Al-An'am 155: This Qur’an is a blessed Book that We have sent down. Follow it and fear Allah so that you will be treated with mercy.

Al-An'am Surah, verse 155. This Quran which We have sent down is a blessed Book. A blessed Book.

Follow it and fear Allah so that you may be shown mercy.

What does Allah Almighty say in a verse?

If mountains were moved from their places,

if the dead were brought back to life, it describes it like this. "If this," it says, with this, this book, that is, if (?) had been done with this, it would be (?) the Quran, it says. That is, with the word of the Quran. With the Quran. But every matter, it says, depends on Allah. On Allah. Now in this case, people by knowing the Quran — that is, a hafiz of the Word, you know, he will recite it, of course, he will recite it. The Wise Reminder. He will earn much reward. But if, because he recites it, saying I am a hafiz or I am a hodja, he sets out to open up the verses, he will open them up falsely and wrongly, and — Allah protect us — he will have wrapped that misery around his neck.

To Imam Azam too, when they said "you will give (?)", (?) "I won't give it", they said. They threw him into prison. Into prison. Imam Azam. Look, he said, I am lying, he said. Lying. Sir, he said, from me there will be no (?), he said. No (?) office, he said. Well, they threw him into prison. So the people who explain Allah have always suffered oppression and hardship. But never (?) from Allah's path. Yes.

Aliye says: "I have no (?), but I want to say this: even if we worshipped for a thousand years, we could not reach the secrets you give. May Allah be pleased with you," she says. Well, of course. One who has not reached those stations cannot know these things. One who has not passed those places — (?), look what a beautiful saying he says. "Do not ask the muhaddith or the müderris about the knowledge of the tariqa," he says — that is, be it a hadith scholar or a müderris. "Ask about the knowledge of the tariqa from one who took his lesson directly from God," he says. That is, he too says he is unlettered.

He says he was raised by Allah Almighty. Then he says: "If you say gavvas," he says — gavvas means diver. "If you say gavvas," he says, "the one who dives into this ocean (?)," he says. Yes. If he had not passed through those stations, these words, one after another like this, would not have been told so beautifully in the light of the verses.

We return to our lesson. "This Quran which We have sent down is a blessed Book. Follow it and fear Allah so that you may be shown mercy."

So in the verse too, Allah Almighty — toward Him, why were we created? Why were we created? What does it say in the verse?

We say "whoever conforms to the purpose for which Allah created", don't we, when opening up the meaning; so the people who conform to that meaning, people who conform, follow this blessed Book. They try not to step outside Allah's religious ruling. Not just not stepping outside the religious ruling; in fact, to fulfil the religious ruling they compete with one another. Yes. "Follow it," it says, "and fear Allah so that you may be shown mercy."

Allah Almighty: "This Quran is the Book which We have sent down." Sent down by Allah Almighty.

So since in the Book sent by Allah Almighty no human word will be found, it is "the Book which We have sent down". Indeed, what does it say? "If this were a human fabrication, you would find in it many words that contradict one another," it says. A human fabrication. Since created beings are deficient, some people who do not know themselves say Gabriel revealed it. Gabriel revealed it. If Gabriel revealed it, since Gabriel too is created, and he too would be deficient — whereas only the One who is not deficient is the Creator — then there would be deficiency in the Quran too. But look how beautifully Allah Almighty confirms His word.

"This Quran which We have sent down is a blessed Book." That is, you can find no deficiency in it. "Follow it and fear Allah so that you may be shown mercy."

Allah Almighty: "This Quran is the Book which We have sent down." So since in the Book sent by Allah Almighty no human word will be found, it declares that the Quran was sent down only by the Lord of the worlds. If you follow this Quran, it brings you out of darkness into light. From darkness into light. Because our reason is partial. And also, since the whims of the nafs will drag us into swamps, and Satan too, being our enemy, will circulate in our bloodstream and give us whims, he will make us, in the swamp of this swampy world, from darkness to darkness fall. So Allah holds a light before us with His verses, and if with His light we keep to His religious ruling, it tears what is called darkness, those darknesses, and we attain brightness and peace.

If you follow this Quran, it brings you out of darkness into light and brings you to Allah. Whoever follows the Quran fears Allah and loves Allah very much too. This corresponds to the following verse: "If there is anyone most to be feared, it is Me. If there is anyone most to be loved, that is Me too," He says.

For those who fear Allah, Allah Almighty decrees that mercy will be shown to them. Who is there, as merciful as Allah, true to His word, who, when one returns to his Lord, when one repents and asks forgiveness, accepts his repentance? He is the Creator. He will accept it, of course. We were created deficient, after all; we will make mistakes, we do. But constantly, knowingly — not knowingly, of course. In order to attain Allah's mercy, we will try as much as we can not to make mistakes. By Allah's grace we will compete to earn His pleasure. In good deeds, in worship, in reading the Quran, in dhikr we will compete, and in this case does Allah Almighty not see this state of ours?

And what does He say? You ask. "As long as you ask. I will give you what you ask for," He says. Yes. When that person reaches his Lord, among the rich of the hereafter he enters. Among His righteous servants. "For them there are gardens beneath which rivers flow," it says. Yes.

In the books He sent, Allah Almighty, that the prophet of the end times would come, made known. In the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel the appearance of the Prophet was described. Every prophet would recognize the Prophet as a father recognizes his son. How would they recognize him? As I said a moment ago, if you ask those superstitious people, "have you ever seen the Prophet?", (?) "you saw him? Then that's it!" he says. Beyond that, he cannot even imagine one who has attained the manifestations. But these are prophets. The prophets are from the first-created spirit of the Prophet. The firsts, the firsts.

And since their peoples were created from their spirit, would a son not recognize his father? The son recognizes his father. And the father recognizes his son. These are the firsts.

Allah Almighty says so too. They would recognize a prophet as a father recognizes his child. Yes.

Every prophet would recognize the Prophet as a father recognizes his son. In this respect: those who follow these books, the members of this religion, although such a prophet they were expecting — the People of the Book — what drove them away from the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad? it asks. They recognized him. These People of the Book. Yes.

In the Torah, in the Psalms, in the Gospel. These were People of the Book. Well, what drove them away from this? That is, they were waiting. They recognized him. Their prophets too said a final prophet will come. That is, they were saying you will follow him. Now. In this case, 2002 years have passed since Jesus. 2002 years have passed. That means this book was written in 2002. Yes. Now 2012 years have passed. If we count the Gregorian calendar from one at the birth of Jesus. Yes. So I wrote it in 2002. It's been 10 years since I wrote this. And since the Prophet 1422 years had passed, whereas now we are in the year 1434. Yes.

Since the gap between prophets was never this wide, and since in the books of the followers of other religions there are verses that a prophet would come, it means the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him), has come as a prophet, and after him no further prophet will come. By this we mean the following. Let's clarify it a little more.

Allah Almighty, without making the gaps between prophets too long, sent them to people. Between Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon him), 400 years passed. And people began to be afraid. Will the Day of Judgement come? Allah was to send a prophet. It is written in the books of (?). Are we perhaps going to be destroyed? They began to be afraid.

In this case, after those four hundred years, the Prophet honours the world. Well then, up to this time, from the birth of the Prophet until now, 1434 years have passed, is that not so? Well, although only 400 years had passed, although you said, will we be destroyed, will the world, will the Day of Judgement come, although you knew from the books in your hands that a prophet would come — in this period, although 1434 years have passed, do you not know that no prophet will come again? Do you not know that the one who came, the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him), is a true prophet?

You know it. You know it so well. So why don't you believe? It is out of your arrogance, your pride, your ego, your grandeur; by your own measure, as you are abased, because you take that abasement as pomp and fame, you do not accept this.

"Hodja, do you have verses for what you say?" Of course! I don't speak without verses. "They are lying disbelievers," it says. "Out of their pride and arrogance," it says, "they betrayed Me too." Yes. "Out of their pride," it says, "they cannot bend their necks down." "We will put lale collars on their necks," it says. "We have put them." Lales. Do you know what a lale is? Shepherds have wolf dogs. They put spiked collars like this on their necks. So that when a wolf attacks, it can't strangle them. Yes. Such lales. They cannot bend their necks to the ground.

Have you not seen? (?) According to the verse about making one's nafs a god, these with egoistic feelings are people who drag their own souls into wrongdoing.

And they know it very well. That the Prophet is true, that the Quran is true — since they deny it one by one, they fall into the state of disbelievers. Disbelievers. Yes.

This is an inevitable situation. If every mind knows it this way, and no prophet will come again, those who do not enter Islam, people who do not accept the Quran, knowingly denying the religion they cling to as "my own, my own religion", if in the books sent by Allah they take the part that suits them and turn their backs on the part that doesn't — such people, out of their enmity to Allah Almighty, the Messenger of Allah and the Quran, and, even knowing that the religion of Islam is true, they deny these. And a person who deliberately denies one verse of those Allah sent becomes a disbeliever.

He is a disbeliever. In this way these people drag themselves to destruction. Yes. So, all of them, since they turn their backs on the verses in the books in their own hands too — because if they had not turned their backs, they would not have, to their rabbis and priests, with their own reasoning, paid money and changed the places of verses in a way that suited them, and for a small price at that. Yes, so since all of them turned their backs on the verses in the books in their own hands too, they were called disbelievers. So: "Believe in the prophethood of the Seal of the Prophets sent by Allah, Muhammad (peace be upon him)"; that the Quran was sent by Allah through revelation, unadulterated and pure — declaring this, Allah Almighty commands: return to the Quran, which is the truth.

Thus, since all these books, the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel, are gathered in the Quran, no book has remained on earth as the word of Allah other than the Quran. Even if in some of the books in these people's hands Allah's verses are written, since these exist in the Holy Quran, Allah has abolished the authority of these books. He has abolished their authority. Why did He abolish it? He gathered their original in the Quran. Their original.

Because those people did not fear Allah and, for a small price, changed the verses in the book, Allah Almighty abolished their authority. With the verse Inne'd-dîne inda'llâhi'l-islâm, to people, as religion Islam, as prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and as Lord Allah, besides whom there is no god — declaring this in the Holy Quran, to people, He sent it as a mercy to the worlds. Yes.

How do we understand that the authority of these books has been abolished? How do we understand it? Yes.

Inne'd-dîne inda'llâhi'l-islâm. "In My sight the religion is Islam." "Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, the religion he seeks will never benefit him." O people! So, after the Quran has thus been proven to be a true book, return to the Quran, be governed by it, and fear Allah so that you may be shown mercy. Just as the Quran teaches man what he does not know and holds a light before him, it addresses every age and is a book full of knowledge. Because the wet and the dry are in the Quran. Allah Almighty created the universe with knowledge. As knowledge is discovered, Allah's greatness and power of creation come to light.

With it emphasized that Allah Almighty is the owner of these worlds and the absolute power in them, it is seen that every piece of knowledge found is in the Quran. Because since the verses of the Holy Quran will rule until the Day of Judgement, over time the miracles of the verses are seen. So if man, despite seeing so many truths, still follows his nafs and takes Satan, whom Allah has cursed, as a friend, Allah is the Owner of justice. To everyone, what they deserve He repays, without doing injustice to anyone. Yes, according to His verse, "Every soul will taste death, and your return is to Me", that reckoning will one day come and take place.

So just as you think of tomorrow, in this world you are obliged to think of your hereafter. Being a porter of the world is a fine thing. A porter of the world. That is, being wealthy.

If within this worldly porterage that wealth of yours, beforehand, while you live, you can transfer to the hereafter, you are freed from that porter's burden. Those who buy Paradise with their wealth and their lives. That is, if you give charity with that wealth, pay your zakat, go on your hajj, help those in debt, take the hand of the needy,

feed people and give them drink, do good to them — then this burden of yours we call worldly porterage, you lighten your back, you will have transferred it to the hereafter. No — if one becomes a porter of the world, forgets the One who gives it, grows attached to what He gives, and places its love in his heart, with the (?) Satan gives you, with the fear of stinginess he makes you stingy, and if he frightens you with the fear of poverty, if he frightens you with the fear of poverty, and accustoms you to stinginess too, he bankrupts your hereafter, and since as a porter of the world you cannot take a single atom to the hereafter, the account of what you earned — according to His verse "Every soul will taste death; your return is to Me" — you give there.

So is it better to go like this, deprived? Or is it better that, in proportion to your means, you give charity to Allah's servants, do good, take the hand of the needy, and, as a remedy for troubles, go having earned your Lord's mercy — is that not better? Yes.