An-Nahl 82: (Oh My Messenger!) If they still turn away, your only duty is to proclaim openly.

Verse 82. Surah An-Nahl, verse 82. In this verse Allah Almighty — look what He says here now — "O My Messenger, if they still turn away, then your duty is only clear conveying." You know, Allah Almighty, throughout the Holy Quran — that there is no god but Him, that the heavens, the earth and what is between them were created by our Lord, and with the verse "all created things know their Lord's remembrance", with His every word — that there is no god, that is, no creator, but Him — even though He made this known to us. Beyond this, when He brought the people He created into an unseen world, that is, the earth where His Being is not seen, and placed them there — all those people's needs, before they came to earth, Allah Almighty placing them on that earth, and placing man in a ready state within an existence — that this would not happen for nothing, that so many blessings Allah Almighty offers people, and faced with these blessings people still don't use their minds, so what does He say? If they still turn away, don't use their minds, still go to denial, then, He says, your duty is only clear conveying, nothing more.

So what does this mean? No one can — anyone, anyone's destiny — change. That is not possible. So since every person will live his own destiny, no person can — a man's mind, or let me put it this way, his brain — put chains on his brain, his thinking. So since every person made a covenant with Allah Almighty — each one's wish and desire, man's will, became his destiny. So man, in his own life, in return for his covenant with Allah Almighty, plays as an actor on earth the script he had written, and proves what kind of a person he is. If there is a power that can change this, that can change destiny, it is Allah.

That too: "Unless We will, you cannot will." According to the verse. "With Us is a book, preserved in the Preserved Tablet." Then, according to the verse that says (?), since Allah Almighty, over no person's covenant, that is, his wish, desire and will, his own will — man's own will — will remove it and use His own will over that person, He leaves every person free with his own wish and desire, and since the person has had himself programmed according to his wish and desire, there is nothing left for Allah Almighty to do, He says. Your duty is only conveying. Why conveying? Allah Almighty says in His verse: "So as to hold no one accountable for what We did not proclaim." Yes. So the duty that falls to people, or to prophets, is to explain the truth, to make known Allah's oneness, and to present himself to people as a Messenger from Allah, making known that the books he brought were given to them by Allah, explaining the truth to people.

The scholars, who are the heirs of the prophets, follow the same path. They follow the same path, but there is a great difference. For example, Allah Almighty chose His prophet as a prophet. If we say heirs, of course they are not prophets. Allah Almighty sent books to the prophets. Of course no book comes to the heirs, but they read from the book. Yes. But Allah Almighty also trains these scholars spiritually. On what? On the books of the prophets He sent. Although we came upon the religion of Islam, although we have been honoured with Islam, the scholars Allah Almighty trains — He trains them on the Holy Quran, on the verses, and since no prophet will come again, as heirs of the prophets, He has the scholars tell people the truth and what is right. People will not be able to say, we didn't hear, we didn't know. In the past You sent prophets.

They told what was right. After that superstitions crept in. Faced with these superstitions, because of the strength of our faith in You, we took them as truth, we did so — they will not be able to say that. Why won't they? Look, there are wrong interpretations in the Holy Quran. Not in the verse itself, of course. And people for whom Allah Almighty is unlimited — what do they do? They correct those mistakes in the Holy Quran. They open up these wrongly interpreted ones. For example, Allah Almighty is free of deficient attributes. When we say this, what does "He is free of deficient attributes" mean?

It means that Allah Almighty, through the scholars He has trained, will have the truth told to people, and people, until the Day of Judgement, will know the truth through these scholars, will hear it. Lest they say, You sent prophets to the people of old, You had the truth told to them, but You sent no one to tell us the truth — lest they say that, Allah Almighty, by sending people such scholars, heirs of the prophets, has the truth made known to them too. And what does it say anyway? "Your duty is only clear conveying." Yes. Despite Allah Almighty's so clear warning and the truths He has shown, if people do not follow the truth, insist on not seeing the truth, follow every stubborn devil and consent to go after the taghut, then your duty is only clear conveying, nothing more. That is: O people, what my Lord commanded me I have told you. What my Lord taught me I have told you.

Even though you turn your backs and go, I have done my duty, I have fulfilled it. I am in no state to deal with each of you one by one. But for you, it is Allah who has power over everything. My witness, too, is Allah. I have told you what was given to me from my Lord, he says, and until he dies, until he passes on to the hereafter, he does not hold back from speaking the truth. What does it say anyway? Yours is only clear conveying, it says. Your duty is clear conveying. So what is this conveying? O people, do not associate partners with Allah. There is no other god but Allah. I am a prophet sent by Allah.

And as a prophet I have shown you many miracles. What did we do? He split (?) in two. Let me say, he made dried-up trees live. Many miracles were created by Allah through the Prophet. (?) — so in this case if a person still turns away, then for that person there is nothing left to do. Because man is free within his own will. Our Lord has left him free in his own will. His own wish and desire has become his destiny. That person, to prove what kind of person he is in this world, has come. He has come onto this world. So all responsibilities are now laid upon that person. The destinies of the people who made a covenant with Allah Almighty (?) and had their covenant written as their destiny, the Prophet (peace be upon him) is not going to change them. Therefore the duty falling to the prophets is clear conveying and nothing more. That is: I am the prophet my Lord sent, and I convey it to you. And what do we say?

We too, as heirs of the prophets. We say: look, over so many years superstitions have entered our religion. Even verses have been interpreted wrongly. They have (?) this too. They have ascribed attributes to the verses and to Allah. O people! Open your eyes. Your ears — toward truly hearing, toward hearing the truth — remove the (?) and curtains in your ears, we say. Use your minds, we say. Use your minds, we say. Why should we use our minds? Why? You may have come to love me.

I may have explained it according to your way of thinking. In that case I may also add superstitions. So in that case you will use your minds. Your loving me aside, you will love the truth, you will love Allah. And you will tell the crooked from the straight. So that in this way you find the truth. That you (?) with what is right. So we too tell you: people loving people is a separate thing. A person loving Allah, and his (?) over that person, or his thinking, or about him his own thought-based love for him, comparing that with his love for Allah — let him not be deceived by that person's talk and turn his longing away from Allah.

So the duty falling to you is to know the truth by using your minds. How will we know the truth? Allah Almighty has created every person's mind able to know the truth. For example, a person may take falsehood as right. Yes. Many take it that way anyway. He may take falsehood as right. But on condition that a person is not prejudiced. Pay great attention here. On condition of not being prejudiced. On condition of not being a slave to the feelings of the nafs. On condition of not being irritated by the person in front of him. And since a person, by the words in someone's mouth alone, the link with Allah's verses — between them — with his mind is able to work out, he listens carefully to his talk: are there words in his talk that contradict each other?

Contradicting each other. This is very important. If you can't know this point, if you can't understand this point, you will (?) — that is, the person's words. So what does this mean? You will listen to the person very attentively. For example, here the person explained this like this. He explained this verse like this. And in such-and-such a place he explained the complete opposite. For example, there are writings that take the believer and tear him to pieces. On the same page they take the believer and raise him to the heights. Well now, what does it matter whether this man speaks or not? For example, when Allah Almighty says even to people, spread truth and justice on earth, and you say, Allah created people for hell, surely such words don't fit into the human mind.

That is, contradictory words. For this you will use your minds. You will pay attention to the words of people who speak. You will not be deceived by their sweet tongue, their smiles. For Allah's sake you will work your minds. And what is right you will try to learn — what is right. When something unclear remains in you — unclear — until that unclear thing is confirmed with the true verses, you will keep asking. Yes.