An-Nur 35: Allah is the (Divine Light) Enlightenment (Nur) of the heavens and the earth. The example of Allah’s Nur (Divine Light) resembles a lamp, in which there is a glass. That glass is inside a crystal lantern. And that lantern is like stars that resemble pearls, on which the shadows of the east and the west do not fall. It is set alight by a blessed (oil from) olive tree, its oil almost radiates light without fire touching it. (This is) Nur upon Nur (Divine Light). Allah makes those (who wish), attain Allah’s Nur. Allah brings examples (like these) to humankind. Verily, Allah knows everything.

If it says Your mercy is for everyone in the universe, what does this mean? Without discriminating against anyone, Allah Almighty judges among His servants with justice. To bring someone to Himself, Allah Almighty does not give this wisdom to whomever He wills. Whoever wants to reach Allah, whoever wishes, attains wisdom. Whoever wishes.

In this case, the Quran, verses of this kind, have constantly been interpreted by attributing it to Allah Almighty. Let us read it correctly, give the verses their meaning and make their tafsir.

Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth.

They say: in the daytime the sun comes and lights up the surroundings.

At night it becomes dark. Does His light set?

Yes. At night the moon rises, he says. Well, when the moon rises at night, when darkness upon darkness comes, as the verse says too, in pitch darkness, does Allah Almighty's light set? What does this mean? When it says Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth, it is His creating the universe with His knowledge. His giving life to the worlds with His knowledge. Yes.

The parable of His light: this time it represents the light. Upon whom? Upon man. What does it say? It is like a niche in which there is a lamp, it says. Those who reach this light know this. But someone who has studied, got a diploma in hand, is unaware of the feelings of his nafs,

has chased the pleasures of the world with his nafs, in that case, a person holding a doctorate label does not know this.

Then tell us, so we can listen. What is this? Yes. When everything is said, it will have a meaning.

When a person struggles with his nafs, in the fourth state of the nafs, when it becomes tranquil, in contemplation, that is, with eyes closed and mind clear,

there is a glass marble children play with, a glass marble, just like that glass marble, inside it millions of twinkling, twinkling rays. Star-like rays. They twinkle like this. That is it: in the heart, in that person's heart We place Our light, He says.

Now Allah Almighty describes that light. It is like a niche in which there is a lamp. And the stars in the sky, which He constantly calls lamps, are each a lamp too. Star-like, they shine like this, twinkling. That lamp is inside a crystal glass. Like the glass marble children play with. It twinkles like this inside. And that glass is like a pearl, as it were. What I am describing, Allah Almighty is already saying here.

It is like a star, upon which the shadow of neither the east nor the west falls. What does this mean? The sun rises in the east; this refers to outward knowledge. And the sun sets in the west; this refers to false superstition. Neither the shadow of outward knowledge nor the shadow of falsehood falls on it. Then, people who know nothing of the verses, those who deny some verses of the Quran, those who are in certain positions yet do not know the meanings of the verses, in this case, this verse, where did they hide it? Those who look for labels in people.

Yes.

It is lit, as it were, from the oil that comes from the olive. Its oil almost gives light even if no fire touches it. It gives brightness. This is light upon light. If this is light, what is the other light? The other light is a particle of Allah Almighty that is found in man. Light upon light. The light of that true realm. Yes. Another meaning: within the verses, Allah's verses: a (?), within a light (?), a light. Yes.

Allah brings whoever of you wishes to His light. Whoever wishes. That (?). Just as the one who works gets his pay. Is there pay for the one who does not work? No. If I don't go to work today, will my boss give me my money? He won't. But if I go to work, I get my money. So if a person, with his worship and the state of his nafs, on the sirat al-mustaqim Allah has shown, continues on the straight path, this person attains Allah's light. If a person says a bit of the world and a bit of worship, he goes the way a drunk goes along the road. He goes staggering.

If a person turns to piety, this person has been freed from drunkenness. He has started to walk straight, but he does not know the address. He walks straight on the road but does not know the address. That is when Allah Almighty shows him the address. What is the address? Inspiration. His giving inspiration to his heart. Shining a light for him. Teaching him what he did not know. If the person does not get spoiled here, he also attains the door of karamat. If he does not get spoiled here, then he attains this light. He rises to mutmainna. He comes to know the divine manifestations.

In the religion of Islam in our time, people with doctorates who occupy the Diyanet's certain positions. I am not saying this about all of them.

In the letter they wrote against us, they are committing an offense. As evidence, they have put their lack of knowledge on paper. put it on paper; in this case, although Allah Almighty commands studying outward knowledge, what you do not know, trained by our Lord and deeper than outward knowledge, where is it, where? Let us state that place with a verse too.

Yes.

As for those kneaded with Our knowledge: we believed in it. The clear and the ambiguous verses, all are from our Lord, they say. Only those who use their minds and who enter through the door of that knowledge know these. Do you know the meaning of these verses, do you? If, relying on the text in your hand, you interpret Allah's verses by slandering Allah, and the one who warns you, the one who speaks the truth; if you try to spread falsehood over the truth, tomorrow at the Great Court, before Allah Almighty, when called to account: I have done my duty. And you did my duty. If you are right, let me bear my punishment.

If I am right, tomorrow, on that Day of Gathering, how will you give that account? Look, I am showing you verses. You show me a verse too. Show this (?)?

Allah leads no one astray.

Allah does not increase anyone's disbelief. You have interpreted the Quran like this, and when we correct them, they say this man goes against the spirit of the Quran. Show me, show people a verse where, in a single place, it says Allah increases his disbelief, and take my head. If somewhere it says Allah puts whom He wills into Paradise and whom He wills into Hell, again take my head. If somewhere it says it is hoped that Allah will forgive you, again take my head. I am the man of the solution.

I never go out (?) with the solution. For this cause I would give my head like Hallaj al-Mansur. For this cause. But what will you do? What will you do if you are wrong? The religion of Islam does not fit into your mind with Arabic.

You know as much as you know.

If you put your finger on what lies beyond, you perish.

Yes. We are interpreting the verses.

Allah is the illuminator of the heavens and the earth. Allah Almighty created this universe, the seven layers of heavens and the earth and what is between them, with knowledge. So many planets and stars, the earth, the moon and the sun, the planets revolving around each other neither come closer to each other nor move apart. The light of the earths and the heavens. Yes. Because Allah created this universe firm, firm. What does He say? We create what We create firmly, He says. You will spoil it with your own hands, He says. Toward Doomsday: if you pierce the ozone layer with perfumes, and the sun's (?) and rays at the north pole wipe out the (?), the earth's rotation around its own axis you diminish. In the end the sun will set in the west, will rise from the west.

Then, with its reverse rotation, it will begin to hurl what is inside it outward. Because of centrifugal force.

The hadiths will (?). Unless years pass like months, months like weeks, weeks like days, days like hours, the Hour will not come, not (?).

If tomorrow you try, patching with Arabic, to give meaning to these verses, you are like a bird flying with one wing. I am explaining this much to you.

So openly I tell you that the full meanings of the verses you do not know. If you are human, if you have an Islamic conscience, fear of Allah, shame before the Messenger, you call me and say: prove the truth of this to me.

If you do not call and do not prove it, you are the very people who, in religion, turn the religion into superstitions. They have now openly brought it to this point, I am saying it.

Some people in the Diyanet, merely to defend superstition, neither listen to us nor pass it on to the head of the Diyanet, Mr. Mehmet Görmez; they pass it on, they don't pass it on. Because Mr. Mehmet is different from them.

Because Mr. Mehmet has knowledge by which truth and falsehood can be told apart. In this case they neither pass it on to Mr. Mehmet nor accept the truth. But surely the truth will become manifest.

Falsehood is doomed to vanish beside the truth. This too is a verse. All right, not a verse, then: the verse "Truth has come and falsehood has vanished." I do not speak outside the verses.

Yes.

So many planets and stars, the earth, the moon and the sun, the planets revolving around one another neither come closer to each other nor move apart. These were created with knowledge. If these had come about by chance, this universe would (?) crash into itself. everything would turn to destruction and (?). Yes. You know, in some documentaries, some animal has developed itself.

Well, it got to such and such a state. Did this and that. Poor people who attribute everything to nature and, well, try to eliminate Allah.

Neither order nor life would exist, if these worlds had been created by chance. So, Allah Almighty creating these worlds, and, with the planets and stars revolving around each other, Allah Almighty's running these worlds with His knowledge is described as the light of the heavens and the earths. Within this light He has provided life to people and to His creatures. Now Allah Almighty has also protected the world from some of the planets, from meteorites. How does He protect it? The world's atmosphere surrounds the world at 81 or 83 kilometers' height.

Look at Allah Almighty's knowledge. The pressure of the 83-kilometer atmosphere at sea level is one atmosphere. By making the heart's pressure one atmosphere, Allah Almighty, with the air pressure, ensures man's balance on the earth.

This is not chance, not chance. This is Allah's power with knowledge.

And when a meteorite by chance enters the atmosphere, until it covers those 80-some kilometers of distance to the earth's surface, because of friction it falls as a mass of fire, burned to ash. Some fall broken up into very small stones. Around Urfa they collect meteorites and sell them for big money too.

So, Allah Almighty creating these worlds, and, with the planets and stars revolving around each other, Allah Almighty's running these worlds with His knowledge He has described as the light of the heavens and the earths. Within this light He has provided life to people and to His creatures.

Allah Almighty places His light in the hearts of those He loves. That light, as a parable, is likened to a lamp lit from olive oil, and within it a pearl-like lamp, and to that star.

This light that Allah Almighty places in the hearts of those He loves we can liken to a glass marble children play with. Inside this glass marble there are very beautiful greenish and multicolored hues. Like this glass marble, Allah's light manifests in the human heart. The colors inside this marble twinkle and sparkle. As if a (?), and like these millions of cells revolving around their own axes. Their (?).

So those who love Allah and, to draw near to Allah, the desires and wishes in their own nafs, rebellion and grudge, struggle with their nafs to cast them out, and whose nafs rises to tranquility: the light circulating in the hearts of these believers is such a light.

If these people rise from here to higher stations, they have risen to the station of ilm al-yaqin, which is the station of the nafs radiya.

If from here they rise to even higher stations, they rise to the station called nafs mardiyya, which is the station of ayn al-yaqin.

This is the state of a person who comes once every hundred years. Qutb al-Azam. Yes.

So on the people in whose hearts Allah Almighty has placed His light, the shadow of neither the east nor the west falls.

Where were we?

Yes. So on the people in whose hearts Allah Almighty has placed His light, the shadow of neither the east nor the west falls. The meaning of this east and west: the sun rises in the east. The rising of the sun is likened to outward knowledge. Because with the setting of the sun darkness comes, and this darkness is likened to falsehood.

For the people in whose hearts He placed His light, neither outward knowledge nor falsehood can be a veil. Outward knowledge and falsehood cannot, on the one in whose heart Allah placed His light, cast a shadow. How does outward knowledge cast a shadow on you? Like this, they interpreted the Quran with outward knowledge, attributed qualities to Allah; so for these people of the inward, what they say is a shadow; that shadow does not fall on these people, they speak the truth. I suppose it is understood here now. Yes. Allah Almighty: the light He places in the hearts of these people He loves is light upon light. The meaning of light upon light: these people have attained a light by accepting Islam.

Moreover, when they hold fast to Allah's commands and prohibitions, when they turn to piety, casting out everything but Allah from their hearts, reaching a perfected nafs, to the station of mutmainna when they rise, the light Allah places in their hearts is a second light, and this light circulating in the human heart He calls light upon light. He informs us of the states of people in this way.

People are responsible for what they do with their own partial will. The Diyanet telling us that when one of the wills is removed, the other does not go to denial: these people know nothing of will either. When he says if I remove one of the wills, a person does not go to denial, suppose Allah Almighty removed my will from me; what did He do? His own will He used upon me; I killed a man, I blasphemed, I committed fornication, I drank alcohol, I gambled; what does He want from me? Suppose Allah's will I removed from upon me; this time I went to disbelief, said there is no Allah; what kind of learned person is this, writing to me from that position with the evidence in his hand, the evidence in hand.

Yes.

The one who asks of Allah, Allah brings to His light; not "the one who wills", but "the one who wishes". People, for what they do with their own partial will, are responsible. Whoever aspires to Allah's light upon light, Allah brings guidance to them and places His light in their heart. Allah Almighty, by giving people this parable, makes known that there are such people on earth, and that like the stars in the sky they are the lamps of the earth, that these people, through this verse of Allah, are bound more wholeheartedly to Allah Almighty, and that these people are of the witness kind even for people.

Yes. With that letter you sent me, that the Diyanet sent me, they make Allah, those around, and me witnesses over themselves.

A person who occupies a certain position and says "I am a scholar", now I will say a word his mind cannot grasp, a verse.

He cannot comprehend this. He only, in his deviance, says this: He is distorting the verses, he says.

The angels and the scholars bear witness to Allah, it says. Beyond this: when We created the heavens and the earth, Satan and his companions We did not take as witnesses for Ourselves, it says. Go on, deny this verse too. What does it say? When We created the heavens and the earth, the accursed one We did not take as a witness for Ourselves, it says. So there are those He took as witnesses. Who are they?

The Qutb al-Azam, who comes once every 200 years. What does he do? Allah Almighty, of some of the creatures He created, within their creation, some of their traits He shows him.

What did He do? How He created some traits of His creatures was shown to him. This verse points exactly to this. When We created the heavens and the earth, We did not take the accursed one and his companions as witnesses for Ourselves, it says. Oh, so did He take the angels as witnesses? Is that how you understand it?

Weren't people supposed to be honored? When He said I will create a being, I will create man, against the angels' objection, when they said "will You create a being that will shed blood on earth?", when He said "you do not know what I know": that people were created much earlier, created in the realm of lahut, and stayed in the barzakh, they do not know.

Yes. Whoever seeks glory and honor, it says, it is with Allah, glory and honor. Glory and honor are with Allah, it says. In this case, man, created honored above the worlds, from his Lord was created as a particle; your mind cannot grasp this

but cannot deny it, because the universal spirit is Allah Almighty; the holy spirit is Allah Almighty Himself; it is not Gabriel. The One who is the secret of the secret, with whom the whole of the secret is, whose keys of the unseen are in Allah's hand, the knowledge of the unseen being with Allah, such a Creator (?) that the holy spirit: His sending to Mary a particle of His being. They ask you about the spirits. Say: it is a command of my Lord.

What is it? A command of my Lord.

When the angel came to Abraham, it was a command of his Lord. When the angels went to Lot, they were a command of his Lord. Do you know who your Lord's command is? And also: the angels and the spirit ascend in a place whose measure is fifty thousand years, it says. Where do they ascend? Is that how you understand the verse? The angels come before the spirit once every fifty thousand years.

For you to become well versed in this knowledge, you need to wear out your elbows.

Yes. If I am telling falsehood, come and correct me with a verse; I am explaining the verses, I am explaining the truth. The witnessing of these

people over people, though: Allah Almighty, on the Day of Judgment, when people do not believe in Allah Almighty's verses, to the people who, trying to fit verses their minds cannot grasp into their own minds, come to deny Allah's verses without knowing them, will show these people as witnesses.

Now I call out like this. O you who say "I am a scholar". You who sent us this letter from the Diyanet. Look, you are the person who answers for this letter. If you do not call me and learn the truth, you are the person facing this letter. If you have convinced me, I will tell everyone my error from here. If you convince me. But I am stating the verses. I am reading the divine here. The witnessing of these people over people, that is, of people like (?), over these people, though: Allah Almighty, on the Day of Judgment, when people do not believe in Allah Almighty's verses, to the people who, trying to fit verses their minds cannot grasp into their own minds, come to deny Allah's verses without knowing them, will show these people as witnesses.

Yes, if Allah Almighty says there are such people, then such people exist on earth. Neither shopping nor trade keeps them from the remembrance of Allah.

Allah knows everything. Allah is the One who brought the universe into being from nothing, who knows every kind of creation very well, and who, programming with a program what His creations will do, also knows what those to come until the Day of Judgment will say.