? How beautiful. Allah has appointed a term for them. That is, Allah Almighty has appointed a term for us in the world. What is this term? In this address "Elestü bi Rabbiküm", Allah Almighty, since He gave people a part of His essence, created them as the likeness of His essence. People did not recognize the Lord before them, who created them, as Lord, out of pride and arrogance. They waited for the Lord of their own imagination. In this case, what does Allah Almighty say? Our Lord, who is free from deficient attributes: "Here, in this way, out of your pride and arrogance, well, you did not believe that I created you.

But I will prepare a ground for you. That is, I will prepare the ground of the world. I will send you to a (?) world where My essence is not seen. And there I will send you prophets and books and also scholars; however you are not ones to turn back from your covenant, but We (?), since He is free from deficient attributes, in this world, after he has proven what kind of person he is, every soul will taste death. According to His verse that says 'Your return is to Me', on that Day of Gathering, when the Great Tribunal is set up, you will give account in His presence." So what does it say? Allah has appointed a term for them in the world.

What is this term?

"Did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are?" What that verse corresponds to. Yes. There is no doubt about it, it says. Of course there is no doubt. Because since our forefather Adam, no person has remained in the world, so that I, envying that person, could say, "Well, he stayed, I'll stay too."

So everyone in this transient world is a traveler in a temporary guesthouse. No one here is the owner of this inn. So one day he will leave here. Where to? When (?) the Truth is everlasting, into the presence of the Truth. Every soul will taste death. His verse saying "Your return is to Me" will come true. Yes. There is no doubt about it. But the wrongdoers accepted nothing but disbelief. Who are these wrongdoers? Those who do wrong against their own selves. These are the wrongdoers. A person can in no way wrong Allah. Because nothing a person does in any way reaches Allah. Rather, their good deeds and sins are written on their own necks.

What does Allah Almighty say? Even if mankind and jinn gathered, they could not harm Allah. Yes. So who are these wrongdoers? Since they deny Allah's verses, without (?) all these choice blessings Allah has given them and giving thanks, as deniers these wrongdoers who turn their backs on Allah wrong their own selves. Yes. They accepted nothing but disbelief. That is, We sent them messengers, We sent prophets, We sent scholars, We sent books. But in the face of Our calling them to guidance, what did they do? They said of them either "he is a sorcerer" or "he is a magician", or "he is possessed".

They said so; they saw themselves as very high, and in the feelings of the nafs they became Satan's playthings and followed him. These are the people who are wrongdoers against their own selves. As Allah Almighty says in His verse: Do you never use your reason? Do you never reflect? Do you never think? Turning their backs on the verses, with the (?) that Satan puts in their hearts, living a double world, in rebellion, with scattered hearts, they spend their lives without peace. Yes.

Let's read the verse again, then read its commentary. We have explained the commentary to you, but reading its commentary also helps. Have they not considered that Allah, who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create the like of them as well? Allah has appointed a term for them. There is no doubt about it. But the wrongdoers accepted nothing but disbelief. People keep themselves from thinking about the existence of Allah Almighty; they avoid it. They do not even want to think about Allah, who created them. Following the nafs and Satan, they take pleasure in these. They think that in this state they are living.

Before Allah's majesty and power, with their own arrogance and pride, they cannot submit to Allah.

They see denying Allah's verses and His true word as a greatness and pride in themselves. If people who have these traits reflected a little and thought: Allah, who brought these worlds into being from nothing, although He created them too, is He not able to create the like of them as well? Although He created them, that is, in that world of lahut having created our spirits and (?) given (?), Allah, who is able to create their like in the world, to make us die again and create us in the same way, bodily, when He says, "with a driver, when you come into My presence", is He not able to create? Is it easier to bring an object into being from nothing, or to create a created object again?

Of course it is easier to create a created object again. For example, if we take the seed of a fruit or a plant and into the soil sow it, we obtain its like again. So in man too there is a cell that neither burns nor rots nor disappears. This is the same on the Day of Resurrection. Like the seed of a plant sprouting from the soil, the human body will sprout again. The magnetic frequencies in his spirit and the frequencies in the body, like a receiver-transmitter device, among all the trillions of created people, will find each other instantly. So Allah, who brings into being from nothing and is All-Knowing, free from deficient attributes, has created every thing flawlessly, down to the finest detail.

Reminding people that one day they too will be called to account in the divine presence, He invites them to think and reflect. Allah has appointed a term for all people. According to the verse "Every soul shall taste death", every person has, in his first world, a certain lifespan. In this address on lifespan, every soul shall taste death; the appointed time of a person whose time is up will be neither delayed by a moment nor brought forward by a moment. No one has any doubt about this. Because every living being that comes into the world has surely tasted death one day, and since the founding of the world, not a single living being has maintained its life all the way to our day.

Even so, the wrongdoers accept nothing but disbelief. In this respect they have been wrongdoers against their own selves. They are wrongdoers against their own selves.