Al-A'raf 47: When their eyes are turned to the side of the dwellers of Hell, they say; “Oh Our Lord! Do not bring us together with the group of oppressors.”

In Surah Al-A'raf, verse 47: And when their eyes are turned toward the people of Hell, they say: Our Lord, do not place us with the people of the wrongdoers. Who are these? The people of the A'raf. Those up on the high place, whose good deeds and sins are equal, and who hope to enter Paradise. When they turn toward the people of Hell, toward Hell, when they see the torment there, when they see that fire of Hell, Our Lord, do not put us with that people of the wrongdoers, they say; they pray to Allah Almighty. Those on the A'raf who from the high place say to the people of Paradise, peace be upon you, know the people of Paradise by their faces.

According to this verse it becomes clear that they are people whose good deeds and sins are equal, we say. Because when they say to the people of Paradise, peace be upon you, and to the people of Hell, Our Lord, do not place us with that people of the wrongdoers, they are people who hope to enter Paradise. Yes.

If these people were people of Paradise, when their eyes were turned toward the people of Hell, they would not say, do not place us with the people of the wrongdoers. But they are not people of Hell either, that is, not among those who will enter Hell. Who are these? People who have rights over one another. Even if their good deeds are enough to enter Paradise, they have rights over one another.

What happens? First, these rights to each other, people who have rights over one another have been set apart, a set-apart community. At that Supreme Court they will enter Paradise, but they must forgive each other their rights first. In this case Allah Almighty has set them apart. Step aside for a moment, He says. Whose accounts will be settled? The accounts of those entering Paradise and those going to Hell will be settled. Theirs has been set aside for the end. The reason, the reason is Allah's mercy. Like what? Now Allah Almighty will (?) them.

If you forgave each other your rights, and I admitted you into My Paradise, sir, would you agree, they will say. Because they are waiting there. When they see the people of Hell, when they also see that torment of Hell, people give up all their rights against each other anyway. O Allah, they say, we have forgiven each other our rights, they say. And all together, again, by Allah Almighty's mercy, to Paradise they go. There too, when people give their rights, they will forgive each other. When we say people of the A'raf, those people, the people who remain on that high place, when they see the torment of Hell like this, and when they long for those entering Paradise, will give up all rights and say: as long as we are admitted to Your Paradise.

Yes, we said that unless a person's nafs becomes mutmain, he cannot enter Paradise. The human nafs will surely become mutmain.

If a Muslim's sins weigh heavy and he passes to the hereafter as a Muslim, he will surely see the torment. Because Allah Almighty has the attribute of justice. When he enters that Hell, the people there say: You were a Muslim, why did you enter Hell? And he answers them like this: I was in no way lower than you, but Allah Almighty is just, and with His (?) attribute He punished me. For what I did, this punishment is even too little for me, he will say. Then Allah Almighty will say: O My servant, your faith (?) perfection, come out of there. He will take him out of there. So even if a person of Paradise there had faith as much as a mustard seed, that is, if at his passing to the hereafter he went with faith in Allah and His Messenger, the prophets and the books, then surely in the end, even if he is in Hell, his faith will be perfected and that person will come out of Hell.

But the people of Hell, the people who went to the hereafter without faith, there, there, when they see the torment, their rancor and rebellion will grow. And the more their rebellion and rancor grow, they (?). Yes. What are we saying? We said a person cannot go to Paradise unless his nafs becomes mutmain. A Muslim who enters Hell, seeing the torment there, will say: this torment is even too little for me. His faith in the light of Islam will be perfected. He will be ashamed there of what he did to himself. Then Allah, addressing the person who has come to this state, will say: O My servant, your nafs is perfected, come out of there. So the people on the A'raf, too, being people whose good deeds and sins are equal, with their eyes turned toward Hell, since their good deeds and sins are equal, are people who can enter neither Paradise nor Hell.

After they stay a while at the place called the A'raf, so that their nafs may become mutmain, the torment of Hell will be shown to them. So when they see the people in torment in Hell, they say: O our Lord! Do not place us with the people of the wrongdoers. In this way their nafs too is perfected on the A'raf, and in the end they enter Paradise. And however much the nafs is perfected, these people who have rights over one another will forgive each other their rights, we gave them, we forgave, they will say, and they will all together be admitted to Paradise. Yes, the people of the A'raf. And the surah takes its name from here, anyway, Al-A'raf. Yes.