Ibrahim 9: Did the news not come to you about the ones before you, about the people of Noah, A’ad and Thamud and the ones after? It is no one but Allah who knows them. Their Prophets have brought to them miracles, but they pressed their hands against their Prophets’ mouths and said; “We have denied what was sent to you, and we are very suspicious about what you are calling us to!”

To verse 9 of Surah Ibrahim we have come. Of those before you — of the peoples of Noah, Ad and Thamud, and of those after them — has the news not reached you? What news is this? Because the people of Noah (peace be upon him) rebelled against Noah, Allah Almighty, with a flood disaster, destroyed them. The people of Ad, the people of Lot, the people of Thamud, Pharaoh — hasn't their news reached us?

Didn't Allah inform us through His verses? Allah Almighty, who will hold no one accountable for what He did not make known, as far as the poles of the world, as far as the Eskimos, made the religion of Islam heard. And there are those who know the religion of Islam. There are Companions buried there.

Has the news of those before you, the peoples of Noah, Ad, Thamud, and of those after them not reached you? No one but Allah knows them. Their prophets brought them miracles, and they pressed their hands to their prophets' mouths and said, we deny what was sent to you, and what you call us to — toward you, we are in deep doubt, it says. Let a person, in the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm, just once give his covenant to Allah Almighty as a rebel and see. If he gives it, what happens, Hodja?

They, because they saw Allah there like themselves and denied Him, toward Allah there is a veil on their eyes and a heaviness in their ears. And they have had their hearts sealed against their Lord. For them there is a painful punishment. So that sealed heart will never open again. So people, in a (?) world, don't even know whether their heart is sealed or not. So life is a treasure for us. Allah has given us a fine mind. Every mind knows for what purpose it was created and that these worlds have an owner. If it didn't know, if it didn't know, Allah would be given an attribute. He would say: You didn't give me a good mind so that I could know You.

So although man reflects and knows that he has a Lord who created these worlds, with the feelings of his self, with that grudge from the very address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm and that hatred — of which Allah Almighty, in His verse, says their hearts are restless and scattered. So people who wait for the Lord of their own imagination and are rebellious against Allah — since in this world too they have those characteristics, since their wishes and desires, their aims, have become their destiny — will of course be in deep doubt. Yes.

Moses, addressing his people: O my people, the news of the peoples of Noah, Ad, Thamud, has it not reached you? How they perished because of their denial of Allah Almighty. Allah makes His existence known to people through His prophets. But Hodja, now there are no prophets. For 1400 years no prophet has come, for 1436 years no prophet has come. But to them He sent a prophet every 100 years, every 200 years. Well, isn't this injustice now? When one says that: this is justice at its finest, at its finest. When a prophet came, you could perhaps call his miracle magic. Today, the events connected with the Quran's verses, when before your eyes they appear as the counterpart of the Quran's verses, are a stronger event than the miracle your prophet showed.

Like what? At the Strait of Gibraltar, fresh water and salt water not mixing — a miraculous event. It's written in the Quran. The form of the people of the Sabbath being turned into apes; Darwin saying man came from apes and finding the skeletons of those people of the Sabbath. Aren't these miracles? Allah Almighty raising scholars and sending scholars as heirs of the prophet — isn't that enough for you? Isn't it enough for people? Yes. So not those who take a label from Ahmet or Mehmet and say, I am an heir of the prophet, and explain the verses backwards and backwards, but scholars raised by their Lord Himself, people answering to the verse that says your scholars' passing to the hereafter is like the sun leaving and darkness coming; people of whom He says, my community's saints are like the prophets of the Children of Israel — those people; not the person who says I'm a scholar with a label.

Those who, with two words of Arabic, slandering Allah, explain the verses — not them.

Yes.

Moses, addressing his people: O my people, the news of the peoples of Noah, Ad and Thamud, has it not reached you? How they perished because of their denial of Allah Almighty! Allah makes His existence known to people through His prophets. Now He makes it known through His scholars. With what? Raising those people as the counterpart of His verses —

according to the verse that says, to whom We give knowledge We give wisdom — a person grasps the counterpart of the verses very well and, with those wisdoms, tells people exactly as an heir of the prophet. Yes. And when it says most people don't know inspiration — in the verse Allah Almighty says, who is sweeter of speech than one who tells of Allah — through these people He has His Self told, by inspiration. He has His verses told.

The verses. Yes.

The prophets who came to them were also people from among themselves. But the peoples of those prophets denied their prophets. They didn't believe in Allah and the hereafter. They became a people who overstepped the bounds in their insolence. Because these peoples overstepped the bounds in their insolence, how Allah Almighty destroyed them — has that news not reached you? It has. Allah Almighty tells it with verses. Yes.

After these peoples, too, many prophets came, and although these prophets told their peoples about Allah, many peoples who in insolence overstepped the bounds and paid no heed to their prophets' warnings were also destroyed.

Their numbers are known to Allah. Yes. You know how it says, We know them; has the news of those after them reached you, no one knows them but Allah, it says. And this here is its counterpart. Many peoples perished; their numbers are known to Allah. Has the news of those after them not reached you? No one but Allah knows them. When this verse came, Ibn Mas'ud used to say the genealogists are liars. Because they — the genealogists — say so many prophets came, so many peoples perished, whatever, this and that happened. According to this verse, too, Ibn Mas'ud used to say the genealogists are liars.

Because in this verse, the genealogists who claim to know their lineages Allah Almighty belies. Yes, and we too, what Ibn Mas'ud said, affirm it. So: the genealogists are liars; they write lineages, supposedly as history. Yet Allah Almighty belies them. Their number, He says, only I know, He says. Are we to believe Allah, or these people's pens shall we believe? So — people's pens; people who say I've done science, read books, yet are unaware of Allah's verses, have been bound by superstitions; now remove these superstitions from their brains — how will you remove them? A new youth is needed; to understand the verses anew, a person whose mind works, who will compare the truth with those superstitions, is needed, so that he finds the truth.

Yes. The Prophet (peace be upon him) also spread Islam with young people. With young people. Because that superstitious mindset, those idolaters, did not give up what they were used to. But their children lived Islam. Now, more or less, these people bound by superstitions — to these people bound by falsehood we are trying to explain the truth. In the light of the verses, against those who try to lay falsehood over the truth, Allah's verses we try to show in the light. Who will believe this, of these people? People who have fallen victim to the feelings of the self, enslaved, who have Satan as guide over them, who live intertwined with superstitions, with those bound by them — they cannot comprehend these things. Because they are prejudiced.

Prejudiced. They act on the feelings of the self. As for truth and falsehood (?), they are, of the ability to compare, deprived people.

So who will comprehend these things? The young, our young people, our children.

Yes. When this verse came, Ibn Mas'ud used to say the genealogists are liars. Because in this verse, the genealogists who claim to know their lineages Allah Almighty belies. With His saying, no one but Allah can know them, the genealogists end up as liars. Ibn Abbas, too, between Adnan and Ishmael, thirty unknown fathers exist, he used to say. Yet their number, Allah knows best. For this reason Ibn Mas'ud said the genealogists are liars. Yes.

The prophets of these peoples brought them miracles. They pressed their hands to the prophets' mouths and said: the meaning of 'they pressed their hands to the prophet's mouth' here is not 'he pressed his hand on his mouth' in that sense. It's an expression used figuratively. That is, they left the prophet's words in his mouth. They gave him no chance to speak. However much he spoke, though he spoke, since there were plugs in their ears, it couldn't reach them. It couldn't reach them, because their characters were like that. Although he made his life a (?), although the prophets told the truth, they, in their own falsehood, persisted and paid no heed to the prophet's words — that is the meaning.

Yes, their prophets brought them miracles, and they pressed their hands to their prophets' mouths and said, we deny what was sent to you. We are in deep doubt about what you call us to. So, look, the prophets did speak. That is, they didn't have hands pressed on their mouths. Here it is used figuratively. Figuratively. That is, the prophet's words — because there is heaviness in their ears,

as the verse says; being people who answer to that verse, the prophet's word had no effect on them. In another verse, too, this is said to the Prophet (peace be upon him) by Allah Almighty — not only to him, but to those who will come until the Day of Judgment: You cannot make the deaf hear who turn their backs and go. Least of all, it says, can you make the dead hear. Who are these dead? The people who denied Allah Almighty back then and answer to this verse — those people. Hatema'llâhu alâ kulûbihim ve alâ sem'ihim ve alâ ebsârihim gışâvetün ve lehüm azâbün azîm — the dead people answering to the verse that says this.

People whose hearts have not found a bond with their self (?). Not the dead lying in graves.

Who are the deaf? The deaf — you cannot make the deaf hear — those who have had their ears plugged. Who are those who don't see? Again, those who have had a veil drawn over their eyes, who don't see the truth, the truth; otherwise they aren't blind. They see better than you or me.

But they can't see the truth, the truth. Yes.

If we pay attention to this verse, the interpretations of the verses we explained earlier are confirmed by this verse. Namely: since Allah Almighty created our spirits from His own Spirit, man was created in the likeness of Allah. Our spirit, created by Allah Almighty — our spirits — are in three groups. When Allah Almighty, addressing our spirits, said, I am your Lord — since the people who suddenly came into being and found life had no before, they realized that they had been created. But toward the one who resembles them and says, I created you, I am your Lord, your Lord is Me — toward Allah Almighty — they are in doubt.

Toward Allah, who did not separate man from His Self and created him in His Self's likeness, people earlier, in the realm of Lahut, at kâlû belâ, at the address, I am your Lord, were in doubt. Yes.

They wait for the Allah they have framed by their own minds. This is the event Allah Almighty wants to tell in this verse. This event. We deny what was sent to you. Toward what you call us to, or call us to yourselves for, we are in deep doubt, they say. Whatever people were before, however they gave their covenant — while they live this worldly life, people's own feelings and desires are the same as their covenant. For this reason his earlier wishes and desires have been written for him as destiny. If man came to worldly life not once but several more times, unless those feelings, desires and wishes changed in him, that is, unless Allah changed his destiny, these people would commit the same (?) deeds.

Yes, it is for this reason that, since Allah wrote people's wishes and desires, their destinies, as destiny for them,

until the Day of Judgment — as He knows what the people coming will do — while man cannot know what will befall him a moment later, cannot know his own life a second ahead, Allah Almighty, declaring that He is closer to man than his jugular vein, knows what he will do throughout his life.

So these people, voicing the doubts they had there exactly in worldly life too, — we are in deep doubt about what you call us to — said. Just as they didn't believe their prophets, they didn't believe in Allah either. Indeed, Allah Almighty says they betrayed (?) and Allah: at kâlû belâ, because Allah created people close to His Self, people could not believe in Allah and denied Him, saying, You are not our Lord.

Here it is useful to recall this point. Although we explained the interpretations of the verses we covered, our dear readers may have inadvertently forgotten what they read, or someone may have begun reading at this point of the verse. So that they don't fall into error, it is useful to open this verse up a bit more, we said. Reading from here, to inform him a little more, here we write this. A question like this may come to a person's mind. At kâlû belâ all spirits said yes. You are saying that in response to Allah Almighty saying, I am your Lord, some people denied Allah. (?). Yet here a contradiction arises, he says.

A person might say that. Yet they (?) said yes, he says. Yes. And you say they denied. You say some of them denied. They would say so — that is, it would come to their minds. Yet in the verse it says, they betrayed Me back then, doesn't it. It says they are lying unbelievers, doesn't it. Now, not knowing these verses, a person might, to these words of mine, respond this way. Because (?) are equal. What is the meaning of their saying yes there?

When Allah Almighty said, I am your Lord,

they said yes. But they also denied. He denies all of it. Don't look at his denying Me, He says. Well, why? Because he knows that he was created, He says. With the mind I gave him — I gave him that mind, He says. He knows whether or not he came about out of nowhere, He says. He knows that a Lord created him, He says. And that Lord is Me, He says. That's why, since in his heart he knows he was created, he says yes. Yes, I was created. That is the meaning of this yes. It's not that they all said yes there. This is the point where people go wrong. Those who say I'm a scholar. Those who in these books explain the verses so absurdly as translation — everyone said yes there.

In the world, he is ignorant of his word. And here he denied Allah. Is there such a brave one? Let him change his written destiny.

Yes.

So if everyone's wishes and (?) have become their destiny, if they too know that they were created, and if We — He says — come down from the clouds with angels and have you prostrate, if He says, if He says so, and if they too know that Allah Almighty, that is, a being, a Lord, created them — for this verse says: if You had sent us to an unseen world, sent us prophets, scholars, we would have believed in You. So that they do not say this, We sent you to this world. So you said yes; you know that you were created. But you denied the one before you. You denied your Lord. You denied the one who created you.

You waited for the Lord of your own imagination. That's why Allah Almighty says in His verse, they will not see their Lord. Which Lord? The Lord they framed in their imagination. They know, because with the mind Allah Almighty gave, they know that they were created. For this reason, too, they will not see their Lord, it says. Now I call out to these poor excuses for scholars who say I'm a scholar, now.

Some of them say this verse is included in Allah Almighty being seen in paradise. And some say they will be blind and (?) and will not see Allah. He writes superficially. He doesn't know the root, the root. Then he declares himself an heir of the prophet, occupies a certain post and puts himself forward as a scholar. Out of a passion to be the head, he loses his head and doesn't know it.

I don't know if I've managed to explain?

Here, we said, it is useful to recall this point. A question like this may come to a person's mind: at kâlû belâ all spirits said yes. You are saying that in response to Allah Almighty saying, I am your Lord, some people denied Allah. Yet here a contradiction arises, he says. I explained this to you. Let's read it here too. In answer: when all people were created in the world of spirits, Allah Almighty gave the spirits the mind to realize that they were created by Allah. This mind given to the spirits — this mind is called akl-ı maad.

Hodja, we can't find what you say in any book.

What is this? How are we to believe you?

I'm stating the verses. That's one. I support verses with verses. That's two.

Now, if you don't believe what I say, what I say, you incur no responsibility. I was raised by my Lord Himself. I saw that world. I write because I saw it, after all. If you can't see that place, it's impossible for you to explain these. With plain reason, with this Arabic, it's impossible for you to explain these parts. You can't explain them. So Allah Almighty sends the scholars He raised with His Self to you like this, in your own language. That's what it says in Surah Ibrahim. We sent every people a prophet in their own language, it says. Since no prophet will come again, He raises scholars.

You won't be able to say, my Allah, You didn't let me hear Your verses. So that you won't say, while I was bound by falsehoods You didn't let me hear the truth, He raises His scholars and sends them like this.

Now, if you don't believe this, no harm will come to you. But I state verses with verses and tell you the truth. Yes. And you won't find a man to tell you these things.

With plain reason. But every mind comprehends these like this. What every mind will comprehend. If you have a mind — it's the mind we address anyway. The mind. Not the human self. You can't bring a person's self to the right path. A person brings it to the right path only if his own will is strong. If he is weak in his will, in his faith, he becomes the captive of his self.

In that case, if a person is prejudiced, you can't tell him anything either.

Yes. If a person is a listener, the listener, in my presence, with what he himself knows compares what the other tells, and so, in the light of the verses, what I myself know and what the person before him — what I tell — he compares, whether it's right, and decides.

If he gets stuck, he asks his question.

How beautiful.

So we call the mind in our spirits akl-ı maad. And this mind in our bodies we call akl-ı maaş. What is this akl-ı maaş? What we call akl-ı maaş is a mind that will earn our living in the world, run our body, shoulder responsibility for our family — such a mind running you. Akl-ı maad: the mind in the spirit — faith in its Lord or lack of faith, belief or unbelief, knowing its Lord or not knowing — against this, a mind of speech that your Lord has given you; He put it there in the memory. I have been created; suddenly I am alive, I look — like 33 years old — and if I knew nothing, knew nothing, and Allah Almighty said, I created you, what would I say? What is He saying, I wonder — would I say that or not? We have a mind.

So He placed it in memory, and when we came alive: Elestü bi-Rabbiküm. I am your Lord, with a definite command. There we understand; we also know how to speak, as in, We created you. Like whom? Like Jesus in the womb of Mary.

Open. The memory is open.

It was placed here beforehand.

If our scholars had told us the truth like this, told us the verses like this, told us from the essence of the hadiths like this — would these people pour into the streets like this, irresponsibly, I wonder?

Our fathers, our ancestors brought us the religion of Islam over 1430 years. They handed it over, and we squandered it for those after us. We couldn't (?). Whose is the burden? Those superstitions.

Bound by superstitions, telling people not the truth but by producing words, by telling people the words they produced according to their own minds — the burden on this religion of Islam: tomorrow at the Great Court, when to that Elestü bi-Rabbiküm address (?), together with his destiny — Eleysallâhu bi- ahkemi'l-hâkimîn — he will give account before the judge of judges. If man could comprehend this, could comprehend it — despite my explaining so much, he would say: come, brother, you're saying some things, but come, let's talk, let's see about telling these people something — and he would take his place beside the truth.

Unfortunately. Unfortunately.

Do you have a label?

You're a scholar. Well, does a label make a scholar?

But Ahmet, Mehmet — who are they? Allah's servants. So if Allah raises His servant with His Self, you won't resemble your label.

If this man is lying, you should come — the way I came to you, you would come too. Come, brother, you say this and that, but look, the burden of so many people you're taking on. This isn't so, you would say. You wouldn't run off into corners. Yes.

When all

people were created in the world of spirits, Allah Almighty gave the spirits the mind to realize that they were created by Allah. This mind given to the spirits is called akl-ı maad. So, with our spirits held as addressees of Allah Almighty, in response to His saying, I am your Lord, all spirits, through this akl-ı maad given to them, that they were created know. Those who said to Allah Almighty, no, You cannot be our Lord, knowing through the mind given to them that they were created, yet not acknowledging as Lord the one before them who said, I created you — they lied. These are the lying unbelievers.

It's explicit in the verse anyway. Yes. How else should we explain the verses?

Will you be able to explain these (?) with your knowing?

If a person whom Allah Almighty has shown the worlds and raised as the counterpart of the verses tells you the truth, did you need a label?

I'm a technician too. I'm an aircraft technician. I'm an aircraft technician too. I have a label too. But I never use that knowledge of mine, that label of mine, as a tool here.

I too have some knowledge you don't know. But I have knowledge above that Quranic knowledge you know.

Allah Almighty paid no heed to these liars' lies. In fact, in a verse He declares that the unbelievers are liars. Lying unbelievers, He says. If we pay attention to this verse, since all of them denied Allah at the root, without exception all the unbelievers are liars. All of them. There is none who is truthful. Because they denied Allah at the root, without exception all are liars.

Now, in that case, go and envy the unbelievers.

Their orderly (?), their (?), their games, and the restlessness and scatteredness in their hearts — go, mingle with them now. If you have faith.

Although they know that they were created by Allah, since Allah Almighty created spirits close to His Self, people, out of pride and arrogance, did not acknowledge Allah Almighty and became rebels. And Allah Almighty, since without exception they knew there was a Lord who created them, said: they said yes. If Allah had not granted our spirits a mind that knows the one who created them, and our spirits had denied Allah Almighty, Allah would have been given an attribute, would have been deficient. that is, He couldn't give us a full mind, we couldn't know; not knowing, what does He want from me? But every mind suddenly looks and sees that it exists, feels that it was created within this existence: so I was created — yes, this; that is, I have a Lord who created me — this is the yes. Then, if you deny the one who created you, standing before you, you are a lying unbeliever. It's that simple, that is, this is the yes.

but

Allah, free from deficient attributes, into our spirits — that they by a Lord were created — He programmed, programmed, and accordingly to our spirits a mind He granted. Today a robot is built, a program is loaded into it, this robot does the work it will do by means of this program. Allah Almighty, too, with the mind He gave us in the world of spirits, that all our spirits by a Lord were created He programmed; and with our creation resembling Allah, the nafs in the human spirit, and its pride and arrogance, making him rebel against his creator — since man waits for the Lord of his own imagination, he has denied the Lord who created him.

In summary, the robot example we gave: this robot — by the one who made it and brought it into being, being programmed with a program that makes known its maker — as a result, if its owner asked that robot, I brought you to this state, and the robot said, no, it wasn't you, denying it, the answer a person would give the robot here would be: yes, you invented me, you brought me into being. So Allah Almighty, too, having given people a mind that knows they were created by a Lord, disregarding their denials: yes, you too know that you were created by a Lord, but out of arrogance and pride you deny Me. For this reason, all

Yes, Allah Almighty, without heeding the denials, without minding the lies of those created, as the truth of the matter, about all spirits: they said yes — so He addressed. For this reason, if we think about it, even those who say today there is no Allah don't say it from the heart. They too know that they were created by someone. This is because, at the root, through the akl-ı maad Allah gave people, within their own comprehension, they do not know they were created. Because they do know. Since they hoped for the Allah of their own fantasy world, the Allah who created man very close to Himself, they denied.

For this reason, people who deny like this are, toward Allah Almighty, in deep doubt. Yes.