Al-An'am 131: The truth is, your Lord will not unjustly destroy towns while the inhabitants are unaware,

We have come to verse 131 of Surah Al-An'am. "The truth is," says Allah Almighty, He is telling the truth now. I always tell the truth anyway, He says. Allah Almighty. I always speak what is right anyway, He says. Your Lord would not destroy towns unjustly while their people were unaware, He says. Look at Allah Almighty's justice. That is, a people has gone outside Allah's command and continues in that way of life. If such a people suffers destruction — without sending them a summoner, without making Our Being known to them, without showing them the path of truth, We do not destroy them, He says.

Look at the justice. The justice. At Allah's greatness. Let us read the verse once more. The truth is, while their people were unaware, that is, while We had not sent them (?), had not guided them, had not sent them prophets, books or scholars, your Lord would not destroy towns unjustly, He says. Well then. So I say here: O man, though Allah Almighty sent so many prophets, scholars, books, if you take your life outside the religion of Islam and, today, those who lead kufr, calling them stars, calling them stars, if you follow those stars to which the Dajjal (?), then the place you go will be the eternal place of oppression, Hell, of which He says: what an evil resting place.

Yes. Just as Allah Almighty absolutely does not will oppression for His creatures, He does not treat them unjustly either.

This verse proves Allah Almighty's attribute of justice, His being free of any deficient attribute, and that He will not suddenly and without warning wrong anyone. Namely: Allah Almighty created the souls in the realm of lahut and then addressed them to His Being. Addressing them, He said: I am your Lord. In this address and this mutual covenant, the souls, about whether the one introducing Himself as Allah had created them or not, and whether He was Allah or not, fell into doubt. Some even denied. The reason is that Allah Almighty created man close to Himself, and by giving man his own will, without any pressure or force on them, being very gentle and compassionate, people, out of pride and arrogance, out of the whims of ego, rebelled against Allah and did not recognize Him as Lord.

Yes.

The verses always confirm one another anyway; in this verse, what does it say? Your Lord would not destroy towns unjustly while the people of the past towns were unaware, He says. And in another verse, He says, about that town's spoiled leaders of kufr: We will not destroy them without sending news, without warning them, He says. The verses confirm one another, they do not contradict. Yes.

At that address "Elestü bi Rabbiküm", because people turned their backs on Allah Almighty, they rebel against Allah Almighty. And since Allah Almighty sends them to the world, a hidden realm, that is, a realm where His Being is not seen, to them: why do you do this? Why, how shall I put it, do you go into kufr?

Without saying that, He sends them scholars. He sends them prophets. He says: O people, O my people, look, the path you take is wrong. You are going outside the command of Allah, well, the one God. Do not do such a thing. And what do they say to him? To their prophets: these things you say are the tales of the ancients, they say. We too expected you to be upright and a good person in the future, they say. That is what they say to Salih. You were someone to be trusted, they say. Now surely we are not going to believe what you say, they say. You know, what does he say to them, to the people of Salih?

When buying you take in full, and when selling do you weigh short? he says. When buying do you weigh in full and when selling weigh short? he says. You, he says, take and seize the property of this one and that one. Do you not give it to those people? he says. That is, these are all crimes in Allah's religion, and when he said turn to the truth, they objected. Thus, while the people are unaware, Allah Almighty, without sending them a messenger, without sending a man, a book, prophets, scholars, will not destroy them, He says. Yes.

So Allah Almighty, (?), without bringing us to the worldly realm there, would have rolled up our account and sent us to the place we deserve. That is, at this address "Elestü bi Rabbiküm": this is your pledge, fine, this is what you are, well, and you knew Me, this is what you are, He would say. (?) to Paradise, (?) to Hell He would have sent. But in that case Allah would have taken on an attribute. So why would He take on an attribute? Coming to the world, did He not take on an attribute? He does not. In the world all of us start from zero without seeing our Lord. Those realms are to us like in a computer program: although the program is within the computer itself, it is encrypted, closed.

Unless you crack the code. That is, if you break those whims in your nafs, and by worship of your Lord you are bound and, well, soften your character, (?) nafs, whims, passing those levels, you become aware of some realms of meaning your Lord will show you. Now in that case Allah Almighty would almost have taken on an attribute. If there He had at once said to us: you, well, knew Me, and you did not, come on over here. What would that one have said? How should I know that You are my Lord, how should I know? You created me like Your Being; had You sent me to a hidden realm, a realm where Your Being is not seen, how beautifully I would have worshipped You there — so that he would not say this, He created these realms; that is Allah, free of any deficient attribute.

No one will have a question to raise against Allah Almighty. So Allah Almighty, (?), without bringing us to the worldly realm there, would have rolled up our account and sent us to the places we deserve. So that people would not question Allah, free of any deficient attribute, saying: since You created us close to Your Being, we could not know You as our Lord; had You sent us to a realm where Your Being is not seen, look how we would have worshipped You — so that you would not say that, Allah created these realms. But whatever word man gave in the realm of the hereafter, he had that word written for himself as destiny. As destiny.

So the scripts were written there, the scripts were written there. As actors in the world, we play out this written script. That is, whatever our wish was, it was instilled in us as characters. When the time comes, when we come into the world, our wishes and desires begin. And Allah Almighty, according to the wishes and desires of all these creatures and people He created, creates causes. By acting on these causes, people prove through actual deeds what kind of people they are. So people have no escape from their destinies.

And Allah Almighty, according to the verse above, by sending people to the realm of mulk, wanted His Being to be known through man. In this case the prophets, with books, made His Being known to everyone with reason. Those who did not believe, and among them those who said: let Allah bring us a miracle so that we may thus be among the believers — Allah Almighty, who sends miracles to them, those who did not believe these miracles, who mocked Allah, Allah Almighty, by placing (?), destroyed those peoples.

Such is Allah Almighty's law that has come down from eternity. If a people asks Allah Almighty for a miracle, and the people see that miracle, Allah creates that miracle, and the people, though they see this miracle, deny it, then those peoples are destroyed. For example, the people of Salih asked Allah Almighty for a camel. Allah Almighty brings a camel out of a rock. One day, He says, is this camel's water day. You, He says, will not drink from this water. On the other six days of the week, He says, you will drink from this water. That one day belongs to this camel, He says.

And to it, He says, on Allah's earth you will in no way (?). It will roam on Allah's earth, He says. And finally the disbelievers who cannot bear this kill the camel by cutting its legs. And with three more days remaining in their (?), in three days Allah Almighty, with a single blast, destroys them. He also showed Pharaoh many miracles. He showed nine signs, nine miracles. Blood, locusts, frogs, drought, every kind of miracle, the shining of Moses's hand, the staff becoming a dragon. Though He showed many such miracles, they still did not believe, and each time Pharaoh said: O Moses, tell your Lord, I now believe in your Lord, we will now come to the right path — though he said that, though he asked Moses that by his Lord's leave those afflictions be lifted — when Allah Almighty lifted the afflictions from them, Pharaoh again returned to his old state; within nine miracles since he still persisted in this, Allah Almighty also destroyed them. He drowned them in the sea.

So Allah Almighty's custom that has come down from eternity is what? When they ask Allah Almighty for a miracle, if in that miracle they do not believe, those peoples are destroyed. Yes.

Those who did not believe, and among them those who said: let Allah bring us a miracle so that we may thus be among the believers — Allah Almighty, who sends miracles to them, those who did not believe these miracles and mocked Allah, Allah Almighty, by placing (?), those peoples destroyed. Yes. So, as Allah's law, Allah does not give any people — without making Himself known, and unless these peoples go astray, overstep the limits and deny Allah — afflictions and destruction. What does it say in the verse? As long as you do not change, Allah Almighty is not going to remove the blessings upon you, He says. How beautifully He puts it.

As long as you do not change, Allah Almighty is not going to remove the blessings upon you, He says. Yes. So we, we, through the actions we do, both in this world and the next, when Allah Almighty's verses come, we ourselves leave our own nafs exposed to punishment, or we ourselves bring our own nafs to Allah's mercy. That is, through the actual deeds we do with our partial will. Yes.

So, as Allah's law, Allah does not, without making Himself known to any people, and these peoples, to peoples, unless these peoples go astray and overstep the limits and deny Allah, give them afflictions and destruction. That is why Allah Almighty: We hold no one responsible for a prohibition We have not announced, He says. According to the verse: what people earn is the return of their own (?), just as every soul suffers the penalty for what it did, for a thing He has not announced to people He does not bring destruction either.

So if from now on there is no more mass destruction on earth, mass — why is there no mass destruction? Because Allah Almighty sent the Prophet, "ve mâ erselnâke illâ rahmeten li'l-âlemîn", as a mercy to the worlds. So, the Prophet who came as mercy — according to Allah Almighty's verse again, if He says, I have made you alive — if he is alive, as long as he is alive, he cannot both be alive and destruction happen. Because mercy. He came as mercy. So what will happen? Allah Almighty will give afflictions. Afflictions. And in (?) verse: We give them two or three afflictions every year. Yes. so if from now on there is no more mass destruction on earth, it is for the sake of the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad, who came as mercy to the worlds (peace be upon him), because he has only tasted death, among people he is alive; that is why Allah Almighty has lifted mass destructions; only, to prove the existence of His Being to people, to those who do not know Allah and His Messenger, who associate partners with Allah and are people of kufr, until the Day of Resurrection, every year two or three afflictions giving, making His existence known to people with these, so that on (?) the Resurrection people would not say: O my Allah, had You sent us prophets like those before, or with books warned us, given us afflictions, we would have returned to Your Being — for that, Allah Almighty, with the Holy Quran, that no prophet will come to people again, the last, sealing prophethood, Muhammad (peace be upon him), He sent as mercy to the worlds, gathering the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel in the Holy Quran, making the four books with the Quran one book, as prophet to the people Muhammad to the people that no prophet will come again, as the seal of the last prophethood Muhammad (peace be upon him) was sent as mercy to the worlds, gathering the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel in the Holy Quran, making the four books with the Quran one book, as prophet to the people Muhammad, as book the Holy Quran, as religion Islam He chose and sent.

Yes. To the people. There is no other prophet, no other book, and His final religion, Allah Almighty, His laws that will last until the Day of Resurrection, He has sent to the earth.

That is why He gathered all people, as servants created by Allah, under one religion and one prophet and one book. He made His laws known so that they would be sincere servants through worship of Allah. Whoever goes outside these laws, circumventing and overstepping the limits Allah set, has wronged his own nafs and become a disbeliever. Yes.