Al-Mu'minun 108: Then (Allah) Says: “Descend there and do not speak to Me!”

Surah Al-Mu'minun, verse 108 says: Kâle says: Kâle'hseû fîhâ ve lâ tükellimûn. He says: Sink lower and lower there. Where? In the world? Where? What are you saying? Where? Sink lower and lower there, He says.

But when it comes to (?), I know that. I can't say that. (?) You will answer me right away like this. Allah Almighty has given His mercy to everyone in the universe. He has not commanded anyone here to be wronged. Look how nicely it says it. In hell. Sink lower and lower there. He has now finished his life in the world. The account has been asked and given. Where? In hell. Well, do not talk back to Me anymore, He says. Do not talk back to Me. What were they saying? In the previous verse: if You send us back to the world, look how we will worship You. Like that. Allah Almighty knows they do not say it from the heart.

With the tongue. He also knows they are liars. In this case, what does He say to their objections? Do not talk back to Me anymore, He says. Do not speak. Allah Almighty says to these rebellious and unjust people: do not say anything to Me anymore. Because you are lying disbelievers. Lying disbelievers. What He said before, He says in eternity past and in eternity to come. Where did He say it before? When making the covenant at the call of Elestü bi Rabbiküm. In the Quran Allah Almighty says, these are lying disbelievers. Why? Because they denied Allah there. So what does He say? Here too you are liars.

You do not do it from the heart. We, if you knew Me as Lord with your hearts, We are not unjust that We would leave you here forever. So you are lying disbelievers. Sink lower and lower where you are.

At whose hands? Lower and lower in the fire. Sink. Before whom? At the hands of people. They are now outcast. Sink there. As we explained in the verse above, since their desires and wishes are disbelief in Allah, Allah Almighty, not taking their pleading and lamenting into account, says thus: sink lower and lower. In the world they used to go about with fame and renown, with pride and arrogance, in greatness. They looked down on those who said Allah and denied Allah's verses. They used to say there is no resurrection after death and no realm of the hereafter.

In the hereafter, when to the people they looked down on, the people who believed in Allah, Allah Almighty gives great ranks, these rebellious and tyrannical people with (?) souls, when they see that the people they looked down on attain high ranks in the hereafter, those who believed there is no resurrection after death, will sink lower and lower before them.

And then there is Allah's punishment, of course, that too (?). Look at non-Muslims in the world. They look down on Muslims. You cannot call even the lowliest of Muslims lowly. Let's say the most sinful. Once he has gone to the hereafter with faith, he will finally serve his punishment. He will enter paradise. That person you saw as small in the world, when tomorrow in paradise (?) he lives a comfortable life, when they see that the person they despised, by Allah has been raised to high ranks, there, before those people, they will sink. Yes.

Suppose it like this.

Say I am group A, and group B I treat as nothing. I look down on it. I take no notice of what it says. I take no notice of what B says. I see myself as far superior to it.

And B doesn't make a sound. Even though he warns me: who are you to warn me? Go mind your own business, you say. You belittle him that much.

When we come before the sultan, when the sultan welcomes that gentleman with a smiling face and embraces him, and shuts you out and puts you in prison, then you understand that gentleman's worth.

Then you understand that person's worth. And what do you do before him? In prison, before the person you (?), you sink low.

Yes.

This is the state of the disbelievers.

Apart from the disbeliever, what I described is the state of a Muslim, (?). The disbeliever's state, though, is that his rebellion increases. Why does his rebellion increase? Before, too, he never saw Allah Almighty as Allah. He waited for the Lord of his own imagination. In this case, because he could not know Allah Almighty as Allah, because he waited for the Lord of his own imagination, because of his denial of Allah, because of denying the One before him, he was stamped a lying disbeliever. In this case, since his desire and wish, his aim, became his destiny, since those destinies were also placed in him as characters, in the hereafter, in hell, however much he says I believed, since the characters do not change, they say it with the tongue, not from the heart.

Therefore they are again lying disbelievers.

These people in pride and arrogance, while in the world, thought themselves clever, and that those who say Allah had minds that grasp nothing, that they were ignorant people. They saw themselves as worthy of the world's blessings, and these mindless and ignorant people, they thought, were for serving them and in need of being governed by others, and they did not value these people. Yet they don't know that Allah Almighty, Owner of the universe, says one Muslim (?) three disbelievers, He says. Not by strength, by reason. Everywhere their rebellion against Allah and their talking within the circle of ignorance.

When they see in the hereafter that this is not so, when they realise they really are ignorant, the rebellious people, before the people of paradise, will sink lower and lower, will come to that state. Hell's punishment will seem little to them. There is pride and arrogance, you know; out of this pride and arrogance, the people they despised, when they see them in high ranks, that pain which, in their conscience, like a dagger has stabbed them, will be more painful than the agony they will suffer in hell to them.

Yes.