Al-An'am 164: Say; “While Allah is the Lord of everything, am I going to look for a Lord other than Allah? Every person earns for his/her own account. No guilty person will carry the sin of another one. At the end, your return will be to your Lord. And Allah will tell you about the truth that you argued about.”

A. Metin Saruhan · 7 August 2017 · Al-An'am

Translation

Say; “While Allah is the Lord of everything, am I going to look for a Lord other than Allah? Every person earns for his/her own account. No guilty person will carry the sin of another one. At the end, your return will be to your Lord. And Allah will tell you about the truth that you argued about.”

Tafsir

When Allah (swt) is the Lord of the worlds, does man seek another Lord besides Him? People who turn their backs on Allah cannot recognize Him properly. They cannot submit to Allah because of their pride, arrogance and greatness in their own being. Nor do they submit to the gods they seek other than Allah. By deifying their own nafs, they actually worship their own nafs.

These are the people who gather around their gods, whom they associate with Allah (swt), and perform rituals, attributing to their gods words that they themselves have invented, in order to benefit their own interests. These are the people who take their sides wherever they find their worldly interests. Their behavior shows that these are people who have deified their own ego and worship themselves. But they have no consciousness, they are not aware.

Everyone's gain is his own. Whatever good he earns is for himself and whatever evil he earns is for himself. No criminal bears the sins of another criminal, every soul is responsible for itself, and to Allah is the final return.

Allah (swt) will inform them of the disagreement between the people. He will inform them what these people have done. Allah will inform them that they profited from what they invented in the name of religion, which they called the son of Allah, and that they misled people for the sake of their profits, and that at the same time, without any knowledge, they became pioneers of disbelief, following every stubborn devil, and that they persisted in disbelief by defending their perversions.

What is said in the video

Verse 164 of Surah Al-An'am: Say: while Allah is the Lord of all things — look how beautiful, the verses always confirm one another. While Allah is the Lord of all things, that is, whatever exists from the atom to the globe, if He is the Creator of all of it, that is, the heavens and the earth and what is between them have known the remembrance of their Lord; if those things that remember the Lord, those if there is no god but Allah, say: while Allah is the Lord of all things, shall I seek a lord other than Him, that is, shall I worship made-up things, shall I open my hands to Allah's creations, or hope for help from them? God forbid, Allah protect us. What each person earns belongs to himself alone. Yes, what each person earns belongs to himself alone.

Fe men ya'mel miskâle zerretin hayran yerah: an atom's weight of good will be written. Fe men ya'mel miskâle zerretin şerran yerah: an atom's weight of evil will be written too. No one is asked about anyone else. Yes. No guilty one bears another's guilt. Look how beautiful. No one bears another's guilt. Everyone will bear the (?) in return for what they earned, their own content.

In the end your return is to your Lord. Every soul will taste death, and finally your return is to your Lord.

And He will inform you of the truth about which you disagreed, He says. Yes. The thing you disagreed about: between the religious and the irreligious, the disagreement, and within the religion of Islam too, the disagreement between superstition and those who explain the truth.

Because superstition — the one who knows superstition cannot give up the superstition he knows. Facing the truth, though he knows it is the truth, what does he say? Look, we are witnessing this. 'We are finished,' he says, 'what shall we do?' If you say 'we are finished', if you say 'what will we do', then start from the foundation now. Or else, so that not all is lost, you have truths too. On those truths, for the superstitions, even for what you have done until then, repent and ask forgiveness, return to the path of truth. Here are the verses. Allah has shown you a mercy. Look, here he also explains the verses.

He doesn't ask you for any fee either. His fee belongs to Allah alone. He will explain. In that case, if one comes not knowing, the open questions are here. The boards are here. The question board is here too. Ask. But I have one request of you newcomers. What is it? Even if you are a scholar, keep listening to me. It may seem to go against superstitions, but in fact we are explaining the truth. Because it goes against those superstitions and what they hold to be right, they cannot understand. Keep listening to me. And in the end you will separate truth from falsehood very well. That is one. Your mind will unfold.

Your insight will open. You will be able to make comparisons. You will think with your own mind. You will experience all of this within yourselves. But be patient. Listen. Listen. I am always explaining the verses. In fact I am not telling you anything of my own. Everything I explain is a verse. Everything I explain while opening it up is verses. Because it is impossible for me to step outside the verse. Yes.

While Allah Almighty is the Lord of the worlds, man seeks a lord other than Him. Well, these are all verses anyway. La ilahe illallah — is there any Allah other than Him? People who turn their backs on Allah, that is, who abandon the religion of Islam, cannot know Allah as He deserves. All counterparts of verses: they associate partners with Allah. Or they say Allah is three. Out of the pride, arrogance and grandeur in their own selves they cannot submit to Allah. My beloved, He says, out of pride, arrogance and grandeur they turned their backs on Allah. Do not mind their calling you a liar. In their time they betrayed Me too, He says.

Yes. Verses. I explain the verses in the language of speech. Yes.

And they, He says, out of their pride and arrogance, He says, cannot bow their necks. We have put shackles on their necks, He says. Shackles. In fact they cannot submit to the gods they seek besides Allah either. Right. They do not submit to them either. With their minds they know that it is not God either. But with their selves, from their minds, they put into it the spirit of their imagination; secretly, not that idol but that spirit, the spirit within it, is what they worship. That is how they are. By deifying their own selves, they actually worship their own selves. Yes. Have you not seen the one who deifies his self?

Yes. Gathering beside their gods whom they associate with Allah, performing rites, attributing the words they made up to their gods, these are people who gain profit in line with their own interests. Remember, they set aside shares for their gods — what is set aside for their gods does not reach Allah, He says, but what is set aside for Allah reaches Him, He says. In fact these, for their own interests, make a religion by their own minds, invent a religion, make idols according to that religion, sell those idols to people to earn money, and deceive them with them. Wherever they find their worldly interests, in their ranks they take their places — such people they are.

Wherever they find profit.

The hypocrites also come from among them. The idolaters take the same path too. If we go even further, many of the People of the Book too, those who say Allah is three, as far as Allah Almighty has told us, they too will not believe in Jesus until they die, He says. Until they die. They even say of themselves, 'I don't believe,' he says. 'In many things we don't believe,' they say. That is how they saw it. Because they are unaware of the truth. These behaviours show that these are people who have (?) their own selves and (?) themselves. But they have no awareness, they do not realise it. Allah Almighty says so.

To them, He says, when you explain the truth, He says, since they do not understand, they have no awareness, they do not realise. To them, He says, 'do not drown everything in (?)', when told '(?)', He says, 'our job,' they say, 'is to prevent (?), to prevent bloodshed,' He says. Yet it is they who drown everything in (?). They have no awareness. But they do not know, He says. What each person earns is for himself. What each person earns is the return of his own (?). If he earned good, it is for himself; if he earned evil, it is for himself too. All counterparts of the verses. No guilty one bears the sin of any other guilty one.

The verse just said it, in the same verse. Every soul is responsible for itself. Finally the return is to Allah. Every soul will taste death and finally the return is to Me, says Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty will inform people of the disagreement in their (?) themselves. This verse too: they will soon know whose the end of the world is, He says. And We will inform you of the disagreement you fell into among yourselves, He says. He will make known what these people did. Because those called Kiramen Katibin, the noble angels, are writing constantly on the right shoulder and the left. That they profited from the things they (?) as religion, which they call the son of Allah, and that for these interests they led people astray, and at the same time, without any knowledge, following every stubborn devil, they led the way in disbelief — and the verse says it: those who follow every stubborn devil, defending this misguidance, their misguidance, persisted in disbelief — Allah will inform them of this.

Yes.

The verses are very (?).

So since every soul will taste death, death — for a person, a sensible person, there is a job to do in this world.

He must prepare for the hereafter. For the hereafter.

Since at the end of this world, sir, there is a realm of the hereafter, and in this realm of the hereafter Allah Almighty, sir, will tell us what we did, in the face of this news people must prepare for the future. Once upon a time, as the saying goes, a person says, 'Why do you pray?'

'To worship Allah,' he says.

He says, 'Is there an Allah, that you worship Allah?' Is there an Allah? 'Don't you believe in Allah?' 'And I don't believe,' he says.

'All right,' he says. 'I do this worship of mine.' Now the Muslim is speaking about his worship to the one who doesn't believe in Allah. 'I do my worship.' 'Fine.'

'You,' he says, 'don't worship.' 'I don't,' he says. 'Well,' he says, 'if Allah exists in the hereafter,' 'because I worshipped, I'll get away.' 'What will you do there?' he says. 'Here,' he says, 'this worship isn't hard for me.' 'I do it. (?),' he says. 'And I have believed. I pray,' he says. 'I worship Allah,' he says. 'It doesn't cost me anything either,' he says. 'But if Allah exists there, I'll save myself,' he says. 'What will you do there?' he says.

So however much doubt and hesitation there may be, what if He exists — act accordingly. He exists. He exists. Because every mind knows that these worlds have an owner. This order and harmony did not come about by itself out of nowhere. These, coming to exist with life and mind, and these, around one another, in an order and harmony, were not created. The one who created these has an owner. Yes. Let's not say 'the one who created these'. They have an owner who creates. That is, who created these worlds. The worlds have an owner. Who is it? Allah. I said it wrong a moment ago. 'The Creator has an owner' — forget that.

It turned into a Ramadan tongue-twister. The Creator has no owner. The owner of what He created is Allah. Of what He created. Yes.