Hud 53: They said; “Oh Hud! You did not bring a clear miracle to us and we will not leave our deities for your word, and we will not believe in you.”

follows. They said: O Hud, you have not brought us a clear miracle. And we are not going to abandon our gods on your word, and we are not going to believe in you either, it says. So those who gave their covenant to Allah Almighty in (?) as deniers, when they come into the world, even if they see miracles, like the Pharaohs, they still will not believe. The people of Hud (peace be upon him) were among the transgressors. Thereupon, to Hud (peace be upon him): O Hud, you have not brought us a clear miracle. We would abandon our gods on your word — not so, they said.

In fact, these are the ones who denied Allah Almighty before. As I said a moment ago, even if you showed them all the miracles, they would not believe. For example, like the people of Salih. Like the people of the prophet Salih. The camel, the yellow camel: although it came out of the rock, this is no magic at all. Magic cannot be alive like this. Even though it ate and drank, they still cut its legs, killed it, and finally they were destroyed. So these too are in fact the ones who denied Allah Almighty before. Those who lived their lives in the (?) realm, who by their own wishes and desires had their destinies written.

When they come into the world, every person, within his free will, by the decisions he himself made, lives his destiny as the actor of the script he had written. Because at the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm, whatever he wished, he had written for himself as destiny. Allah Almighty works this destiny into him as character traits, into that soul. So when that person comes into the world, the script he had written there he plays. Now pay very close attention to what I am saying.

They say to me, they give us as an answer: this leads to fatalism. This is fatalism. Those who do not know what fatalism is — a person who does not know that at the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm he made a covenant with Allah Almighty does not know what fatalism is either. So by their own reasoning they tied it to destiny, pinned it on Allah. This proves that they do not know what fatalism is either. A fatalist person, a fatalist person: his saying himself that everything comes from Allah, Allah wrote my destiny like this, I am this way, He made me like this, created me like this — that falls under fatalism.

But, not knowing Elestü bi Rabbiküm: a person who has his own wish and desire written for himself as destiny, who uses his partial will and, within his partial will, has Allah write his script, his own destiny, himself, his own wish, he himself had written as destiny — this person, in worldly life, playing his script: does that fall under fatalism? He is using his own will. But the other ties the will to Allah. Even though he himself practices fatalism, he pins fatalism on us. From this it is understood that these people have no knowledge of the Quran at all, it comes out. No knowledge of the Quran.

He does not know what a fatalist is. If he had knowledge of the Quran, he would distinguish these things. He would distinguish partial will. He would understand how destiny is. That is, how a person had it written for himself. What is that address Elestü bi Rabbiküm? Well, those unaware of these things say — even if it is against the rules, they say, we, it seems so to us, they say, we will go on ascribing attributes to Allah, they say. That is what it means. He says exactly that. Even if it is against the rules, it must be understood this way, he says. Even if it is against the rules. Yes. Yes.

So, everything depends on destiny. That is his destiny too. But I do not say this is it. What is destiny? Because we do not know a moment later, a person, what kind of person he is, throughout his life he will play out within the covenant he gave as destiny — what kind of person he is — did you think you would die without proving it? That verse. That person, the destiny of the covenant he gave at the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm, works out in the world. He works out what he had written as destiny and says: in this (?) I proved myself, he says. Yes. Guiding these people and turning them away from what they think they know is a bit hard.

A bit hard. But a human being is one who will use his reason. A human being is one who, if he has fully obeyed his Lord and knows his responsibility toward his Lord in religion, will lend an ear a little to what I am saying.

Yes. In fact, these are the ones who denied Allah Almighty before. Those who lived their lives in the (?) realm, who by their own wishes and desires had their destinies written; when they come into the world, every person, within his free will, by the decisions he himself made, as the actor of the script he had written, his destiny he lives. So such people who do not believe in Allah and the hereafter do not believe in the prophets Allah sent either. Even if all the miracles were gathered and brought to them, since they cannot step outside their destinies and the covenants they gave, they would never believe in these miracles either. Moreover, saying it is magic against the miracles Allah shows, they move away from Allah and His messengers.

These are the deaf and the blind.

The people of Hud (peace be upon him) also said to Hud (peace be upon him): we, your word, on your word, will not abandon our gods. And we will not believe your word either — saying so: we will not believe. That is, even if a miracle comes, we will not believe. Saying so, they themselves confessed that they would not believe in Allah and the hereafter and made it known to Hud (peace be upon him). Yes.