Al-A'raf 82: His nation answered by saying nothing but; “Drive them away from our home. They are clean people.”

What does Allah Almighty say in verse 82? He tells us what the people of Lot said. What did the people of Lot say? His people's answer: them, Lot and his followers, out of our land drive them out. For they are people who purify themselves too much; they said nothing other than this, it says. However much Lot (peace be upon him) invited them to the truth, to them explained the truth, tried to keep them from evil, from the disasters that would befall them tried to keep them away, showed them the care of an elder and a father, they gave no answer to Lot. That is, they did not side with him. Because their destiny is different, after all.

That is, they gave it as rebelling against Allah, as not recognizing Him. And so, as I said earlier, Allah Almighty says: We, to those oppressors' main centres, without sending a messenger, will not destroy them, He says. Well, the messenger came. Who? A prophet, no less. In this case, if a person still persists in his unruliness, the worlds are surely not without an Owner. And Allah Almighty destroys them like this. Now here an event is displayed before our eyes. Before our eyes. In this world

Thank you.

Our appearing in this world as if left to ourselves, our living as if there were no Allah; in the face of this Allah Almighty: O man, use a little of your reason. Look at all these events before you; still ignoring them, He says. Do you not imagine? We created the world, We created the worlds, We brought people onto this world, placed them. Are We unaware of them? Or will they, on their own, left to themselves, live? By their own wishes and desires, to the end of their lives, like this will they carry on? Yes. They will carry on by their own wishes and desires, but alongside that Allah Almighty says: I am here too.

For what? If you oppose My commands, I will punish you. What did He do? Before the Prophet (peace be upon him) came, those people living in the world their own way as if there were no Allah, Allah sending them messengers and wanting to bring them into an order, their not entering that order and Allah Almighty destroying them; and after the Prophet (peace be upon him) came, Allah Almighty again, though His commands He stated, sending calamities to those who turned their backs on them: that Allah Almighty is not heedless of people in this world, it shows. It shows that those who act outside His commands are punished.

So did man think himself left to himself? Did man think himself without responsibility? How beautifully, with all this, Allah Almighty sets all these events before us.

Lot's (peace be upon him) warnings to his people did his people no good. The people did not give up the immorality they committed. Finally the people give their verdict about Lot. What do his people say? Their answer is that Lot and his followers be expelled from their land. This homosexual people, at the same time, for Lot and his followers: expulsion from their land, and also because they purify themselves too much. They say it with their own mouths, too: yes, we will be purified, yes, we were created the most honourable, and above all the worlds, the most honourable we were created. Yes, above all the worlds, the most honourable life we will live, and in the finest way we will be among those most purified.

This purification is not washing my laundry and washing myself. That is also cleansing, bodily cleansing. True purification, however, is people, by carrying out Allah's commands, casting out from their hearts all that is other than Allah,

being freed from the burden of sin. Doesn't it say so? The angels say to those entering paradise: you have come pure. But people who truly make fools of themselves: at the gate of paradise there is supposedly a lake. One gets cleaned there, supposedly, and then goes in. And it supposedly says: you have come pure. That's how they understand it. That's how they understand it. Truly, one doesn't know whether to laugh or to be sad. A hodja at the head of a group, a hodja effendi no less, writes (?). Allah Allah, Allah Allah. One is truly astonished. Astonished. What kind of hodja is this? What kind of ignorance is this? What kind of understanding of Islam is this?

What kind of person is this, living unaware of the verses and, in the religion of Islam, at the head of a group standing? Yes. One is truly saddened by this.

These people were able to say these words too, shamelessly and (?).