Al-Baqarah 22: Allah is the One Who made the earth a foundation and the sky a ceiling, from which Allah brought down water and has given you provisions from different crops. So, do not, knowingly, associate partners with Allah anymore.

They said, we remember it like that, they said, let's start from 22. Let's start from the 22nd verse. He is such an Allah that, Ellezî ce'ale lekümü'l-arda firâşen ve's-semâe binâen ve enzele mine es-semâi mâen fe-ahrace bihî mine's-semerâti rizkan leküm, fe-lâ tec'alû lillâhi endâden ve entüm ta'lemûn. In this verse: He is such an Allah that He made the earth a bed for you and the sky a building. How beautifully He says it. What meanings are here. He made the earth a bed and the sky a building. O people! We created you in the realm of lahut. Because there you saw Me as being like yourselves, yes, you did not believe in Me. And I, to prove Myself to you as Lord, as Lord, as Creator, to prove Myself to you, these worlds I created. To prove to you that there is no being other than Me, to prove it on earth: I am the sole absolute owner of dominion, He says.

Ellezî halaka: He created. That Allah, He says. Ellezî ce'ale leküm: all beings, that Allah created. He is such an Allah that He made the earth (?) for you, and the sky a building. Is there another like Him, to create even one atom? One atom, yes. And He sent down water from the sky for you, and with it, from various crops, a provision He brought forth. We clothed you in the garment of a body, He says. In the garment of a body. Within that bodily garment, on earth, your trading, your buying and selling, your eating and drinking, your eating and dressing, within the trading you will do, to prove what kind of person you are, We, from the earth's various plants, from the various things I created, the substances I created for your benefit, have spread before you.

As you take these and meet your needs, what kind of people you are you will prove. Within the bodily (?). I will sustain you with eating and drinking, and within this eating and drinking, within your needs, you will prove yourselves in this world, He says. From various crops (?) He brought forth. So now, while you know that Allah has no partner or equal, do not set up partners to Allah. Why does He say it? What does He say? While you know that Allah has no partner or equal: they know. Allah has no partner or equal. Because they know it too. There is one Allah. How does he know? It is from the time they were created in Allah's realm.

Yes, he says, someone created me. Someone created me. Who created me? Allah created me. They could not recognise the Allah before them as Lord. They waited for the Allah of their own imagination. So you too know that there is one Allah. So why, He says, do you set up partners to Me? That is, you make idols. You worship idols. You too know there is one Allah. They, the idolaters, have this deception of their own selves: Allah's spirit: making a likeness of the Lord in his imagination, putting that Allah's spirit into it, and worshipping it according to his own mind. Does Allah fit into your mind that much?

Does Allah fit inside that idol?

Yes.

What do we say? Let's read. Now let's open this up sentence by sentence. When Allah Almighty willed to send mankind to a world where His Essence is not seen, which is where? The great world. Why did He will to send them? Here you saw My Essence. You could not believe in Me. Because I gave you great value. I gave you of My spirit. I created you resembling My Essence. In this situation you were divided into groups. Which groups? You were divided into 3 groups. Those of the right, those of the left, and the class of the muqarrabin. In this case Allah Almighty is free from deficient attributes. His Essence being free from deficient attributes comes from Allah's attribute of Godhood. What is Allah's attribute of Godhood?

No created being will be able to question or call Allah Almighty to account. Not because He frightens them. Nor because He would wrong them. Allah Almighty will have made all the questions asked become manifest. People will be cut off from (?). Man could have said: You created me in this realm. You created me close to Your Essence. I could not know that You were my Lord. If You had sent me to an unseen world, if I had known Your Essence there, I would have recognised You as Lord. There is the Huzur-u Meydan. What did He do? What do we say? When Allah Almighty willed to send mankind to a world where His Essence is not seen.

This is why He willed it. Because of Allah's attribute of Godhood. So that no one would question or call Him to account. What He calls esfel-i sâfilîn, that is, the lowest of the low, the lowest layer of the seven heavens, the first level: He made the earthly world suitable for human life and, with every object He created, for people possessing reason He furnished it with proofs pointing to His existence. He furnishes it with proofs among the proofs of His existence. Why? Among the proofs of His existence: the earth turning around its own axis, His placing the lunar system of the moon and sun in the sky, so many planets turning around their own axes and swimming (?), neither approaching nor moving away from each other: this was created with knowledge.

Sir, the one Allah who created this sends you, besides this, prophets, scholars, sends books. Yes. He created the earthly world so that it could provide mankind's living, and the earthly world, a dwelling where man can live until the end of his life, He made it.

Where he can live. That is, whatever man needs within his bodily (?), Allah Almighty placed it in the world in abundance. For this bodily garment He created to sustain its life, whatever foods were needed, those too He brought and placed on earth. So the earth was offered to man as a place to live, a place to lie, a place to sleep, a guesthouse, a hotel. Temporary, it was offered temporarily.

Yes.

So the earthly world, He said, is a flat bed for people for a limited time. Limited. What is this limited time? Within the covenants people gave to Allah Almighty, how many breaths of this covenant he can live within, that is, play, prove himself, so that what kind of person his destiny is he can prove to himself with that destiny, he comes to the world, and on that world he will continue this life by those breaths, and when he has completed himself, he will pass on. Here, in a guesthouse.

He made the sky a building. He surrounded the earth with an air layer about 83 km high, with this air layer He protected the earth from meteorites that would harm it, so that the earth is not harmed by the sun's ultraviolet rays, the ozone layer He placed, and the dome of the sky, that is, the heavens, as a protective building over the earth He made. A protective building. Moreover, with knowledge Allah Almighty proves this very beautifully over time. People demanded miracles from the prophets. The prophet shows the miracle. Some called it magic, some believed. Some called it magic. But no one can call knowledge magic.

Beyond the miracles shown by the Prophet, Allah Almighty puts His miracles into people's hands with the verses. His miracles. For example, the two seas (?) and meeting each other. The place in the Strait of Gibraltar where fresh water and salt water are separate, which Captain Cousteau found, where he shouted 'I found it'.

As time passes, the progress of knowledge: this air layer surrounding the earth, 83 km high, in line with an atmospheric pressure at sea level, with the human body's one atmosphere of pressure from inside outward, keeping the human in one atmosphere by the inner and outer forces cancelling out, (?). As people climb mountains, go higher, the inner atmospheric pressure, that is, the heart's pressure, when going up to the high layer outside and the pressure dropping, ear bleeding and the like begins in people.

This too is knowledge. Who does this? These are not a coincidence. Look, He made the dome of the sky a building. And He made that building sturdy. He also created those who will live in that building. By His leave He set up this order. By His leave.

Yes.

We continue.

Beyond the air layer surrounding the earth, He adorned the heavens with countless galaxies; these galaxies, which He created by leave in order and harmony, moving around each other: neither approaching nor moving away from each other is possible, He says. We said it here too. If this star had not been created by a creating power, had not been equipped with knowledge, this order would have broken down long ago. These galaxies would collide. These worlds would vanish. Everything would be ruined. Yes. So that there is a Creator This, so that there is a Creator is evident in this case.

Allah Almighty, who made the heavens a building above us: that He is the absolute Creator of this universe, that all created things are in need of protection, and therefore that His Essence be known, and that beings find life only through His protection, He tells us. We can find life only through the existence of Allah Almighty. Those who, by their own minds, associate partners with Allah, those who worship the idols that, by their own minds, they made with their hands and that are of no use even to themselves, that know nothing of themselves; those who, again by their own minds, worship people, who see them as great in their eyes and take refuge in them,

do they never think? They too are created like themselves; they are servants of Allah. If there were no Allah, and no death either, people would grow older and older, would suffer and suffer; you would wish for death a thousand, millions of times and still could not die. Allah has set up a beautiful order. Within this order, Allah's existence: our Lord has spread the existence of His own Essence before people's eyes. What comes after this is the result of the covenant man gave to Allah Almighty in the first barzakh. Our Lord, so that you would not say 'I gave a bad covenant there anyway, I will live like this here too', closed those worlds to us.

In our not knowing what kind of covenant we gave Allah Almighty in the realm of the hereafter, we all come to the world equally. That is, those places are closed; we, in this world, live with our existence, and our own destinies, for ourselves, with the characters we had written, by carrying our desires and wishes, our aims, into actual deeds, we live. Yes. In this case He sent down water from the sky and with it brought forth a provision from various crops.

In this verse our Lord, before sending mankind to the earth, a world where His Essence is not seen, as we said in the verse above too, makes the world of dominion suitable for mankind's life and then sends mankind to the world of dominion. What did we say?

Why does He make the world suitable for the life of the human realm? We were in the form of spirit in the realm of lahut. Spirit: our true garment is spirit.

In the world we were clothed in matter. This matter, that is, these forms seen as flesh and bone, (?) a nourishment will be needed. This nourishment, so that it can sustain its life through nourishment, Allah Almighty, since He knows what this body needs on earth, to meet all the body's needs places various foods on earth. Various foods. And He values mankind so beautifully that for example, He could have fed man with a single food, a single food. Say with aubergine, say with onion, say with potato, He could have fed him. But before man, various provisions, various fruits, in the seas, in the air and on land, all beings He created as provision for man.

So many game animals, so many birds in the air, so many (?) sea fish, all kinds of flavours He offered to man. And on man's tongue 56 or 57 taste organs exist. With these taste organs people, in pleasure and delight in this world, the delicious things Allah created they eat and drink. But they never thank the One who let them taste that flavour. May Allah protect us from (?), from blindness. Yes.

Before our father Adam came to the world, with various winds He equipped the earth, and for their continuation He created their seeds, and Allah, who created everything from water, the water that brings all living things to life, so that it could reach all living things, He had it carried by clouds, and for the living He started life. What is He doing with the waters?

Where? Wherever He will give life, there the clouds carrying water vapour He sends. With what? He also creates low pressure and high pressure on earth. In low pressure, the air rising; where it is warm the air rises, sir; when one speaks of high pressure, that cold air flowing toward that warm air carries the clouds to that side. Then these dense clouds, meeting the cold air layer there, by being compressed fall to the earth as droplets.

He has encompassed knowledge and the universe and gives life to His creatures. For their continuation, and that of the living things He created, in each one seeds He placed. Seeds carrying their own properties, the properties of that food, He placed.

Now, in this case, if you produce genetically modified plants, if people eat those genetically modified plants: whereas Allah Almighty gives the human the property of that seed which benefits the body, if this human, the properties that nourish that body, by changing the genes, feeds them to people, then all kinds of diseases appear, all kinds of filth appear, man pulls himself onto the gallows with his own hand. Yes, we continue. Also, condensing water vapour in cold layers and making it fall as rain: we explained these too. Yes, here Allah Almighty, by creating this universe with knowledge, proves the existence of His Essence.

Those hostile to Allah, those who, when saying Allah, are ashamed of themselves, and those who deify their own selves, these people, who eat and drink the provision Allah has given and turn their backs on Him, if they would think: are these people of sound mind? Thus Allah Almighty proves His Essence to every person of sound mind. These worlds, this order, other than Allah, that is, other than the Creator, who could set up? Those people also know that there is one Allah, that Allah sets up this order. But because they turned their backs on Allah, they are so ashamed to say Allah that they attribute it to nature, (?).

Nature does this. O mindless man!

Is there a mind in nature? Is there a soul in this nature you speak of? Is there life in this nature you speak of? So that they would consult each other about these worlds, come together and set up this order? Even if you thought this, you would call yourself mad. So this world, for which you call yourself mad: how is it that, lifeless as it is, you pray to this world, attribute everything to nature, say that animals changed by themselves, deny the 17,000 worlds for Allah Almighty to make this world (?), and attributing everything to chance, according to your own mind an order you set up? Do not forget this.

Your life is so short that compared to the realm of the hereafter it is perhaps one, one and a half hours or so.

Every soul shall taste death. Your return will be to Allah. Then, with what proof, what will you do in Allah's presence?

Be wise, think a little. Do not sell the hereafter for this temporary world. Looking after your interest, do not leave your own self exposed to punishment in the hereafter. Be wise.