Ta-Ha 55: We have created you from it (soil). We will return you again to it and We will bring you out of it one more time.

Surah Ta-Ha, verse 55 — we have come to it. "We created you from it, from earth; and back into it We will return you, and once more We will bring you out of it."

How beautifully He says it. "We bring you to life twice and cause you to die twice." Yes.

"From it," He said, "from earth We created you." The body. Our driver — not the driver, our body, that is, our car — this is our car. The driver is our spirit. "Again We will return you there" — return you to earth. "And once more We will bring you out of it" — once more. There is no second time after that, He says. Well, in the end He will cause that to die too, in the end. Allah Almighty created people's bodies from earth. The first body created from earth is Adam (peace be upon him). Then He gave Adam's (peace be upon him) body its spirit. And He commanded the angelic realm and Satan to prostrate before Adam.

The angels prostrated, but Satan did not prostrate, and being driven from the presence he was cursed. In this case, since people's bodies were created from earth, so that our spirits could appear outwardly in the visible realm, Allah Almighty, in proportion to the covenants people gave, to make them themselves witnesses over themselves, has clothed our spirits in the garment of the body. Yes. Yunus Emre says so too: "I was clothed in flesh and bone, I appeared as Yunus," he says. It has enabled us to appear outwardly in the visible realm. Each person, in the worldly realm, inside the garment of the body, according to their destiny, after living a certain lifespan — our bodies will die and become earth.

Our spirits, however, (?) over our bodies, in the barzakh realm, to the graves where the spirits have waited, will return. (?) at the Resurrection, Allah Almighty will bring our bodies that became earth back to life, make our bodies witnesses against our spirits, and once again cause our corpses to die. So according to the verse "We bring you to life twice and cause you to die twice," He will once again bring us out of the earth and bring us to life again in the hereafter. Our bodies will tell Allah Almighty, against our spirits, what they did in the world, and will be made to die again. What will remain eternal are our spirits and the life and nafs given to our spirits.

That is, spirit, nafs and life are one; our bodies are separate. So according to the verse "Every nafs shall taste death," the spirits do not die, they are immortal; the bodies taste death, and when they die, that will be the spirit's tasting of death. Yes.

Actually, these verses need a lot of unpacking. That is, when we explain this, man's first creation — when the bodies were created, when Allah Almighty had mud brought from the world and created our bodies — that before that our spirits had been created, of this we are unaware.

Before the spirits, the Prophet was created as a mercy to the worlds, the worlds were created from his light, from his spirit the spirits of the prophets, from the spirits of the prophets the spirits of the peoples were created. Since, indirectly, all people were created from the spirit of the Prophet, for that reason He says, "I will make you a witness over all the prophets, your ummah and the other ummahs." So the Prophet — since all the prophets are from the Prophet's spirit, "You, over the other prophets, a witness." He is giving good news. The verses all support one another here. Yes. in none of them will you find equality.

These need to be explained in great depth, but we are giving the meanings of the verses. We pass through here briefly, briefly, briefly, briefly. Otherwise, this is a deep science. A topic. Yes. If we set out to explain it, truly, believe me, it would be camel-loads of books.

And my lifetime probably wouldn't be enough to write it anyway.

You'll say: is there that much knowledge? Allah has given it to me. Allah has given it. If you see in me the opposite of this knowledge, if you see something false in what I explain, then you may speak of there being superstition in me too, and in what I say, sir, Allah protect us, you will have (?) that I am lying itself, you will have seen it. Allah protect us.

Yes.