Al-A'raf 167: Your Lord has proclaimed that until the Day of Judgment, Allah will surely send people who will inflict upon them the most severe punishment. Verily, your Lord is swift in Allah’s punishment. And Allah is Ghafoor (Forgiving) and Raheem (the One Who very generously accepts repentance).

To us, what does it say, He declared that He would send against them those who would inflict the worst torment. Now here, Allah Almighty, by His own wish and will, does not set these upon them. Through those people's own way of life, their own wishes and desires, through the strife they have stirred up on earth, the strife, through their making the earth restless and bloody,

they themselves bring these upon their own heads.

And Allah Almighty informs us of this.

Your Lord is swift in punishment, it says. That is, both in this world and in the hereafter. And He is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful. Your Lord is swift in punishment, but here it also says Most Forgiving. That is, He punishes swiftly, but within that swiftness He grants you a time. If within that time you turn to your Lord, Allah Almighty forgives you. He is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful, it says, (?). Because, without discriminating among His servants, the people He created so that His essence be known, to the people who turn to His essence, He grants them pardon and forgiveness.

Yes, this verse shows that Allah Almighty created all these worlds within a program and made a covenant with people one by one, knowing what they would do, and informed people of it. That is, Allah Almighty is just, and the crime that anyone has committed our Lord does not load onto anyone else. What does it say? Fe men ya'mel miskâle zerretin hayran yerah. Ve men ya'mel miskâle zerretin şerran yerah. I will record the weight of good and I will record the weight of evil too. So no one is called to account for the good deeds or evils that someone else has done. Rather, through their actual deeds, people declare themselves to themselves, make those around them witnesses, and make Allah Almighty a witness too.

After they have proven to themselves what kind of person they are, (?) and finally the day when our Lord will call to account, when account will be given, in the Supreme Court, he waits for. Then his account is settled. If good, good; if bad, he receives his punishment among the bad. Yes.

If we pay attention to this verse, Allah Almighty decrees as follows. That until the Day of Judgment He would send against them those who would inflict the worst torment, He declared. Allah Almighty declared it. Whatever Allah Almighty says, there is never any shortcoming in it. The word of our Lord does not contradict itself. According to this verse, the exceptions among them are excepted. That is, those who live the religion of Islam, who are hidden among them and cannot say Islam and I am a Muslim, are excepted. That is, those who have been honored with Islam but cannot reveal themselves, apart from these, it declares that the others are a cursed people, that they will not rest on earth until the Day of Judgment, and that in return there will always be people whom Allah Almighty will set upon this people.

There will always be a people to be set upon this people. Because since they do not rest on earth, upon their own heads they themselves will attack the peoples who will be set upon them, or, by stirring up strife against them, they will bring those peoples on earth upon themselves. And finally, such a people will come that it will wipe them off the face of the earth. They themselves know this too. So they are building underground cities. Underground cities, underground shelters they are building. In Allah Almighty's word, it again says: When that time comes, you they will search for street by street, house by house, and they will finish you off.

That is, figuratively, even if one hid behind a bush, that bush would say: Behind me there is a Jew, it will say. There is a Jew, it will say. Figuratively, of course. That is, they themselves know that they will be wiped off the earth, they know it. Then, it says, the whole curse is already on their backs, on their backs.

Yes. It declares that there will always be people to be set upon this people. Today, in our day, the Jews unjustly, the Palestinian genocide, trying to wipe out by genocide; in response, from this nation or from Islam, (?), these people answering the inhuman genocide they have committed, and a panic among their own nation. That this people will always be restless and that there will be a nation to torment them, it has declared. This people. Because it is a restless people. The strife of the earth, and a cursed people.

Allah Almighty did not program these events by His own will either. By His own will. We said that the one who programs the worlds is Allah Almighty, it is Allah Almighty who programs. If people cannot grasp these points, they say this man is going astray. They say it, you know. That is why these are fine points. What did we say at the beginning a moment ago? First, there is the programming of the worlds by Allah Almighty's will. For example, the creation of humans, the creation of (?), the creation of the seven heavens, the creation of the Supreme Throne. All of these are Allah's willing and programming.

But according to people's wishes and desires, Allah Almighty programming the worlds, that is, programming those people, their being programmed not by Allah Almighty's will but by people's own will. If they had been programmed by Allah Almighty's will, since Allah Almighty is the Possessor of mercy, He would abolish hell. We would all, as Muslims, without ever coming into the world, go together to paradise in the hereafter. So there is the programming of the worlds according to Allah Almighty's wish and will; that exists. And there is also, according to people's wishes and desires, Allah Almighty's programming. Even though Allah Almighty programs both, in one He programs in proportion to His own will; in the other, those He created, to whom He gave of His spirit, leaving them free in their own will with their partial free will, by writing their own wishes as destiny for them according to their wishes and desires, He programs the worlds according to them.

Now, since this people is cursed, since it will not rest, since it will attack other peoples, the peoples to be set upon it, it itself has Allah Almighty program that program. By its own wish and will. And Allah Almighty programs it. In this case you cannot blame Allah. Yes. I suppose this part will be understood too. Let us read this part once more. It will be understood better, inshallah. Yes.

Allah Almighty did not program these events by His own will either. In line with the covenant these people gave in terms of their character and their own wishes, by constantly stirring up strife on earth and attacking people unjustly, they themselves have had these calamities programmed for themselves. Yes. They have it programmed for themselves. So, this nation: if today it is Palestine, tomorrow another nation will be a calamity. The people it will unjustly attack, stirring up strife on earth, will rightfully, protecting their homeland and lives, defend themselves against the Jews too. So, that this people will not rest on earth, Allah Almighty with this verse is telling people.

That it will not rest on earth. How beautifully it says it. Look, let us read the verse once more. Your Lord has certainly declared that, until the Day of Judgment, people who would inflict the worst torment on them He would send. Until the Day of Judgment. Yes. Since they will not rest on earth, and since Allah Almighty knows this, according to their character, peoples will arise to be set upon them until the Day of Judgment. Until the Day of Judgment.

So, that this people will not rest on earth, Allah Almighty with this verse is telling people. With these actions of theirs, in constant fear and restlessness, in torment, it states that they will go on living. It states that they will go on living. Since they themselves know these situations very well, in constant fear and panic they take precautions. But for a person of reason: since, ever since the world was founded, no one has been able to change what Allah has made known, however many precautions are taken, they will not escape the decree. The decree. So the best salvation is to enter Islam, turn to one's Lord, repent, seek forgiveness and take refuge in Allah Almighty.

Because Allah is Most Forgiving and Most Merciful. Yes.