An-Nur 54: Say; “Obey Allah and obey the Messenger! If you turn away, (then know that) the Prophet’s burden (to proclaim) is what he has been burdened with and your burden (to fulfill your duty) is what you have been burdened with. If you obey him, you will find the straight path. Prophet’s duty is only to clearly proclaim.

Verse 54: we have come to that verse.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Kul etîullâhe ve etîu'r-resûl. Say: obey Allah, and obey the Prophet too. Obey both Allah and the Prophet. Now let me bring this down a little to the worldly realm. That is, let's set up a factory in this world, a big factory. Let's have people work in it. Does this factory have a manager? Yes. And does it have an owner? Yes. Now the owner of this factory has given orders to the manager. The place where he has these things done in such and such a way. And if the manager says to the people working there: the factory's order is this, this is our principle, our law, will there be those who comply with it and those who don't?

There will. What happens to those who don't comply? They are punished. And those who comply are rewarded. So Allah is the owner of the universe, and the Prophet is the envoy sent to us. And the Book is His laws. The laws of our Lord. If we comply, we attain salvation. If we don't, we become subject to torment. We will have wronged our own selves. Yes.

Say: obey Allah. And obey the Prophet too. If you turn away, know this: the Prophet's responsibility is to carry out the duty of conveying that was laid upon him. Yes. And your responsibility is to fulfil the duties laid upon you. If you obey him, you will have found the right path. The Prophet's only duty is to proclaim clearly. How beautifully Allah Almighty puts it. So He has left everyone to their own will; through the deeds people have done within their own will, on the Day of Judgment, in the presence of Allah Almighty, today no one will be wronged, everyone, for what they have earned with their own two hands, (?) will be called to account.

What can I say. No one will be questioned for anyone else. Say: obey Allah, and obey the Prophet too; if you turn away, know that the Prophet's responsibility is to carry out the duty of conveying laid upon him, and your responsibility is to fulfil the duties laid upon you; if you obey him, you will have found the right path; the Prophet's only duty is to proclaim clearly. Now we, as Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah, of the 72 sects the saved sect, Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah, in this case we both carry out the commands of Allah Almighty and carry out the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) too. Don't read into these words of mine something that isn't there. That is, as if the Prophet laid down things on his own.

Far from it. While we say we try to fulfil Allah's verses, however much we try to fulfil them, we cannot fulfil them completely. Right? Do we fall short? We do. By carrying out the noble Sunnah we make up for the shortcomings. How beautiful, because the Sunnahs, corresponding to the verses, the Prophet showed us how we should worship, how we should behave, the actions he showed, the noble Sunnahs, how we should listen, aren't these the Sunnahs the Prophet showed us, with his hadiths, in correspondence with the Quran, with the verses of the Quran, his words? In this case: say, obey Allah, and obey the Prophet too.

Because Allah sends prophets and books to guide you to the right path. Whoever has faith in and believes in the prophets and books, that person has found the right path.

People have been sent into the world, the material realm, which is an unseen realm. People, created with deficient intellect, come into this unseen realm unaware of Allah and His Messenger. Right? What do I know? There is Allah, there is His Messenger. I am sent, I come into the world.

While I am there, do I know this? I don't. Why don't I know?

I say it because I have lived it. To those who came to the world and left we used to say: you have had your turn, what will we do? What prophet do we know here? How can there be a prophet there? Or how, where will we live? What will we do? We sense a strange world. A strange world. But after coming into the world we truly see, oh, Allah Almighty has created mother and father. Allah Almighty has created a world. Allah Almighty has sent elders, leaders, to protect people. What a beautiful world, what a beautiful system He has set up here. Yes. What do we say? People have been sent into the world, the material realm, which is an unseen realm.

People, created with deficient intellect, come into this unseen realm unaware of Allah and His Messenger. And since Allah Almighty is free of deficient attributes, people's covenant in the hereafter realm with Allah, when Allah Almighty sends people to the material realm, He programs them and closes their covenant there off from them. That is, He closes off from them their covenant in the hereafter realm. Yes. Their covenant with Allah Almighty in the hereafter realm is closed off from them. In this case, in the material realm, man is unaware of Allah and His Messenger. So Allah sends prophets and books to make His Being known to people.

Therefore those who gave Allah a good covenant, who believe and have faith in Allah, while living out their lives in the world, respond to the call of Allah and His Messenger and at once follow their call. Don't we follow? We do. Well, even though the Quran has come to the worlds, even though the Prophet (peace be upon him) sent envoys to all the kings, and even though still today the world knows the rulings of the religion of Islam, does anyone come? No. They have stopped their ears. They have turned their backs. And on top of that they are out for revenge. Revenge.

Those who deny Allah turn their backs on the call of Allah and the Messenger and go back the way they came. So Allah Almighty, to hold all people in the material realm as witnesses against themselves, has them invited to His Being through His prophets. In making this call, neither force nor pressure is used on any person. Because no person, any person's covenant, and when he had this covenant written for himself as destiny, no one can change his destiny. So Allah Almighty's duty is to make His Being known to people, the Prophet's duty is to convey Allah Almighty's command to people. And people's duty is to fulfil the obligation of the commands conveyed.

How beautiful. It comes down to three categories. O people! If you follow the call of Allah and His Messenger, you will have found the right path. Because Allah is absolute power in His dominion. Apart from what Allah says, no force, by going against Allah, can gain any superiority over Him. It cannot render Allah powerless. So whoever carries out the commands of Allah and the Messenger attains salvation and attains Allah's mercy. The Prophet's duty is to openly, clearly and plainly proclaim Allah's commands. Allah Almighty, to all people with the Holy Quran, and to earlier people through the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel, in a way those people would understand, has sent His verses.

With the Prophet (peace be upon him), the last, the Seal of the Prophets, Allah, who ended prophethood and addresses all (?) to come with the Quran, according to His own manner of speech and the intellectual capacity of the people He created, addresses all people in a language they will understand. No person will be able to say: I could not understand Your verses, that is why I could not worship You. Because in the Holy Quran Allah Almighty says: with a mosquito and what is bigger, We never refrain from giving a likeness, that is, an example, He says. What does this mean? In a way that the most ignorant person on earth will understand, and in a way that the most learned person will also understand, We have sent Our verses, He says.

So when a person hears the call of Allah and His Messenger, if he obeys Allah and His Messenger, he will have found the right path. Yes.