Al-Anfal 8: (These were) to manifest the truth and to uproot wrong beliefs.

Them, polytheists and disbelievers, Surah Al-Anfal, verse 8: this is, even if the sinners do not want it, to realize the truth and to abolish falsehood. To abolish falsehood, even if the sinners do not want it.

Because why do the sinners not want it? Because they are with the whims of their nafs. They never give up anything of their nafs. In this case, in a country where the feelings of the nafs are lived, with the temptations Satan gives them, people upset the balance of this course, and with inhuman actions they drown everything in corruption. Therefore, even if those sinners do not want it, Allah Almighty would establish the truth. The truth. What does it say? Even if the sinners do not want it, it was to realize the truth and abolish falsehood. Even if the enemies of Allah, polytheists and disbelievers, do not want the truth, Allah will fulfill His promise.

Allah Almighty is free from deficient attributes. Allah does not hold anyone responsible for something He has not made known. Therefore Allah, to abolish the falsehoods of the disbelievers and idolatrous polytheists, will fulfill His promise. What is His promise? Allah Almighty: to make His being known, to gather the three books with the fourth book, the Holy Quran, to send the Prophet (peace be upon him) to the worlds as a mercy, to be an example to people with his good character, and even if the disbelievers do not want it, Allah's light, Allah will complete His light until the Day of Judgment. In this case Allah Almighty will show that He is free even from a deficient attribute.

People will not be able to say: You did not make the religion of Islam known to us, You did not let us hear the truth. So we remained unaware in this unseen world. For Allah Almighty says this in His verse: We do not hold anyone responsible for what We have not made known, He says. In this case Allah Almighty makes the truth known to people in the Holy Quran. Today, in the farthest land of the world, the farthest land, even at the poles, (?) lie buried, the noble Companions lie buried. They carried the truth all the way there and made it known. Even at present there are those who know, at the poles too.

Yes.

Even if the enemies of Allah, polytheists and disbelievers, do not want the truth, Allah will fulfill His promise. Allah Almighty is free from deficient attributes. Allah does not hold anyone responsible for something He has not made known. Therefore Allah, to abolish the falsehoods of the disbelievers and idolatrous polytheists, will fulfill His promise. His promise. His promise is that His being be known, that He remove what is associated with His being. If you say: are there not people who associate partners today? Yes, there are. So don't say: He could not remove them. Why? Because He set forth the religion of Islam.

Since He left everyone free in their own will, they are free. Since He will not call anyone to account in that (?) state, He established His religion of Islam. That is, until the Day of Judgment Islam will come, Islam will live, Islam will leave the religion of Islam to the next, to its brothers in Islam, as an inheritance. In response to these words we speak, to this word of ours, to this sentence of ours, Allah Almighty already says this verse. And we say the counterpart of that verse. Will they extinguish Allah's light by blowing with their mouths? Allah will complete His light until the Day of Judgment.

Yes. He completed it, He established it. From now on the responsibility is yours. If you like, be an idolater; if you like, be (?); if you like, outside Islam, be in various ideologies. From now on the responsibility is on man.

Yes. Yes.

On the Day of Judgment no person will be able to say to Allah Almighty: if You had made Your being known to me in the world, I would not have held back from worshipping You. Look, even if disbelief and the enemies of Allah do not want it, Allah, by realizing the truth, will make His existence known to people. Yes, He will make His existence known.

Even if the disbelievers do not want the truth and spend every effort they can, in abolishing the religion of Islam, the whole world, even if the world's disbelievers unite, in this they will not succeed. Even if all the world's people, its disbelievers, united. Why? They will not succeed. Because Allah will complete His light until the Day of Judgment. This verse. Because there is no one stronger than Allah. Allah never lets His word be belied; therefore even if the world united, the world's people, even if mankind united and the jinn helped the humans, still they cannot harm Allah. The verse says so anyway: even if humans and jinn united, they cannot harm Allah. In this case, if Allah Almighty is to complete His light, even if the world's disbelievers came together, they will not be able to extinguish the light of Islam.

Because since Allah Almighty will not call anyone to account for what He does not make known, if they had abolished Islam, the people coming afterwards, since they had not heard of Islam, would be freed of their responsibility. In this case Allah Almighty proves to us that His promise, His word, is true through those who have brought Islam up to our time. And from now on, from now on too, He will prove it again. Because by sending every 100 years a qutb al-a'zam, every 200 years a qutb al-aqtab, renewers in religion, persons tasked with driving out falsehoods, by making Allah and His Messenger beloved to people, and by removing falsehoods, He will keep His religion alive until the Day of Judgment.

And little time remains until the Day of Judgment anyway. There is a situation of about 150 years. About 150 years, more or less. Technology says so too. The situation is obvious anyway, clear. Allah Almighty created the universe with knowledge. These geologists, these astronauts working on the sky, well, these, like the calamities the world has suffered, we will say that calamities, people's perfumes, the hole in the ozone layer, various events, the world being confronted with them, in this case affects the course of the world. When we say a short time toward the end of the world, eight qutb al-aqtabs will come to the world.

Since one comes every two or three years, our ancestors also say such a saying. Is it the ancestors who say it, or did those persons say it? 'In 1400 I will not be lifted, 1600 I will not reach.' Of course it will not be lifted in 1400. We are in the year 1430. But it says: I will not reach 1600. In 1600; so between 1400 and 1600 is dangerous, between 1400 and 1600; since it will not reach 1600, 1430, to 1600 there are 170 years, 160-odd years, it is 1430 anyway,

since it will not reach 1600, if it comes 20-30 years before that, then 140-150 years, 130 years or so remain; and the world's course within a program of its own. In this case Allah Almighty from now on too will make His light known to the people coming last from the barzakh. They too will prove in the world what kind of person they are, and when finally no human soul is left to come from the barzakh, the Day of Judgment will break. This is programmed anyway.

Yes, this program will continue like this until the Day of Judgment, and the religion of Islam will live on. But when people in a land make concessions in their religion, when they leave the religion of Islam, Allah Almighty, addressing such people: if in one land you make concessions in your religion and leave the religion of Islam, We will create in another land (?) who will live the religion of Islam, He says. Yes, according to this verse, Muslims must be very vigilant. Indeed, besides the disbelievers instilling immorality in people through their media and drawing them to irreligion, working with all their might to make them like themselves, in their own states and among their own people, Islam spreading rapidly and people living Islam, they cannot prevent it. Their own people they cannot prevent.

Today in many places people in masses are trying to become Muslim. For instance, in a Black part of America, many Black people, even the white people there, accept Islam and say: tell us about Islam. In this case, so that Islam is not instilled in them, that is, so that they do not accept Islam, appearing as Islam and telling superstitions, to turn people away from Islam is what they try. Yes, specially training hodjas, specially having them teach Islam amid superstitions, they try to make them give up Islam.

So, people living the truth, living unaware that they are in a blessing, when they lose their blessing from their hands, after they come to their senses, a person realizes that he was in a blessing but did not know its value, after losing his blessing.

In the air, a person does not know the value of air. Only when he puts his head under water does he come to know the value of air. Because with his head in the water he cannot breathe. Blessing is like this too. If that person does not know the value of the blessing, after the blessing slips from his hands, he heaves a sigh, but it is too late. Look, the most beautiful of blessings is the life Islam gives man; if man makes concessions in Islam and also lives outside Islam, then he understands that Islam gave him life, what a beautiful life he has left behind; then man understands. Before the beauty of Islam.

Look, people who make concessions in their religion, move away from the truth and abandon the religion of Islam, when they meet with punishment in the hereafter, in that eternal abode of bliss, will realize that they let the religion of Islam, a treasure, slip from their hands. But they have settled in a world with no return. The opportunity is lost.

When people say to Allah Almighty: my Lord, send me back once more, see how I will worship You; even if We sent you back not once but several more times, you would do the same thing again. Well, why, Hodja? We have gained experience. We have seen, we have done. It is not like that. Those places will be closed to you again. Your own will, your covenant, your destiny, again your wish and desire will in the same way prove what you are. I compare man's destiny to this.

If you recorded a person's speech or his life on a video, and that video you put on whatever tape or television or computer, on that CD, it will always show you the same things. So, if in man's destiny his wish and desire have been made his will, his traits are like the program recorded for broadcast on that CD. When its time comes, wish and desire will arise with those traits. With these wishes and desires people will prove what kind of people they are. In this case, that person's traits want (?). So even if he came to that world not once but a thousand more times, he would do the same thing again.

So there is no coming back again. Human life is a treasure too; within this life, if man finds the truth, he will have gained the means of the hereafter. If man turns his back on the Truth in this world and is ruled by falsehood; if, ruled by falsehood, he turns his back on all the blessings Allah gave him and is ungrateful, then in that eternal life, in the hereafter, deprived of Allah Almighty's mercy, he will have asked for hell, which is (?) eternal. Yes.

What do we say? Look, people who make concessions in their religion and move away from the truth, who abandon the religion of Islam, when they meet with punishment in the hereafter, on that eternal path of bliss, will realize that they let the religion of Islam, a treasure, slip from their hands. But they have settled in a world with no return; the opportunity is lost. So, O human, think well while the opportunity is in your hands. Think well in this world. What should I think about, Hodja?

Yunus Emre has a saying. A beautiful saying. He who does not know where he came from and where he goes is an animal, he says. An animal cannot think. Where did it come from, what will it do? Its whole existence, the animal's existence, is eating, drinking, (?). And when Allah Almighty says in His verse, they are like four- legged beasts roaming the earth, he has said: an animal that does not know where it came from and where it goes, he falls into that state. So, man will think.

These worlds, in these worlds, among beings, created things, he was created the noblest. Our Lord gave him, man, a part of His being. What is that part? A spirit. What does it say? From My being I placed My spirit, it says. Into whom? Adam. Into whom? Jesus. He created him without a father. In this case, if Allah Almighty created you as a part of His being, then surely He has not left you to yourself. He informs us in His verse that one day we will return to Him. What does it say? Every soul will taste death, and your return is to Me, it says. In this case, will man never think? What will he say to himself?

O Ahmet Efendi, Mehmet Efendi, or O human: my Lord who created me, did He create me in vain? What (?) from me?

He did not separate me from His being; with the most beautiful attributes, forms, as a part of His being He created me, a part. In this case, why did Allah Almighty create me like this? So that I would know Him He created me. So if I turn my back on Him, if I am ungrateful for what He gave, will He not one day call me to account? Now, can you say: I was created without a mother or without a father? What do you have? You have a mother, you have a father, you know this. Well, since this mother of yours and father of yours, by their mother and father were created, since it came like this all the way back to Adam, from Adam too; Allah Almighty created Adam and (?), and if Allah Almighty, our Lord who created our souls, created Adam (peace be upon him) and our mother Eve for the souls created there to come to the world, to be able to put on the garment of a body, as a means, can we deny that creator of ours?

Can we turn our backs on the blessings He gave? And in the face of so many blessings Allah Almighty gave us, can we be ungrateful, think ourselves unaccountable, and say that in no way even after death will we be called to account? Will you not think of your beginning? Will you not reflect at all? Will you not use your mind? How shall I use it, Hodja? You, how did you come to this world?

You are unaware that you were created earlier in the world of souls. You are unaware that you made a covenant with your Lord there. In fact you do know, but it was closed off in you like a computer program. It exists in you. When dying, when the soul reaches the throat, those worlds will be shown to you. That program will be opened. Because you are unaware of that program in the world, because you are unaware of that covenant, because you are unaware of how much time remains of the barzakh, this life of yours in the world, living time within time, whereas by one day there, a thousand years here, and by a day there your life of a few hours, as a life that will never end you regard it, just as the stork in its nest spends its time clattering, clack clack clack, if we spend the world irresponsibly like this, surely before Allah Almighty tomorrow at (?) we will have no face left.

And if we go denying Allah, then there, with that verse where He says His mercy in the universe is for everyone, in the hereafter for the believer alone, with His attribute of Rahman and Rahim, when He withdraws His mercy from us, we will be left there with no one and alone. Then we will have asked for the eternal abode of hell, the abode of punishment. May Allah protect us. Look, think a little. Use your mind a little. Yes.

Look, O human, think well while the opportunity is in your hands. Your life is with you, you are living now, think well. Deceived by the pleasures of a passing world, do not ruin the eternal abode of bliss. Allah is mighty; even if the communities of humans and jinn gathered, they could not harm Allah. So do not oppose Allah and set out to deny the verses. By turning people away from the truth, by following Satan and the whims of the nafs, do not drag your own nafs to destruction. When death arrives, he wakes from this world he sees through rose-tinted glasses. When the bitter events of the world of reality are laid before his eyes, regret will never help. And he cannot return to the world again.

Back. So, if in the world a gold- filled world were yours, a world, a world full of gold were yours,

with all its rubies and chrysolites at your command, you (?) the world, or do you own a single atom? If that were so, you would not be given anything, even as much as (?) of a seed, it says. Every soul will taste death. The inheritance of the heavens and the earth will remain to Allah. According to these verses, this treasure did not benefit you. So this treasure did not benefit. Even if the world were yours, full of gold, adorned with all the chrysolites, rubies, diamonds, it did not benefit you. Then what will benefit you? What will benefit? By saying Allah once in your life, by being honored with the religion of Islam, by being with Allah's verses, by your finding the truth, you will have owned the greatest treasure.

The treasure of the religion of Islam. The moment you live with it, the moment you are governed by it, when you do not fall short in worshipping your Lord as much as you can, by heeding halal and haram as much as you can, in this way securing both your worldly gain and your otherworldly gain, when you pass on to the hereafter, you will have attained your Lord's mercy. That is the treasure. So the world's treasure did not benefit you. They will say this, it says. In the verse. Not this world, it says. Even if one had another world full of wealth and gave it to Allah as (?), as ransom. Even if he gave it as ransom, it says. Even if he gave it to Allah as ransom to be saved.

What does it say? This world-full of wealth. If there were one more world, (?) to Allah as ransom, to be saved. Yes. Hodja, shall we not work in the world? Shall we not work at all, then? Let's say Allah is one. Allah Almighty doesn't tell you not to work. If you develop your world in the best way and earn, and you attain a strong position, your enemies will fear you, you will find (?), or they will envy you and become Muslim, says Allah Almighty in His verse. Yes, since He made us (?) with eating and drinking, within this eating and drinking, a work by which we can support ourselves, within (?), through the actions we take, we will prove what kind of people we are.

As I said, if a world full of treasures were yours, you will eat as much as you eat, drink as much as you drink. That is your provision. What is provision? What you eat and drink, what you wear out: that is your provision. Apart from that, it is not your provision. (?), assets that will be left as inheritance. In this case, if what man eats and drinks, wears and wears out is his provision, even if this person owned world-full treasures, since it will not benefit him, Allah Almighty too says in His verses: give charity in the way of Allah. Look, earn, and give charity in the way of Allah. Well, shall I give all of it, Hodja?

He doesn't tell you to give it all. Take your precautions so that you stand on your own feet, so that you need no one; take your precautions, He says. Well, is there such a verse? Of course there is. How could there not be a verse? Give zakat, He says. Where will he give zakat from? He will give it from his wealth, from what he earned. To the poor, the needy. Allah Almighty tells you both to work for the world and to work for your hereafter too. The giving hand is better than the receiving hand, says the Prophet. The giving hand. So we will build up our world too. Besides this, we will not put love of the world in our hearts and turn our backs on the hereafter.

We will earn a lot. Again, we will prepare our wealth for the hereafter. I say this: My Lord, I say, give to me. Give. I say: give. So that I may give to people. I love it very much. When I give to people and they smile, if You granted me the world, You could not (?) me as much as that person's smile. You could not give me such peace. Yes. His relief and that person's smile. That is why we will work hard, but not to settle this world in our hearts or for the whims of our nafs, but to give charity in the way of Allah after taking our precautions. Yes.

So we say: O human, think well while the opportunity is in your hands; do not, deceived by the pleasures of a passing world, ruin the eternal abode of bliss.

Allah is mighty. Even if the communities of humans and jinn gathered, they could not harm Allah. So do not oppose Allah and set out to deny the verses; by turning people away from the truth, following Satan and the whims of the nafs, do not drag your own nafs to destruction. When death arrives, he wakes from this world he sees through rose-tinted glasses; when the bitter events of the world of reality are laid before his eyes, regret will never help, and he cannot return to the world again.