Al-An'am 38: Animals who walk on earth and birds that fly with their wings are all communities like you. We have not left anything incomplete in that Book. Then, they will be summoned and brought to their Lord.

Surah Al-An'am, verse 38 — we have come to this verse. The animals that walk on the earth and the birds that fly with their two wings are all only communities like you. That is, We brought man into being from nothing. Just as, from His light, He created the Beloved of the Almighty, (?) Muhammad (peace be upon him), and as from his light He also created these worlds — the animals that walk on the earth, the angels in the heavens, the birds that fly in the air, Iblis included, all were created from his light, from his light. Then, by giving of His spirit to the Prophet, and from his spirit the spirits of the prophets, and in the spirits of the prophets the spirits of the peoples were created — whether from His light or from His spirit.

They too are communities created by Allah. I suppose it is understood.

The animals that walk on the earth and the birds that fly with their two wings are all only communities like you. We have left nothing out of that Book. That Book is the Wise Reminder. Nothing in the Quran was left out. No, no. No, no. Human reason is partial anyway; Allah Almighty, with His universal being, sent us the Quran without any gap. Of course He wrote all of it in the Quran.

Then they will only be gathered and brought to their Lord, it says. What does it say? Then they will only be gathered and brought to their Lord. if all these created beings are communities like us, Allah Almighty is declaring that there is no god besides Himself and that all these created beings were created by Him. This is one, this is the first meaning. In the second meaning, between the creation of the animals and the creation of human beings, Allah Almighty, (?), created all of them Himself, with justice, for the duties they would carry out. In the third meaning, Allah Almighty programmed those animals Himself. Man, however, had himself programmed by his Lord.

In that case, since man, as a part of his Lord, carries a spirit from His being, he became the noblest of all creatures, of all created beings.

So man truly (?). Created. Yes. Then all living beings, those seen by the eye and those unseen, the birds flying in the air, the animals roaming the earth, roaming the earth, the jinn and human beings will give account at that Supreme Court. Birds too? Will animals also give account? Yes, they too will give account. But didn't Allah Almighty program them Himself, with His own being? Well, if He programmed them, how will they give account? When the animals are gathered, Allah Almighty says in His noble (?), if they have hurt one another, hurt one another, then by Allah Almighty's attribute in Eleysallahu bi-ahkemi'l- hâkimîn, Judge of judges, those animals too will take their rights from one another and vanish. Except the first created ones.

They will enter Paradise.

Here Allah Almighty, how beautifully He tells us that with great justice He will judge among His creatures.

The animals that walk on the earth and the birds that fly with their two wings are all only communities like you — what is meant by this saying: that all created beings are creatures, only creatures; the one who wills and creates, who carries out what He wills, is Allah. Yes. So all created beings, all of them, are creatures. Only Allah Almighty creates in proportion to His will, and when He wants something to be, it is enough for Him to say "Be." But this saying of "Be" never happens with sound and letters, never. As in "We said 'Be' and it was." Never. Imam al-Ghazali says so too. That foolish man says, he says: He said "Be" and it was.

Yes. Well then, what is the meaning of this? In a verse Allah Almighty says:

We created the heavens in two days, and the earth in two days, and what is between them in two days. We created all of it in six days. So He did not say "Be" and it was. It did not happen all at once. Then what happened? It was bound to time. Before the world was created — if a thousand years here are like one day of the Hereafter, He created it in six thousand years by the measure of this world. In six thousand years. Yes. In that case, not with sound and letter — if Allah wills, He creates. This is its meaning. When He says "Be," that is, if our Lord wills something, since He knows the secret of creation, since He is able to bring into being from nothing, He creates. He creates.

Yes. This is its meaning. He creates.

That creating does not happen by saying "Be," those at the level of nafs-i safiye know; Imam al-Ghazali says so too, so he says it because he knows; the people at nafs-i safiye, the people who correspond to this verse: "We did not take Satan and his companions as witnesses to Ourselves while creating these worlds." So our Lord sends to the earth prophets (?) who will explain His freedom to people until the Day of Judgement. He shows those people too that He created the beings He created in such a way that they can in no way complain about Allah Almighty. One of them is me, as a witness. Yes.

So then, Allah Almighty will gather all His creatures on the earth; they will take their rights from one another and vanish. Except the first created ones.

So Allah Almighty, by creating whom He wills in the way He wills, declares that He is their owner. Allah Almighty, in these worlds. His creating whom He wills in the way He wills. In the way He wills. What is the way Allah Almighty wills? We said He created seventeen thousand worlds. Within these seventeen thousand worlds, whatever is needed, whatever is necessary, whatever will cleanse what, whatever wisdom there is — He knows its wisdom. He creates them. their Creator. So if Allah Almighty created all of it, from the atom to the globe, free from any deficient attribute, and says "I created these worlds firmly," then our Lord, who creates firmly, free from deficient attributes, set up the order of these worlds and brought us to the earth as the noblest of creatures, and according to His verse "In the end your return is to Me," He created these worlds too for the sake of His Beloved's honour, created them so that His being would be known. In that case these people, these people, as the noblest of creatures in this world, if they turn their backs on their Lord, tomorrow at the Supreme Court they will enter Hell, the place of eternal punishment, of which He says "What an evil place of return." Yes.

What does it say? The animals that walk on the earth and the birds that fly with their two wings are all only communities like you, all like you — what is meant by this saying: that all created beings are creatures, only creatures; the one who wills and creates, who carries out what He wills, is Allah. By creating whom He wills in the way He wills, He declares that He is their owner.

Yes.

They

are a community like you — this saying: that the one who created us is Allah, the one God, and that people too are Allah's created communities and servants — in the clear Quran He has written it all out in a way every mind can understand; Allah, who informed us of it without gap, proving that He is also the Creator of the other beings, declares that there is no god besides Him. By saying it this way, Allah Almighty is proving His own being.

From this, the following meaning is mentioned again: if there is no creator and god besides Him, then the essence of tawhid, the meaning of la ilahe illallah, emerges. In this way Allah Almighty, with all His verses, that there is no creator besides Himself, that He is the owner of the heavens and the earth and what is between them — according to His verse "the inheritance of the heavens and the earth and what is between them belongs to Allah," and again in His verse, absolute power in His dominion is Allah's. Again in a verse, the dominion of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah — with these verses continually. La ilahe illallah — that there is no god besides Allah Almighty He is proving.

Yes. And what do we say? When we do dhikr: Lâ ilâhe illallahu vahdehû lâ şerîke leh, lehü'l-mülkü ve lehü'l-hamdü ve hüve alâ külli şey'in kadîr. My Allah, besides whom there is no god. Lâ ilâhe illallahu vahdeh. He is one, it says. Vahdehû. Lâ şerîke leh: He has no partner. Creation in His dominion belongs to Allah alone, it says. Ve hüve alâ külli şey'in kadîr: He has power over all things, it says. What a beautiful dhikr. Yes.

Allah Almighty says, We have left nothing out of that Book. Nothing. So what is meant is that, by Allah's attribute of being Allah, no one will be able to question Him or call Him to account. Why? Because He has written it all out, and the person, by his own desire and wish, has played on earth, as an actor, the script he had written, played it, and whatever he desired, from the atom to the globe, Allah Almighty created what he desired; the deeds that each one carried out, Allah Almighty has written down without gap, an atom's weight of good and an atom's weight of evil. On the Day of Judgement at the Supreme Court, in the presence of Allah Almighty, in such a way that he can in no way question Him, he will give account in His divine presence.

Yes. What is meant by Allah Almighty saying, We have left nothing out of that Book, is that by Allah's attribute of being Allah, no one will be able to question Him or call Him to account. Allah will not be in the position of keeping people from asking by using force. Allah — that Allah who, since He knows what all the beings He created need and what they will ask, brings forth what they will do and what they will ask; so when people are called to account for what they did, Allah Almighty will have brought forth all they would ask, and seeing their own deficiency and faults, they will not be able to question or call Him to account.

Because human reason is deficient, people's states and actions before Allah, the universal Intellect, are deficient and faulty.

If people cannot understand what I say, they will accuse us of heresy.

What does he say? Those superstitious minds, superstitious minds, but — he called Allah the universal Intellect, look, he gave Him an attribute, he says. Well, if Allah had no intellect, could He create these things?

How much he displays his ignorance. That is, they have memorized one thing. And they have mortgaged their own minds to superstitious words. Mortgaged them. To superstitious minds. Yet Allah Almighty says in His verse, Do you not use your reason at all? Do you not reflect at all? He says. So if Allah Almighty raised these worlds above us by comparison, created them by comparison, why do you not compare these verses, these deeds carried out, with your reason?

Because he does not have that ability.

Yes. What does it say? We raised these worlds, it says, by a comparison for you; We lifted them up. Everything is within a measure, it says. Measure.

That is why man will use his reason. The universal Spirit is also Allah Almighty, the universal Spirit; those who ask you about the spirits — (?) a command (?). The universal Spirit is Allah Almighty, the universal Intellect is Allah Almighty, the universal nafs is Allah Almighty, yes; if He gave us a part of it, its part — that part — if soul, nafs and spirit are one, if the bodies are separate, souls are not mortal, it says, bodies are mortal. In this case, if we carry a spirit as a part from our Lord, the universal Spirit carries the same attributes; earlier we said this: from the sea, it says, from the sea, from the oceans, if you take a drop, that drop carries the properties of the ocean. It carries the properties of that water.

Yes.

So listen to me well. Truly, listen to me well. In the light of the verses, we prove everything I say with verses anyway. Do not get carried away by superstitions. No — Allah supposedly cannot be seen. Well, of course He is not seen in this world. One cannot see Him with these outward eyes. Because it is a hidden world. Supposedly He is not seen in the Hereafter either. But you say he will see Allah Almighty, don't you? Well, he says, like a kind of image, or like a sun, (?). Then who will call you to account at the Supreme Court? Then who was present for you in the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm, where He said "I am your Lord" — who was there?

Which Lord was there? If you cannot see Him. Is He an unseen Lord to you? Elestü bi-Rabbiküm — He said, I am your Lord. Did that unseen Lord say it? Did you make a covenant with that unseen Lord?

Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says: By Allah and by Allah, I do not worship a Lord I have not seen. And I say: By Allah and by Allah, I too do not worship that Lord I have not seen. Yes. Is there an unseen Lord? Is there an Allah like that? Free from form. (?) if He is free from form, He is not seen.

Always half-baked words (?). Half-baked words. Allah Almighty is free from any one fixed form. He is free from form. That is, free from form. Free from any one fixed form. He (?) changes attributes.

How do you know, Hodja? There is his lived experience. — I don't believe his experience. All right. There is a verse. What is that verse? He rose upright once more in his true form. His heart did not deny what his eye saw. Do you know the meaning of these verses? You still call him Gabriel. Gabriel — at the Sidrat al-Muntaha, the one who said, "If I went one ant's length further, I would burn." Gabriel — at that highest horizon, where time and space meet, in a place where time and space do not exist, how was he at that extreme point? How did Gabriel go outside time and space? How do you call this Gabriel?

From which knowledge do you say this? And you say, Allah revealed to His servant. Revelation is Allah Almighty, who is beyond time and space, speaking by way of communication to the heart of the Prophet (peace be upon him). And if you cannot master these sciences, with a tiny bit of Arabic you open it up like this from your little store.

Because human reason is deficient, people's states and actions before Allah, the universal Intellect, are deficient and faulty. For this reason, a person understanding his deficiency and fault, repenting and seeking forgiveness, asking pardon of Allah, pleases Allah. Why does it please Him? Because He gave us a part of His being. I created you to see My being in My being as a mirror, He says. That is, since He created His Beloved — you, the mirror — to see His being in that mirror, and from him, from his spirit, created people, Allah Almighty does not separate people from His being. But He restricts their reason, their reason.

With this restricted reason people may take what is right as wrong, and what is wrong as right. In that case man can also err through the feelings of the nafs. A partial reason, a partial spirit. In that case man knows the purpose of his creation. My Lord, I have erred, forgive me — when he says this, it pleases Allah Almighty; He forgives him. If, He says, you had not committed errors, We would destroy you and create on earth servants who commit errors, He says. The reason is that since He gave a part of His spirit, Allah Almighty does not like that person's egotism, pride, arrogance and grandeur.

Man with his head bowed before his Lord, his hand open to ask of his Lord, and binding his heart to his Lord, as a servant obedient to his Lord — this is how Allah Almighty wants to see man. The person who, in proportion to this reason, is such a servant to his Creator, his Lord, because he fits Allah's purpose in creating, Allah loves them. Here is one more verse for you. Those who err, it says, and quickly understand their error and seek pardon and forgiveness, it says, We forgive their error, it says. Yes.

Yes. For this reason He created man close to His being. With man created close to His being, had He given people the whole of reason, He would have created beings equal to Himself, and everything would have drowned in corruption. That is, had He given the whole of reason too, people too would have been able to create things. Able. Then every person would be (?) as a creator, a god. Everything would drown in corruption. What a beautiful order Allah Almighty has set up. There is no god besides Him. He has no family, no child either. How beautiful. If He had, perhaps I would be jealous. I would be jealous.

Since it is His being, we are all His servants. All people are their servants. His creatures are their servants. His servants, Allah's servants. We are all like the children of one father. We are all servants of our Lord. Yes. And then man takes pride, it says, in Allah Almighty. He takes pride in his Lord.

For this reason Allah, by restricting human reason, created man in need of Him and finding life through Him. The attribute al-Hayy: Allah Almighty gives life to all His creatures, yet He is free from those creatures. For this reason too, in the Quran He left no gap by which anyone could attribute a fault to Allah. Then they will all be gathered and brought to their Lord. Every soul will taste death. Yes. Having tasted it, they will be returned to Allah Almighty.

Finally, when the Last Day breaks, Allah, who gathers His creatures again in His presence, will have the animals take their rights from one another and then annihilate them. But of every animal He created, He will admit one pair into Paradise. Here it enters the secret of the secret, the seventh state, nafs-i safiye. As for human beings, Allah Almighty, who wills that His being be known through the divine part in them, will call people to account on that Day of Reckoning for what they did and send everyone to the place they deserve.