Al-An'am 163: Allah has no partners. I was only ordered with this and I am the first of the Muslims.“

Surah Al-An'am, the 163rd verse: He has no partner. Of course not; Allah Almighty can have no partner, of course. If the heavens and the earth and what is between them have known the remembrance of their Lord, if from the atom to the globe everything remembers Allah, if He has marked them so, then since among His creatures a matter performing a second remembrance is not found, of course He will have no partner. He has no partner. Only this was commanded to me. True. Because He is our Owner who created us. This was commanded to us: I am your Lord. Our Lord decreed it to us at the address Elestü bi-Rabbiküm with the words: I am your Lord.

He said it. Yes. And I am the first of the Muslims, it says. Of course. Because he is the first created. The first of the Muslims. The one who knows his Lord. Who associates nothing else with Allah; the worlds from his light, people indirectly from his spirit were created: the Beloved of the Majestic, (?), Muhammad. Of course, when our Lord willed and said, I was a hidden treasure, I willed to be known, the first whom He created from His light and then gave of His spirit, the Messenger of Allah, in that case, is the first of Islam, of course. The prophets created from his spirit, too, are among the first of Islam.

Yes.

Allah Almighty has no partner. Because He is self-subsisting by His Being: Hüve'l-evvelü ve'l-âhirü ve'z-zâhirü ve'l-bâtın. He is the First, the Last, the Outward and the Inward.

What does Allah Almighty say? Huvel evveli: He, self-subsisting by His Being, before whom there was nothing, no being at all. Then vel evvelü vel ahirü: after all the worlds have perished, He will remain, the Last. After Him there is no other last. That is, there is no other being besides Him.

Ve'z-zâhirü ve'l-bâtın: He is openly, outwardly, and outward only through His works; (?) that unseen One is (?) to the eyes, as He said, with His verse, with the word of the sheikh: Allah Almighty's furnishing of these worlds not made by human hands, just as a painter makes the (?) and puts his mark beneath it, as if saying this came from the brush of such-and-such painter: Allah, who furnished these worlds and makes this universe remember His Being, (?) outwardly and outward before people's eyes. Yes. After that, the Inward: He is also the Owner of the essential worlds. All people, all these worlds: the Last Day will break out, and finally, after they die, people will be resurrected in the worlds of the Hereafter, and in the presence of Allah Almighty, Owner of those essential worlds too, after everyone is (?), their lives according to their attributes: these people who with their attributes and sins proved to themselves what kind of people they are will, in Paradise or Hell, to their places go.

Yes.

What does it say? Allah Almighty has no partner. Because He is self-subsisting by His Being: Hüve'l-evvelü ve'l-âhirü ve'z-zâhirü ve'l-bâtın. He is the First, the Last, the Outward and the Inward. So, O My Beloved: I was commanded only to know Allah, and say: I am the first of the Muslims, it says. I am the first. I was commanded only to know Allah. Yes, now I have a couple of words for you. For you. You see what people talk about.

Outside the verses.

Verses: supposedly they read verses. Then narrations, narrations, narrations, narrations.

Words that have nothing to do with it. Then superstitions.

You witness this. Here, only verses. The words of Allah. What was the Quran?

Quran: what is narration? Do the verses of the Quran fit into narration? Do they fit into: he did this, that one did that, this one said this, that one said that? But the people who, with the subtleties of the Quran's verses, will make one love his Lord, will ascribe to Him no deficiency and, as the absolute Owner and Power of the worlds, will explain to people, in the light of the verses, that people have one single Owner: the word of those people and their words, let us not (?). Yes. Pay attention to this. Compare these. Yes.

Let's read it once more. And move past this part. Allah Almighty has no partner. Yes.

Because He, self-subsisting by His Being, is huvel evvel vel ahir ve zahir vel batin: He is the First, the Last, the Outward and the Inward. So, O My Beloved: I was commanded only to know Allah as One, and say: I am the first of the Muslims, it says. All prophets are the first of the Muslims. Moses says so too. I am the first of Islam, he says. Jesus says the same. I am the first of Islam, he says. All the prophets. I am the first of Islam, each says. Yes. Are they lying? Far from it. Allah forbid.

As I always describe, there are newcomers. Let's describe it for them too. Let us take this as the spirit of the Messenger of Allah. Our Lord gave him of His spirit. Now the prophets He created, the prophets He created: this one was created from this one's spirit. The first. He was created first. Then this one. Created from this one's spirit. This one is also a first. Then this one. Created from this one's spirit. This one is also a first. That is, however many prophets will come to the world, however many nabis, however many of Allah Almighty's devoted men will come, all of them were created as firsts from his spirit.

Firsts. Firsts. Then, when the spirits of their peoples were created from the spirits of those created, these become the fathers, that is, the elders of their peoples.

Yes. In that case the Messenger of Allah has a distinction over these firsts.

First the light of the Messenger of Allah; from his light the universe; then He gives of His spirit to that light; from his spirit the spirits of the prophets are created. Since, indirectly, all these worlds were created from the light of the Messenger of Allah, and people too indirectly from the spirit of the Messenger of Allah, ve mâ erselnâke illâ rahmeten li'l-âlemin comes about. So in that case, how could Gabriel teach the Prophet? Does this make sense to you? How could Gabriel reveal? Revelation is Allah Almighty, who is outside time and space, speaking through communication to the heart of the Prophet (peace be upon him), who is within time and space.

Through communication. In that case Gabriel (peace be upon him) only: Allah Almighty, on the 27th night of Ramadan, as it mostly is, on the Night of Power, at Sidrat al-Muntaha, to a place called Qadr, all at once sending down the Quran; from there, step by step, whatever Allah Almighty had revealed to the heart of the Messenger of Allah, whatever He had revealed, that surah Gabriel fetched from there, and by having the Messenger of Allah recite it, set his heart at ease. Set his heart at ease. That is, he was bringing the revelation. But it is already in his heart beforehand. Now, when we say he brought the revelation, if you then say: well, he brought the revelation, so didn't he teach it? Then you again deny the verses.

Which verse? My Beloved, while I give the revelation to your heart, do not move your lips, do not hurry, it says. Don't try to recite it. Yes, also: when We give a prophet the revelation, it says, surely, it says, let Satan not try to give him (?). But Allah, into that prophet's heart, it says, His revelation, firmly, it says, (?) (?). That is, when He places it firmly as a deed, the (?) Satan would give him strikes against it, and that it is (?) becomes evident. And Satan cannot give him (?), it says. Verses (?). So if you say he taught it because he brought a verse, you expose to many insults the Prophet (peace be upon him).

And you ascribe qualities to Allah Almighty too. Allah forbid. Yes.

What does it say? He has no partner. Only this was commanded to me. And I am the first of the Muslims. Having explained this much here, we will read this paragraph and move on. Allah Almighty has no partner. Because He, self-subsisting by His Being, is the First and the Last and the Outward and the Inward. He is the First, the Last, the Outward and the Inward. So, O My Beloved: I was commanded only to know Allah as One, and say: I am the first of the Muslims, it says. Yes. All prophets are the first of their Muslims. We explained this in the previous verses; it is useful to recall it again. If Allah Almighty created the Prophet (peace be upon him) first, he is the first of the first of the created.

That is, the first created when there was no being at all. The first of the firsts.

In the previous verses: yes, he is the first of the firsts. The spirits of the prophets were created from the spirit of the Prophet. They too are firsts, both because they are prophets and because the spirits of the peoples were created from the spirits of these prophets; toward people they are the first of the Muslims. In this respect, when in many verses about the prophets the words: I am the first of the Muslims, say: I am the first, come up, so that one does not fall into doubt about which is the first of the Muslims, we saw benefit in explaining this here in this way. As explained above, since people were created from the (?) of the prophets, toward people they are the first of the Muslims.

So, since the first one created before the worlds were created is the Prophet, he is, toward all creation, both the first and the first of Islam.