Hud 14: If they can’t answer you, know that it was only sent down by Allah’s knowledge and verily, there is no deity other than Allah. Will you be Muslims from now on?

A. Metin Saruhan · 1 June 2017 · Hud

Translation

If they can’t answer you, know that it was only sent down by Allah’s knowledge and verily, there is no deity other than Allah. Will you be Muslims from now on?

Tafsir

O you who believe! If those who disbelieve in this Qur'an are unable to answer you for a single verse of the Qur'an, then show them by reciting verses from the Qur'an and say, 'This is a Book sent down by the Lord of the worlds with His knowledge. There is no creature among the creatures who can speak in response to one of the verses of the Qur'an or show one of its miracles. So He is the Lord of the worlds and there is no other God besides Him. Will you not be Muslims in the face of such truths, will you not turn to your Lord who created you?

What is said in the video

Surah Hud, verse fourteen. If they do not answer you, know that it has been sent down only with Allah's knowledge. That is, when you say this is Allah's speech, when you put it to proof, if they do not answer you, He says: they will not find answers to give anyway. Now, as I explained a little earlier, when he says the Quran does not address the ages, when we show this miracle, the miraculous verse, does this man have any way to give us an answer? Is he in a position to respond to us? The miracle is plain. Take it. The verses: take them.

In that case, since there will be no change in Allah's justice, since He has also made His sharia ruling known to people, however many laws people make according to the ages under the guise of civil law, let them make them, they cannot possibly match the law of the sharia ruling Allah sent to people. Why is it not possible? What is the reason? Allah Almighty created man very honourable, honourable; the honourable creation is His giving a portion from His Self, and on top of this He makes people honoured above the worlds. In this case, if man, above the worlds, is honoured, above the worlds, man as man has a dignity, an honour, a self-respect, a sense of decency, chastity. Chastity.

Today, in the sharia ruling, when Allah Almighty, of two married people who commit adultery, says stone them, when He gives a (?) deterrent punishment, in today's law, by passing laws so that these do not constitute a crime, when it says civil law, when the actions people may carry out by their own free will are declared to them, does this person's honour and dignity, chastity and decency remain? Does his honourable creation remain?

Allah's law: with the laws that any created being has made, you cannot match it. In this case: Muslims, He says, are brothers.

A brother's honour, blood and life are forbidden (haram) to his brother.

Well, what kind of Muslim is this, what kind of law? I am not saying sharia law. By what law is that Muslim governed, then? He violates his own brother's honour.

And he calls this civil law.

At the same time, people who are (?) like the people of Lot, with their own sex he marries off.

And he calls this the law of civilization. Is this man?

Is man this? Wasn't man honoured above the worlds, dignified, glorious, man, honoured? Is this man's glory and honour?

That is why we will know Islam well. We have no business with civil law. We live by Islamic law. My Muslim brother's honour is my honour. His life is my life, and his blood is my blood.

Just as a person would not let his own honour be violated, he must defend his brother in just the same spirit. In that case civil law, beside sharia law, cannot even touch it at a tangent. A tangent. That is why people seized by an inferiority complex, who, to satisfy their own (?), strip women stark naked: "It spoils the pleasure of our eyes," they say.

Such people, just as their lives within their own ideologies do not, their whole lives long, free them from unease, seeking the taste of life in drink, gambling and debauchery, spending their lives wretchedly and abjectly, these people, with their inferiority complexes, toward Muslims who live gloriously and honourably, (?), with the aim of turning them to their side, are busy preparing plots. They are plotting. And by bringing Muslims into the state of people who live like that, they insult them. In fact the Muslim lives in his own world with his Lord in peace. Peace. Look at a Muslim. Governed by Allah's sharia ruling, governed by His verse, who has known His Self as Lord within his Lord's existence and has surrendered to Allah: think of a Muslim like that.

He is patient in want too. In plenty too, as a blessing Allah gave, he gives thanks. In that want he says, "My Lord does not put on our backs a load we cannot bear." His Lord: with his Lord he lives in peace, intertwined. This world is like a dot in his heart. He is at peace. He knows that no one can take anything from this world to the Hereafter. He knows that man is in a test in the world. In that case this person, in the best way, to pass his test in the best way, is grateful for what comes from his Lord.

Now come to a man without faith.

He neither thanks Allah for what He gives, nor is content with what he has. He lives intertwined with the whims of his nafs, Satan and the world. He makes himself live in drink, gambling, the world of debauchery. "I'm living with these feelings," and what does he say? He has neither decency, nor honour, nor self-respect. He dances with the other man's wife, and the other man with his wife. And they sleep with each other. Under the guise of civilization they deceive each other. And in a swamp-like world like this, living in a swamp, they use up their lives. Afterwards, before Allah Almighty, who is eleysallahu bi-ahkemi'l-hâkimîn, when they are called to account in His presence, at that supreme court, at a time when regret is of no use, at a time when Allah Almighty withdraws His mercy from them, they find neither a helper nor an intercessor.

O man! Life is not only here. This is a world of travellers, a world of passing travellers.

We are all travellers here. We will support each other. We will protect each other. We will embrace each other. We will stand back to back. On the road on which our Lord has us spend our lives, on the straight path, we will go as far as it goes, until our life ends. Then the Paradise of an eternal, endless life that our Lord promised us we will attain. Would you want, for a life of a few hours, your eternal and endless world to turn into torment?

Yes.

That is why you should be governed well by Allah's verses. About me they say, this man does not let people read books.

They say he has people read his own book. And I say, my book is Allah's Book. My book is this. First you read this, then the superstitions people have instilled in you within the ideologies they have written: those, with these verses of Allah, compare. "What is this man's mentality?", then put your stamp on him. You do not read Allah's Book; the book people wrote within ideologies you read, saying you are doing scholarship, and then you come with superstitions and stand against the truth. May Allah give us reason.

We are opening up the fourteenth verse of Surah Hud. If they cannot answer you, know that it has been sent down only with Allah's knowledge. It was sent down with Allah's knowledge. And there is no god but Him. Will you now become Muslims? Yes, are you becoming Muslims? Now here, when it says with Allah's knowledge He sent it down: the Holy Quran, to the Sidrat al-Muntaha, on the twenty-seventh night of Ramadan, descends to the place called Qadr.

Right now the name of that realm is not really in my mind. But (?) it says, it says something there. There it descends to the place called Qadr. The Holy Quran. With what does it descend? With Allah's knowledge.

The Quran, the Quran, it says, was written by the (?) clean hands of angels. Now what does it mean here, saying (?) clean hands?

Angels are sexless, like robots. Robots. They are programmed. They cannot go outside the program. In that case they cannot go outside Allah's command. Exactly like a tape. Whatever you say, it records. It is like that with a tape too, isn't it? Now if they filmed me here, wherever they put it, it will repeat every word of mine exactly as it was. The angels too wrote in exactly this way. That is, it was written unadulterated and clean. With knowledge it descends to this place called Qadr. Where is this place called Qadr? As far as the place to which Jibril al-Amin can ascend, go up to the Sidrat al-Muntaha.

He cannot go beyond there. He goes only as far as the Sidrat al-Muntaha. As far as the place called Qadr. Why does he go as far as there? Allah Almighty reveals the Holy Quran by way of revelation to the Prophet (peace be upon him), into his heart. There is revelation.

When We reveal to a prophet, He says, Iblis inevitably sets out to tempt him. I am now telling you the wrong version of the verse; pay attention. "We, it says, cancel the temptation Satan will give, into the prophet's heart, it says, We reveal the revelation (?)," it says.

Well, if he is a prophet, then from then on all temptations, not only to him, not only to the revelation: then let Allah cancel all the temptations he will give in the prophet's heart.

The correct version of the verse: When We reveal to a prophet, He says, Iblis inevitably sets out to tempt him, He says. But We reveal that revelation firmly into the prophet's heart, He says. The temptation Iblis gives strikes that knowledge and is cancelled, He says.

In that heart it strikes that knowledge and is cancelled. A verse that confirms this: "For My servant who knows Me, Satan's temptation is foolish," He says.

Even a prophet uses his will. He will use his will. To the revelation, it says. Once the temptation he gives strikes that revelation, it is cancelled. Doesn't Satan tempt you? In the verse we separate them (?). Yes.

Now: Gabriel, (?)? with Allah Almighty's permission, what He reveals into the Prophet's heart, the sura, the verse, at the Sidrat al-Muntaha, at the place called Qadr: he takes that sura from the Holy Quran and reads it. These are like tape. It is recorded at once. The Prophet (peace be upon him) would read too. He reads. And they say Gabriel taught him this; look at the shameless ones. Come on, created from his light, the worlds created from his light. People created indirectly from His spirit as their Lord's (?), and Gabriel is going to teach the Prophet?

These people make up this much, I mean. It is either a deliberate insertion, or a product of ignorance, or people who, in a conscious silence, knowingly spread falsehood, falsehood over the truth and keep silent.

Gabriel, Jibril al-Amin, cannot teach the Prophet. He only reads; the Messenger of Allah would be reassured about what was revealed into his heart. In that case, if of Jibril al-Amin, that he is the Spirit, you say: who is the Spirit? Can you define the Spirit for me? If the Spirit is Gabriel, who is the other Spirit? "That holy Spirit," it says. Was it Gabriel who went to Mary? "The Spirit and the angels," it says, there, its measure once every 50,000 years, ascend. Where do the Spirit and the noble angels ascend once every 50,000 years? The noble angels ascend every 50,000 years into the presence of the Spirit, into the presence of the Spirit. Where there is no knowledge, people, distorting the verses again and again, have (?) them.

In that case, of course, one will say this, the other will say that. I will pass myself off as a scholar, get people to follow me, and take on that burden. If they feared Allah, would they do this? If they feared Allah. "This man is shouting," they say. Look, this man has been shouting for years; O Allah, this man has been speaking the truth for years. Hey, come here: who are you, which verse are you casting aside, and by what? Why don't you say it? If I am a Muslim, if I have taken up the truth, if I am explaining Allah while you are explaining superstition, and I am shouting this out loud, why don't you warn me, or if you know this, why are you silent, for Allah's sake?

The verses (?). "There is no speaking to every mind, sir; in so-and-so's book it says such-and-such." What do I care about the ideology in so-and-so's book? Once someone kept telling me, "You must read this Müzekki'n-Nüfus." "I don't read books," I said. "You must read it." "I won't." When he said "for the sake of Allah's pleasure," oh Allah, this Müzekki's (?) I took, I opened it for the first time: a hadith, it says. Now look at the hadith, pay attention. "The best of my community, 200 years after my death, is the one who is not (?) with children," it says. It would cut off the root of Islam.

They wrote this down as a hadith. Shame on you! Shame on you. Whereas: marry, multiply; I will take pride in the great number of my community, he says.

Yes.

Didn't they say this man denies hadith? This is how I deny hadiths. Allah forbid. Not the hadith. The fabrications.

Yes. If they do not answer you, know that it has been sent down only with Allah's knowledge. In one sense here, the Quran is Allah's own speech. Since it says His knowledge. That is, it is a book that will light the way for many people, that will be proof. "From Him it is a guidance and a mercy for people," it says. Yes. There is no god but Him. There is no deity at all but Him. Because it is Allah's speech. If the Quran is Allah's speech, if there is no deity at all but Him, if the people who have appeared until now said "I am god" and yet died, and if Allah, who created the worlds, makes known to us with His knowledge the order of all these worlds in the Quran, and until the Day of Judgment among us, outwardly in manifestation, speaks as if speaking with us, as if speaking before us, if He proves these miracles of His, His verses, in every age too, then of course there is no deity other than Allah.

Indeed, had there been another deity, our Lord would take what He created. That one too would take what it created, He says. Everything would be drowned in corruption. Yes.

Will you now become Muslims? That is, though I have explained this much to you, though I have made Myself known to you outwardly (?) and openly, though only you cannot see Me with these eyes and comprehend, though I have addressed your reason this much, with this much reason, can you still not comprehend Me? He says. You know it too, He says; you comprehend. But since He says "have you not seen the one who takes his nafs as god," the one who has hoisted the flag of his nafs, who says "I," the person living in the claim of the ego, has of course drawn a veil over his eyes; he cannot see the truth.

O you who believe! If those who deny this Holy Quran cannot answer you with the like of even one verse of the Holy Quran, cannot answer with the like of one verse, then you, reciting verses from the Quran to them, show them and say: this is a book sent down only by the Lord of the worlds, with His knowledge. Among created beings there is not one that could speak the like of one of the Quran's verses or show one of the miracles in it. So He, as Lord of the worlds, is One, and there is no deity but Him. Will you still not become Muslims in the face of so many truths? Will you not turn to your Lord who created you?

Here we put in a sentence like this. Don't misunderstand this: "could speak the like of one of the Quran's verses or show one of the miracles in it." This word needs clarification. "Could show one of the miracles in it." For example, one says: he performed the splitting of the moon. Or the tree miracle. The two seas were let loose into each other. "Here, he is showing it." Not in that sense. That he could create such a miracle. That is the meaning of "could show" here. In the sense of being able to create such a miracle. That part needs correcting. But even if we don't correct it, (?) this way anyway.

Yes.