Ar-Ra'd 1: Alif. Lam. Meem. Raa. These are from the verses of the Book. (It is) truth that was sent down from your Lord, but most people do not believe.

Surah Ar-Ra'd, verse 1: Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra. These are muqatta'at verses anyway; we know them. These are among the verses of the Book. That is, among the verses of the Holy Quran. Allah Almighty continues His verse anyway. These are among the verses of the Book. Even if they are single letters: Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra. Since Allah Almighty's language of speech is actually based on letters, some muqatta'at verses — that is, their meaning is unknown. These are verses known only by Allah. What they mean, what they constitute, only Allah knows. Yes: what has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth.

That is, this Holy Quran is a book sent down by Allah. It is the truth. Just as we believe in Allah's oneness, existence and unity, have faith in it, this is a book sent down from our Lord, His word, a book. But most people do not believe, it says, and indeed today if we compare the number of Muslims in the world with the world population, compared to the world population the number of Muslims is less than half. Let's say there are about three billion Muslims, of this — is the world population four billion or seven billion? Has it become eight? About eight. The rest are non-Muslims. So what does this mean?

But most people do not believe. In that case, if Allah, Allah Almighty says most people, then indeed most do not believe. How does He know this? How does He know? Allah Almighty — Allah Almighty created our souls. At the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm, when He said to them I am your Lord, there they split into three groups. Three groups. What does Allah Almighty say? In Surah Al-Waqi'ah, verses seven, eight and nine: ve küntüm ezvâcen selâseh; (?) it says: classes. There, when He said I am your Lord, they split into three classes. Ve ashâbu'l-meymeneti mâ ashâbu'l-meymeneh: those on the right; and ashâbu'l-meş'emeti: those on the left, as He calls them; the group of the sâbikûn: the saints, the prophets, the martyrs, (?), all of them.

In return for the people who split up here and His making a covenant with them one by one — which in Surah Al-A'raf, verse 172: with those who will appear from the offspring of the children of Adam We made a covenant, it says. Sir, in that case, however many people He created, with them, when He made the covenant, how many people knew His essence and how many people denied His essence, He already knows. So He says most people do not believe. In what? In the religion, in Islam. Why do they not believe? In people's being there is arrogance, pride, fame, renown, ego, grandeur and worldly desire. In that case, because of people's fame and renown, arrogance and pride, since they likened Allah Almighty to His essence — since they likened Him to themselves — and since Allah Almighty gave man of His spirit, He equipped man with the forms of His essence.

That is, He gave man (?) from His own forms. In that case, when man saw the Lord before him as like himself, saying: this is not the Lord of my imagination, he denied Allah. He knows he was created; they say yes, it says. The point of saying yes is not that all say yes. Allah Almighty: with a reason I gave them, they, He says, know that they were created by a god. That's why they say yes. If, instead of saying yes, they had said no, then, with some, that He could not give them a reason to know Allah, to know there is a Lord who created them, would have come out. Since they said yes — yes. That is, these too know that a Lord created them.

So, although the Lord they expected in their imagination did not appear, although they know that they too were created by a Lord, these, out of their own stubbornness and pride, their arrogance, because they saw Me as like themselves, denied. But they will not see their Lord, it says. What a beautiful thing it says. Those unaware of these verses, who don't know them, this "they will not see their Lord" verse — they interpret it. With their outward, small minds, of course. Some say it indicates that Allah Almighty will be seen in Paradise. They will not see their Lord, you see. Others say they will be gathered as blind.

They don't know what it is. Whereas when Allah Almighty says they will not see their Lord, His word symbolizes tawhid. Tawhid. Because there is no god other than Allah that they could see a god who created them. Allah Almighty symbolizes tawhid.

That's why, as we always say, by outward knowledge, by knowing Arabic, these are not verses that can be opened. Yes. What does it say? But most people do not believe.

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra — these are muqatta'at verses whose meaning, as I said a moment ago, Allah knows best. Giving meaning to them leads a person to kufr. Now, since everything I say is the counterpart of verses, this too is the counterpart of a verse.

Give me the Holy Quran. Bring my Holy Quran from inside. The one I wrote. Move those aside, dear. Take these.

Yes.

Now, Surah Al- Imran, verse 7: what does it say in the verse? Whereas only Allah knows the verses of those mutashabih verses, it says. Only Allah knows. If we take it from a bit higher up: some are verses, it says, that are mutashabih. Those with doubts in their hearts. Now, in the verse: those with doubts in their hearts, to stir up discord, follow, as their minds see fit, the interpretation of the mutashabih verses. They interpret, don't they: for example, Alif means this, Mim means that, they interpret. Sir, they follow its interpretation. Whereas only Allah knows the interpretation of that mutashabih, it says.

So here, those with doubts in their hearts, and to stir up discord, chase after the mutashabih verses as their minds see fit — in that verse, here what are we saying? We say: giving meaning to them leads a person to kufr — the counterpart of the verses. Because only Allah knows their meanings. This too is a verse anyway. Allah's word is based on letters. The coming together of these letters — like Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra — is a single verse. Sir, their coming together, as at the start of this surah, forms muqatta'at verses. They are also called mutashabih verses, the muqatta'at verses. What do these verses express?

What is their meaning? Only Allah knows this. Words are spoken as the counterparts of the verses. As I read a moment ago. Those with doubts in their hearts, to stir up discord, follow, as their minds see fit, the mutashabih verses' interpretation.

Whereas only Allah knows the interpretation of this mutashabih. So no one can give meaning to such verses.

Whoever tries to give them meaning is of those, people in doubt trying to stir up discord — the counterparts of the verses. We write each sentence here in spoken language as the counterpart of the verse. Yes. So these muqatta'at verses too are among the verses of the Holy Quran. Because Allah declares it.

As Allah Almighty declares in Surah Al Imran, verse 7, the Holy Quran He sent down on two foundations. Two foundations. The first: mutashabih verses. What are we saying?

They are among the verses of the Holy Quran. As Allah Almighty declares in Surah Al Imran, verse 7, the Holy Quran He sent down on two foundations. One of them is the muhkam verses, which are verses made known clearly and plainly. Clear and plain, He says: the verses in which, with their sharia rulings, Allah Almighty, shining a light before us, makes His laws known to us. These are the muhkam verses. That is, verses made known to people. These verses form the basis of the Holy Quran. The second part is the muqatta'at verses. That is, the mutashabih verses, which are also called mutashabih verses.

They are verses whose meanings are known only by Allah. By Allah Almighty. And people who try to give meaning to these mutashabih verses are surely people who have fallen for the passion of being a leader. If Allah Almighty said only Allah knows its meaning, and a person goes and tries to give meaning to these mutashabih verses, the Prophet (peace be upon him) says this about them. Those who fall for the passion of being a head lose their heads, he says. So someone who has fallen for the passion of being a head, (?) saying "I give meaning to the muqatta'at verses", to people making false, wrong interpretations, and in that interpretation giving meaning in a way people will like, and to those people, with a passion of being a head that he calls (?), with such talk, following interpretation, and with such talk, these fall into kufr.

His saying these are among the verses of the Book — that is, that these muqatta'at verses are among the verses of the Book, the Book being the Holy Quran. Since Allah's word is based on letters: that each letter is a verse. What does it say? These are among the verses of the Book. That is, Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra, Taha, Yasin — these, sir, are all muqatta'at verses. So if Allah Almighty, with such muqatta'at verses, with single letters, has hidden certain secrets from us, not told them — since the wet and the dry are in the Quran — then, so that people do not, with these letters, wonder what Allah intends, and do not say: are these letters even from Allah? — see what Allah Almighty says: these are among the verses of the Book. So what is a verse here?

It is the sentence Allah Almighty makes known to us, (?) before us. A sentence. We call these verses. For example, since He says among the verses of the Book — a sentence. What does it say? What is sent down from your Lord is the truth. A sentence; these are verses. In the second sense, "ayah" means miracle. Allah Almighty says He shows signs. For example, He shows miracles. Perhaps, when He says these are among the verses of the Book, since the Quran is a secret and a miracle, when He says to you "among the verses of the Quran", He is saying the Quran is a miracle. A miracle. The Quran being a miracle is supported by another verse.

If this were made up by a human, I would find in it (?) many words. Well, so this is a miracle. In that case, when He says ayah, it means both the word sent down by Allah Almighty, and the relation that Allah Almighty's word is based on letters, and perhaps His creating a miracle with them — Allah Almighty creating a miracle and laying the miracle out before us. The Holy Quran is a miracle. It changes meaning by meaning, that is, but we don't open these up saying it means this. What do we open, then? When it says these are among the verses of the Book, we open up the verses. For example, Allah Almighty says how many signs He showed Moses.

Right? He showed Our signs. That is, He showed Our miracles.

Yes. His saying these are among the verses of the Book: since Allah's word is based on letters, that each letter is a verse, and that by the letters' coming together verses are formed again, that many secrets are hidden in them, and that within these secrets verses people can understand come about, making up the whole of the Quran, shining a light before mankind, that it has people reach guidance and salvation — to declare that, what is it? brings them to it. Allah Almighty sent man into a hidden realm. That is, into a realm where His essence is veiled. What will man know here? For example, say I took a child, took him to a forest in Africa and left him there.

What will that child do there? What can he do there? So he needs a leader, a guide. He needs an elder to get him used to that place. So Allah Almighty, since He created our father Adam as the first human, sends him to the world, brings him out of Paradise, and first shows him the life of Paradise. How is one to live? He teaches him there the way of living. Then the adventures to come, that is, the events that will follow one another and appear — by bringing events forth one after another, He brings forth events, sends him to the world. This time he tries to continue his life from there in the world.

He tries to get his children used to their surroundings, and so, man in a hidden realm, by Allah's command — what they are to do, Allah Almighty, by informing our father Adam, and then for those after him, by shining a light before people through messengers and prophets, by informing them what to do, in the world He willed that mankind settle and know its Lord. But as, apart from those who know Him, who know their Lord, the number of those who deny Allah grew, He also destroyed those who pushed and overstepped Allah's limits. Here Allah Almighty showed us His signs. He showed His miracles. By destroying them — the existence of His essence, His unity, that there is no god besides Him, and that those who overstep Allah's limits will also be condemned to Hell in the realm of the Hereafter — our Lord inescapably proves His existence, that is.

With destructions, miracles, signs, in every case Allah Almighty proves His existence. To everyone with reason. After this verse, Allah Almighty will set out His existence anyway. That is, He will prove that He is a god, that He created the worlds, that no being can establish this order by itself; these, in the following verses we will open up, inshallah.

So this Quran is sent down to you from your Lord, and it is the truth. It is sent down by Allah Almighty. Because the Quran's verses, through the coming together of (?) letters, are not like people's spoken language. For example, I say: come here. With (?) letters I say: come here. That is, with our own words, one understands he is to come over. But when Allah Almighty says come here, through the arrangement of the letters, within those letters meanings come about. Meanings. With us it amounts to a person coming over to me. But in the word Allah Almighty makes known to us, it opens up meaning by meaning.

We'll go through those now anyway. In people's spoken language, letters (?). They are words placed side by side. But in the verses of the Holy Quran, through letters coming side by side, in Allah's sight, many meanings arise. And what does it do? From seven to seventy it rises meaning by meaning. And there are even more meanings. How do you know? In a hadith, the Prophet (peace be upon him) says this: Every day, he says, I would repent seventy times for my shortcoming, he says. Seventy times. Now, can the Messenger of Allah have a shortcoming? With respect to the verses. First he receives the meaning.

Fine, the first meaning, meaning. When he receives the second, he sees the deficiency in the first meaning. With the third meaning he sees the deficiency of the second. When he receives the sixtieth meaning, he sees the deficiency compared to the fifty-ninth. And when he receives the seventieth meaning, he sees that the sixty-ninth meaning was deficient. He sees his shortcoming. With respect to the verses, of course. With respect to the worlds he is complete and perfect. Now in this case we see that the verses open up meaning by meaning. That is, with one verse you cannot (?) Allah Almighty.

Yes, so this Quran is sent down to you from your Lord, and it is the truth, it says. It is the truth. Because the Quran's verses, through the coming together of (?) letters, are not like people's spoken language. In the verses of the Holy Quran, even the letters coming side by side, in Allah's sight, carry many meanings.

But in the verses of the Holy Quran, even the letters coming side by side, in Allah's sight, carry many meanings. All knowledge and the secret of the universe's creation, and also all the events that will go on from the universe's creation until the Last Day are within the Holy Quran. That is, the wet and the dry, as the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, all of it is in the Quran. However many, on this earth, animals, however many humans, however many creatures there are, outside the world, in the galaxies and the seven layers of heavens, the Throne and the Kursi, what is within them — all of it, in our Lord's knowledge programmed, will continue its course until the Last Day. All of these have been made known to us within the Holy Quran.

Within the Holy Quran.

Is there proof? There is. With Us there is a book, preserved in the Preserved Tablet. To it, afterwards, nothing is added and nothing taken away, it says.

If the wet and the dry are there too, all of it is set within the Quran.

That knowledge in a field of learning, written by people in thousands of pages, Allah Almighty has perhaps, within one letter, fit it. One letter. Because the secret of creating is with Allah Almighty, you see. In that case, since all branches of knowledge, their roots and the secret of creation are in it, the knowledge of this whole universe will of course be in the Holy Quran, with formulas.

Think of it like this: take a cell; the cell you shrink millions of times, you come across millions of DNA chains; after shrinking it millions of times, onto a tiny card, I don't know how many megabytes of memory, you fit, you load; that is, onto a tiny card. Of course the Holy Quran — they say 6,666 verses, but 6,300-odd verses; within these verses — think: the book in that card's memory, its verse our minds cannot grasp. Why not? Because our minds were given to us at 12 percent and limited. 100 percent is reserved for Allah Almighty. In that case, if a person with a mind limited to 12 percent does so much, think what 100 percent does; and His word, of course, will all be gathered in here. Yes.

It is within the Holy Quran.

Although it is said that six thousand six hundred and sixty-six verses fit on six hundred and three pages, there are six thousand three hundred-odd verses; that the whole universe's creation with its secrets, the main roots of all sciences, are within it reveals that this is not a human word. If this were a human word, there would be many (?) in it that do not agree with each other.

Because the Holy Quran, the word of Allah, encompasses all events. The wet and the dry are in the Holy Quran.

In a verse it says: if the seas were ink and the trees pens, the seas and the trees would run out, yet Allah's word would not run out. That's the verse. Yes. So Allah's true Holy Quran is a miracle. It is sent down by Allah, and there is never a human word in it. Because in a verse He says: We sent down the Quran, and We are its guardian until the Last Day — so He declares. So when we speak, as counterparts of the verses — I have no power to open them anyway — I don't open them.

The meaning here (?): that just as Allah's verses in the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel were changed, it makes known that they will not be able to change them so. Because when the verses of the other books were changed by people, since the prophets coming after would bring Allah's verses, events that would increase people's own kufr were permitted. Permitted. Everyone will prove himself, you see. And there would be prophets coming after. Those prophets would say: those verses are not like this but like this. For example, in the time of John, the ruler, that is the king of that place, wants to marry his sister's daughter.

They ask John for permission. John does not permit it. Such a thing cannot be, he says. But, they say, it was in the language of Moses, they say. There — something slipped into the Torah. It was in the language of Moses, they say. John says exactly this. I am not in the language of Moses; I am in the language of Jesus, he says.

And because he did not give the fatwa, they take his head. When his father Zechariah (peace be upon him) came to save his son, the Jews went after him. To hide from the Jews, he goes into a tree trunk. They cut him with a saw, too.

Yes.

So see how they twisted things around.

Because when the verses of the other books were changed by people, since the prophets coming after would bring Allah's verses, events that would increase people's own kufr were permitted. But since after the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him), no prophet will come again, so that people coming until the Last Day are informed of Allah's word, no one will be able to touch these verses. The reason: We sent down the Quran, and We are its guardian until the Last Day, it says. In not a single letter of it is damage done, nor damage, it says.

Plus, in a verse He declares: We do not hold anyone responsible for anything We have not made heard. Of course: He will make the Holy Quran known, so that people hear the verses, since no prophet will come again, We didn't hear these. You sent us to a hidden realm. Surely, had You made it heard to us, we would have done better. So that you do not say this, it says. Here, in the verse, see what it says now.

Surah Ta-Ha, verse 134: If We had, before this, before the Quran, before the Quran, destroyed them with a punishment — that is, before sending them a thing We had not made heard, if We had destroyed them, they would surely have said this, it says. Our Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, so that before falling into this disgrace and humiliation we had followed Your verses, it says.

So Allah Almighty will call no one to account for what they did not hear. Since no prophet will come again, the protection of the Quran Allah Almighty Himself takes on here.

Sir, in Surah Al-Qasas, verse 47: because of what they themselves did, (?). Because of their covenant there, it says, because of their covenant in it, when upon them a calamity comes, having come into the world, it says, by their own doings, by the desires and wishes they had, when a calamity befalls them, it says, Our Lord, if only You had sent us a prophet, we would follow Your verses, we would be among the believers, they would say — were it not so, We would not have sent you, it says.

In that case, since no prophet will come again, such sophistries — if they change the verses, they cannot change their meanings. If they change their meanings, they cannot change the verses. The verses will last until the Last Day; of the sophistries, those passing themselves off as "I am a scholar" while bound by superstitions, who, outside the verses, ascribe attributes to Allah and attribute words to Allah and His Messenger — their punishments: both they will be called to account in Allah's sight, and if people follow this, follow them, they too will see the punishments those see. Why? He will not be able to say: You sent me a scholar, sent me a hodja, and I followed him.

You should have learned the foundation, He will say. What is the foundation? The verses. So: every 100 years, every 200 years We raise up scholars, We raise up heirs of the prophets; they explain the verses to you properly. Properly. If you follow sophistries that suit you, turn your back on those who tell the truth, and push Allah aside, then — since Allah will call no one to account for what He has not made heard, He will surely make it heard, and for what He has made heard, people will be called to account. Yes.

Now, again in a verse, see what Allah Almighty says. Surah Al-Ahzab, verse 57: Those who hurt Allah and His Messenger, Allah has cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and for them He has prepared a humiliating punishment. Though Allah and His Messenger did not say it, if they say Allah and His Messenger said so, explain the Quran's verses falsely and wrongly and ascribe attributes to Allah and His Messenger, if one says Allah created humans and jinn for Hell, if one says Allah increases a person's kufr, if one says Allah will put whom He wills into Paradise, whom He wills into Hell, if, because in Arabic it comes out like this, one makes Arabic his god and on Allah's verse turns his back — does he become the person this verse is about, or not?

I'm asking you now. Does he or doesn't he? Yes. Allah is that Allah who, out of His mercy, since he has said the kalima shahada, since he has said the kalima shahada, does not push him into that group of disbelievers, and so he enters the group of sinners. And moreover, if one has a say, at the head of Islam — "of Islam", they say — and the nation's eyes are on that office, and the people in this office, with such superstitions, people, plus Allah's, steer them so as to ascribe attributes to Allah — the burden of that, you think about it. According to these verses.

May Allah be pleased with you. Yes.

So Allah, who is free from deficient attributes, in order to make the Quran's verses heard to people, has taken its guardianship upon Himself.

In this respect, since if even a dot of it changes, the meaning would change and a deficiency arise in it, Allah Almighty has taken on the guardianship of the Holy Quran. Because there is no prophet anymore. So the Quran was sent as a miracle. Allah proved His existence in this way, with miracles. For 1400-odd years, not a single deficiency found in even one verse of the Holy Quran; people — when in the Quran's verses, over time, science and technology are found, the miracles of the verses are seen. Although Allah introduced His essence to people completely, most people believe neither in the Quran nor in Allah.

Over time, as technology developed, more powerfully than the miracles of the prophets, Allah Almighty, with His verses, His miracles has shown over time, after the Prophet. For example, perhaps the people of that time might call a person's showing a miracle magic, for instance. For a moment.

Such a thing doesn't happen for believers, though. Unbelievers might say so. But in this age, with the advance of technology, when as the counterpart of the Quran's verses a miracle is found, you cannot call it magic. You confess to it that Allah Himself is the absolute owner of this universe. Like what? Captain Cousteau's finding in the Strait of Gibraltar fresh water and salt water together and not mixing — if this miracle was written in this book 1400-odd years before, you know that this universe has a creator, and that He is Allah, besides whom there is no god, and that the Quran is true. Dr. Darwin's — the people of the Sabbath's ape, comes from the skeleton of the human ape, comes from the ape — his (?) proving that Allah Almighty turned the form of the people of the Sabbath into apes.

In these, within technology, much more powerfully, that Allah Almighty is the absolute owner of this universe, His bringing into being from nothing, and that all people He created live, and after everyone has proved what kind of person he is, after moving on to the Hereafter, the Last Hour comes and finally the Supreme Court is set up and everyone is called to account for what they did, for their deeds — this, clearly and plainly, He shows us with His miracles. Could there be a clearer miracle than this? Yes.

Allah's miracles are countless. If we give one example of these miracles in our time — which we said: fresh water and salt water being together, we told of it — so these people who do not use their reason, deceived by the transient world's pleasures, longing for the light yet living in darkness, setting out without provisions and unprepared — every moment the journey's starting time drawing near, disregarding it, of the Hereafter realm they will be travellers — that is, the decree of the Truth being lasting, people who do not know when they will die, people setting out without provisions and unprepared, that any moment the Hereafter journey's starting time is approaching, disregarding it, as if eternal — as if they would stay in the world forever, for where they will go people who make no preparation: when they face the realities, their regret will be of no use to them.

Yes.