1 00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:57,329 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 2 00:00:57,930 --> 00:01:02,820 [Qur'an Translation] "Nay! When it comes up to the throat, 3 00:01:03,021 --> 00:01:06,002 And it is said: Who will be a magician? 4 00:01:06,203 --> 00:01:10,126 And he is sure that it is the (hour of) parting 5 00:01:10,327 --> 00:01:16,673 And affliction is combined with affliction; To your Lord on that day shall be the driving." (75:26-30) 6 00:01:16,874 --> 00:01:17,850 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 7 00:01:17,851 --> 00:01:20,217 What's More Real: Life or Death? 8 00:01:20,418 --> 00:01:25,810 "Death" is a cold word. The end of a life, 9 00:01:26,011 --> 00:01:28,061 the last passage. 10 00:01:28,262 --> 00:01:30,407 The zero point. 11 00:01:30,608 --> 00:01:33,088 A last look at the world. 12 00:01:33,295 --> 00:01:35,134 The end of connection. 13 00:01:35,535 --> 00:01:38,872 A journey from the end to the eternity. 14 00:01:39,073 --> 00:01:42,859 The giving back of the gift to its Owner. 15 00:01:43,255 --> 00:01:49,731 Let's say, time to go to a world of the unknown. 16 00:01:50,060 --> 00:01:51,879 How nice it was said by Yunus: 17 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:57,408 "Allah knows, the life is a guest to this body. 18 00:01:57,897 --> 00:02:02,520 Once, it will be gone. Like a bird leaves its cage." 19 00:02:02,763 --> 00:02:08,830 Everything ends. Everything gets born, grows up end dies. 20 00:02:09,031 --> 00:02:14,073 As if an invisible hand makes it off and the life ends. 21 00:02:14,493 --> 00:02:19,467 In such a way we live and waste our lives, 22 00:02:19,668 --> 00:02:26,894 as if we would surely wake up and begin the day as if we'd never die. 23 00:02:27,126 --> 00:02:29,738 We live our currently moment in the hope to the future. 24 00:02:29,939 --> 00:02:37,727 Day after day, it becomes weeks, months, years and eventually the whole life. 25 00:02:38,278 --> 00:02:45,288 Some of us are after their dreams for the entire lifetime. 26 00:02:45,489 --> 00:02:52,647 And some of us never mind the future in pleasure. 27 00:02:52,848 --> 00:03:00,728 And some are so hastily, like they want everything. 28 00:03:01,110 --> 00:03:07,365 We get lost after wealth and celebrity. 29 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:14,777 How ironic? The older we are, the faster is the time. 30 00:03:15,027 --> 00:03:18,560 The more rich, the less time. 31 00:03:19,030 --> 00:03:26,495 The countdown began already, until you understand the true value of life. 32 00:03:26,696 --> 00:03:32,885 Everything turns up and consumes what else is left. 33 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,704 Result: every way is going to its end. 34 00:03:37,905 --> 00:03:44,876 And the truth: even if you forget the death, it doesn't! 35 00:03:45,505 --> 00:03:53,963 Our holy Lord says in the Sura of Al-Kahf and Al-Ankabut: 36 00:03:54,564 --> 00:03:57,078 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 37 00:03:57,622 --> 00:04:02,336 "And set forth to them parable of the life of this world: 38 00:04:02,494 --> 00:04:07,719 like water which We send down from the cloud so the herbage of the earth becomes tangled on account of it, 39 00:04:07,817 --> 00:04:11,355 then it becomes dry broken into pieces which the winds scatter; 40 00:04:11,565 --> 00:04:15,090 and Allah is the holder of power over all things." 41 00:04:15,316 --> 00:04:20,623 "And this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; 42 00:04:20,824 --> 00:04:25,316 and as for the next abode, that most surely is the life - did they but know!" 43 00:04:25,517 --> 00:04:26,943 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 44 00:04:31,414 --> 00:04:40,500 The life which begins with a cry, ends also with a last cry. 45 00:04:41,408 --> 00:04:47,501 The nonreturnable stopping of every vitality by the creatures. 46 00:04:47,902 --> 00:04:50,500 So is the death explained by the medicine. 47 00:04:50,859 --> 00:04:53,453 The stopping of the cardio. 48 00:04:53,710 --> 00:04:56,941 The stopping of the heartbeat and the breathing. 49 00:04:57,142 --> 00:05:00,760 The ending of the corneal reflex in the eyes. 50 00:05:00,961 --> 00:05:02,997 Getting pale of the skin. 51 00:05:03,198 --> 00:05:05,747 And the loosing of the muscles. 52 00:05:06,644 --> 00:05:09,764 So begins the nonreturnable journey. 53 00:05:10,779 --> 00:05:15,654 So far is it permitted to the human and his god called science. 54 00:05:15,855 --> 00:05:24,846 It's the end for both of them and the death bewares its secrets. 55 00:05:25,244 --> 00:05:33,006 Because the holy Creator says: "Every soul shall taste of death!" 56 00:05:33,264 --> 00:05:38,653 Yes... the death with its secrets will keep going on. 57 00:05:39,408 --> 00:05:44,336 Our holy Lord says in the 78. Verse of the Sura An-Nisa: 58 00:05:45,010 --> 00:05:49,943 "Wherever you are, death will overtake you, 59 00:05:50,144 --> 00:05:52,781 though you are in lofty towers,.." 60 00:05:52,882 --> 00:05:57,575 Yes... you are always confronted to this truth. 61 00:05:57,676 --> 00:06:00,217 The death is same close to everywhere. 62 00:06:02,555 --> 00:06:09,323 The universe, sun system, earth, living creatures and mankind. 63 00:06:09,769 --> 00:06:17,311 The earth... as far as known is it the only planet to live on. 64 00:06:17,512 --> 00:06:21,002 With a distance of 150 million km to the sun. 65 00:06:21,203 --> 00:06:27,386 40 thousand km around it, 510 million kmē is the surface area. 66 00:06:27,587 --> 00:06:34,817 It circles in 365 days around the sun, gravity-speed is 24 hours. 67 00:06:35,018 --> 00:06:38,640 It's an unsolved secret with its... 68 00:06:38,841 --> 00:06:44,395 nights and days, seasons, winds, rain, clouds, 69 00:06:44,596 --> 00:06:47,787 soil and the various elements in it, 70 00:06:47,988 --> 00:06:53,295 living creatures, their regeneration and 71 00:06:53,496 --> 00:06:56,825 the uninterrupted equilibrium. 72 00:06:57,026 --> 00:07:02,106 And the human? With men and woman, and their: 73 00:07:02,307 --> 00:07:05,895 hands, eyes, ears, brain. 74 00:07:06,096 --> 00:07:10,580 The internal organs with a perfect cooperation to the brain. 75 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:13,939 Talking, reading and writing. 76 00:07:14,140 --> 00:07:16,135 Thinking and producing. 77 00:07:16,336 --> 00:07:18,780 Reproduction. 78 00:07:18,981 --> 00:07:21,126 With its self-healing. 79 00:07:21,327 --> 00:07:24,111 Fun, sadness and the spirit. 80 00:07:24,312 --> 00:07:28,398 The human is another unsolved secret. 81 00:07:29,699 --> 00:07:34,153 We don't try to explain about the wonders of them both. 82 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:41,635 They are all easy to see for smart people. 83 00:07:42,503 --> 00:07:47,116 The seeing eye, feeling heart doesn't need to explained. 84 00:07:47,367 --> 00:07:56,048 But we all had some experiences, which we didn't realized. 85 00:07:56,471 --> 00:08:02,828 Sometimes we get it much later, when we think about it. 86 00:08:03,418 --> 00:08:07,602 We ask us selves; is it such simple? 87 00:08:08,178 --> 00:08:10,377 It's also something like that. 88 00:08:10,578 --> 00:08:14,609 The space, sun-system, earth, 89 00:08:14,893 --> 00:08:19,820 thousands of living creatures and the human. 90 00:08:20,316 --> 00:08:26,730 Such huge expenses, this perfect equilibrium. 91 00:08:27,036 --> 00:08:28,585 So many things. 92 00:08:28,786 --> 00:08:30,808 Is it just such simple? 93 00:08:31,009 --> 00:08:33,451 The gigantic universe should be created, 94 00:08:33,652 --> 00:08:36,538 everything should serve the human and 95 00:08:36,739 --> 00:08:42,129 the human should be born, live and die. 96 00:08:42,331 --> 00:08:44,022 Is it just simple? 97 00:08:44,223 --> 00:08:49,175 Yes... actually the amazing equilibrium is not meaningless. 98 00:08:49,686 --> 00:08:56,581 Everything has its price, every reason has a result and every achievement needs effort. 99 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:05,862 Even in the world many efforts are needed to get something. 100 00:09:06,097 --> 00:09:15,277 Life and body - which are also very valuable - have to be a meaning. 101 00:09:15,988 --> 00:09:24,050 Our holy Lord says in Al-Mu'minun the 115 and Sad 27: 102 00:09:25,450 --> 00:09:28,130 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 103 00:09:29,293 --> 00:09:35,114 "What! did you then think that We had created you in vain and that you shall not be returned to Us?" 104 00:09:35,315 --> 00:09:40,473 "And We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them in vain; 105 00:09:40,674 --> 00:09:48,930 that is the opinion of those who disbelieve then woe to those who disbelieve on account of the fire." 106 00:09:49,131 --> 00:09:50,959 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 107 00:09:54,781 --> 00:10:00,257 The universe, the earth and the human in them. 108 00:10:00,606 --> 00:10:03,997 He is like an atom, if we compare. 109 00:10:04,267 --> 00:10:11,069 May be, every body or life has millions of years before and after. 110 00:10:11,754 --> 00:10:15,680 However, he can neither remote the past, nor the future. 111 00:10:15,881 --> 00:10:26,198 Every one's life is almost nothing in the vortex which we call time. 112 00:10:27,007 --> 00:10:30,357 The time is a present for the living ones. 113 00:10:30,755 --> 00:10:33,125 Some may feel it would never end, 114 00:10:33,326 --> 00:10:36,082 some can't just having enough. 115 00:10:36,551 --> 00:10:46,545 A mature human could tell his experiences in just a single day. 116 00:10:47,124 --> 00:10:51,937 If you would ask him; explain me the life? 117 00:10:52,777 --> 00:10:59,154 He would say; I was born and now I'm going, with a sad smile. 118 00:10:59,591 --> 00:11:04,149 Actually the life is like the water or wind. 119 00:11:04,350 --> 00:11:06,540 It comes and goes. 120 00:11:06,741 --> 00:11:12,051 Without a permission to live their dreams. 121 00:11:12,820 --> 00:11:17,354 Once, they were also young, beautiful and alive, 122 00:11:17,555 --> 00:11:21,214 they had life and blood. 123 00:11:21,415 --> 00:11:26,211 But they couldn't realize how it began and ended. 124 00:11:26,483 --> 00:11:31,688 Everyone has the moment to be made gone. 125 00:11:32,782 --> 00:11:39,052 Our Prophet (peace be upon him) says in a Hadith: 126 00:11:39,997 --> 00:11:49,338 "The Angel of death gets a book every year in the night of salvation (Bara'at), 127 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,457 the people who will die in that year are written down. 128 00:11:54,658 --> 00:12:00,064 Some do worship, some get married, some do quarrel. 129 00:12:00,265 --> 00:12:05,007 But their names are already in the book of dead." 130 00:12:06,066 --> 00:12:08,864 Yes... isn't it really so? 131 00:12:09,255 --> 00:12:16,500 However, how many of us are already in the book of dead in this year? 132 00:12:17,786 --> 00:12:25,215 We look to the funerals and think, we would always look. 133 00:12:25,468 --> 00:12:30,947 We never think about it, that once the others will look at us like we did. 134 00:12:31,148 --> 00:12:32,800 We don't like to think about the death. 135 00:12:33,001 --> 00:12:39,530 Once, Rasulullah said to his companions at a funeral: 136 00:12:41,698 --> 00:12:45,709 "Tell me, won't we die either? 137 00:12:45,910 --> 00:12:52,308 Tell me, are the dead ones coming right back? 138 00:12:52,734 --> 00:13:02,605 We bury them, get their inheritance, but don't think about own death." 139 00:13:02,996 --> 00:13:07,179 Imam Al-Ghazali reports in "Alchemy of Happiness", 140 00:13:07,380 --> 00:13:13,556 about an old man's letter from Ray to his friend, 141 00:13:13,757 --> 00:13:18,423 as an explanation about the life, death and hereafter. 142 00:13:18,624 --> 00:13:21,816 The old man says in his letter: 143 00:13:22,398 --> 00:13:23,913 "The world is a dream, 144 00:13:24,114 --> 00:13:26,899 the afterlife is a wake-up, 145 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:29,449 between them both is the death. 146 00:13:29,874 --> 00:13:36,512 We are in a situation of mixed up and meaningless dreams, peace on you!" 147 00:13:37,768 --> 00:13:42,161 Our religion defines the death as a beginning for a new life. 148 00:13:42,591 --> 00:13:46,787 The death shall be the gate to the real life. 149 00:13:47,959 --> 00:13:52,859 The death appears as some physical signs, 150 00:13:53,060 --> 00:14:00,207 but there is a spiritual dimension too, which we don't see. 151 00:14:00,549 --> 00:14:09,454 If we could see beyond the death, we would never quit to worship. 152 00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:17,303 Our holy Lord makes everything through a reason, but His exceptions. 153 00:14:17,504 --> 00:14:26,889 Yes, it is an undeniable fact in our time, there are dimensions which we don't see. 154 00:14:27,553 --> 00:14:35,081 The human can only see three dimensional things with height, width and depth. 155 00:14:35,417 --> 00:14:43,740 He can't see other things beyond this dimension. 156 00:14:44,610 --> 00:14:49,990 The other side of the death is in that invisible dimension. 157 00:14:50,625 --> 00:14:58,471 Our Lord created the angels in another dimension which we can't see. 158 00:14:58,783 --> 00:15:08,336 And they come in certain moment to take over our lives. 159 00:15:08,753 --> 00:15:23,053 Many angels under the command of Azrael (a.s.) take everyday and everywhere the lives away. 160 00:15:24,951 --> 00:15:35,271 The death is a certain moment, but the exception of Allah. 161 00:15:35,510 --> 00:15:42,973 But the exception of Allah, it won't come any earlier or later. 162 00:15:43,332 --> 00:15:49,470 Rather you get sick and wait to die or it comes suddenly. 163 00:15:49,854 --> 00:15:54,906 A terrible accident or a heart attack, it will called. 164 00:15:55,904 --> 00:16:03,103 Eventually when the time comes, you go without return. 165 00:16:03,399 --> 00:16:11,973 When the time comes, everyone tries to do everything to save you. 166 00:16:12,174 --> 00:16:15,214 They are around you with some hope. 167 00:16:15,655 --> 00:16:21,997 But the dying one knows there is no hope. 168 00:16:22,198 --> 00:16:30,882 Because you see creatures beyond the usual dimension, you have never seen before. 169 00:17:27,207 --> 00:17:58,091 That moment is described by the Qur'an; Al-Waqi'a 83-85, As-Sajdah 11, Qaf 19, Al-An'am 61-62, Al-Jumu'a 8, Saba 30 and Ali Imran 145: 170 00:17:58,428 --> 00:18:00,318 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 171 00:18:02,491 --> 00:18:13,411 "Why is it not then that when it (soul) comes up to the throat, And you at that time look on, And We are nearer to it than you, but you do not see!" 172 00:18:14,030 --> 00:18:20,938 "Say: The angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your Lord you shall be brought back." 173 00:18:21,881 --> 00:18:30,151 "And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape." 174 00:18:30,558 --> 00:18:38,440 "And He is the Supreme, above His servants, and He sends keepers over you; 175 00:18:38,641 --> 00:18:47,153 until when death comes to one of you, Our messengers cause him to die, and they are not remiss. 176 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,095 Then are they sent back to Allah, their Master, the True one; 177 00:18:51,583 --> 00:18:59,717 now surely His is the judgment and He is swiftest in taking account." 178 00:19:00,628 --> 00:19:06,410 "Say: (As for) the death from which you flee, that will surely overtake you, 179 00:19:06,724 --> 00:19:12,306 then you shall be sent back to the Knower of the unseen and the seen, 180 00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:16,450 and He will inform you of that which you did." 181 00:19:16,661 --> 00:19:26,896 "Say: You have the appointment of a day from which you cannot hold back any while, nor can you bring it on." 182 00:19:28,131 --> 00:19:35,518 "And a soul will not die but with the permission of Allah the term is fixed; 183 00:19:36,984 --> 00:19:47,937 and whoever desires the reward of this world, I shall give him of it, and whoever desires the reward of the hereafter I shall give him of it, 184 00:19:48,406 --> 00:19:52,021 and I will reward the grateful." 185 00:19:52,222 --> 00:19:53,844 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 186 00:19:56,081 --> 00:20:08,311 Yes... by the coming of the angels, the curtains are opened and you see the afterlife. 187 00:20:09,030 --> 00:20:13,160 Let's stop and rewind the movie in this point. 188 00:20:13,728 --> 00:20:17,380 Why and how did began it all? 189 00:20:17,581 --> 00:20:20,121 Why did we come to that point? 190 00:20:20,322 --> 00:20:23,828 Let's think and ask a little bit. 191 00:20:24,277 --> 00:20:26,576 What is the journey about? 192 00:20:27,070 --> 00:20:32,681 Money, properties, career, children, houses, what for? 193 00:20:33,378 --> 00:20:38,182 All the effort, was it for losing? 194 00:20:38,418 --> 00:20:41,331 Did we live to die? 195 00:20:41,532 --> 00:20:43,893 Did we earn to lose? 196 00:20:44,094 --> 00:20:47,587 A life to end as a handful soil? 197 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,527 - If... - What if? 198 00:20:52,339 --> 00:20:57,201 Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." 199 00:20:57,402 --> 00:21:02,726 But he should also add: "Why am I therefore?" 200 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:10,001 Why am I here? Why do I live? Where did I came from, where am I going? 201 00:21:10,222 --> 00:21:14,055 Why am I dying? What will happen to me? 202 00:21:14,256 --> 00:21:18,089 Every one's questions, who think. 203 00:21:18,290 --> 00:21:20,438 But the answer? 204 00:21:20,781 --> 00:21:23,050 It's in the Qur'an. 205 00:21:23,251 --> 00:21:40,261 Az-Zariyat 56, Yunus 30, Hud 7, Al-Anbiyaa 35, Al-Mulk 2 and the Sura Al-An'am 162: 206 00:21:42,315 --> 00:21:44,767 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 207 00:21:46,421 --> 00:21:52,185 "And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me." 208 00:21:53,413 --> 00:22:02,165 "There shall every soul become acquainted with what it sent before, and they shall be brought back to Allah, their true Patron,.." 209 00:22:02,499 --> 00:22:13,836 "And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods and His dominion (extends) on the water, that He might manifest to you, which of you is best in action,.." 210 00:22:14,211 --> 00:22:25,587 "Every soul must taste of death and We try you by evil and good by way of probation; and to Us you shall be brought back." 211 00:22:25,788 --> 00:22:34,081 "Who created death and life that He may try you, which of you is best in deeds; 212 00:22:34,578 --> 00:22:38,658 and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving," 213 00:22:38,922 --> 00:22:48,439 "Say. Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds;" 214 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,629 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 215 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:58,541 Let's imagine that we were in a world without religions and holy books. 216 00:22:58,943 --> 00:23:08,370 And let's investigate someone, who would try to find an answer about our existence? 217 00:23:09,314 --> 00:23:20,147 He would try to explain the happening about himself and environment. 218 00:23:20,348 --> 00:23:27,202 He would try and find out almost every answer. 219 00:23:27,403 --> 00:23:29,975 However with an exception! 220 00:23:30,176 --> 00:23:37,575 When and how everything began, why he was created and exists, 221 00:23:37,776 --> 00:23:42,463 and also what for responsibilities he may have. 222 00:23:42,664 --> 00:23:48,616 Answering this and finding a satisfying reason were not possible. 223 00:23:49,347 --> 00:23:55,647 Science couldn't help neither, because he couldn't have any results. 224 00:23:56,020 --> 00:24:03,447 He can't have any results, because before the creation is unknown. 225 00:24:04,296 --> 00:24:11,106 Even if he could get some points, it couldn't be satisfying. 226 00:24:12,301 --> 00:24:20,052 Easiest point he could figuring out, were the idea of a Creator! 227 00:24:20,253 --> 00:24:26,825 And this is a very simple point, which doesn't need too much effort. 228 00:24:27,124 --> 00:24:31,555 But it's just the beginning. 229 00:24:32,047 --> 00:24:40,899 The Creator... why would He create him and his environment? 230 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:46,675 Why is He not to see? 231 00:24:46,876 --> 00:24:53,005 Yes, did He create everything and let them just themselves? 232 00:24:53,438 --> 00:25:07,020 Since He created everything, shouldn't He tell that He did it and why He did it? 233 00:25:07,221 --> 00:25:22,552 Yes, someone who were at the beginning, would ask these questions and moreover. But couldn't answer them by himself. 234 00:25:22,895 --> 00:25:37,652 Even if he finds out, that there is a Creator, he couldn't know, what he was created for. 235 00:25:37,868 --> 00:25:44,272 At this point is a support needed from somewhere else. 236 00:25:44,805 --> 00:25:50,972 Let's say he would need extra information. 237 00:25:51,262 --> 00:25:58,615 Here appears the religion and Allah's messengers. 238 00:25:59,137 --> 00:26:06,611 When you think there is no way out, Allah's mercy comes to you. 239 00:26:06,889 --> 00:26:14,164 Because the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth tells to our Prophet (s.a.w.), 240 00:26:14,365 --> 00:26:27,309 in the Verses of 15 in Al-Israa and 18 to 24 in Fatir: 241 00:26:28,858 --> 00:26:32,211 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 242 00:26:32,550 --> 00:26:41,417 "Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright; and whoever goes astray, to its detriment only does he go astray: 243 00:26:41,619 --> 00:26:50,001 nor can the bearer of a burden bear the burden of another, nor do We chastise until We raise an apostle." 244 00:26:50,418 --> 00:27:04,095 "And a burdened soul cannot bear the burden of another and if one weighed down by burden should cry for (another to carry) its burden, not aught of it shall be carried, even though he be near of kin. 245 00:27:04,296 --> 00:27:08,860 You warn only those who fear their Lord in secret and keep up prayer; 246 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:16,895 and whoever purifies himself, he purifies himself only for (the good of) his own soul; and to Allah is the eventual coming. 247 00:27:17,096 --> 00:27:22,787 And the blind and the seeing are not alike, Nor the darkness and the light, Nor the shade and the heat, 248 00:27:22,988 --> 00:27:25,377 Neither are the living and the dead alike. 249 00:27:25,578 --> 00:27:32,054 Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are in the graves. 250 00:27:32,255 --> 00:27:40,824 You are naught but a warner. Surely We have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner; 251 00:27:41,025 --> 00:27:46,480 and there is not a people but a warner has gone among them." 252 00:27:46,481 --> 00:27:47,817 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 253 00:27:51,140 --> 00:27:55,641 The guidance of the existence and worshippers... 254 00:27:55,842 --> 00:27:58,310 Religion and the messengers. 255 00:27:58,709 --> 00:28:02,795 That's why we need religion and messengers. 256 00:28:03,058 --> 00:28:15,929 Big or small, a flower or an insect or the creation of human and when we know it's about the testing, 257 00:28:16,130 --> 00:28:25,399 it gets very clear how necessary the religion and the messengers are. 258 00:28:25,775 --> 00:28:34,904 Allah the Holy created everything, to test who would be better in actions. 259 00:28:35,105 --> 00:28:37,059 For testing. 260 00:28:37,260 --> 00:28:45,430 The testing is the most important event in the life. 261 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,654 The reason of the being in this world. 262 00:28:50,855 --> 00:28:54,952 It's the only reason why the human was created. 263 00:28:55,604 --> 00:28:59,630 Why a test, without seeing the God (Allah)? 264 00:28:59,831 --> 00:29:11,933 Because if He would show Himself, all the people would belief 265 00:29:12,134 --> 00:29:17,028 and there couldn't be a test. 266 00:29:17,469 --> 00:29:23,841 It wouldn't have a meaning to create the mankind and the universe. 267 00:29:24,383 --> 00:29:35,347 If a teacher gives the answers to the students, before he checks them, could we call it as an exam? 268 00:29:35,656 --> 00:29:38,999 What for the examinations? 269 00:29:39,946 --> 00:29:52,138 When everyone should graduate, what for the tiredness? 270 00:29:52,544 --> 00:30:06,028 Exam... discovered in the teachings of Allah by the human, and was always needed to decide. 271 00:30:06,229 --> 00:30:12,237 Good one, bad one, better one and the best, it was needed to define them. 272 00:30:12,578 --> 00:30:22,337 The place, in which everyone gives his best and every effort gets repaid. 273 00:30:23,274 --> 00:30:27,437 Exam is the best measure tool. 274 00:30:27,838 --> 00:30:35,488 To define the busy and idle one, the working and resting one, the good and bad one. 275 00:30:35,836 --> 00:30:44,665 The measure tool for doing, patience and effort, an unavoidable usage. 276 00:31:55,092 --> 00:32:01,002 Yes... test is a help and solution on the way to the result. 277 00:32:01,203 --> 00:32:04,749 But there are some, who find the test unnecessary. 278 00:32:04,950 --> 00:32:09,015 Of course it is difficult to take responsibility. 279 00:32:09,575 --> 00:32:13,484 We say always, the good one may win. 280 00:32:13,685 --> 00:32:16,362 What is the measure tool for "good"? 281 00:32:16,658 --> 00:32:22,249 What shall make the efforts or deeds valuable? 282 00:32:22,699 --> 00:32:29,515 How can we find out without a match, who were faster or stronger? 283 00:32:29,724 --> 00:32:36,418 Without an exam, how could we know who did learn and who didn't? 284 00:32:37,594 --> 00:32:43,139 There are also some who believe in tests, but not in a test for hereafter. 285 00:32:43,481 --> 00:32:45,955 This is not to understand. 286 00:32:46,410 --> 00:32:55,813 We need to remember them, for what kind of little things they've worked in this world. 287 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:06,667 We need to remember them, how they've wasted their lives to graduate the university. 288 00:33:07,068 --> 00:33:19,235 If they'd say there is any reason for a test, in that you'd win the eternal paradise, weren't they unreasonable? 289 00:33:19,930 --> 00:33:26,833 Because Allah is the creator and owner of everything, so he makes the rules. 290 00:33:27,443 --> 00:33:30,401 And worshipper has to obey those. 291 00:33:30,602 --> 00:33:36,278 Simply said; whoever wants, may choose a way to his Lord. 292 00:33:37,028 --> 00:33:48,049 Our holy Lord says in Qur'an Al Kareem the Sura of Al-Waqi'a 86-87 and Al-Ankabut 2-3: 293 00:33:50,091 --> 00:33:52,333 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 294 00:33:54,582 --> 00:34:07,381 "Then why is it not, if you are not held under authority, That you send it (not) back, if you are truthful?" 295 00:34:08,885 --> 00:34:21,668 "Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be tried? And certainly We tried those before them, 296 00:34:22,745 --> 00:34:31,000 so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars." 297 00:34:31,942 --> 00:34:33,976 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 298 00:34:35,581 --> 00:34:44,123 Yes, some people deserved or not, get respect in this world. 299 00:34:44,385 --> 00:34:48,594 People praise and exaggerate them. 300 00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:54,979 Sometimes they exaggerate them in such a way, so they become "gods". 301 00:34:55,180 --> 00:35:01,133 Sometimes, the mortal "gods" are praised even after their deaths. 302 00:35:01,492 --> 00:35:03,798 Everybody may taste the death. 303 00:35:03,999 --> 00:35:11,596 But some of them left bad tracks, like a dog leaves his mall behind. 304 00:35:11,797 --> 00:35:20,649 And the others left good tracks behind, like a necklace. 305 00:35:21,050 --> 00:35:31,848 Unfortunately, many worldly goods which were praised, lose their value in the moment of death. 306 00:35:32,208 --> 00:35:36,226 Every life will the same before the death. 307 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:43,148 Wealth, career, celebrity, they all lose their value. 308 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:53,606 All the worldly earnings get ruined and lost in the twinkling of an eye. 309 00:35:54,807 --> 00:36:00,069 Would it be only the lost things, it were even good. 310 00:36:00,895 --> 00:36:09,158 You close your eyes to this world and open to hereafter. 311 00:36:09,359 --> 00:36:22,120 This time, an unknown world with real justice and like you've been warned before. 312 00:36:22,949 --> 00:36:27,641 A monotheistic faith and a living in the way of that faith. 313 00:36:28,156 --> 00:36:34,506 The very first tool to sort out the people in hereafter. 314 00:36:35,245 --> 00:36:41,696 The best earning, which can one have in a world without a return. 315 00:36:41,897 --> 00:36:50,237 Yes... how are the deeds or lives recorded? 316 00:36:50,438 --> 00:36:55,229 How will we get fronted to our deeds without an exception? 317 00:36:55,501 --> 00:37:01,087 Who, when and how do record the information? 318 00:37:01,783 --> 00:37:07,058 As we know by the Qur'an Al Kareem, the angels have a hierarchy. 319 00:37:07,287 --> 00:37:10,342 They have their separate degrees and provided duties. 320 00:37:11,799 --> 00:37:16,291 They work together and have hierarchy among each other. 321 00:37:16,746 --> 00:37:23,532 There are angels under the command of the higher degree angels. 322 00:37:23,533 --> 00:37:33,113 For example, Gabriel (a.s.) is responsible to give over the holy books to the messengers. 323 00:37:34,129 --> 00:37:40,068 Azrael (a.s.) is responsible to take over the souls or let's say manages the death. 324 00:37:43,154 --> 00:37:46,988 Mikael (a.s.) is responsible for the nature. 325 00:37:47,189 --> 00:37:56,216 Israfel (a.s.) is responsible for the doomsday and the resurrection. 326 00:37:56,741 --> 00:37:59,614 They are just some, whom we know. 327 00:37:59,815 --> 00:38:06,290 There are moreover many angels with their duties, which we don't know. 328 00:38:06,808 --> 00:38:19,900 So, the record on our deeds are also made by two angels from that world, which we can't see. 329 00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:24,793 The both angels are every time together with that person. 330 00:38:24,994 --> 00:38:31,447 They be-witness everything what he sees, hears or does. 331 00:38:31,662 --> 00:38:36,186 And they write down all of them. 332 00:38:36,387 --> 00:38:45,577 And they do their duty just perfect and let anything unrecorded. 333 00:38:46,586 --> 00:39:05,292 Our holy Lord says in the Qur'an Al Kareem; Al-Kahf 47-49, Al-Infitar 10-12 and Qaf 16-23: 334 00:39:06,338 --> 00:39:09,285 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 335 00:39:09,301 --> 00:39:14,186 "And the day on which We will cause the mountains to pass away and you will see the earth a levelled plain 336 00:39:14,187 --> 00:39:18,302 and We will gather them and leave not any one of them behind. 337 00:39:18,303 --> 00:39:25,425 And they shall be brought before your Lord, standing in ranks: Now certainly you have come to Us as We created you at first. 338 00:39:25,426 --> 00:39:31,731 Nay, you thought that We had not appointed to you a time of the fulfillment of the promise. 339 00:39:31,996 --> 00:39:38,664 And the Book shall be placed, then you will see the guilty fearing from what is in it, 340 00:39:38,665 --> 00:39:46,705 and they will say: Ah! woe to us! what a book is this! it does not omit a small one nor a great one, but numbers them (all); 341 00:39:46,706 --> 00:39:52,758 and what they had done they shall find present (there); and your Lord does not deal unjustly with anyone. " 342 00:39:52,779 --> 00:39:58,291 "And most surely there are keepers over you, Honorable recorders, They know what you do." 343 00:39:58,384 --> 00:40:01,625 "And certainly We created man, 344 00:40:01,826 --> 00:40:08,580 and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein. 345 00:40:08,786 --> 00:40:18,230 When the two receivers receive, sitting on the right and on the left. He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand. 346 00:40:18,231 --> 00:40:25,810 And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape. 347 00:40:26,011 --> 00:40:31,399 And the trumpet shall be blown; that is the day of the threatening. 348 00:40:31,837 --> 00:40:36,644 And every soul shall come, with it a driver and a witness. 349 00:40:36,645 --> 00:40:45,788 Certainly you were heedless of it, but now We have removed from you your veil, so your sight today is sharp. 350 00:40:45,989 --> 00:40:51,014 And his companions shall say: This is what is ready with me." 351 00:40:51,215 --> 00:40:52,208 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 352 00:40:56,824 --> 00:41:05,148 The recording of the human lives might be unintelligible to the pass generations. 353 00:41:05,849 --> 00:41:13,288 But if we look at the currently technology - achieved by the human - it's very simple to accept. 354 00:41:15,517 --> 00:41:25,702 Videos, computer discs witch include library wise information and others like those. 355 00:41:25,903 --> 00:41:33,187 This is the currently technology - achieved by the human - with the god given intelligence. 356 00:41:33,388 --> 00:41:45,892 When we try to imagine our holy Lord's knowledge and power, we know there must be an amazing technology. 357 00:41:46,821 --> 00:41:54,359 Those recordings will be undeniable witnesses among us. 358 00:41:55,404 --> 00:41:59,248 It will show the results of an human life. 359 00:41:59,449 --> 00:42:05,458 For some it will be a saver, for some a penalty. 360 00:42:05,659 --> 00:42:19,351 The books which include every day and moment, will not let a way out to deny anything before the judgement. 361 00:42:20,695 --> 00:42:23,770 "A last regret is not useful." 362 00:42:23,971 --> 00:42:30,671 We use this sentence in worldly events, which we are confronted usually. 363 00:42:30,872 --> 00:42:36,158 Actually there is a possibility to make good those regrets. 364 00:42:36,387 --> 00:42:39,571 The way to return is almost there. 365 00:42:40,042 --> 00:42:45,965 But there is a time to come "A last regret is really not useful." 366 00:42:46,166 --> 00:42:54,265 Ways to return are closed and there is only a one-way. 367 00:42:54,466 --> 00:43:01,028 Every worldly thing is over and the future is a terrible unknown. 368 00:43:02,329 --> 00:43:04,641 That moment has just arrived. 369 00:43:04,956 --> 00:43:06,896 "Sakarat Al-Mawt"... 370 00:43:07,097 --> 00:43:11,679 which means "the throes of death"! 371 00:43:12,184 --> 00:43:22,830 The moment of step onto the world dead, which the secret can't be solved from. 372 00:43:23,690 --> 00:43:30,627 Let's say, the changing of the dimension from the world to eternity. 373 00:43:30,850 --> 00:43:37,755 It's really a moment, that any regret could help out. 374 00:43:38,254 --> 00:43:48,001 Even the way of Touba (repentance), which is always allowed will blocked. 375 00:43:48,402 --> 00:43:52,996 A repentance is not accepted by Allah in that moment. 376 00:43:53,644 --> 00:43:58,920 Our holy Lord says in the 18. Verse of the Sura An-Nisa: 377 00:44:01,408 --> 00:44:03,553 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 378 00:44:06,925 --> 00:44:17,323 "And repentance is not for those who go on doing evil deeds, until when death comes to one of them, he says: Surely now I repent; 379 00:44:17,524 --> 00:44:22,085 nor (for) those who die while they are unbelievers. 380 00:44:22,634 --> 00:44:27,196 These are they for whom We have prepared a painful chastisement." 381 00:44:27,397 --> 00:44:28,427 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 382 00:44:30,207 --> 00:44:39,145 So... what is happening in that moment, which the way of Touba is closed? 383 00:44:39,346 --> 00:44:42,046 What do you see in that moment? 384 00:44:42,852 --> 00:44:52,498 When we see a dying person, it looks like as he'd only breath, but any other function. 385 00:44:52,895 --> 00:44:59,976 The person loses every connection to his environment. 386 00:45:01,159 --> 00:45:09,098 And... can the person feel sadness or happiness in that moment, or is he aware? 387 00:45:09,299 --> 00:45:14,920 In the state of dying, are his feelings or awareness functional? 388 00:46:11,488 --> 00:46:21,409 Qur'an gives us some explanations about the unknown face of the death. 389 00:46:21,610 --> 00:46:36,942 It's said in the Verses An-Nahl 28, Fussilat 30-32 and Al-Mu'minun 99-100: 390 00:46:37,210 --> 00:46:39,054 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 391 00:46:40,687 --> 00:46:50,229 "Those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to themselves. Then would they offer submission: We used not to do any evil. 392 00:46:50,685 --> 00:46:56,783 Aye! surely Allah knows what you did." 393 00:46:57,302 --> 00:47:05,016 "(As for) those who say: Our Lord is Allah, then continue in the right way, the angels descend upon them, saying: 394 00:47:05,217 --> 00:47:14,592 Fear not, nor be grieved, and receive good news of the garden which you were promised. We are your guardians in this world's life and in the hereafter, 395 00:47:14,928 --> 00:47:25,742 and you shall have therein what your souls desire and you shall have therein what you ask for: A provision from the Forgiving, the Merciful." 396 00:47:26,059 --> 00:47:37,262 "Until when death overtakes one of them, he says: Send me back, my Lord, send me back; Haply I may do good in that which I have left. 397 00:47:37,463 --> 00:47:41,594 By no means! it is a (mere) word that he speaks; 398 00:47:41,795 --> 00:47:50,694 and before them is a barrier until the day they are raised." 399 00:47:50,895 --> 00:47:52,333 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 400 00:47:53,988 --> 00:48:08,376 As we understand from these verses, the dying one loses any connection to this world and gets connected to the spiritual dimension. 401 00:48:08,814 --> 00:48:17,790 From this point on, he gets connected to the spiritual world, which he denied in the pass. 402 00:48:18,859 --> 00:48:25,968 There is any problem to see the angels, because there is no return. 403 00:48:26,369 --> 00:48:33,658 Holy Allah takes the eye-curtains away, which didn't allow to see them. 404 00:48:33,859 --> 00:48:41,648 Otherwise said, he will get the ability to see them. 405 00:48:41,849 --> 00:48:46,213 Now he changes the dimension. 406 00:48:46,614 --> 00:48:51,496 He is on the gate of the material world to the spiritual world. 407 00:48:51,942 --> 00:49:03,822 In this point, you get the first results for your deeds. 408 00:49:05,893 --> 00:49:23,678 If the person was fearing Allah, he gets what he expected. His exciting will turn to happiness. 409 00:49:24,340 --> 00:49:29,563 A Mushriq (who associates Partners with Allah), a Fasiq (sinner) or a Qafir (unbeliever) 410 00:49:29,764 --> 00:49:49,825 Like a frightened prisoner who is going to be hanged, who'd try to apologize. 411 00:49:51,526 --> 00:49:56,702 Any crime is made with the awareness to get caught. 412 00:49:57,062 --> 00:50:02,100 The idea of to not get caught makes them do that crimes. 413 00:50:02,927 --> 00:50:09,851 The impulses in us, which are influential, work also like that. 414 00:50:11,316 --> 00:50:19,654 The ego and devil make the unbelievers think, the death should be the end. 415 00:50:20,655 --> 00:50:27,366 And those who are weak in their faith, will deceived with the mercy of Allah. 416 00:50:27,567 --> 00:50:36,439 Our holy Lord says in Al-Jathiya 24 and Fatir 5: 417 00:50:38,585 --> 00:50:40,600 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 418 00:50:43,630 --> 00:51:02,495 "And they say: There is nothing but our life in this world; we live and die and nothing destroys us but time, and they have no knowledge of that; they only conjecture." 419 00:51:04,249 --> 00:51:14,036 "O men! surely the promise of Allah is true, therefore let not the life of this world deceive you, 420 00:51:14,265 --> 00:51:19,217 and let not the arch deceiver deceive you respecting Allah." 421 00:51:19,718 --> 00:51:21,351 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 422 00:51:24,952 --> 00:51:35,518 Last breathe... the curtain to the world is nonreturnable closed. 423 00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:42,951 Some tears, some howlers and you are gone. 424 00:51:43,510 --> 00:51:45,668 Now, you know what! 425 00:51:45,869 --> 00:51:50,590 A short trip in a wood chest till the grave. 426 00:51:50,926 --> 00:51:56,237 And to get left behind in a cold, dark hole. 427 00:51:56,808 --> 00:52:02,740 Some old photos and a few things are left behind. 428 00:52:03,709 --> 00:52:11,548 They will say "May he rest in peace", but they forget after a while. 429 00:52:12,149 --> 00:52:18,444 All what he had were vanished like by those who lived before him. 430 00:52:19,672 --> 00:52:29,059 Rasulullah (peace be upon him) mentioned the really valuable things, 431 00:52:29,399 --> 00:52:33,034 "Appreciate 5 things, before 5 things happen: 432 00:52:33,235 --> 00:52:35,116 1. Youth before getting old, 433 00:52:35,317 --> 00:52:37,317 2. Health before getting ill, 434 00:52:37,518 --> 00:52:40,356 3. Wealth before getting poor, 435 00:52:40,557 --> 00:52:43,985 4. Leisure before getting busy and 436 00:52:44,186 --> 00:52:46,953 5. Live before death! 437 00:52:47,154 --> 00:52:50,730 Appreciate them all!" 438 00:52:51,131 --> 00:53:04,824 Rasulullah (s.a.w.) told also about to appreciate the time and remembrance of death. 439 00:53:05,025 --> 00:53:08,557 "When you arrive morning, don't expect the evening! 440 00:53:08,758 --> 00:53:11,971 When you arrive evening, don't expect the morning!" 441 00:53:12,172 --> 00:53:19,250 "Save something from your life for death and from health for illness." 442 00:53:19,984 --> 00:53:22,312 "Die before you really die." 443 00:53:22,513 --> 00:53:26,928 "Check your deeds before the day of judgement." 444 00:53:27,012 --> 00:53:29,596 "Remember always the death. 445 00:53:29,597 --> 00:53:38,049 To remember it will hold you back from doing bad actions." 446 00:53:38,250 --> 00:53:42,326 Death is obvious like the day and sun. 447 00:53:42,725 --> 00:53:45,829 Sometimes we want to ask: 448 00:53:46,030 --> 00:53:50,858 "What's More Real: Life or Death?" 449 00:53:51,351 --> 00:53:59,088 The man is really strange, he tries almost everything to enjoy his life. 450 00:53:59,289 --> 00:54:04,101 He lives, eats and drinks. 451 00:54:04,302 --> 00:54:09,257 He knows about death, but doesn't think about it. 452 00:54:09,458 --> 00:54:12,658 He just wants to escape from death. 453 00:54:12,859 --> 00:54:14,842 He knows he will die, but tries to escape. 454 00:54:15,043 --> 00:54:17,241 He lives with knowing the death. 455 00:54:17,442 --> 00:54:20,282 He goes on with that knowledge. 456 00:54:20,769 --> 00:54:23,263 He knows the life, but can't explain. 457 00:54:23,464 --> 00:54:26,313 He knows the death, but can't explain. 458 00:54:26,514 --> 00:54:34,924 He knows, he will lose his life and body, but don't ask: what's after the death? 459 00:54:35,125 --> 00:54:40,905 Is it really such simple, is that all? 460 00:54:42,306 --> 00:54:49,076 Either he runs away from the responsibility or he has doubts and doesn't belief. 461 00:54:49,299 --> 00:54:57,445 Our holy Lord says in the Sura of Al-Hajj; 5. 6. and 7. Verses: 462 00:54:59,273 --> 00:55:01,141 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 463 00:55:02,630 --> 00:55:23,534 "O people! if you are in doubt about the raising, then surely We created you from dust, then from a small seed, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh, complete in make and incomplete, that We may make clear to you; 464 00:55:23,915 --> 00:55:35,668 and We cause what We please to stay in the wombs till an appointed time, then We bring you forth as babies, then that you may attain your maturity; 465 00:55:35,869 --> 00:55:44,948 and of you is he who is caused to die, and of you is he who is brought back to the worst part of life, so that after having knowledge he does not know anything; 466 00:55:45,744 --> 00:55:57,758 and you see the earth sterile land, but when We send down on it the water, it stirs and swells and brings forth of every kind a beautiful herbage. 467 00:55:57,959 --> 00:56:13,593 This is because Allah is the Truth and because He gives life to the dead and because He has power over all things. And because the hour is coming, there is no doubt about it; and because Allah shall raise up those who are in the graves. 468 00:56:14,006 --> 00:56:16,218 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 469 00:56:19,935 --> 00:56:24,171 Everybody is born, grows up and dies. 470 00:56:24,433 --> 00:56:33,367 Some in the youth, others in the worst time of their life, which is called "second childhood". 471 00:56:33,733 --> 00:56:38,421 But early or lately, everyone tastes the death. 472 00:56:38,622 --> 00:56:45,098 He goes to grave, if he wants or not, if he likes or not. 473 00:56:45,670 --> 00:56:49,913 It's clear but after the death? 474 00:56:50,562 --> 00:56:56,077 Thereafter is unchanged told; warning or good news. 475 00:56:56,278 --> 00:56:59,250 From the first human until know, 476 00:56:59,451 --> 00:57:03,751 all prophets in past generations, 477 00:57:03,952 --> 00:57:07,565 since thousands of years, they reported 478 00:57:07,766 --> 00:57:10,939 the wonder of resurrection. 479 00:57:11,241 --> 00:57:15,495 Let's say, the eternal life after death. 480 00:57:15,716 --> 00:57:21,706 The forgotten, unmentioned resurrection! 481 00:57:23,109 --> 00:57:31,365 Trees are almost death in the winter, but they get a new life in spring. 482 00:57:31,886 --> 00:57:41,330 Dry seeds which bloom after they arrive the soil and water. 483 00:57:41,531 --> 00:57:45,202 Aren't they examples for the resurrection? 484 00:57:45,617 --> 00:57:50,026 Actually examples are very simple, but mankind doesn't think. 485 00:57:50,227 --> 00:57:53,980 Wasn't he not created from nonexistence? 486 00:57:54,181 --> 00:57:58,813 What's more difficult: first creation or recreation? 487 00:57:59,797 --> 00:58:13,816 Our holy Lord says in As-Saffat 11, Al-Ankabut 19, Al-Ahqaf 33 and Ya-Sin 77-81: 488 00:58:15,617 --> 00:58:17,474 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 489 00:58:19,053 --> 00:58:27,814 "Ask them, Are they more difficult to create, or the other creations?" 490 00:58:29,423 --> 00:58:35,936 "What! do they not consider how Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it? 491 00:58:36,630 --> 00:58:39,078 Surely that is easy to Allah." 492 00:58:40,844 --> 00:58:50,048 "Have they not considered that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth and was not tired by their creation, is able to give life to the dead? 493 00:58:51,096 --> 00:58:54,306 Aye! He has surely power over all things." 494 00:58:55,400 --> 00:59:01,435 "Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant. 495 00:59:01,636 --> 00:59:10,809 And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give life to the bones when they are rotten? 496 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:18,225 Say: He will give life to them Who brought them into existence at first, 497 00:59:18,567 --> 00:59:23,006 and He is cognizant of all creation 498 00:59:23,207 --> 00:59:30,039 Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? 499 00:59:30,700 --> 00:59:37,716 Yea! and He is the Creator (of all), the Knower. 500 00:59:38,512 --> 00:59:40,592 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful." 501 00:59:43,457 --> 00:59:50,559 Belief! It's the beginning of them all, but a true belief! 502 00:59:50,868 --> 00:59:53,038 A monotheistic belief. 503 00:59:53,938 --> 00:59:55,861 To know his own creator. 504 00:59:56,062 --> 00:59:59,683 To know his God and to praise him. 505 00:59:59,900 --> 01:00:06,831 To know the real Ruler of the heaven and earth. 506 01:00:07,032 --> 01:00:11,062 To know the most Holy and Glory. 507 01:00:11,263 --> 01:00:16,791 To know Him and to reject all false "gods". 508 01:00:17,150 --> 01:00:22,245 Death is the first step on the way to the afterlife. 509 01:00:22,446 --> 01:00:27,806 Not an end, but a beginning is the truth. 510 01:00:28,007 --> 01:00:32,714 Like a seed's waiting to semiskilled. 511 01:00:33,253 --> 01:00:35,682 Semiskilled is in the afterlife. 512 01:00:35,883 --> 01:00:37,872 Between them is the apocalypse (Qiyamah). 513 01:00:38,073 --> 01:00:48,351 We've explained life and death, and what they are for. 514 01:00:50,029 --> 01:00:59,033 We end this with the word of our holy Lord, Al-Waqi'a 61-61: 515 01:00:59,258 --> 01:01:01,173 [Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." 516 01:01:03,303 --> 01:01:07,723 "We have ordained death among you and We are not to be overcome, 517 01:01:07,924 --> 01:01:11,823 In order that We may bring in your place the likes of you 518 01:01:12,024 --> 01:01:19,360 and make you grow into what you know not." 519 01:01:20,114 --> 01:01:22,607 [Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."