This content introduces a new educational series, "Siretu'l-Quran" (The Morality and Dogmas of the Quran), emphasizing a return to the core meanings and practical application of the Quran, distinct from traditional religious rhetoric, to foster genuine humanity and understanding.
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I salute all of you with the most beautiful greetings.
How people from
all over the world greet each other;
esselamu aleykum,
sabahu’l-hayr,
good morning,
guten morgen,
bonjour,
buongiorno,
selamat pagi,
ohayo gozaimasu,
zao en
jin dobre,
yuragen,
habari…
Let my audience presume that I greet everyone
the same way people greet each other.
Because salutations
are the passwords for peace
and Islam
is peace.
Islam means three things;
silm (peace), salvation, devotion.
In Arabic language philosophy,
the meaning closest to the origin of a word is
that word’s root meaning.
Silm’s root meaning is peace.
If the letters of a word increases,
that word differentiates and deviates from its root meaning.
Salute(salaam)’s second meaning is salvation,
and its third meaning, a more deviated one, is devotion.
Therefore, Islam is a global peace project
and this project is Allah’s project.
All prophets are volunteer ambassadors of peace
and all Muslims
who are devoted to Islam are also
and all Muslims
volunteer peace ambassadors of the world.
This peace
is the peace between humankind’s;
heart and mind,
inner world and outer world,
emotions and thoughts,
action and intention.
inner world and outer world,
This peace is the peace between individual and society,
human,
humanity,
earth,
air,
water,
universe,
existence.
It means to live in peace with everything,
from the youngest to the oldest.
Therefore,
my audience
should presume that I’m greeting them the same way they greet each other.
Hello everyone,
I wish you all a good day and
a good lesson!
My dear brothers and sisters,
we're starting a marathon here today.
Here is “Akabe Foundation”.
“Akabe” means a challenging slope.
In Beled surah,
Quran counts every stage of a challenging slope.
1. to liberate a slave;
2. or to feed the hungry;
3.(for example) an orphan,
4. or a homeless and helpless person…
Therefore,
Quran counts four stages.
As you can see, these four stages are actually
a favor to the humankind.
Quran describes people helping each
other as a challenging slope.
human goodness to human,
human humanity to human,
Orphans;
There are orphans
from every religion, every beliefs, every sect
every nation, every color
all around the world.
Quran does not discriminate between the poor either.
as "your orphan"s and "orthers' orphans.."
because, there are no distinction between orphans
Quran does not discriminate on the poor too
like "help our poor, don't help the other poor"
or it does not say
"nurture the poor of you, don't do anything for those of not yours"
Again, Quran
does not say "help rise of your fallen" or
"you can kick other fallen when they're down"
There are no such discrimination.
Thats why,
Quran’s point of view is a movement of mercy and
compassion that embraces all of humanity.
That’s why it has four stages.
Today we are starting
the third and last stage of
a three-staged journey.
As you know, we started our first course
with commentary on the Quran.
In October 1992,
we started the lessons in narrow circumstances
at Malta Boyacı Kapısı Street
(in Fatih district of Istanbul).
and ended in June 2008,
Our Asmau’l-Husna lessons
started in October 2008
and ended in June 2013,
after a five-year course.
Sixteen years plus five years.
A marathon of twenty-one years.
I was very young.
My hair and beard were pitch-black.
Now as you can see, , I don't have much hair left and my beard has turned grey.
I got old.
But I’m still here before you.
Being old is not a bad thing.
If I were unproductive,
now that would be bad.
What is not good is unproductiveness,
not old age.
An old man makes use of
his full willpower.
So, let’s not become worn-out by age,
let’s just age.
Right here our third marathon is starting:
Siretu’l-Quran,
which means the morality,
the dogmas of Quran.
Our Siretu’l-Quran
lessons has a procedure.
Procedure is a must.
If you want to
do something properly,
you must first set up a procedure.
If you set up a
procedure at first for measuring
and evaluating,
you can check how well you are following your procedure.
And today in our lesson,
we will try to explain Siretu’l-Quran’s procedure,
why
how
where
and why and how it is important.
First let’s take a look at its principles.
What are the principles of Siretu’l-Quran?
We will not tell lies here, we will only speak the truth.
Why do we need these principles?
You must also see that
we have turned into a society
that have mixed lies and religion together.
Is there anyone who objects to this?
Lie and faith cannot coexist.
If there are lies,
then there is no faith.
There are
no white lies.
But the worst of lies,
the most dangerous
and harmful
of them
are the ones that involves Allah, prophet, religion and faith.
If you are involving
Allah in a lie,
or if you are lying in the name of Allah,
it means you are regarding
your religion
and faith as a lie.
A believer cannot do anything worse than this his own religion.
If we are going to tell about our beloved Prophet through revelation,
it cannot be built upon lies.
To build truth upon lies is
to build skyscrapers upon ice.
You can build a skyscraper on ice.
You can do it in the Arctic if you wish.
But then you must do something else too;
you must put out
an arrest warrant for the sun.
You must be an enemy of the sun.
That’s why people who build
lies upon lies do not like the sun.
They try
to cover
the sun.
Why?
Because the foundations of ice they build upon
lies will melt as soon as the sunlight touches it.
Our second principle
is not superstition but truth.
Superstitions are everything that are mixed with religion
religion but actually has nothing to do with religion.
In this sense,
God is the owner of religion.
Not us.
So, what is the place of man in religion? .
We are the servants of religion, not the owners.
Thereby, the believers who claim ownership of the religion,
reduces or increases it.
They bend the rules of religion
to their convenience.
Religion belongs to Allah
and if you want to add something
to the religion,
then you play the role of Allah!
That religion is no longer a true religion.
That is superstition.
Superstitions are
actually cancers of religion.
They are cancers of faith.
If a superstition is mixed in religion,
it destroys the healthy parts.
First it destroys the tissue,
then the organ,
and then
the whole body.
That’s why we emphasize on the truth, not the superstition.
Truth is not relative.
So, there is no such thing as your truth or my truth.
If the truth becomes
a relative subject,
it stops being
“the truth”.
This is why we will try to convey the religion of Allah without any distortions.
Our third principle is not fallacy, but meaning.
When it comes to religion, there is a lot of deceit.
Deceits are fallacy.
So, what does fallacy mean?
It means imposing an idea
on someone by making use of
the rhetoric
and literary language,
regardless of whether
that idea is the truth or not.
Therefore,
we will not make speeches
that will wear someone down,
Our principle is meaning.
We will be in the meaning.
Why?
Because Allah means meaning.
Before the law of gravity was created,
there was law of meaning.
Because there is meaning in everything that Allah has created.
We are in pursuit
of that meaning.
The opposite of meaning is meaninglessness.
Just like how opposite of truth is superstition.
That’s why we will search for meaning
and we will ask;
what is the meaning of this?
We should ask
what does this verse from the Quran mean?
What is the purpose of it?
That's part of the meaning.
We’ll ask:
“The prophet did this and this before this verse was revealed,
and he changed his behavior later on.
So, what does it mean?
The society to which this verse was revealed, behaved in this and that way.
What does that mean?
What is the education method that was developed by Quran against this behavior?”
What are we going to do after we find this meaning?
We will put it into practice.
We will carry it out in our daily lives.
Because we need that meaning.
We will add meaning to
our lives through the verses of Allah.
We will add meaning to
the first person who added meaning to
his life through the verses of Allah.
We will follow the teachings of
Quran and the Prophet.
We can't travel a thousand,
four hundred
and forty years to the past.
But what else can we do?
We can determine
the principles and the moral rules,
we can carry
them to the present day.
So, in order to do this,
we will find that meaning,
that essence.
Not judging but understanding and taking lessons
Another principle is
that we will not make judgements from where we stand.
Unfortunately,
the most important problem of our society,
the Muslim geography,
is to judge others.
People who do not carry out their own accounting,
who refrain from doing so,
are always ready to judge others.
We should not even judge the negative examples
in the Quran,
let alone judge people around us.
What will we do?
We will be content
with the judgment
of the Quran on this matter.
We will try to understand it
and take lessons.
As you can see,
this speech is called “lessons”.
That is why I ask those of you
who think they came here to listen to a sermon,
please do not bother.
I mean it.
There is nothing more abundant than “sermons” in this country.
A lot of sermons are being preached to you through the screens of televisions.
If you are content with those sermons, you can go to the closest mosque.
But do not come here thinking that you are going to listen to a sermon.
First, I tell myself.
I try to take lessons myself.
Today I’m here before you to share.
I’m fulfilling my responsibility of sharing.
So, whatever I equip myself with,
, I equip you all with it.
Whatever I ask you to do,
I first ask myself to do it.
That is why what we are doing here is a “lesson”.
When does a teaching become a real lesson, do you know?
When we take lessons from what we learn.
Another principle is
looking at narrations and historical material through a critical perspective.
Critical reasoning is
a powerful ability and a virtue that
the Muslim East has unfortunately lost.
Critical reasoning is actually something that God commands us every day,
every hour
and every minute.
How do I know it?
I know it from the Surah Al-Fatihah.
“İhdina’s-sırâta’l-mustaqîm;
Guide us to the straight path."
Now;
if there is one thing in the life of humankind where he or she
symbolically stands in the presence of Allah, it is prayers.
Now; You have believed.
You believe in revelations,
you believe in Allah,
and you are praying.
You think you are standing in the presence of Allah
and you are telling him:
“Guide us to the straight path.”
Aren’t you already
on the straight path?
You want one thing from Allah.
You have one wish:
to be on the straight path.
And Allah asks you to do this every time you pray,
in every rakat.
"Guide us to the straight path…"
So, does that mean we do not have any guarantee?
Have we not guaranteed salvation?
The priests used to sell “indulgence” to the people,
a piece of paper that says they have guaranteed grace in heaven.
Are not already carrying a certificate that guarantees heaven in your pocket?
Why do you feel the need to pray to Allah to guide you to the straight path?
This means that the Muslims
cannot carry a certificate that guarantees them heaven.
There is no such thing that guarantees you the heaven.
Right now, you might be on the straight path.
But is there any guarantee
that says you will be
on the straight
road tomorrow?
You might be on the straight during the dawn prayer (Fajr),
but you might stray from that path during the noon prayer (Dhuhr).
You might make mistakes.
You might harbor immoral thoughts.
You might have bad inclinations. You might deviate.
It is possible. After all we are only humans.
It was too late.
let me more narrowing range for you,
1 rakat ago,
you were straight ahead,
but we can become crooked after prayer.
Second rakat
In other words, if there is a time,
even 2 rakat it is enough for us to become crooked.
For this reason,
we will examine the past through critical thinking.
What is a critical mind?
A critical mind filters the knowledge it receives.
Anyway, what are you going to do.
Therefore; If you are going to sift a nut,
sift a chickpea,
sift a flour.
You have to have something.
And your sieve must have holes.
without hole it would not be sieve
Some of them need to go underneath and some need to stay on top.
So, “Huz mâ safâ, da’ mâ keder.”
“Take the pure and pristine, leave the impure and blurry.”
You should filter.
You should take the one that works,
not the one that doesn't.
You should filter.
The superstitions
can damage your faith.
It is not easy to
repair a broken faith.
What do you do then?
So is the dentist as easy to repair your faith?
That’s why
we should filter all the historical materials
through a critical mind.
And that critical mind is based on revelation and creation.
We must have a rational perspective,
not an emotional one.
We, the Muslim East,
have unfortunately
attached ourselves
to the limbic system.
The limbic system is the lower brain,
and there is also the upper brain.
This protrusion is the frontal lobe
and there is also a net stretched over it.
That's what makes us human.
The lower brain is the brain that we share with other living creatures, the animals.
The lower brain works with hormones.
It works with anger,
fear,
passion
and lust.
.. and more
Therefore,
if a lower brain that works with anger,
fear, passion and lust
starts to control you,
all of your actions
will be results of either anger or fear
or passion or lust.
Then you become
subjects of those
emotions
and stop being
a subject
of Allah.
Consequently, it is a person who is controlled by his
or her hormones that has an emotional perspective.
The most typical characteristic of this perspective
is that it is woven with prejudices.
A person
who is prejudiced does not learn.
Who is the dead?
The dead is not one who does not breathe,
it is one who does not learn.
Learning
is becoming a new person.
Learning is actually the real repentance; did you know that?
Because you abandon
the wrong ideas that you thought were right,
and you learn the truth.
Therefore,
learning is the repentance of the mind.
In this sense, another principle is
to emphasize on the causes that produce results.
The Muslim East
have no faith in the Sunnetullah (rules of Allah).
The Allah that Muslim East believe in is
a God that pulls a rabbit out of a hat (perish the thought!).
He doesn’t have
any rules
or principles
or sunna.
any law.
He does whatever he wants.
“It takes one to know one”
they say about him.
They made up a being like that and called him Allah!
“We len tecide li sunnetillâhi tebdîlâ.”
“We len tecide li sunnetillâhi tahwîlâ.” (Surah Al-Fath 48:23).
This is repeated many times, it’s one of the most certain sentences of Quran.
“That has been the Way of Allah and you will not find any change in the Way of Allah.”
Therefore,
Allah has rules
and principles.
He has a destination.
Allah does not only call us to the straight path,
he is also on that path.
“İnne Rabbî alâ sırâtın musteqîm:
it is my Lord that is on a straight Path.” (Hûd 11:56).
Would you look at the verse?
In another verse of the Quran,
Allah tells us
that he is “Righteous”.
He invites us to be righteous right?
But when we read Quran, we learn that he is also pious.
“Huwe ehlu’t-taqwâ we ehlul mağfira;
He is the Lord of Righteousness, and the Lord of Forgiveness.” (Surah Al-Muddaththir 74:56).
So, what does it mean?
No one can call him to account but
he does everything with responsibility.
He is not ruled by his power,
but he is the master of his own power.
Another one of our principles is to not to absolutize interpretations.
We are humans.
Humans have a disability called “oblivion, forgetfulness”.
We can make mistakes.
Please listen to my speech with critical reasoning.
But the critical reason is not to have an idea about
something without
having any knowledge
about it first.
What is critical reasoning?
It is to research more than
the person you are speaking with,
and correct him where he is lacking in knowledge.
Therefore, we shouldn’t count our interpretations
and comments as absolute truths.
If we absolutize them,
then we count them as verses.
If you place too much importance on a mere comment,
then the verses of Quran lose their significance, right?
Therefore, the one who says "Everything we say is true,"
is telling the biggest lie.
No one but Allah can say that!
Therefore, when we say “Everything he speaks is true,”
we are putting that
person on the same level with Allah!
Never.
That is committing shirk.
We can be mistaken,
e can say the wrong thing,
we can have a slip of the tongue.
We are humans.
If we notice our mistakes,
we must correct them.
That’s what it means to be human.
That’s why it is not right to
count someone’s comment as the absolute truth.
Not to exploit and sloganize the revelations is
another one of our principles.
Many examples come to your minds when I say “exploiting the revelations”, right?
Remember how
the governor of Damascus who rised against Ali
Amr bin el-Âs, instructed the people of Siffin to
put pages of the Quran on spearheads?
do you know what does it mean?
This is utmost exploitation of the Quran.
One cannot exploit
what he respects,
or respect what he exploits.
What did Al-Kindi say?
-Peace be upon him-
“What a person sells don’t belong to him, it belongs to the buyer.”
A person who sells their faith,
sells their messenger.
has no religion.
If he had any respect to his religion, then he wouldn’t sell his faith.
There is no God.
He said he had no faith.
Why? Because he sold it.
What he wants to sell is not his.
When you see someone selling his faith in his loom for a fair,
run, run, run.
Move away as it moves away from Satan.
Because it's not his.
If he respected, he wouldn't.
If he respected, he wouldn't have used it.
Respectable does not abuse.
For him, it means that he does not respect him
who exploits something he has believed for himself.
How can a person be disrespectful to what he believes in?
We believe in Allah’s Prophet,
we believe that he is Allah’s prophet,
how can we disrespect him
by putting words into his mouth?
In Surah Al-Ahzab Quran says:
“We sellimû teslîmâ”
“Send your blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.”
Another principle of ours is accepting the place of our Prophet that the revelations put him at.
Our Lord placed him upon a higher place, right?
Yes
And who is he?
First of all, he is human.
“Qul innemâ ene beşerun;
Say, O [Muhammad], "I am only a man like you.” (Surah Fussilat 41:6)
I am a person, justa mortal being.
just being revealed to me, this is the only difference.
And more, he can die or be killed.
“Efein mâte ew qutile’n-qalebtum alâ a’qâbikum...:
If he also dies or is slain, will you then turn about on your heels?” (Surah Ali 'Imran 3:144).
In 8 verses of Quran,
Allah tells Muhammad to repent.
Can you imagine?
If someone today came and told those people
who put themselves on a higher ground
than our Prophet
to repent,
can you imagine what would happen to that person?
Let’s not say anything more.
There is a place where our Lord has put the Prophet,
let's settle for that.
let's trust him.
These are our principles, dear friends.
Yes.
We have our whys.
Let’s explain our whys in our procedure, methodology.
Religion again?
I have a couple of things to say to those who are fed up with the topic of religion.
You are not asking if there are actually people who say that, right?
Especially among youngsters,
there are a lot of believers who say that. They are constantly like “Oh if it’s about religion, then I don’t want to listen.”
Because they have been overwhelmed with religious topics
on televisions,
in schools,
in society,
in everywhere,
or in mosques during
Friday prayers etc.
The religions that
the imams have been telling them
about does not fit,
into their daily lives.
Even the imam who tell them about religion
don’t live it fully themselves.
So, you either live your life or
follow the rules of your religion,
you can’t do both at the same time.
The religion they describe
conflicts with reason.
I mean, you should be an idiot to believe in that religion.
you should be foolish,
must be crazy.
therefore we are in between,
stuck.
Therefore, I understand those
who are fed up with religion.
We are not actually helping
people by constantly
telling them about religion.
whar are we doing? we oppressed them!
In fact, that religion that we are fed up with,is not Allah’s religion.
Because Allah’s religion does not conflict with life
He who owns life owns religion.
Two things (religion and life) that came from the same being (Allah) cannot be in conflict with each other.
It does not make sense. Therefore,
if they are in conflict
with each other, then one of those two is from wrong sources.
That’s why that religion that is imposed on us is not the real religion. It is not Allah’s religion.
On when we truly learn Allah’s religion that we begin to
understand the difference.
And it is Allah’s word, Quran, which will teach us the true religion.
not someone else.
This is really posing a big problem in the Muslim world.
If some of us does not shoulder responsibility,
does not put effort
into truly understanding and explaining religion,
if they don't care,
if they don't try,
don't take any risk
This problem will grow.
then the younger generation will not want
to have anything to do
with religion!
That’s why these lessons are important
by paying special attention to this problem.
but to enhance humanity.
Please do not misunderstand.
I do not think that the Muslim East needs anymore religiousness.
They don’t need it,
praise be !
They are already fully immersed in it.
But they need humanity.
why?
Is every religious person also a good person?
No. We have enough proof to refute that.
it is so obvious.
Our most religious ones 693 00:40:10,633 --> 00:40:12,933 turn the world
into hell to gain heaven.
believe me,
They tell lies in Allah’s name.
Believe me,
Their consciences are so at ease that
if you were to give them the key to heaven,
they wouldn’t share it
with anyone other than their own clique
their own sect.
they wouldn’t share it
with anyone
They are number one when it comes to injustice
They have no mercy or moral compass.
There is no equity.
no humanity in their lives.
Therefore, they have no qualification 710 00:41:03,466 --> 00:41:06,266 or competency or quality.
What use is religiousness in the absence of all this?
That’s why it’s not important
to enhance religiousness
it’s crucial to enhance
the humanity of Muslim East.
As I always say;
show your religiousness to Allah, what I need from you is your humanity.
Because we are in desperate need of humanity
and we cannot find it anywhere..
In this sense,
one of the reasons for these courses is
that we cannot be Muslims without being proper human beings at first.
Without being a human first, you cannot be a Muslim.
The most important evidence of this in Quran is
in the 2nd Verse of Surah Al-Baqara (2)
and in the 11th and 17th verses of Surah Al-Balad (90):
It’s not “those who are on the right way know their responsibilities”,
it is “those who know their responsibilities are on the right way”.
Which one comes first?
responsibilities of course.
Responsibility leads you to the right path.
That’s what Sa’sa’a bin Nâciye said:
“Ya Resulullah,
my life was spent in Shirk,
but whenever I heard that a little girl was going to be buried alive
I went there and gave them two pregnant camels ,
-during those times, pregnant camels were like Mercedes cars-
and I would save two little girls.
Until today I saved approximately 360 girls, Resulullah..
Is there any reward for me for these lives I saved during my ignorant years,
or was all of that in vain?” ?
The Messenger of Allah gives a very interesting answer:
“You are on the right path,
the path of faith today
as a result of your responsible behaviors back then.”
Yes. If religion cannot create a better person;
a more merciful,
more just,
more compassionate person,
more quality person,
then the only kind of person that religion creates would be ignorant and ignoble.
The greatest evil done to a religion
does not come from the hand of its enemies
but the ignorant believers of that religion.
InshaAllah we will do these Siretu’l-Quran lessons for;
the process of humanity where human beings are better..
why?
We have our reasons.
We have answers for this question
we have something to say.
The Prophet
was killed by the believers ,
and replaced by a fake.
A prophet can die in two ways.
First; he can be killed ,
by an attack on his physical existence.
In the past,
The Jews killed about twenty prophets of Israel.
This is also mentioned in the Old Testament.
Read the parts about ,
Prophet Isaiah.
or Jeremiah or Yahya or Zechariah.…
we know what happend to Yahya.
Therefore;
a prophet can be physically killed.
Secondly, his message can be killed.
Now if I ask you this what would you say?
Out of these two killings,
which one is the worst one?
Killing him or destroying his message?
Message, right?
Because a prophet’s message is
is what makes him a prophet.
I mean, what makes Rasulullah a messenger of Allah is not the fact that he is Muhammad bin Abdullah.
It is the message, the revelations he conveyed
Take away the revelations
and what is left?
He is a prophet because he is the messenger of Allah.
And the message he was carrying was the revelations.
if you take away his duty
There is no messenger anymore.
Therefore,
the mission of the prophet was killed
and was wrapped in his flesh,
bone,
beard, hair strand,
tomb, shroud,
cardigan and garment.
Why is the Prophet’s mission is being killed
and his cardigan is being turned into a flag?
Why is it that his revelations are being
abandoned
but a strand
of his hair
is being
worshipped?
Would the Messenger of God
agree to that?
For the love of Allah…
We know who first
fetishized the cardigan of the Prophet,
the governor of Damascus bought it from
the Ka’b b. Zuheyr family for thirty thousand dirhams,
and wore it on his back
and sat on the throne!
See?
Is this the sunnah
of Resulullah
or the sunnah
of tyrants?
The Quran has been orphaned in
the hands of blasphemous Muslims
and that’s why we need these lessons.
Yes.
Quran has been abandoned.
It is an orphan.
ıt had been ignored.
Look around you,
every book has its friends around.
Every book has plentiful defenders.
You can’t touch
those books or they will burn your hands.
Hundreds
and thousands of people
protect the books of some sheikhs,
some hodjas like the walls of a castle.
They won’t let you touch it.
They won’t let you say anything bad about it.
What about Allah’s book?
Why it is abandoned?
You can touch it,
it’s not a problem.
Yes, it is abandoned and orphaned.
Every book has its protectors
but the revelations of Allah are abandoned.
And people
who try to live
by those revelations
are stoned by those
who claim to believe in revelations.
That’s why we shouldn’t
leave Quran abandoned
and orphaned.
unfortunately.
Siretu’l-Quran means Quran’s journey of life,
siyer,
journal, logbook,
navigation, peddler…
you can find these expressions in our language.
Siretu’l-Quran means Quran’s journey of life.
So, do books travel? ?
No, they don’t.
They don’t have legs so they cannot travel
So how does a book travel?
They travel through the people who added meaning to their lives through Quran
The first person
whom the Quran gives meaning to his life is
the Messenger of Allah.
We hope to cover
the 23-year-journey of how Quran gave meaning
to the life of the Prophet
how it has turned his life into a life of mercy and blessings.
What concepts he introduced in twenty-three years?
when he introduced?
After introducing those concepts,
what changed in his first acceptor?
What changed in the generation of Quran?
What revolutions did the Quran do?
Remember, the Quran is a revolutionary book.
Revolution if is a Quranic expression.
The last verse of the Surah Ash-Shu'ara is a proof of this.
There are so many things that the Quran has revolutionized.
Quran overthrown shirk, and brought monotheism.
It overthrown tyranny, and brought justice in its place.
It overthrown cruelty, and brought mercy
and compassion in its place.
It overthrown despotism and brought democracy
and consultation in its place.
It overthrown worship of property,
and brought sharing in its place.
It overthrown so many things;
like tribalism
sexism,
it overthrown all kinds of rage and hatred,and put worthiness in its place.
Then what happened?
Counter-revolution.
They hid everything Quran has overthrown
in a Trojan horse and quietly placed
them back into the hearts of the Muslims.
Sometimes, they did it through narration literature.
Sometimes, they did this in the name of Islamic Sufism.
Sometimes they did it in the name fiqh (Islamic law).
Sometimes they made up things
and said “Resulullah says that”
and called them hadith.
For this reason,
we will see how the Quran,
orphaned Quran,
can be resurrected from
the life of
the Messenger of Allah.
Examples:
we know some imams who think the slander “Lewlâke…” is a verse of Quran.
In a public opinion poll among the imams,
I have seen more than 30 percent of the imams think that this is actually a verse from the Quran.
Theologians who ask “Is there a surah called Tegabun in the Quran?”
Can you imagine?
There are theology academics
who say “Don’t read verses to me,
it’s futile even if ,
you read five hundred verses!”
Theologists who do not care about verses of the Quran
Unbelievable…
A man was dying
and Bekri Mustafa was by his side.
The mans asked: “After I pass away to the other world, what should I tell them if they ask me what goes on in the world?”.
And Bekri Mustafa says: “You don’t need to say much.
Just tell them Bekri has become a mufti, they’ll understand the rest.”
Something like that.
That’s why…
Who knows of the imams who have been bastinadoed
because they had notebooks full of verses from Quran?
I do.
And there are people
who come to me and tell me
“An investigation was conducted on me
because I explained the Quranic verses”.
I don’t need to say anything else.
This is why we emphasize on Siretu’l-Quran.
There are those who say there is no ablution in the Quran!
Yes, yes.
Can you imagine?
The one who says
this wrote books about this:
is ablution a thing in Quran?
No, he says. This man has never even read the Quran,
but he is a hodja in this country!
One of our elders who passed away wrote a book about the Prophet.
At the beginning of his book he says:
“Allah did not mention Muhammad’s name in the Quran,
he called him "Habîbî”.
Allah mentioned Muhammad’s name in the Quran
four times.
There is even a surah named after him:
Surah Muhammad.
So, let’s assume
you didn’t read the Quran,
where did you see that Allah calls Muhammad “habîbî”?
are you sure?
Where?
In which verse of the Quran?
It is a good thing that they could not add a verse to the Quran.
Thankfully.
If Allah had left the Quran in the hands of the Muslims,
the Quran would have been destroyed!
That’s why I say, you don’t need to protect the Quran from non-believers,
you should protect it from Muslims!
protect!
They might to great harm to it.
That’s why we need Siretu’l Quran…
where:
After tafsir lessons
and Asmau’l-Husna lessons,
we are here in this hall at Akabe…
If Allah wills it after the new hall is finished,
we can continue our lessons there.
Right now, I see a great crowd in the first lesson.
Please excuse us, our facilities are limited.
we did our best so far.
But if you want more,
for the new hall to end,
everyone should take on responsibility.
Our live lessons will be here.
If Allah wills it, our next lesson will be featured on Hilal TV.
We wanted to pay homage to those who came here to listen.
Bir de canlı yayın risklidir.
Also, live broadcast is a risk.
We had to start our lessons like this
as a precaution against those who lie in wait and think
“I must find a sentence to use against him”.
These lessons will be shared on social media
but I do not know the details,
our team is taking care of it.
I mention about tv too.
So, how when
we have our lessons?
In two-week periods, a total of 60 to 75-minute-long lessons.
God willing.
Yes, at the end of each lesson
we will bring you some things under these titles.
You will have suggestions
. A subject that we study in the course…
Dersleri biraz farklı işleyeceğiz.
We're going to handle our lessons a little differently.
As you can see,
I am not sitting in your presence.
I'm going to stand in your presence for an hour and a half
maybe to prove that I'm not getting old,
I want to get a little moving and also appeal to young people.
that's why…
They even bought a sports outfit for me,
but I was not able to wear it today because it needs a little bit alteration.
I will be in sportswear next time I’m in your presence.
I’m telling you now
so our middle-aged or elder listeners
won’t be surprised and say
“Why is he dressed up
like this?” next time.
We will have proposals in the course.
For example, I’m going to give you a lecture about a topic,
well, I can’t cover everything about that topic in just one lesson.
So, inshaAllah, I will give you
many citation materials;
books, essays,
documentary and movies
based on that topic.
I will do as needed.
There will be some warnings, we apologize about that in advance.
The warning might be about this hall
or this building.
Sometimes it might be about your cars.
And sometimes it can be about our lectures.
About the content of the course.
There will be some warnings.
There will be aphorisms.
You should keep those in mind
and think on those words
till our next lesson.
We’ll also talk about some selected verses.
You should speculate and contemplate
on those verses for 14 days,
till our next lesson.
I want you to memorize those verses
so that your verse portfolio will expand.
this is for sure,
your verse repertory will expand.
There will be acknowledgements at the end of our lessons.
We will give our thanks
to the volunteers for
their contributions, sponsors
We will end our lessons with these sections.
As an answer to the “How” question,
inshaAllah our next lesson will be about:
geography, climate, history.
Our Siretu’l Quran lessons will also be about that, naturally.
What kind of a geography the Quran,
which is the subject of this course, was descended into?
What kind of geography is the Arabian Peninsula?
What kind of a place is the series of long oases
running parallel to the Red Sea, called Tihame in the Arabian Peninsula?
What is the geological
feature of the hill,
which has reached five thousand
volcanic hills in the region
and twelve thousand in the whole peninsula?
These geological features
are reflected in the Quran.
you can also find traces in the Quran.
They are also reflected in the nature of that region’s people.
It is reflected in the behaviors,
sociology and
economy of that region’s people.
That’s why we will cover the geography, too.
Then the second lesson is community and culture.
The third lesson is ethics.
The morality in and around Mecca.
What kind of a society was it?
What was their culture?
What is climate and desert?
What kind of people the humans
who live in deserts are?
What does Quran say about the people of deserts?
What is the direct relationship
between the concepts of guidance and misguidance and the desert?
If we do not talk about these concepts
at first then we won’t be able to understand the topics.
we do not understand some of the addresses.
Who is a bedouin?
If we do not know who a Bedouin is
then we’ll never be able to understand some verses of the Quran
even if we try to understand them for 60 years
That’s why, knowing these terms is a necessity.
And again, economy,
what was the economy like around Mecca?
There is so many original information
that we need to address in this respect.
For example, where are the goldmines in Mecca
and who were the workers
who dug those goldmines?
What did these people leave behind?
What traditions did they leave behind?
You can’t find any information about this topic anywhere else.
Therefore, I told you one of them.
What trade was being done in the region?
what were the fruits grown in the region ?
What were the imported
and exported goods?
Who were the families who sold and bought those goods?
What were the monopolies, trusts and cartels?
What kind of atrocities these cartels
commit against people to protect themselves?
Without having any information about these,you cannot understand most of the verses of the Quran.
Politics;
The region had two superpowers those days
and two superpowers shared the world.
But who shared those regions?
What were the effects of those two superpowers?
Did the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
have emissaries in the region?
Did they have emissaries in Mecca?
Was the war in Mecca going through them?
We will ask and answer so many questions…
Religion;
what is jahiliyyah religion, shirk religion?
Yes, shirk religion
Shirk is a religion.
You will clearly see that
let me tell you today, let me give you a tip
the Messenger of Allah was sent to a very religious society.
Polytheists were one of the most religious and
conservative societies of the world.
They are so conservative that in order to not to abandon the religion of their ancestors,
they reject the religion of Allah!
Therefore, we’ll talk about this in our lectures.
Quraysh Tribe and the Hashemites.
we will talk about this, this is important issue.
without talk about this issue
First, we’re going to talk about
how the Quraysh Tribe was created
and organized,
and how the Hashemites came from them.
Where does the Hashemites start
and where do they end?
who is Hashemites?
And who was Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf?
Who was Qusay?
Why is Qusay dogs’?... Et cetera.
8th lesson will about the world
the revelations descended on?
Which civilizations, which religions,
which governments, which dynasties,
which kings were ruling that world?
I will give you a list of
the dynasties and kings
that was ruling the kingdoms
in the year of 610.
I have never seen that list anywhere else before.
Yes.
So, as you can see, these lessons are quite preliminary.
Therefore,
After these preliminary lectures,
inshaAllah we will start our lessons.
What will our lessons be like?
First of all, we won’t go over the Quran verse by verse.
Please do not confuse it with tafsir of Quran.
We have already done that.
We will go through the Quran's subjects.
For example, our topic is orphans
and we’re talking about Surah Al-Alaq.
to read.
The importance the Quran placed upon reading during the twenty-three years of its descending.
The Prophet’s interest in reading.
The meaning of reading.
The equivalent of reading in the region,
the equivalent of reading today.
Salat.
And again, the Surah Al-Alaq.
The differentiation of ’Salat's meaning in twenty-three years.
The ten different meanings of Salat in the Quran.
different emphasis.
We’ll proceed or lessons like this inshaAllah.
What did Quran order in what period?
For example, the Quran commanded people
to keep their promise before many other meetings.
Before talking about wrongs and rights,
sins and prayers
The Quran talks about
moral obligations of the people first.
How can the ummah
not care about something
the Quran cared about
first and foremost?
how important is the morality for this nation ?
without morality, we try to build our faith first.
like a first building to be demolished.
we are giving up the first morality.
we will continue our lessons like this.
That is all for today.
Let our first lecture be about methodology.
Our next lecture
will be on October 28,if Allah wills it,
on my birthday.
I will turn 59
on the day of our second lecture.
Thank you.
Let us hope and pray for the best.
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