Al-Baqarah 24: You cannot do this, of course! You will not be able to do this. So, stay away from a fire whose fuel is people and stones. It is prepared for infidels.

We come to verse 24. 24. to the verse. 24. to the verse. This you cannot do, He says; you will never be able to do it. What? To bring a word equal to the verse of Allah Almighty. You will never be able to do this. Because the worlds are programmed, languages are programmed, what people will say and do until the Day of Judgment is programmed. No being can step outside this program. I say, I say to people, again I address them from here, O people, come to your senses. If you build a robot, a robot, and program the robot with the task it will do, can that robot step outside that program? You cannot say it can.

Because that program isn't in it, it cannot. So, O human, use your mind. You too, of Allah Almighty... when Allah Almighty created you, in the address Elestü bi Rabbiküm, when He made a covenant with you, your desire and wish, your intent you cannot step outside the program of Allah Almighty, who wrote it for you as destiny. This is not possible. Never say, I will step out. You would fall into kufr a second time.

Be wise.

So what does Allah Almighty say in His verse? you will never be able to do it. Why? Because our (?) affairs, our intent, became destiny for ourselves. And that has settled in us as our character. We came to this world to prove what kind of person we are.

If you say, to defy Allah, I can speak too, if you say, I will step outside my destiny, then go ahead. In fact you would still live out your destiny, but you would increase your kufr. Yes.

So beware of that fire whose fuel is people and stones. It has been prepared for the disbelievers, He says. It has been prepared for the disbelievers. Who are the disbelievers?

Who are the disbelievers? They are the people outside the religion of Islam.

I say it once more. Disbelievers: people outside the religion of Islam. These people, those who leave their own selves exposed to the fire and punishment, who rebel against Allah, who turn their backs on Allah, who do not recognize His commands, who in their own selves, with pride and greatness, with arrogance, with glory and fame, in worldly life carry on their existence, and in the hereafter leave themselves exposed to the fire. Well, does a Muslim not remain in the fire? Of course, Allah Almighty is just. If a Muslim went to the hereafter as a Muslim, whatever his punishment is, he serves it and still goes to Paradise.

He still goes to Paradise. That Muslim serves his punishment and goes to Paradise. Like what? In prison, within his lifetime, a sentence is imposed on him: three years, five years, ten years he serves; that person leaves prison and regains his freedom. And in prison there are also those sentenced to death. Those sentenced to death. That is, he can no longer leave prison; there are life sentences. Either they execute the condemned man there, or the one with a life sentence, until the end of his life, stays there. Now if this world is the likeness and shadow of the hereafter, that Muslim's sin is just like 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, whatever it is, a punishment he will come out of, come out of within his lifetime, that he receives. Since the hereafter is endless, since it is endless, there, even if he suffers his punishment in Hell, he will still come out of there. He will go to Paradise.

The other is life imprisonment. People on whom the gates of eternal Hell close, in a place where there isn't even death. These, because they defied Allah, the various punishments of that place will befall them. Yes, its fuel, He says, is people and stones. That fire, beware of that fire, says Allah Almighty. Is it worth stepping outside Allah's command for a passing pleasure in worldly life? Is it worth, in this worldly life, stepping outside Allah's command, His sharia ruling, pushing the limits of Allah's sharia ruling, wronging the human nafs? Is it worth it in this passing life? Even if they turned you between two millstones, sent you through, ground you like flour, in the end this world will end.

In the end you will meet Allah. So, in your true homeland, the torment of this world and its pains and troubles, the hereafter's abode of bliss beyond imagining. Therefore a person should not defy Allah, should observe His commands. In this case a person's nafs, since his mind is lacking, may follow his nafs. But if a person sees the mistake he made and voices his regret, if he repents, Allah both forgives him and gives him reward in return for the sin he committed. In this case, but on condition that he does not do it again. Look, Allah even gives reward in return for sins. Let me commit the sin, repent, and get a reward for that too.

Don't forget, deeds depend on intentions. Deeds depend on intentions; don't deceive yourself. For mistakes you made without knowing and when you understand it was a mistake and repent and turn to Allah with regret, only then does what (?) said come about, come to light. Yes, the verse we are reading: it has been prepared, He says, for the disbelievers. Allah the Creator created all these worlds within a program; what He created He programmed in the list of His intent, in His creatures. To every created (?), down to the atoms, the tasks they would carry out were made known to them. That is, programmed. In this case the Creator has taken His creation under His rule; since He knows what all created things will do, 'you cannot do this' is Him informing the human He addressed Himself to.

What can't you do? You cannot bring an equal to a verse. And moreover, by saying forcefully, you will never be able to do it, by saying forcefully you will never be able to, He openly declares to the worlds the rule of His existence.

Why will you never be able to do it? This saying, you will never be able to do it, of Allah Almighty: the verse 'He has power over all things' proves the verse 'He knows all things'. Verses don't contradict each other anyway. They confirm each other. His saying you can never do it: 'He knows all things', that is, creating with knowledge and taking everything under His rule, having power over them, their being within His rule, to these, to His creatures proving His essence definitively in this way. Yes. Is there anyone in the world who, since our father Adam came to the world, although Allah Almighty constantly made His existence known to people, although He said I created you, although He said there is no god other than Me, although all creatures are given provision by Allah Almighty, although, according to the verse 'Every soul shall taste death', the lives of all living beings come to an end, someone came forth and, contrary to what Allah Almighty said, said: O people, your Lord said this, but the truth is not so, it is like this, and disproved what Allah Almighty said, proving the opposite of His claim? Did such a one appear?

Yes, they did. They did. Who appeared? People like the Pharaohs, like the Nimrods appeared. What happened? Since he too was a created human, his life came to an end.

His godhood, deifying his own self, came to an end too. In the end, Pharaoh saying, I have believed in the Lord of Moses, and falling down in prostration in the Red Sea, and Allah Almighty saying, today I will leave your lifeless body to the worlds as a lesson. Surah Yunus, probably verse 90. Let's see what Allah Almighty says there.

Surah Yunus.

We brought the Children of Israel across the sea. But Pharaoh and his soldiers, out of oppression, about to attack, pursued them. Finally, when drowning in the sea overtook him, Pharaoh said: truly, I believe there is no god but the one the Children of Israel believe in. And I am of the Muslims, he said. Now you believe? Yet before you had rebelled and been among the corrupters, He says. Then: so that you may be a lesson for those after you, today your body We will save lifeless, He says. Look, I say lifeless, and they found it. This lifeless body, in England, in the (?), and so many people are truly heedless of Our signs, He says.

They are heedless of Allah's signs. So there were people too who, saying I am god, to associate partners with Allah, came forth, but what happened? All of them came to an end. But Allah Almighty, since our father Adam, addresses people with His verses, raising His scholars and sending them among people, proves His existence and will prove it until the Day of Judgment. What does He say? The angels and the scholars bear witness to My existence, He says. The angels and the scholars. So if after the prophets, after the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), no other prophet will come, Allah Almighty will raise scholars and will have these scholars prove to people that there is no god other than Allah.

And they, honored with the beauty of Allah Almighty, the meaning of this verse Allah Almighty will make known to people. What is it? Scholars and angels bear witness to Allah's existence. Whether you believe it or not. I too am among those who bear witness. Yes.

Believing or not believing brings you no harm. We continue.

O human, think: since our father Adam, how many people have come to earth is unknown; their number is unknown, Allah knows best. If none of them found a flaw in what Allah Almighty said, if our sound mind is, for us, of Allah's existence a proof, will you not fear Allah? Do people not fear the One who created you? If our sound mind is a proof. Tomorrow, with the actual deeds we did in this world we see, when we go before our Lord, will a reward fit to come before Him and our sins save us in His presence? Will it bring us to His mercy?

Does a person never think about this? What does Allah Almighty say to man in this world? I will record the atom's weight of good you did. I will also record the atom's weight of evil you did. In this case, (?), every moment, every second, of these eyes of ours that see, the images they left behind over time, Allah Almighty will bring before us. And He will say: this is what you were. This is what you were. Well, what will we do then?

If we did good work in the world, we got away clean. If in the world we (?) this way and that, woe is us.

Whom we cannot face, who created us, look what He says now, (?) because, Allah the Creator. So beware of that fire whose fuel is people and stones. Today, can stone become fire? Don't you see? The magma, those volcanoes, those lavas, it turns even those fires into fire, turns even those stones into fire. Those minerals coming out of there, that gushing, can a person like that?

The fire in the world, they say, is a fire washed seven times with Zamzam water and dimmed somewhat from the fire of the hereafter, a fire. A fire washed and dimmed seven more times with Zamzam water.

In this case (?) the same fire, will you be (?) to that same fire?

Light a candle, a candle. You know candlelight. The dimmest of fires. Stretch your hand toward it. Candlelight.

If your hand can bear that fire, you can bear the fire of the hereafter. Try it. If it can't, if you can't bear that fire, obey Allah's commands. Beware of that fire whose fuel is stones and people. Yes.

If Allah is rebelled against, if He is defied, in the end regret is of no use; your return is to Me, your place is the fire, and tasting every kind of His torment in the fire, without dying, yet in the end what does not perish is your spirit, He says. In the end it will not perish; it will see every kind of torment. Never think, by your own reasoning, I will burn, be freed and cease to exist; let nothing like that cross your mind. In Hell too, into Paradise too, into Hell too, we will enter with our spirits. Our bodies, after bearing witness for us, will die a second time in the hereafter. According to the verse 'We give you life twice, twice', our bodies, after bearing witness, will die. They will become earth.

Since spirit, nafs and soul are one, into Paradise and Hell we will enter with our spirits. Ah, if you should think our spirits will perish too and we will finally vanish, never forget this. Keep it in mind; let it be an earring in your ear. The all-encompassing spirit is Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty created no being that would annihilate His essence. If Allah Almighty had created a being that would annihilate His essence, perhaps the spirit too would die. Since He did not create one... how do we know? We know it from His saying Paradise and Hell are real.

So a task falls to us. Beware of that torment of Hell whose fuel is fire and people. In the world, govern yourself by Allah's commands. Remove the evils in your nafs.

Approach people with goodness, treat them with goodness. Be forgiving of people in your heart.

Look after people's interests beyond your own interest. Get along well with them. Do every deed for Allah. Do not depart from justice. Then you will save yourself. Yes.