An-Nahl 18: If we would try to count Allah’s blessings, you would not be able to count them. Verily, Allah is Ghafoor (Most Forgiving) and Raheem (the One Who very generously accepts repentance).

An-Nahl Surah, in its verse 18 too, Allah Almighty, how beautifully — that our minds cannot grasp what His Essence has created — how beautifully He expresses it. What does it say? "If you tried to count Allah's blessing, you could not count it." Because Allah is the Possessor of wisdom. We cannot know what He created and why. There are many created things we do not yet know.

Even if we tried to count, maybe we could not even find a number to count them. "Truly Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful." That is: I created your mind deficient. So that, knowing My Essence and knowing your helplessness, you ask Me for pardon and forgiveness, He created your mind deficient. In the age of ignorance, in your time of ignorance, you may commit faults. You may have committed sins. When you repent, you will find Allah to be very much Tawwab, it says. What does it say? This is the meaning in its saying "Truly Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful." People — the mind was created deficient.

In this case, for the mistakes he made, knowingly or unknowingly, when he asks his Lord for pardon and forgiveness, he has no sin that will not be forgiven. Because Allah, it says, greatly forgives and pardons repentances, it says. If we attempt to count Allah Almighty's blessings, we cannot count them. Because Allah's blessings are not only eating and drinking, food.

From our creation on, health, wealth, up to our being created as the noblest of creation, all the blessings that would not even occur to our minds are, bestowed by Allah upon people, a favor. Allah created human beings as the noblest of creation. Through man He willed His Essence to be known. Leaving man free in his will, He wanted man, within his own will, to know his Lord and to obey Allah. In this case, as to obeying Allah's command or not, people have been left free.

Allah created human beings as the noblest of creation. Through man He willed His Essence to be known.

Leaving man free in his will, He wanted man, within his own will, to know his Lord and to obey Allah. In this case, as to obeying Allah's command or not, people have been left free. That is, the partial will is in man's own hands.

When we try to explain to people what will is: "Oh, don't go in there." Isn't that so? "Don't go into will." Will — the scholars say so, but what is it? To people, Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172 — when we go into the covenant in that verse: "Oh, don't go there," they say, "you'll become a Qadari then. Go a bit further and you'll be a deviant." Yes. And if you cannot know these, how will you explain these verses? If you remove the will from yourself and attribute the judgment and decision you made to Allah, if you say Allah increases man's kufr, if you say Allah puts whom He wills into Paradise and whom He wills into Hell, you prove that you are not capable of explaining these verses, with that knowledge of yours — we won't even call it knowledge — with that (?) of yours.

Even if your label is (?), even if it is gilded with golden gilt, unaware of these verses, even if the president of the world signed for you, it would still be of no use. Yes. It would still be of no use. That's why, if you know these places, you will explain these verses too.

Allah created human beings as the noblest of creation. Through man He willed His Essence to be known. Leaving man free in his will, He wanted man, within his own will, to know his Lord and to obey Allah. In this case, as to obeying Allah's command or not, people have been left free. Free. At all? Does Allah Almighty force us? No — does He force us? There are non-Muslims, there are idolaters, there are devil worshippers, there are Muslims. Do they tell us, you absolutely must be Muslim? Does it tell us, you absolutely must be Christian? Everyone is free, free in their judgment.

Why is that? Back then we, with Allah Almighty, made a covenant. We laid down our desire and wish, our intention, with Him as destiny. According to those destinies our Lord placed the characters in us. He brought us into the world, into the world, into an unseen realm where His Essence is not seen; "Did you think you would die without proving what kind of person you are?" — according to that verse, He sent us to make us witnesses over ourselves. What does it say in the verse?

"Had We destroyed you before the dhikr," it says. Before the dhikr. What is dhikr? The Torah is a dhikr. The Psalms are a dhikr.

The Gospel is a dhikr. The Quran is a dhikr. These have all been gathered in the Quran. When we say dhikr, it is what Allah Almighty, ever since our father Adam, has made known to people: His verses. "Had We destroyed you before these verses" — that is, the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm that says to you, when I said "I am your Lord" — "had I destroyed you," it says, "you would surely have said this: 'O Allah, if only You had sent us Your verses, and we had obeyed You, and had not fallen into this lowly disgrace,' you would have said," it says. So it is solely to prove that Allah is free of deficient attributes that He created this world.

Now, step up if you dare. Go ahead.

Who knows and who doesn't. What does it say? "Moreover, I will not call anyone to account for a thing I have not made known." He makes it known. Doesn't He have it made known? Through the internet, through books, through scholars, from every side Allah Almighty has the truth made known to people.

Yes. In this case man is free in his own will. With the decisions he makes he earns reward and sin. In the verse He says: I will record an atom's weight of good, I will record an atom's weight of evil. If my Lord removes my will from me and uses His own will over me, does that fit any reason and logic? Why should He record the atom's weight that I did? Record its good and its evil? Does it fit reason and logic? When He Himself made me do it. So then, Allah does not interfere in what we do. So then, explaining the verses half-baked, the verses where He says judgment belongs only to Allah, half-baked, cutting them in half — people who speak this way, if they do it knowingly, are in disbelief.

Judgment is the judgment of the living people. Your judgment is my judgment. The judgment is my judgment. Ah, "judgment belongs to Allah" — there is such a verse. When? Say the verse in full. "On that day judgment belongs to Allah alone," it says. When it says "on that day": at the Supreme Court, in the hereafter, when one comes before his Lord, no one will be able to speak anymore. On that day, then, judgment is Allah's. Because He has no spouse, no equal, no partner. As the Judge of judges He will decide about us. But today the judgment is mine. I am alive. With my judgment, with the decisions I have made, with the deeds I have done, reward and sin I earn.

Is that so? It is. What does it say? What is this? I will record its good. Well, what does this mean? With the deeds you did, your good deeds — whom did you help? To whom, sir, did you give zakat? Whose hand did you take? Hayran yerah. "I will record its good," it says. Aren't these good? Aren't they actual deeds? Aren't these judgments? Who gives this judgment? You give it. Ve men ya'mel miskale zerratin şerran yerah. Who will give this judgment? Again, you will. You will do evil. Does Allah tell you: go kill the man? Go steal. Go swindle him. Go (?) interest, sir. Go drink alcohol. Does He tell you this?

So then, if the judgment is yours, how do you pin this on Allah? And afterwards you say judgment is Allah's. That way you've handed your judgment to Allah — do whatever you want — say "You made me do it" and get out of it. That's what they say anyway. "Allah's word does not make us do this," they say. They say. If you explain the verses so deviantly, people will go astray like this too, and you will bear the burden of that as well. Yes.

What do we say? Allah created human beings as the noblest of creation. Through man He willed His Essence to be known. Leaving man free in his will, He wanted man, within his own will, to know his Lord and to obey Allah. In this case, as to obeying Allah's command or not, people have been left free. The person who does not obey Allah and follows his nafs realizes that he has made a mistake. If he returns to his Lord, Allah both protects and forgives this person.

Because apart from Allah there is no door to go to, nor a (?), nor a mawla. Because people are created deficient in mind, for the sins people committed unknowingly, if people (?) to Allah, they will find Allah Almighty Most Merciful. Because think of a father, a father. A father. Among his children, however bad one may be, he always wants him to be good. And Allah Almighty sent to the earth, of His mercy, one percent, and the ninety-nine percent, to judge His servants on the Day of Judgment, He has reserved for Himself. Allah, who loves people so much, gives people so many blessings, and people do not see the One who gives this blessing.

He goes and says "I did it, I made it"; what Ahmet and Mehmet gave, he (?) to this one and that — if he sees what that one gives and turns his back on Allah, he is being ungrateful.