An-Nahl 111: On that Day, all people will come and try to save themselves and everyone will be given the complete return for the things they have committed. They will never be oppressed.

We have come to verse 111 of Surah An-Nahl.

On that day everyone will come striving to save his own soul, and everyone will be paid in full for what he did. And they will never be wronged, it says. When it says that day, by that day it means the Hereafter. That day, it says, meaning: the Last Day will come upon the world; how long we will lie under the ground is unknown. Then we will be raised by Israfil's trumpet; when you come before Me with a driver, it says, the Supreme Court will be set up; on that day everyone will come striving to save his own soul, and everyone will be paid in full for what he did. They will never be wronged, it said; since the verses confirm one another, today, it says, (?) no one any injustice.

What you have earned will be given to you as the recompense of your own (?), it says. Yes.

In the Hereafter, when Allah Almighty resurrects all people, on this day of reckoning when people are gathered together, on a day when every soul says "myself, myself", they seek a place to save their lives and take refuge, and a helper. A helper. Before the Owner of the Day of Reckoning, the absolute Judge of the Supreme Court, eleysallahu bi ahkemi'l-hakimin, the Judge of judges, people will never be wronged. Every soul wrongs itself. With what his own two hands have earned, he either brings himself to great ranks, or else drags himself into the punishment of Hell. Allah Almighty will pay everyone in full the recompense for what they did. Fe men ya'mel miskale zerretin hayran yerah: whatever anyone has earned, an atom's weight of good and an atom's weight of evil, will be paid back to them.

In view of this, no one will ever be wronged. You know, in some superstitions there is the Sirat bridge; while crossing the Sirat bridge, supposedly, one has light like the sun, another has light like the moon, another has a light at the tip of his fingernail, someone will be dragged, hooks will strike, someone will fall into the fire of Hell. Allah Almighty (?), that is, a person He has not called to account — how can you drag him to punishment, how can you drag him into Hell, and take him out of there and how can you bring him before the divine presence? Superstitions. Superstitions keep multiplying anyway.

In view of this, no one will ever be wronged. Because whatever each soul earned will be paid back to it in full. In this world, the punishment that people who commit crimes receive, judges do not hand out on their own. People receive it themselves in return for the crimes they committed. Isn't that so? I commit a crime. I killed a man. My sentence is 20 years, 18 years, 16 years, whatever. Is it the judge who gives me this sentence? In return for my crime, the judge gives what corresponds to it. Since Allah Almighty is the Judge of judges, and since this world is a likeness and shadow of the Hereafter, for the crime I committed here He will call me to account in the Hereafter and give me my punishment accordingly, whatever it is.

If I have done good deeds here — just as in a factory or in an assembly a person does good work and is followed up by the owner of that factory, so too the Owner of the worlds, Allah Almighty, will also, His servants who do good, who do good deeds, (?) them. And this world is a likeness and shadow of the Hereafter. Yes.

In this world, the punishment that people who commit crimes receive, judges do not hand out on their own. People receive it themselves in return for the crimes they committed. In the Hereafter too, people will surely, before the Judge of judges, who never errs, and has no deficiency, who is complete and perfect, Allah Almighty, see for what they did the recompense in full. In full.

No injustice of any kind is ever done to them by Allah, nor are they subjected to wrong. How are they not wronged? Well, He throws this one into Hell, doesn't He? Allah gives him his punishment in return for the crime he committed. He himself leaves himself subject to punishment in the Hereafter. Doesn't Allah Almighty tell us? With Him there is no religion other than the religion of Islam. Does He say it? He does. Everyone — did He send the Holy Quran to all the worlds? He did. Just as a state has a constitution, and if people step outside that constitution, and when they step outside it the judges punish them, Allah Almighty has also sent His constitution to all the worlds from the Holy Quran.

With what? From the Holy Quran. Whoever steps outside it, outside Allah's command, outside the religion of Islam, denies the Prophet, deliberately denies a verse of the Quran, denies the Hereafter, does not recognize Allah — did Allah give him this punishment, or did the person give himself his own punishment? Yes. This world is not an aimless, ownerless world.

When I was little, I was very naughty. My late mother would tell me, son, you've found a village without dogs and you walk around without a stick, she used to say. Have people found a village without dogs here, will they walk around this world without a stick? Have they no owner? Is there no justice of Allah Almighty? Against all the blessings He has given us, for holding us as counterparts to Himself, for taking us as those He addresses, for creating Paradise for us in return for these blessings He has given, for creating these worlds for people, for making man the vicegerent of the earth, and for creating every human as a commander, creating him free — in the face of this, you, in the face of so many blessings our Lord has given, did you think you were left to yourself?

Of course you will be called to account. Yes.