Al-A'raf 78: Upon this; the (loud) blast caught them, and they were frozen still on their knees in their land.

Thereupon that roaring tremor seized them, and in their homes they froze on their knees, and in the excavations too, on their knees they see them, they find them, that is. Truly, Allah Almighty says so in His verse. Are they lying face down, or are they on their knees? On their knees, they collapsed right where they were. Thereupon Allah gave them an earth tremor, a roar, and the calamity of an earthquake. He destroyed them on their knees, where they were, in their bewilderment. So people who won't listen, won't heed advice, whose end is pride and ego, suffer a painful punishment. A painful punishment.

If only this punishment ended in this world, that would be fine.

The punishment: in the world's passing state of a few minutes or a few hours, proving what kind of person one is in these few hours of life, and in the eternal, endless life of the hereafter leaving one's own self exposed to punishment, such people. Who are they? Fools. If they weren't fools, they wouldn't do this. Yes.

Here, an event I lived through today takes place. At our place there too, the wall of the house had collapsed. We hired a builder, we're having a stone wall built there. From the Russian market the builder brought three Georgians. But one of the Georgians is Muslim, and two are Christian. Because their religion is Christian, you know. So, they know Turkish, and today I gave them some very fine advice. That people should use their minds, that Jesus, as a prophet, is still alive. That he too will finally taste death. Then, that the Mahdi is (?) of the Prophet. Because since he is the Seal of the Prophets, since he brings the prophets to an end, after him no prophet will come again.

Although, in the light of the verses, I explained to them that Jesus too will come to the Mahdi as one of his ummah, they just stand there staring blankly like dolts.

That is, I discovered this about them. Hatemallâhu alâ kulûbihim ve alâ sem'ihim ve alâ ebsârihim gışâveh ve lehum azâbun azîm. They absolutely do not understand. They cannot understand. Because their ears are blocked. Their eyes are blind to the truth. Yes. As I said, I see that verse upon them. Hatemallâhu alâ kulûbihim ve alâ sem'ihim ve alâ ebsârihim gışâveh ve lehum azâbun azîm.

Although I explained it so clearly and plainly, their staring like dolts and not understanding what I said at all; how deaf their ears are, how blind their eyes are to the truth, that their hearts are sealed too, I discovered through their (?), upon them, that is. Explain whatever you like. So it means: whatever their destiny is, into the world within that destiny they enter, and never has the ability to tear that frame and get out, no being. No one at all. But since Allah Almighty will not call anyone to account for a (?) He did not make heard, we have done our duty. We explained it in the finest way.

One of them there was Muslim anyway.

With your, he said to me, this knowledge of yours, if I were in your place, he said, I would not sit here, I would serve people, he said. Yes, of course, who I am he does not know; the one who is Muslim understands now. And in the verse it says so anyway.

Thereupon that roaring tremor seized them, and in their homes they collapsed on their knees. Thereupon Allah brought upon them an earth tremor, with a roar, the calamity of an earthquake. He destroyed them on their knees, where they were, in their bewilderment. So, people who won't listen, won't heed advice. Whose end is pride and ego, people meeting a painful punishment.

However much you explain to them, since they can never go outside the covenant they gave, our duty is to convey the truth to them. According to the verse that says, We do not call anyone to account for lessons We did not make heard, either Allah Almighty sends them, to their feet, a scholar, or they come to a scholar's feet, and even though they see and hear the truth, because they will not go outside their own perception and understanding, because they cannot, because of those traits, because they take pleasure in the pleasure of that world, in its life and living, they cannot return to Islam.

Their covenant is like that. In that case, as the reward of what his own two hands earned, tomorrow at the Resurrection, at the Great Court, he is called to account. Allah never wrongs anyone. Everyone will see the reward of what his own two hands earned. Yes. All property belongs to Allah. Âmennâ ve saddaknâ. Property is Allah's. The earth and the heaven and what is between them are Allah's creations. Every soul shall taste death. The inheritance of the heavens and the earth and what is between them will remain with Allah. Whose is the inheritance? If everyone dies, then, since its Owner created it, it will remain with its Owner. Yes.

The people on it, that is, property belongs to Allah, the people on this property are travellers, wandering guests. No one can take the goods of this guesthouse outside. That is, he cannot take even an atom to the hereafter, nor take it along behind him. Because no one has the power for that. So, in this guesthouse, the things the owner gave his guest to use, if this guest says they are mine and lays claim to them, this guest is a fool. A selfish and greedy (?) people. Property is Allah's; from the atom to the globe, everything is His. You cannot call it yours. If it were yours, you would have had to create it yourself.

Or do you own even an atom of your world? If that were so, He says, of your world not even as much as the (?) of a seed would be given to you. Nothing even as much as the seed of a (?) would be given, He says. Because if you had begun to create it, you would also create your own needs. And I would give you nothing, He says. Then, if the heavens and the earth and what is between them (?), if that Creator is One, if there is no god but Him, all wealth and all property are His. Then we here, being tested with these goods, are the trustees of those goods. No one can, with the wealth Allah has bestowed on man, take pride. He cannot boast.

He cannot say it is mine. He can only say: I am its trustee. In the end he leaves it and goes. He cannot take anything. What he will take are rewards and sins. Yes.