Al-Anfal 10: Allah had done so (helping with the angels) to give you glad tidings and so that your hearts would become tranquil. Help is only from Allah. Verily, Allah is Azeez (Exalted) and Hakeem (All-Wise).
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Allah had done so (helping with the angels) to give you glad tidings and so that your hearts would become tranquil. Help is only from Allah. Verily, Allah is Azeez (Exalted) and Hakeem (All-Wise).
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Allah (swt) has helped the believers with angels only as a good news for them, so that they may know that they are not alone, and so that their hearts may be at peace. Otherwise, Allah does not need angels to help them. Allah is the One who creates and fulfills what He wills.
Anyway, help is only from Allah. It is Allah's grace and bestowal. He can create whatever He wills. Because Allah has absolute power. Therefore, Allah is the absolute victor over the worlds. There is no power or force that can stand against Him.
(Allah is the Possessor of judgment and wisdom.) Allah is the Possessor of judgment, for He is free from all imperfect attributes. Only Allah is the sole judge. Allah is the owner of justice and the fulfiller of truth. He is the Possessor of wisdom; what seems evil is good and what seems good is evil, and Allah knows the wisdom of these things. But He also gives people a taste of these wisdoms to the extent that He informs them.
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Yes. Allah did this, the help with angels, only as good news and so that by it your hearts would be at ease. Help comes only from Allah anyway. Yes. Help is from Allah anyway.
Well, Hodja, I help too. No. You earn reward by helping, you earn reward. Your help is within destiny, and within that person's destiny it is written to receive it from you. If you give help by yourself, tomorrow Allah will hold you accountable for it. Since the help you have given comes from the nafs, it becomes ingratitude, ingratitude, it becomes shirk. The help you give: Allah Almighty says in the verse that all the fine deeds they have done have gone to waste, He says. He had helped, you see, and it went to waste. Why? Because he denied Allah. He did that help for himself. He did it for his own interest.
He said, I did it. He denied that blessing Allah gave him. As if he had created it himself, as if he himself had created that thing he would help with, and given it to him. This is what it comes to. So when I help someone, I say this: Am I giving this to someone? I am helping with this. Allah gave this, this is Allah's. I say, I gave it to Allah.
What do I say? Allah gave this to me, I gave it to Allah. And the person receiving the help says, I received this from Allah. Because it is Allah's property, I received it from Allah, he says. Then between the helper and the one helped, toward each other, any boasting, pride, arrogance, ego, selfishness disappears. They all live as servants of Allah, as brothers in Islam. Yes. We are to live with these feelings anyway.
So Allah did this, the help with angels, only as good news and so that by it your hearts would be at ease. Help comes only from Allah anyway. See how beautifully it says it. Help is like that, only from Allah. Because it is giving Allah's property, Allah's wealth, to Allah. You will earn reward here. You earned it, you see, you put in effort, you spent a life on it. Allah gives you its return abundantly too. He gives it abundantly as reward. Yes. So help is always from Allah. Because they are Allah's property. Because Allah is absolutely prevailing. He is the sole possessor of judgment and wisdom.
He says. Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty gave the help with angels to the believers purely as good news for them, to convey that they were not alone, and so that their hearts would find peace and be strengthened; that is why He did it. Otherwise Allah Almighty has no need to help with angels. Allah is the One who creates and carries out what He wills.
(?) with angels would not have sufficed.
An example of this for you, in the Battle of Tabuk, in the Battle of the Trench, took place.
They remained under siege for a month. (?) armies opposite, and on this side the weak people of Medina, the army of the Prophet, a small force, little strength, a small force. When we went on Hajj, back then we always saw them. Later they removed those places. The Prophet's banner on the hill, the mosques of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali there at the Trench. They had settled on this side of the Trench, on the Medina side. All of them against those (?) armies. But they cannot cross the Trench. They remained under siege for a month. They were exhausted. Thereupon one night Allah Almighty, with a storm, a gale, a rain, a whirlwind, wrecked them.
Wrecked, they turned back, (?) their lives, and fled. Yes, does Allah Almighty lack power? Allah forbid. He has power over all things. So saying, I will also help you with My angels, was meant to strengthen their hearts. Anyway, help, too, is from Allah. It is Allah's grace and favour. If He wills, He creates what He wills. Because Allah possesses absolute power. Therefore Allah is absolutely prevailing over the worlds. There is no power or strength that can stand against Him. Because He is the Creator. He creates what He wants, and destroys what He wants of what He created; is it not Allah? The Creator, who brings into being from nothing.
A single Creator, a single power and a single strength, that is Allah. That strength is in His Essence. All others are in need of Him. Yes.
Allah is the possessor of judgment and wisdom. That is, He judges everything in the most right way, and what will happen in the end, its wisdom Allah knows. Even if it seems bad to us, we then find that it is good. Our Lord knows it. He is the Possessor of wisdom. Allah is the possessor of judgment. Because He is free from deficient attributes. Judgment belongs only to Allah. Allah is just and establishes what is right. He is the Possessor of wisdom. Good that seems like evil, evil that seems like good. Allah knows the wisdom of these. But to people too, as much as He makes known, He lets them taste at least a little of these wisdoms.
Of the wisdoms.
Is there a verse for what you say? There is. To whom We give knowledge, We give wisdom, it says. Because behind that knowledge, what does that knowledge point to? He perceives it through that wisdom. Yes. He perceives the word of Allah Almighty. Knowledge is perceiving Allah's word.
For example, if we give an example here now, we will give the example from ourselves, of course. These things cannot be told unless they are lived anyway. I do not know Arabic. I do not know Arabic. I do not know it, but I recognise Allah's word. I recognise Allah's word. You tell me Allah's word, or else a human composition, like this, as if it were Allah's word, and I will tell them apart for you. How can they be told apart? Allah leaves no deficiency in His word. In human composition there is deficiency. So, although I do not know Arabic, that Allah's word is deficient, that they interpreted it wrongly, Allah's word is not deficient, that they interpreted Allah's word deficiently, and that by interpreting it wrongly they (?), although we do not know Arabic, we perceive it through that wisdom.
That is wisdom. Without that wisdom you cannot perceive this. And you cannot find this either. It is not possible.
But only to people too, as much as He makes known, He lets them taste at least a little of these wisdoms. Through the wisdoms, he knows what will happen at the end of a matter. He shows it to him.
He shows it.
Do people know ladunni knowledge? What is ladunni knowledge?
Ladunni knowledge is Khidr (peace be upon him), as our Lord made known to us with verses in the Quran, knowing that there was gold under the wall, that later a ship would be seized by the king, his boring a hole in it and leaving it to those children; like that, of a deed to be done being aware of its outcome. Knowing that. Because it seems a loss to us, because we do not know what lies behind it, even Moses says, you straightened that wall. You could have asked them for a fee. We are hungry, he says. We would have taken a fee and eaten, he says. That is, we would have bought something. And, you killed that boy, he says.
One morning you holed this ship for no fault, he says. So it is made known to Khidr (peace be upon him). This is ladunni knowledge. This is wisdom. The wisdom there. The wisdom of that matter. To whom We give knowledge, We give wisdom, it says. That is, he understands the subtleties in the verse. So in that case, whatever you tell me, with Allah's verse, those words you say, even if you said a verse close to our Lord's, that is, even if you said such words, it tells them apart. In fact many people say such things. For instance they say it like a verse, but Allah does not speak like that. Because in it there is human speech.
Yes.
Learning these well, what wisdom is, what knowledge is: Allah Almighty, through the greatness of His Essence and by making known (?) to such people, and in their programs by having some events told to people, by making wonders appear, Allah Almighty at every moment makes His oneness, His existence known to people.