Al-Anfal 36: Verily, those who deny spend their possessions to prevent people from Allah’s way, and they will keep spending. But at the end, this will be a regret for their hearts, and they will be losers. Those who insist in infidelity will be summoned into the hell.

Let's finish.

Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to turn people away from the way of Allah, and they will spend more, it says. Today in the Christian world, to spread the religion, their false religion, they spend trillions. Missionaries. But in the end it will be a heartache for them, and in the end they will be defeated. Of course, they spend so much, spend and spend. The truth has come and falsehood has vanished. According to this verse, it is all wiped out, it all starts over. Now an example. Right on point. Let's give the example. And a lived example. For 150 to 170 years they've been at it.

For 150 to 170 years they've been at it. They put falsehood into the religion. They put superstitions in. They explained the Quran with superstitions. They abolished three things. The covenant. Partial free will. And that Allah would be unaware of the future. Allah forbid. "Perhaps Allah will forgive you," you know. As if He doesn't know what He's doing. That a child's mother and father, while it is in the world, would make it Christian, (?). That's what it says there. That's how they explained it there. God forbid, but it is not Allah's word.

From where? We know: for 150 to 170 years. About a month before this, I had seen a dream. The Prophet (peace be upon him) had a building; it had gathered dust. No one had looked after it. It had worn out (?), I mean. I had repaired the place. And there's a place for praying. And in its place, with lace, (?). He had prayed there. As I'm about to pray there too, I look to its right. Plaques like this, thirty, thirty-five centimeters in size: "The light of the age, the lamp of the time, Abdülmetin," it says. And (?), I'm moved like this. I say: praise and glory be to You for granting me to repair or restore this place, I say to Allah Almighty.

Now, the Prophet has no need of a building. His house is his religion. So for 150 to 170 years, no one looked after it. That's how superstitions got in. Why does Allah Almighty send, every year, a mujtahid, a qutb al-azam, and every two years a qutb al-aqtab imam? Why? Because He does not send a prophet again. There is no prophet. Those who are heirs of the Prophet, He Himself raises them. Our Lord raises them. And they pull out the falsehoods that entered the religion. As we have weeded them out. They pull them out easily, right away. So for them, having worked 150 to 170 years, 200 years, to put those falsehoods in, and then in a moment those falsehoods being cleaned out of there through the one Allah Almighty raised: that becomes a heartache for them.

Yes. Let them keep at it. Let them still keep at it. Look how far the verses reach. We explain it to you through lived experiences. So that it is understood better. Allah Almighty too would bring about events so that the verses would be understood well. Among the Companions, among the Sahaba, and He would send down a verse. So that it would be understood better. Yes.

Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to turn people away from the way of Allah, and they will spend more, it says. But in the end it will be a heartache for them. And in the end they will be defeated. And those who persist in disbelief will be gathered in hell, it says. Those who persist. In every age, those who deny Allah and seek supporters for themselves, so that they gain strength, spend their wealth and their labor on turning those who worship Allah away from the way of Allah. Had the community of disbelievers, instead of making so much effort and struggling so hard to turn people away from worshipping Allah, broken their nafs and submitted to Allah, they would have found peace and attained salvation.

Instead of struggling so much with his wealth and his life, if he bowed to the one Allah, he would both find peace, and Allah would grant him his wealth too, and he would live comfortably with it. It's that simple. But when he denies Allah, he will live in torment. He will live in unrest. Yes.

In the realm of the hereafter they would have been heirs to Paradise. But the enmity toward Allah that is in people's natures has become the person's fate; therefore such people, by turning those who worship Allah away from the way of Allah, want to take revenge on Allah, out of their brainlessness. They do not know that these actions of theirs, these efforts of theirs, will never benefit anyone at all. They only take revenge on their own nafs. They only want to find calm by binding people like themselves to themselves. But when they see that their efforts have come to nothing, this situation becomes a heartache for them.

When they see that all the labor and effort they spent has come to nothing, the anguish in their nafs will increase. As a result of this anguish: "Could we perhaps turn people away from the way of Allah after all?" With their lives they will spend even more of their wealth. In the end, defeated, their struggles and the loss of their wealth will be a heartache for them. Because Allah will complete His light until the Day of Judgment. Allah, who programmed these realms until the Day of Judgment, will until the Day of Judgment bring those who say "Allah" into the material world. For their sake He will give life to the universe.

The disbelievers remain enemies of Allah until the end of their lives. They want to turn people away from the way of Allah. If they die in this state, the place where they will be gathered is the fire of hell. It is a very evil place of return. The place of eternal anguish of eternal life. We said: may Allah Almighty protect us all from such an end. Yes.

That's why we will be wise.

We will use our reason. We will have the ability to reason by comparison. We will not get carried away by the feelings of the nafs. We will not speak without having evidence in our hands. And when we speak, we will not speak backbiting about people or to satisfy the feelings of our nafs. We will always speak the truth and what is right. According to the verse "Spread truth and justice on earth," we will not shy away from telling the truth even if it is a relative of ours. Even if each of us is bound to one another by lineage, by blood ties, and however close our kinship to one another, among people, through lineage and blood, may be, and even if we protect one another, we cannot be as close as our closeness to Allah. That's why, because of that closeness to Allah, our Lord's command upon us, the verse "speak the truth even against a relative," we will obey.

We will in no way resort to lies. We will not oppress people to satisfy our nafs with the feelings of the nafs. We will not insult them unjustly. Yes, Islam is brotherhood; they will tolerate one another. Those who, with the cause of tolerance, draw people into the cause of tolerance and, to make what the non-Muslim does look good, with the cause of tolerance, with interfaith dialogue, invite people to the tolerance of non-Muslims; those who say "interfaith dialogue" and the verse inne'd-dîne indallahi'l-İslâm deny, and, as if there were a religion other than Islam, by saying "interfaith dialogue" fall into kufr; those who hunt people with these deliberate words.

We will use our reason. I say it again. We will use our reason. We will always take our place on the side of the truth.

Yes. Lillahi Teâlâ el-Fatiha.