Al-Hijr 4: There is no nation, that We have destroyed, of which their destiny is not known (to Us).

I will pass the address on to my brother, God willing, he says. Yes, the one he wrote last week. Right? Surah Al-Hijr, verse four: Allah Almighty says, We destroyed no land, He says, no land at all, without its having a decree known to Us about it.

What does this prove? Allah Almighty's programming of the worlds it proves. That is one; secondly, it also proves this verse: there is not a single living being to come until the Day of Judgment of which We do not know what it will not do. So all the worlds are programmed. So the wet and the dry — in the Holy Quran, the wet and the dry — whatever is to come until the Day of Judgment, living or lifeless, whatever has been created, the knowledge and awareness of all of it lies in Allah Almighty's Essence. The keys of the unseen belong to Allah Almighty alone. Yes. So what does it say? There is no land We destroyed — We destroyed — that did not have a decree known to Us.

That is, when these people made the covenant with Us, in that address "Elestü bi Rabbiküm", their desires, wishes and aims We wrote for them as destiny. And in proportion to these destinies, We programmed the worlds. What they will do upon coming to the material world is known to Us. Although all people are known, what they will do is known to Us as well. In this case, for the deviant actions they committed, for not heeding Allah Almighty's command, for straining His sacred law and overstepping the bounds — Allah Almighty already knows beforehand that He will destroy them. But why did He send us to this world?

Why did He send us? So that people would not say to Allah Almighty, who is free of any deficient attribute: "My Allah, here I saw You as like myself. Therefore I could not believe in You. Had You sent me to a hidden world, I would have worshipped You beautifully there." That is why He sends us. Yes.

As we always read — give it to me on my phone. As we always read to you, the verse in Surah Al-Ahzab proves this very well. Yes. Look, let us read that verse to you again here.

Yes.

In Surah Al-Qasas, verse 47: because of what they themselves have done, it says. When a calamity befalls them — "Our Lord, if only You had sent us a prophet, so that we would have followed Your verses and been among the believers" — had they not been going to say that, We would not have sent you. Had it not been for their saying, "If only You had sent us a messenger," We would not have sent you, it says. That is, in this material world — before coming to the material world, first, in the realm of the hereafter — since Allah Almighty gave man a portion — since He gave man a portion of His Spirit — man was created as an exact likeness of his Lord. In this case, since Allah Almighty would not create a being equal to His Essence, He limited his intellect.

He made him dependent on His Essence. And man, in that address "Elestü bi Rabbiküm", out of fame and glory, pride and arrogance and his grandeur, could not recognize the Lord before him who created him as Lord. He waited for the Lord of his own imagination.

Now, Ta-Ha, in Surah Ta-Ha, in Surah Ta-Ha, verse 134: if We had destroyed them with a punishment before this, before the Quran, before the Quran, it says. I draw your attention here. When He says before the Quran — the Quran is eternal, as the word of Allah. It is Allah's word anyway. When He says before the Quran, before creating people, the worlds — before creating the worlds, that is, before sending people to this world — had We destroyed them there, it says. Before the Quran. Otherwise, when He says before the Quran — to the Prophet (peace be upon him) the Holy Quran was revealed. Then this would apply to those before him.

It would apply. In this case, Allah Almighty's verses, according to some people's limited minds, would be addressing particular times, so that people say this belonged to that time, it does not belong to this time. Whereas the verses, from our father Adam, from the past, until the Day of Judgment, have validity — the verses. Am I able to explain this here? Can you understand this part? When He says before the Quran. That is, are the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel in the Quran? In the Quran. Since the four books are in the Quran. Now pay attention here. If We had, before this, before the Quran, with a punishment destroyed them, they would surely have said: "O my Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, so that before falling into this disgrace and humiliation we would have followed Your verses." Yes.

So: There is no land We destroyed that did not have a decree known to Us. We know what you will do in the world. But in this address "Elestü bi Rabbiküm", when I addressed you, you saw Me as like yourselves, and you did not imagine Me as your Lord who created you, did not accept Me. You waited for the Lord of your imagination. You will not be able to see your Lord, it says. What does that mean? They say these will be resurrected blind. No. It symbolizes that there is no god other than Allah. Because since the non-Muslim does not believe in Allah, his not believing does not affect Allah's existence.

In this case that verse, "they will not be able to see their Lord", also symbolizes tawhid. Yes. But those who have no knowledge of the Quran will be resurrected blind, sightless. That is why, because with such deviant ideas or wrong ideas they build their buildings — on (?), whereas with words that are false they build their buildings — people cannot see the truth. They cannot take the verses as verses. And they talk all kinds of twisted nonsense.

Now, since you will not see the truth, you say, you say, you say they will not see the truth. Yes.

Surah As-Sajdah, verse twelve.

And a scholar says about this, mind you, that Allah cannot be seen. Look what the verse says now — am I to believe the scholar? Or rather, let me put it this way: am I to believe a person who passes himself off as a scholar? Or am I to believe the verse? Now look, what does the verse say? The time when those sinners, hanging their heads before their Lord, will say: "Our Lord, we have seen, we have heard; now send us back to the world and we will do good deeds; now we firmly believe" — just see that time, it says. Now will you believe a pseudo-scholar who says "I am a scholar", that Allah cannot be seen?

Will you believe this? Then, if Allah Almighty, who says "Eleysallâhu bi-ahkemi'l-hâkimîn", the Judge of judges, will call everyone to account at the Great Court, will an invisible Allah call us to account in a place I cannot see?

Wasn't this world the likeness and shadow of the hereafter? Weren't the judges calling us to account face to face? Then let the judges be invisible too. This world is the likeness and shadow of the hereafter. Where do they hide these verses? And they pass themselves off as scholars, too. In this way they bring Islam into a degenerate state. These people of theirs who stand at the head of Islam bring Islam into this state. And anyone who comes along sets himself at the head of a tariqa. Tariqa (?). Ahmet Efendi this, Mehmet Efendi that, it was Hacı Efendi — one who would see an alif and take it for a rafter, according to their own fancies, within the feelings of the nafs, although they themselves are in need of a leader, instilling their own ideologies into people, they bloat Muslims with falsehoods.

Yes. They say this: "We used to see in the world, here we cannot see, my Allah," they say. Yes. Now here (?) Allah Almighty says that they were in heedlessness there; they cannot understand this part. These are in a figurative sense. In a figurative sense. He says, you know, "If only they had known Me here." They: "In the world we used to see, now we cannot see." When He says this, it does not mean blind and sightless. Allah Almighty uses His words in a figurative sense. He uses them in comparison, He uses them in the literal sense. Here, with those characters of theirs,

because they waited for the Lord of their own imagination, He relates it to their still not being able to believe in Allah. "We still cannot see," it says. So they are blind and sightless here, it says. How beautifully it puts it. There is a verse there again: they are blind and sightless. Without religion. They cannot know the truth. Why? Why blind, why sightless? Because that "Elestü bi Rabbiküm", you know — that "Elestü bi Rabbiküm", they covered it up, you know, buried it in ashes, you know, they do not explain it to people, you know — this is the non-Muslim's game, you know, to pull you to whatever side he wants. So in this case, that covenant — because he does not know it — the person's own desire, wish and aim, for him, according to the verse "if We do not will, you cannot will", and "a word has come to pass from Us, there is a book with Us, preserved in the Preserved Tablet; after that neither any addition nor any reduction is made" — according to that verse, whatever everyone took and wished for became his aim, and his aim became destiny.

When one's own will, the partial, made its covenant with the universal, from then on the universal will does not interfere with the partial will. In this case these poor people who pass themselves off as scholars don't go into these parts either. They have Allah Almighty take away people's will, they have Allah Almighty make people commit kufr. They have Him seal their hearts. They have Him, you see, put whom He wills into paradise, and whom He wills into hell. Look on what a wrong foundation they have built. The Muslims of this world are like that. They have instilled this into the world's Muslims in this way.

Hodja, are you the only one who is right?

We are putting a full stop here now.

We are concluding this here. Allah Almighty sends a Kutbul Azam every 3 years, a Kutbul Aktap every 2-3 years. He sends this Kutbul Aktap to remove the falsehoods in religion and establish the truth — Allah Almighty. And we too are a person sent to remove these falsehoods and establish the truths. If there is any word in what I say that contradicts the verses, if there is someone who can prove it, I am a liar and a downright deviant. I say this to all the people of the world, to its scholars. If there is a person who passes himself off as a scholar, let him explain the truth to me in the light of the verses.

Let him not show me Ahmet's book. The books of Ahmet and Mehmet are also books written within their own ideology. He must convince me with verses, with Allah's word and with hadiths in accord with Allah's word. If they knew the hadiths too, about words the Prophet did not say they would not slanderously claim that the Prophet said them. And we are sifting the hadiths too. I will sift all seven thousand hadiths. I have sifted a thousand of them, one thousand five hundred. Now let us move on to printing a thousand hadiths. To printing a thousand hadiths. With the crooked and the wrong in it, and the right in it too.

If they go beyond that and see a mistake in what I wrote, it is one I made by oversight, I think, by oversight. Deliberate or conscious, in a few of them, perhaps in one or two, it could be. I mean, we are human; faultless, the only faultless one is Allah. So if 998, 995 of them are correct, in 3-5 of them could there be a shortcoming? There could. It could be, we are human. But in 995 — in a thousand hadiths, if you slip in 400 or 6 lying, false hadiths as hadith, then for me, two or three in a thousand hadiths — only this is normal. There aren't any, you know. There aren't. That is how I put it.

All right. Yes.

That is the situation.

This one: Al-Qasas — the surah's verse 47, we have already read it to you. We read it. What does it say? When a calamity befalls them because of what they themselves have done — "Our Lord, if only You had sent us a prophet, so that we would have followed Your verses and been among the believers" — had they not been going to say that, We would not have sent you.

We also read you Surah Ta-Ha, 134, the verse. If We had destroyed them with a punishment before this, before the Quran, they would surely have said: O my Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, so that before falling into this disgrace and humiliation we would have followed Your verses. All the verses, look, pay attention, support one another. Here too. Yes.

There is no land We destroyed that did not have a decree known to Us. Allah Almighty created this world within a program. Therefore, how long the heavens and the earth, and the creatures between the two, will live and when they will perish lies with Allah.

The destruction of the towns that were destroyed is not a coincidence. That these people would live in these towns and deny Allah, and when they would perish, is written with Allah, in the Preserved Tablet, in the book with Him.

When those times come, for what people desired with their own desires and wishes, Allah Almighty creates events, and these people, through their actual deeds, increase their kufr. When they become a people who transgress the limits on earth, Allah Almighty destroys them. So just as all these events were determined with Allah beforehand, so too, until the Day of Judgment, Allah knows where and how the events to come will happen.