Ash-Shu'ara 3: (Oh My Messenger!) You will almost destroy yourself because they don’t believe.

Surah Ash-Shu'ara, the third verse. Now, when you explain the verses, pay attention: I explain a verse here in the same way; somewhere else, the same verse I may explain three or five meanings higher; somewhere else you see that two or three meanings lower I explain it, that is, in the way Allah Almighty gives at that moment. What we write in the tafsir, too, in the way our Lord gives it to us, are the writings we write. Surah Ash-Shu'ara, verse 3, the verse: My Messenger, because they do not believe, you are about to destroy yourself, He says.

Now, between people's interpreting this verse and our feelings, our knowing that realm well, there is a great difference.

Because they do not believe, you are about to destroy yourself, He says. Let me tell what happened. What did we say before? So that His essence would be known, Allah Almighty was going to create a human being. From His light, the light of the Prophet; then He gave him from His spirit. From his spirit He created the spirits of the prophets. What happened? The prophets became like the children of the Prophet. Is that so? They were created from his light. After all, he will bear witness for all the prophets. Since He created the spirits of the prophets from the spirit of the Prophet,

from the spirits of those prophets He also created the spirits of their peoples. Since all people were indirectly created from the spirit of the Prophet, now imagine a father. Imagine the father's children. There are good ones, there are bad ones. Can that father cast away the bad ones? When the bad ones are about to fall into the fire, won't that father give them the necessary advice, or step in front of them and explain what is needed? He will. Well, when that father sees that the child will go to the fire, won't his heart ache? The Prophet is the same. Since Allah Almighty knows his inner world, look what He says now: Because they do not believe, you are about to destroy yourself.

That is the feeling. Yes.

Allah Almighty, since He created the spirits of all people indirectly from the spirit of the Prophet (peace be upon him), lastly, as the Seal of the Prophets, the Prophet (peace be upon him) He sent to the world as a prophet. Allah Almighty gathered the religions under the religion of Islam. With the verse İnne'd-dîne inda'llâhi'l-İslâm, through the Prophet (peace be upon him) He sent the religion of Islam to people and to the worlds. Because the Prophet (peace be upon him) is the greatest of people and the first of created beings, he saw all people as his own children and strove hard for them to find the truth.

Just as a father is troubled by his child going bad and uses all his means for him to become a good person, the Prophet (peace be upon him) too, just like a father, since he saw all people as his children, strove hard for their salvation. But (?) and those who deny Allah, those who in (?) and in their destiny live the desires and wishes of their aims, since they will never return to the truth, these people, against the Prophet (peace be upon him), dug in their heels and, with many slanders and lies, went as far as (?) of overstepping the bounds. They even went as far as to kill the Prophet (peace be upon him); they attempted it. Even so, the Prophet (peace be upon him) still strove hard for their salvation; to fulfil his duty, night and day he did not sleep. For this reason Allah Almighty declared: O My Beloved, because they do not come to the path, because they do not return to the truth, to strive so much that you nearly destroy yourself, there is no need.

Because Allah sent the Prophet (peace be upon him) to convey the message to the realm of mulk. Guidance is from Allah.

So the Prophet (peace be upon him) too, when he came to the unseen realm, since he was an example to people, strove to show people how to hold on to (?), he kept striving. As we mentioned above, since the world is an unseen realm, the Prophet (peace be upon him) too could not know who would become Muslim and who would not. He knew only when Allah, the Mighty and Most Holy, made it known. Therefore, to reach people in an unseen realm and fulfil his duty, to the four corners of the world he sent envoys, and to complete his duty towards people, night and day he conveyed the truth as if destroying himself.

He would enter the tents of tribes passing by Mecca and coming to stay, and at night tell them about Allah and recite verses from the Quran.

Again, at night he enters the tent of a tribe that came to Mecca and conveys the truth to them, recites verses from the Quran. And the people there, in the Prophet (peace be upon him), believe. When he leaves, Abu Lahab goes in. A young man just came out of here, he says. Someone came out, a young man came out. What did he tell you? When they tell him what he told them, he says: He is a madman, a crazed one. He is insane. Don't believe him, he says, and the people there say: We had believed. He almost deceived us too, they say. That's how it is.