Al-A'raf 57: Allah is the One Who sends the winds as a sign in front of Allah’s mercy. At the end, when they (the winds) carry the heavy clouds, We send them to a dead place. There, it sends down the water and with it, We bring forth a variety of fruits. And this is how We will bring forth the dead. (We bring this example) so that you shall contemplate.

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Surah Al-A'raf, verse 57, we have come to it.

Allah Almighty continually, with His verses, His essence's power, that He created the universe with knowledge, He is trying to tell us. His power, that He created with knowledge, His greatness and that there is no god but Him, with His verses, in these verses He lays out in order, He is trying to tell us. In this verse He says: it is He who sends the winds as good tidings ahead of His mercy. The winds ahead of His mercy. What comes ahead of His mercy? The wind. What comes after it? The rains. Yes. If Allah Almighty is going to send rain to a land, high pressure and low pressure arise. In low pressure, the warmed air rises to the sky.

Since that space below cannot stay empty, a cold air layer rushes in there. Sir, because colder air is below, it rushes in there too, and in this way to wherever He wants, in whatever direction He wants, with low pressure and high pressure He drives the clouds. Those clouds weighing tons are driven along. Then, when it meets that cold air layer, from those clouds, densely compressed, those little water vapour droplets fall to the earth as rain, as mercy. He created it all with knowledge. Allah Almighty shows people these things. O man, He says, is there another god who could (?) this, who could do it, who could possess this power, this might, He says?

In that case will you still close your eyes, block your ears and (?) your heart, He says? Will you not use your mind? Will you not (?), He says. How beautifully, with knowledge, with verses, Allah Almighty addresses people like this. Yes, it is He who sends the winds as good tidings ahead of His mercy. Finally, when they, those winds, carry heavy clouds, We drive them to a dead land, He says. We drive them to a dead land. There We send down the water and with it bring forth all kinds of fruits. Thus We will bring forth the dead too. Perhaps you will take a lesson from this, He says. We will bring forth the dead like this too.

That is, who says there is resurrection in the hereafter?

Well, don't you see this dry soil? Don't you see these rocks?

Maybe you can't see it here. In Medina, in Mecca, under the heat, the rocks bone-dry, stone. A rain falls there, one rain, and you see that on the rocks greenery appears. At the foot of those deserts, those rocks, greenery appears. There was nothing there; in this heat, what was there, what happened that with that rain, there greenery appeared.

So Allah Almighty says: to the earth We revealed, of the human body, what it will eat away and what it cannot eat away. So in the human body there is a cell that does not die, does not burn, does not rot, does not break, does not get lost. On the sixth layer there is the Sea of Secrets. The Sea of Secrets. That is water too, but what kind of water?

The waters of the world do not have the capacity to revive that cell in the human body. They cannot affect it. So, He says, in the hereafter, so the verse says. This is how We will revive you. From that Sea of Secrets, from that water, to the world, when it waters the world, the world, which, you know, what did we say, in earlier lessons we explained. We said there is no Sirat bridge; against those superstitions we read 67 verses showing that it does not exist. And there are many more; and there, what does it say? The earth, it says, another place, another place. When there is another place in the heavens, the earth, it says, the mountains crushed, perfectly flat, it says, perfectly flat. When it is brought there, there there is no waste and (?), look, it says.

No waste and (?). So from that Sea of Secrets it will rain there, that cell, to our fingertips, the bodies will be revived. The bodies, there, no waste and (?). Next. When the souls are paired, they will come face to face with the body, and in the presence of our Lord the body will testify against our soul about everything we did and tell it, will bear witness. So from that place on the sixth layer called the Sea of Secrets, onto the world it will rain, Allah will make it rain. Thus We revive the dead too, He says. Just as on those bone-dry stones in those deserts that rain falls and makes those mosses, those grasses grow, all kinds of vegetation, those fruits and plants it gives life; if on cracked soils, bone-dry, left and split open, rain falls and those cracks it closes and makes grass burst out from there, Allah Almighty, from that Sea of Secrets, when He makes it rain on the world like that rain, will revive people in the same way.

We will revive the dead like this too, He says. Will you never take a lesson? A lesson. Before so much knowledge, before such power, although I created the realm without any flaw, still you will (?) your Lord's power? Or will you be in doubt about turning to Allah, He says. Allah Almighty proves everything. No one, no person will be able to say: if only You had explained it to me this way, I would have turned to You. He explains it in the language of every person. Allah Almighty. Yes.

With this verse Allah Almighty, that He brought everything about with a power of knowledge, explains to people with examples. With these examples Allah Almighty, who says "I am the founder of all this you find yourselves in", presents them to the deafest ears, the blindest eyes, the most unfeeling people as examples to take a lesson from. Yes.

Yes, it is He who sends the winds as good tidings ahead of His mercy. The formation of winds: Allah Almighty, in one land and in another, bringing about high pressure, where there is low pressure, with the warmth of the air, the air's density rising, and in the other place there being high pressure, the air condensed by the cold being heavy, toward the low-pressure side, to fill the place of the rising air, a current starts, and so winds come about. On earth, from the seas, rivers and lakes, by the effect of heat, evaporation of water occurs. This evaporation from these rivers and lakes forms clouds in the air. With the winds, by His knowledge, toward whichever side He wishes, creating low and high pressure, He directs the clouds toward that side.

Finally, when the clouds reach the low-pressure place, by Allah's will, wherever He will make rain fall, to revive the dead vegetation there, through the clouds' contact with the dense and cold layers and the resulting compression, raindrops come about. Allah makes it rain where He wants, as much as He wants. As a result of this rain, all kinds of fruits and vegetables are brought forth on earth. Allah has encompassed the universe with His knowledge. He gives life to dead soil by reviving it with all kinds of vegetation like this. With this example He declares that people will be revived like this in the hereafter too.

In man there is a cell that does not burn, does not rot and does not get lost. Allah Almighty, in a verse: We revealed to the earth, in the human body, what it will eat away and what it will not eat away. According to this verse, on the Day of Judgement Allah Almighty will revive us with this cell again. Yes.

According to what is said, the universe has seven layers. And on the sixth layer there is the Sea of Secrets. When, with the water of this Sea of Secrets, it rains on these cells like rain, in those cells, from this water, (?) and finding life, man will again in the same process rise from the soil and be revived. So Allah with His knowledge gives people examples like this, so that people, from these examples and from Allah's being all-powerful over everything with the might of His knowledge, taking lessons, bowing to Allah's majesty and power, may surrender to Allah.