Al-Anfal 19: (Oh infidels!) If you desire victory, victory came to you. And if you abandon (blasphemy), this is better for you. If you return (to enmity against the Prophet), We will turn to helping (him). Even if your group is numerous, they cannot save you from anything, for Allah is with the mu’min (believers).

In verse 19 of Surah Al-Anfal: O disbelievers, if you seek a conquest, here the conquest has come to you. And the conquest is entering the religion of Islam, if you want a conquest. And if you give up denial, it is better for you, it says. Yes, if you give up denial, it is better for you.

Again, if toward the Prophet you return to enmity, We too return to helping him. Even if your community is many, it cannot ward off anything from you. Because Allah is with the believers, it says. Yes. Now,

there is a very deep meaning here.

The more you explain it, the deeper it goes.

And some get into dead ends. But let us, briefly, without getting into dead ends too much, just in a veiled way pass over it. What does it say?

Even if your community were very large, it could ward off nothing from you. Because Allah is with the believers, it says. That is, in a state of war, Allah Almighty is with those believers together. If there is no believer among them, if there is no Muslim, well, if there are Muslims but no believers, it is mutual. They, together, whoever is superior, whoever gains the upper hand gains it. Muslim. Sir, because the Muslim for what he did, and they for what they did, will receive reward and sin. Because believers are with Allah in times of plenty and in hard times alike, Allah does not abandon them; He becomes their helper.

Here it goes deeper. There are many topics to be explained here. Therefore one needs to know this much of it. Allah Almighty also says so in His verse. Here He favors the believers. Yes.

In the verse too, it probably says believers here. Let us look at verse nineteen of Surah Al-Anfal.

Yes.

Verse nineteen of Surah Al-Anfal.

Allah is the helper of the believers, it says. Here it says believer. Believers.

O disbelievers, if you seek a conquest, here the conquest has come to you.

Here is the conquest. The Holy Quran. Conquest. There is no finer conquest than this.

In this case, if people are honored in the finest way with the religion of Islam and are governed by Allah's verses, Allah too is with them.

O disbelievers, if you seek a conquest, here the conquest has come to you. Allah's Messenger and the Holy Quran have come. There is no conquest greater than this. Even if states conquer states, even if they (?) new eras, if a person cannot conquer his own nafs, if he goes on as a rebel against Allah Almighty, the worldly conquests end with death, and in the end, left alone with the helplessness of his nafs, in the realm of the hereafter he is subjected to eternal punishment. If we open this up a bit: when it says, here the conquest has come to you, then for the people in the religion of Islam, breaking their selfish feelings and, bowing their necks, submitting to Allah is a conquest.

A conquest. What did he conquer? He conquered his own nafs. He conquered his own being and submitted to Allah. If he cannot conquer his own being — and only through the religion of Islam can a person conquer his own nafs, conquer his own being. If he is outside the religion of Islam, because he is captive to Satan and the nafs, he could not conquer himself. And because, under the yoke of Satan and the nafs, he acted outside Allah's command, that person wronged his own nafs. And that person took revenge on himself. In this case he has ruined himself. Yes.

The greatest conquest is a person conquering his own nafs. He masters his nafs. If he submits to Allah and His Messenger and continues on that path, this person attains victory and will have conquered the abode of eternal bliss. This is what conquest is. Allah Almighty, too, speaking to the disbelievers of such a conquest, says: if you want a conquest, here the conquest has come. One follows the path your intellect shows you. One masters one's nafs. Yes.

If you follow Allah and His Messenger, you are saved. Otherwise, if in the end you again turn to enmity toward Allah and His Messenger, We too turn to helping Our Messenger. Whoever stands against Allah and His Messenger is one who suffers eternal loss. Eternal loss. Their great number does not ward off anything from them. Because Allah is with the believers who stand upon truth and justice. Allah is the One who created the heavens, the earth and what is between them from nothing. Allah is the possessor of absolute power. No might or power can stand against Allah Almighty or bring Him to helplessness.

Because Allah is free from deficient attributes, rules over His creation, and all beings were created in need of Allah Almighty. Therefore, whoever becomes an enemy of Allah and His Messenger, let him know that he has become an enemy of his own nafs. Of his own nafs. Yes.