Al-Baqarah 37: After this, Adam received some words from his Lord (and he repented). And Allah accepted his repentance. Allah is Tawwab (The One Who accepts repentance) and Raheem (The One Who very generously accepts repentance).

Verse 37 of Surah Al-Baqarah. Yes. In this case, Adam received some words from his Lord and at once turned in repentance. Allah is the One who accepts repentance, abundant in mercy, compassionate and forgiving.

Look, he received some words.

His receiving some words on earth: that in the hereafter realm he spoke with Allah Almighty and learned the names of things, and the affirmation that there is no god but Him arose in his own heart through inspiration.

When Adam (peace be upon him) was taken out of Paradise, of the punishment our Lord would give Adam (peace be upon him) – in fear and panic of it, our father Adam turned back to Allah Almighty: that there is no god but Him, that if they did not attain our Lord's pardon and forgiveness, they had wronged their own selves – their repenting to Allah Almighty with repentance and pleas for forgiveness. So our Lord, abundant in mercy, to comfort our father Adam and accept his repentance – some words were also found. As I said just now. He is afraid, and from that fear he knows there is no other god but Allah.

He understands that Satan deceived him. He knows that he is an enemy to him, and (?) Allah Almighty. O Adam! "Do not approach this tree," I said – I did not keep my command. And I ate from the fruit of the tree I forbade. Now he goes over these in his mind to himself. With you and your wife being taken out of Paradise, I saw that my promise was true. He receives all these, you see. He thinks these things over to himself. In fact this is an event written beforehand. I have forgiven you. In the life of the world too, do not fail to carry out My command. Let this be a lesson to you. And tell your descendants who will come from you about Me.

With His saying so, as the first preacher and the first Messenger, as Allah Almighty's first appointed one on earth, he is the first human who served.

Yes. Hodja, here you count him as a Messenger – do prophets commit mistakes? Weren't they pure? Prophets do not commit a conscious mistake. They – unconsciously, in terms of goodness – that prophets too can make mistakes, Allah Almighty shows us through Moses. The Accursed, in human guise, with someone from his own people of Israel gets into a fight, in a weak form. When the person from the people of Israel too – that strong person – attacks this weak person, actually, they tell it like this: The Accursed is a weak person in Israelite guise. When he sees him being tormented by his enemy, to protect that weak person against his enemy – for protection – he slaps him, or punches him, or pushes him.

When he falls, his head hits a stone, and he dies of a brain haemorrhage. In this case he has committed a crime. Under Pharaoh's law too, retaliation becomes obligatory. The next day – Moses – that is, that evening he hides among his own people. He can't return to the palace. He can't go to Pharaoh. When he hears that Pharaoh is looking for him – before he hears, he goes out again in the morning. He looks around to see what's going on. Again this weak person is fighting with someone else. Again he asks for help. And this time he says: Because of you I killed a man. "Accursed," he says to him. And he vanishes there anyway.

Someone sees this: "O Moses, leave here," he says. "Pharaoh is looking for you." Thereupon, by one narration, with Pharaoh's own son, Moses leaves that place. You know, Pharaoh's son helps him, his master, to get out to the desert, out to the wilderness. And he goes to Joshua (peace be upon him).

By his relatives – that is, his relatives from before, Moses's relatives – Joshua (peace be upon him). He marries his daughter. Do I have it wrong? Shuayb (peace be upon him). Shuayb, yes. Not Joshua, Shuayb (peace be upon him). He goes to Shuayb (peace be upon him). And he marries Shuayb's daughter. After that, returning to Egypt again, while travelling by night, in the desert of Tih he speaks with Allah Almighty. Yes. That's outside our lesson now. We continue our lesson.

May the mercy of Allah Almighty be upon the master of the two worlds, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), upon our father Adam and upon those who attain the mercy of Allah Almighty, we said.

That's how briefly we cut verse 37. Our page ends here anyway. In fact verse 37 needs to be explained much more. When our father Adam was expelled from Paradise, when he knew that there is no god but Allah Almighty, and, completely surrendering to Allah Almighty, his repenting to Allah Almighty, turning in repentance, and with our Lord accepting the repentance, again, from the first human until now, his falling under the verse of our Lord, the One who accepts repentance abundantly. Though Adam left Paradise, his repenting – and Adam voices his regret anyway.

And from his own creation – that "he received some words" He speaks of – from his own creation, from the Accursed and the angels being made to prostrate to him, from the Accursed becoming accursed, then from entering Paradise, then from the blessings in Paradise attained, then from going against Allah's command, not heeding His prohibition, obeying someone else's word, and being taken out of there – he sees his own helplessness. Reflecting on all of this, our father Adam, in his helplessness, asks our Lord for pardon and forgiveness.

Yet this – from the series of adventures that Allah Almighty, upon our father Adam, created – was Allah Almighty's divine manifestation. In this case Allah Almighty, through deeds – with the sins and good deeds people have committed within their own will belonging to themselves – Allah Almighty, freeing Himself from every deficiency and responsibility, holds people, in actual fact, as witnesses against themselves. Witness. Yes.