Al-A'raf 178: Those who desire guidance from Allah are the ones who find the right path. Those who go astray, they are the ones who are truly in a loss.

What do we say? It says, from Allah, that whomever Allah guides, he is the one who finds the right path. And here they ascribe a deficient attribute to Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty does not discriminate among His servants. He has left everyone free in their own will. And with their own wishes and desires, people's aims have become their destiny. So people cannot ascribe a deficient attribute to Allah Almighty. Whomever He guides, he is the one who finds the right path. And whomever He leads astray — Allah forbid, Allah leads no one astray. And above all, He never discriminates among His servants.

So, with such verses there, if you make Allah Almighty discriminate among His servants and lead those servants astray, Allah Almighty — as unjust, with injustice, are you (?) Him? That is why the verse goes like this: whoever asks Allah for guidance, he is the one who finds the right path, the right path. And whoever goes astray, whoever goes astray — the real losers are they. Look, what a beautiful verse.

Why did Allah Almighty send us the Holy Quran? Look: so that the Holy Quran would shed light before us. So that it shows us the way. (?) life for us. Or else Allah Almighty both shows us the way and says no to you? Do as much as you like, I will lead you astray, He says? That cannot be. Well, Hodja, don't they go astray? According to the covenant he gave: the actual deeds a person will do, which he decided on in his will. Yes.

Allah Almighty has opened the doors of guidance to all people in the visible world.

He has opened the doors of guidance. This is Allah. So the meaning "whomever He wills guidance for" is now removed by this. That's it. If He has opened the doors of guidance to everyone — His mercy in the universe is for everyone, in the hereafter only for the believer — here the attribute ar-Rahman would disappear. And in this world too His mercy would not be for everyone; He would be giving it with discrimination. Allah Almighty created these worlds with such justice that, We, He says, have divided even the world equally among you. Equally. Yes. So Allah Almighty has opened the doors of guidance for all people in the visible world.

Whoever wants to attain this guidance of Allah, whoever wants to attain this guidance of Allah, Allah Almighty, in the hearts of these people, placing His light, His light, yes, sets these people apart for guidance. And those who attain guidance have found the truth and the right path. And whoever, despite Allah Almighty making known so much truth and so many comparisons, denies and turns his back on Allah's verses, such people have gone astray in the middle of a straight road. And these are the ones who are the losers. Allah Almighty treats all these worlds, His creatures, with mercy. With guidance, uh, He shows them, shows people the way.

He offers these blessings, His blessings, to people. He offers them to people. What does He say?

In Surah Ar-Rahman, in Surah Ar-Rahman, look what it says, Ar-Rahman. Yes. There are grains with husks and fragrant plants, it says. So which of the blessings of your Lord can you deny? Allah created man from baked clay, from a clay that resembles clay. He created the jinn from pure fire. So which of the blessings of your Lord can you deny? That is, He created man from baked clay, but gave him of His spirit and made him the noblest of creatures. So then which of His blessings will you deny? (?) He created the jinn from fire, it says. He created the jinn from pure fire. By "pure" it means exactly like the electronic particles a welding machine gives off, that is, from signals — had it said "from frequencies" like that, people would not have been able to understand what frequencies are. Yes, it says from pure fire.

Uh, He is the One — it says — the Lord of the two easts and the two wests, it says. He is the Lord of the two easts and the two wests. And people say: the sun rises here in summer, it rises here in winter. In summer it sets there, and in winter it sets here, they say. Two easts, two wests, they say. Yet if this world is the likeness and shadow of the hereafter, by "two easts" it means both this world and the hereafter, by "two wests" — that He is the Owner of both this world and the hereafter. If this world is the likeness and shadow of the hereafter, if a thousand years here are like one day there, there are days there too. There are easts and wests there too.

And here there are easts and wests too. Yes. Look what it says here: since the places of rising and setting, according to the summer and winter seasons, change, the expression "two easts and two wests" has been used, it says. These are people deprived of (?). People deprived of the verses. Now it says: so which of the blessings of your Lord can you deny? Well, it says: for you in the world there is also the world of the hereafter, and I will make you live there, it says. So in that life, if I have made you heir to those places I created, the blessing of this can you deny, it says? He has let loose the two seas to meet each other.

Between them is a barrier. They do not pass into each other and mix. So which of the blessings of your Lord can you deny? This is how it goes. That is, with Our knowledge and Our power, We are showing you, you, the power of Our essence. Do two waters not mix with each other? (?) I do not mix them, He says. He has placed such blessings in your hands; in fresh water and in salt water He has created food and drink for you. Which of them will you deny, He says. Here, when it says thirty-odd times "which of His blessings will you deny", we see that verses that keep resembling one another carry separate meanings, we see that. At the same time, which of so many blessings could we possibly deny?

Is that possible? This is how Allah outwardly declares His own existence. Yes.

And whoever, despite Allah Almighty making known so much truth and so many comparisons, denies and turns his back on Allah's verses, such people have gone astray in the middle of a straight road. And these are the ones who are the losers. With this verse, at the same time, Allah Almighty, declaring that people's partial free will is in their own hands, makes known that people are responsible for all that they do. It always comes (?), confirming each other anyway. If you notice, it is always the same matters. Allah Almighty, who (?) all people's wishes and desires as their destiny — in this case no one will be able to blame Him.

That people are responsible for the deeds every nafs actually does; that although Allah Almighty shows the good and bad paths, people act by their own will; that with their own decisions they pass their own verdicts themselves — this is what it makes known. May Allah Almighty grant us all good perception and understanding. All of us. Yes.