Al-Hijr 97: Certainly, We know that your chest is straitened by their words.

In the verse we read, in translation: Indeed, We know that you are distressed by the things they say, it says. The polytheists slander the Prophet (peace be upon him). Because they committed shirk against Allah, they would speak evil words. Besides, about the Prophet (peace be upon him) they used to say Muhammad's god is talking, apparently. They worship idols, you see. (?) neither life nor soul, (?) will not speak. But what does Allah Almighty say in a verse? Do they have eyes that see, it says, do they have feet that walk, do they have hands that hold, or do they have tongues that speak, it says.

So since Allah Almighty gave man from His spirit, He created people, addressees of His essence, honoured above the worlds. So man, man was created as the noblest of creation. With a part of His spirit that Allah Almighty gave man, He both held man as addressee of His essence and made him honoured above the worlds. In that case, man does not use his mind. He denies the One who created him. He eats and drinks all the blessings our Lord gave and turns his back on Him; if he does not give thanks, (?) Allah Almighty, for these too: My Beloved, do not grieve at what they say. Their living in the world, it says, is only for a little while, it says.

Indeed, We know that you are distressed by the things they say. We deny Allah and the Prophet. Those who mock Allah and His Messenger, saying Muhammad is supposedly talking to Allah, to Allah associating partners: because of them the Prophet (peace be upon him) would be very distressed. Yes. Now a person gets angry at a person.

Let's say, sir, that I got angry at letter A. Got angry at person A.

Perhaps I say it from the whim of my nafs; after all, this is human. Especially a person whose nafs has not matured, an idolater, talks this and that about someone. One shouldn't mind this. He is inside the circle of ignorance. If you follow him, you will have fallen to his level. But that person, aimed at my faith, the words he will say against our Lord truly upset a person and a person cannot bear it. With the Prophet (peace be upon him) too, their talk about our Lord in this way greatly distressed the Messenger of Allah. In that case Allah Almighty counsels the Prophet (peace be upon him). What does He say? Indeed, We know that you are distressed by the things they say, He says.

With an oath. We know, He says.

But by advising His Prophet to be patient, Allah grants those among them who will turn to Islam time. For this reason, My Beloved, We, by oath, that you are very distressed. Allah is in any case aware of every atom of the universe. Of every atom. If He withdrew His gaze from the universe for a moment, this universe would fall into chaos. The atoms and molecules, neutrons and protons in the particles of all these worlds, while spinning around their own axes, though we do not hear it, Allah Almighty has made them, a certain attribute of His, do dhikr of. In the verse: the heavens and the earth and what is between the two have known their Lord's dhikr; according to this verse, Allah Almighty, by making every atom of it do dhikr of His essence, just as a factory, a firm, produces a product and gets its patent, just as that factory cannot produce it, Allah Almighty too has stamped His patent on these beings He created, from atom to globe.

By making them do dhikr of His essence. What is this? It is the symbolizing of tawhid, that there is no god but Allah. So Allah is not apart from His creation. Allah Almighty has the attribute Hayy. He gives life to all He created, yet is free of what He created. Yes.

Allah is in any case aware of every atom of the universe. For this reason, do not grieve. Be patient. By continuing in worship, set a good example to these people. Just as (?) sifted (?) separate from one another, since We will separate these in your presence from one another.

That is, believers and unbelievers being separated from one another, every soul will be a witness to itself before Allah Almighty. Why did Allah Almighty send us to this realm of mulk? There is not a single atom to come until the Resurrection of which We do not know what it will not do, according to the verse. Why? Our account in the realm of the hereafter (?). Since He knows what every single living being to come until the Resurrection will do, the polytheists should enter hell, (?), the Muslims paradise. Allah Almighty is free from all deficient attributes. No one can attribute deficiency to Him.

For this reason, since Allah Almighty created man resembling His essence, because He gave him from His spirit. (?) Alast, in a test of Lordship. At the time I said I am your Lord, at the time I said 'Mine', Allah Almighty, people were divided into three groups. Ve küntüm ezvacen selase. All the pairs, coming from one another, three classes, it says. Fe ashabü'l-meymeneti ma ashabü'l-meymeneh. (?) Ve ashabü'l-meş'emeti ma ashabü'l-meş'emeh. (?), it says. Ve's-sabikune's-sabikun. Ülaike'l-mukarrabun. Fi cennati'n-naim. A third group, the group of sabikun. This is the group of saints, prophets, martyrs, (?).

There, man, man: O my Lord. He wouldn't even say 'my Lord', would he. Rather: whoever it is that claims to have created me. So that you would not say 'if You sent me to a hidden realm, I would worship You', this hidden realm, that is, the realm where His essence is not seen, He created. Isn't it? Yes. Look. What does the verse say now?

Yes. In the verse, Surah Ta-Ha, verse 134: If We had destroyed them with a punishment before this, before the Quran, The Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel are in the Quran. If We had destroyed them before the Quran, that is, had We destroyed them before first sending them to the world, they would surely have said this, it says. Our Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, so that before falling into this humiliation and disgrace we had been with the verses. Now, come on then. An unseen realm. A realm where His essence is not seen. There is a messenger. There is a book. There is a scholar too. Allah does not call anyone to account for a (?) he has not heard.

So man will use his mind, will know that his life in this realm is a treasure, toward his Creator will not act as if he were left aimless, will know that he is under a great responsibility and will fulfil his duty toward his Lord. Yes.

That is, believers and unbelievers being separated from one another, every soul will hold itself as witness before Allah Almighty. Did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are, according to the verse? Here people, in a realm where our Lord is not seen, where He is veiled, the covenant they gave to Allah Almighty, whoever had it written as destiny, (?) in the realm of the hereafter had it written; as an actor here, of the destiny he had written, he plays the script. And after proving what kind of person he is, he passes on to the hereafter. In the hereafter, in the presence of Allah Almighty, (?) those who in His book had their life, wishes and deeds written for themselves as destiny, and as actors in the world played out actual deeds and earned reward and sin, at the Great Tribunal, in Allah Almighty's presence, have not a single word left to say.

This is what you are. And now this is your place today. If you are good, paradise. If you are bad, surely the place of the punished will not be a place lived in together with free people. Isn't that so? For whom were prisons built? They were built for criminals. For whom was hell created? It was created for those who deny Allah. Won't Muslims enter it, Hodja? They will, but not forever. They will stay temporarily. Temporarily. Yes.