Al-A'raf 206: Undoubtedly, the ones (angels) in the sight of your Lord do not become arrogant for worshipping Allah. They do Dhikr exalting Allah, and they only prostrate to Allah.

Surah Al-A'raf, verse 206. Surely those who are with your Lord are not too proud to worship Him. They glorify Him and prostrate to Him alone.

Now let us read the verse once more. Let us open up its meaning slowly.

Surely those who are with your Lord are not too proud to worship Him. Well, Hodja, you said a moment ago that for Allah Almighty, together with all the worlds, there is no place where He is not. In this period, are they not all with their Lord?

Yes. And here, now, how nicely it refutes what you said. The verse: Surely those who are with your Lord are not too proud to worship Him. So if you ask, Hodja, what was that story you told, that was not a story. It was this very verse. Just saying it won't do, Hodja. Open it up and let us listen. Of course we will open it up. Those who are with your Lord, it says. He has given human beings partial free will. With this will a person may turn to his Lord if he wishes, or move away from his Lord if he wishes. How beautifully Allah Almighty puts it. Those who are with your Lord. That is, those who obey Him.

His servants. Surely those who are with your Lord. That is, those who turn to Allah. All are Allah's servants. All are in Allah's (?), but, with that partial will, with the judgments they will make, with the verse that what a person earns is the return of his own two hands, with the actual deeds by which he does an atom's weight of good and an atom's weight of evil, people judged by the decisions they made, these who are with the Lord, that is, those who have turned to Allah, who are in prostration to Him and who obey Him, that is what it refers to. It means those people, it means those angels, it means those beings He created, those who are with the Lord. Surely those who are with your Lord, it says.

They, those people, are not too proud to worship Him. I feel honored to be a servant of Allah. I feel very honored. To be a helpless servant of His. And if only my Lord would say to me too: My servant. My servant is enough for that person. Yes. Allah is an ocean. An ocean. The knowledge and origin of everything is in Him. In us there is no fame, renown, pride, arrogance, ego, grandeur. We have laid this head of ours on the path of Allah. On His path, until my last breath, I am charged with telling about my Lord. I will tell about Him, and I take delight in it. I enjoy it. Indeed, Allah Almighty speaks of such people, and believe me, everyone says, I am such a person too, they say, but they say, but this is something else.

Yes. They glorify Him and prostrate to Him alone. Because His manifestation is in him. Because His manifestation with the forms of His essence is in him.

These now give their lives. They do not part from Him. They do not see themselves as separate from their Lord. Nor can they do without Him. The meaning of those who are with your Lord in this verse: although among the created, the noble angels, created solely for the duty of servanthood to Allah, are also included in this verse, the real meaning intended is people. Yes, as I said a moment ago, the angels too, those with the Lord too, are never too proud to worship Him. But the main aim is people. Why? Because they are not too proud, they are not vain, it says. They glorify. That is the part of the noble angels.

And they prostrate to Him alone, the people.

Although they are included in the verse, the real meaning intended is people. Because angels have no nafs. Since the nafs is in people, it means those who, breaking their nafs, know that they were created and, recognizing Allah as the Creator, to Allah, the owner of themselves and of the worlds, submit without arrogance. Yes. These people are those who, according to the verse Every soul shall taste death, knowing they will die, believing in the day when, in the hereafter, on that day of reckoning, they will give account to Allah, conduct their affairs in this world accordingly; such people. In this case, the dominion of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah.

According to this verse, even if they have wealth in the world, handing their wealth over to its true owner, they glorify Allah, the owner of all things, and only to Allah do they prostrate. Yes.

We have explained it briefly, with concise essential meanings.