Al-Anfal 37: (This summoning) is for Allah to separate the filthy from the clean (to separate the believers from the disbelievers) and for Allah to stack one part of the filthy ones on top of the others and cast them all into hell. They all are the losers.

Surah Al-Anfal, verse 37: this gathering, it says, this gathering; what gathering is this? That is, at the Day of Judgment, in the realm of the hereafter, when Allah Almighty again revives our bodies and (?) them with our spirits, when He gathers us at the place of assembly: the gathering, this gathering, that gathering. That Allah may sort out the impure from the clean. Who is impure? All those who go as non-Muslims are impure. Impure.

Impure means being included among the class of animals.

Being included in the class of animals.

When an animal croaked, we would say of it "it croaked". Because it's an animal, it croaked.

We used the same word for disbelievers. Croaked. Muslims die.

Death is a sleep.

After waking from this sleep, those who went as impure;

to separate the clean from the filthy, what does Allah Almighty say at that place of gathering? That Allah may sort out the impure from the clean, separate the believer from the disbeliever.

To separate those who croaked and went from those who died. Of an animal it says "died", of a disbeliever it says "died", of a Muslim it says "died". That's not right. The Muslim died, but the animal croaked. Animal. "But Hodja, the other one is human." Allah Almighty says in the verse: they are like four-legged ones roaming the earth. Even more astray in their way, it says. So although in form they are in human form, in character they are animals.

They croak. We cannot say "died" of them.

The Muslim dies. Yes. We continue with the verse. This gathering is for Allah to sort out the impure from the clean, to separate the believer from the disbeliever.

Yes. And to put all the impure, some of them on top of others; ah, look now, what does it say? All the impure, that is, those who croaked, those animal carcasses, carcasses, to put some on top of others, heap them all up and throw them into hell. Well, go on: did I say it now, or did Allah say it?

Being heaped on top of one another like animal carcasses, animal carcasses,

like being thrown into a pit; and the animal even escapes. Because it died, croaked. There is no resurrection for it again. There they will settle accounts with one another and vanish. They vanished. But these, since they remain forever in eternal hell, remain subject to an eternal punishment there. In that pit of hell. Yes. So it is to put all the impure, some on top of others, like carcasses, putting carcasses on top of one another, heaping them all up, and throwing them into hell. They are the very ones who suffer loss.

That people who do not carry out Allah Almighty's command, who rebel against Allah, who are not honored with the religion of Islam, who turn their back on Allah, who (?) and are ungrateful to Him, are no different from animals: it proves this. Here you go, (?) here. It proves they are no different from animals. Yes.

People who go as rebels against Allah Almighty's (?) are afflicted with eternal life in hell, with anguish. Moreover, Allah Almighty gives these people no value: the impure, some placed on top of others, that is, like a (?), carcasses placed on top of one another, are thrown into hell. Allah Almighty's doing this to them in this way is to separate the clean from the impure. Who is clean? The one who (?) Allah, who knows his Lord, fears Him greatly, yet loves Him greatly and realizes he cannot live without Him, who trusts in Allah and is pleased with Him, who submits to Him and relies on Him: that person is a clean person.

Allah purifies him. Such a person He does not allow to come with sin into His presence. He makes him spotlessly clean. But to those who are not in this state but close to it, too: "Hmm, look, you did such things in the world, but come on, you knew Me. You gave thanks. You kept up your worship. Well, you followed all of them too. Come, today I forgive you." Well, you know, a person shows magnanimity; Allah is great. There too, likewise, those for whom (?) and sin are equal, He will forgive them like this, God willing. But if they have more sins, and Allah is of course just, He will put them too into a house of punishment in proportion to their sins.

Even though it is hell, in the house of punishment, after their sentences are served, they too, after their faith is perfected, because they went upon the religion of Islam, will enter Paradise. Yes.

Allah Almighty's doing this to them in this way is to separate the clean from the impure. What is meant by "clean" here is Islam. That those who pass to the hereafter as believers are worthy of Allah's essence: Allah Almighty being clean, the believers too are clean, worthy of Allah's essence; this He emphasizes. Moreover, calling the disbelievers impure and filthy is because they eat what Allah has forbidden, make their bodies impure, and also do not observe ghusl, going about filthy and junub. Ghusl, that is, ablution, is an intention. A disbeliever washing after becoming junub does not mean he is cleansed.

Yes. But poor Muslims who are unaware of this: "Come on, they wash every minute, they're nice and clean, man." (?) Weren't deeds dependent on intention? There is a verse. What does it say? Your deeds depend on intention. So if my intention, Allah forbid, is to get rid of my smell, and I know nothing of the religion of Islam, then I, junub, (?). But if my intention is, as my Lord's command, I wash to be freed from janabah, then with that intention of mine I am cleansed. But the other goes about filthy. Filthy. Yes.

A disbeliever washing after becoming junub does not mean he has been cleansed. To give an example of this: when a person's clothes get dirty, he puts his laundry in the machine or washes it by hand. While washing, he surely uses water. The disbeliever's washing is like washing laundry with water alone: just as the dirt does not come out, that dirt smears even worse onto the laundry and even changes its color. The Muslim's washing, though, is using soap or detergent when washing laundry and completely purifying the laundry of dirt. So the Muslim, just as one uses soap or detergent when washing laundry, cleanses himself with his intention.

Thus the ghusl and ablution of Islam are intention. According to the hadith "Deeds depend on intentions." With their intentions, giving their filth to the water, Muslims are purified from janabah and become clean. The disbelievers, however, are filthy because they are not freed from janabah.

So those who live by the nafs, who do not bow to Allah, who out of pride and arrogance do not embrace Allah's verses, who rebel against Allah together with their cronies, who boast of themselves: in this way, upon passing to the hereafter, they are the ones who suffer loss. They are like merchants whose trade made no profit and suffered loss. Yes.