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<title>MAINTAINING LOVE IS APROFOUND ART FORM; PEOPLE MUST BE PATIENT IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO KEEP IT ALIVE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview on Kral Karadeniz TV and Kanal Urfa TV, November 21st, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: That is what lies behind people not being friends with one another. For example, ask people how many people they love, and they will say one or two; and they tell this as a mere formality; 40%-50% either trust or don&rsquo;t. Maintaining love is an art form. The reason why people are unable to maintain love is that they lack patience. People can certainly make mistakes, or one can imagine they have made a mistake. You may change someone&rsquo;s table out of good intentions, bringing another one in to replace it. But if that person fails to appreciate that, they may think you were jealous and wanted the original table for yourself...&nbsp; They may think you acted out of bad intentions, and will suddenly feel hatred and anger toward you and severe all further ties. But that is terribly unwise. We need patience in order to be able to maintain love. We need wisdom and patience. Someone with no patience cannot maintain love. 

Note how people&rsquo;s ties to others are very short-lived. There is a saying in Turkish, &ldquo;Too much love brings quick split-up.&rdquo; And this is also told in a song. But familiarity, or love, is a very excellent thing. The reason why familiarity can lead to people splitting up is that they have no patience and do not interpret other&rsquo;s actions as being intended for the best and are unforgiving. But just a moment&rsquo;s tolerance or forgiveness allows one to overcome that obstacle. Because there are many obstacles to love, hindrances. People think that love is very easy. They become exuberant for a moment and say, &ldquo;Oooh, I love you so much.&rdquo; Yes but love is a fine thing only if you can maintain it. 

If a person truly loves, he must also know how to overcome those obstacles. Because he will inevitably come up against barriers on the path of love. One must know how to go round those walls. People smash straight into them and crash to the ground. If they get round the first one, then they will run into a second wall and smash into that. However, there are constant obstacles in love, and they must be overcome intelligently, one by one. With intelligence, determination and steadfastness. That is why Allah says that those who are patient attain this blessing. In other words, Allah bestows the Hereafter on those who are steadfast. There are a great many verses about steadfastness in the Qur&rsquo;an. Verse 31 of Surah Muhammad says, &ldquo;We will test you until We know those struggling among you and those who are steadfast and test what is reported of you.&rdquo; Look, Almighty Allah reveals the whole secret. What does struggling mean? It means that one cannot obtain love through idleness. Love absolutely demands diligence. You have to make nice preparations for someone you love, don&rsquo;t you? One has to care for his/herself, pay attention to the loved one, listen to what he says and choose one&rsquo;s own words very carefully. One must not say the first thing that comes into one&rsquo;s head. When speaking to someone one loves, one has to choose one&rsquo;s words very carefully, and that calls for intelligence. It can be done with determination.

For instance this is struggling, a kind of making&nbsp; effort. One must not be momentarily angered by a careless word, but shrug it off and give the other person another opportunity... Because anyone can make a slip of the tongue when they are talking. People may say improper words. It is totally irrational to go off someone and leave them because of something they said. One has to bear with it, and that cannot be done without love of Allah. In other words, no human power can do it, and it is impossible without love of Allah, unless one loves someone as a manifestation of Allah and sees signs of takwa in them. Otherwise, the power of love is not enough and it soon comes to an end. That is why most people are unable to maintain love. They are always alone, but Allah tells us them be steadfast. People may be ill-kempt, but you have to be patient in the face of their odd behavior. They may behave coldly or in a way that does not reflect true love, but one has to be patient. Or things may happen for reasons that we cannot understand. 

For example, I wanted to get here early but arrived late. There is wisdom behind that. What if the people here then demanded to know why I was late, whose fault it was? Who makes one late? It is Allah who makes me late. Why? For reasons of His own. When someone is late, one will say there is wisdom behind it and it is all for the best. Or one fails to get to somewhere one was going to. The car doesn&rsquo;t start. People then get really angry, and that is also an obstacle to love. Fortitude toward Allah in the face of events lies at the root of love of Allah. One has to be patient in the face of things created by Allah, because He always creates everything for the best. People always look at things wrongly and irrationally, if you notice. They huff and puff, if you notice. Why do they get angry? He thinks things are going wrong for him, whereas the fact is that what is happening is all for the best, so that huffing and puffing is all for nothing. That is why those with no patience, those who therefore are unaware of Allah&rsquo;s secret, are unable to maintain love. 

Love is a profound art form. It requires a profound intelligence and fine detail. Look, Allah says &ldquo;We will test you until We know those struggling among you &hellip;&rdquo; What does test mean? It means He will keep making such things happen, meaning that they will not happen by chance. Who is responsible if you failed to get somewhere or to do something. Almighty Allah. Allah says He does it. People imagine that it is the other person&rsquo;s fault, whereas it is Allah Who does these things. What we have to do is remain patient. They ask why you said whatever it was. It is Allah Who made you say it. It is all for the best, and person must be patient. Allah says He will test you. He says &ldquo;It would have been better for them to have been steadfast until they approached you.&rdquo; And &ldquo;Allah is the most forgiving. So you must be steadfast in the face of what they say.&rdquo; 

For example, I am subjected to all kinds of slander. And what do I do? I persist in patience. I do not complain about how unfair it all is... It is in fact a miracle. People laugh at the injustice inflicted on me, because I am subjected to things that have never been seen before in the history of the Republic. Like the cocaine plot, the like of that had never been seen in the history of the Turkish Republic. No intellectual, no sane person had ever been put in a lunatic asylum because of his ideas and opinions. That had only ever been inflicted on Bedi&uuml;zzaman, insha&rsquo;Allah. That is all. 

For instance, amazing things happened in our case. The Supreme Court took upon itself to hear and annul my case even though nobody had made any such request. Nobody had asked them to. And nobody objected. Such a thing had never happened in the Republic before. Interesting things always happen to me, masha&rsquo;Allah, and this is of course all for the best, may Allah be praised. For example, normally when a case is annulled, say under Law 4422, the defendant should be tried on the lesser of the charges. For example, Article 220 is more serious than Article 313. But we were tried on the more serious charges, under Article 220. That was very interesting. There are more than 60 incidents, 66. Or is it 69? Masha&rsquo;Allah, 69. Not just 1, or 2 or 3. 

I was also acquitted in the Ebru Şimşek case. I was acquitted with the Court decision. There is the evidence now, just as property deeds. The ceilings of the two properties were compared, the ceiling joists. Mine is flat, as you know, while hers is joisted, and there are a lot of other similar technical disparities. But even though I was acquitted because of that and all the eye witness statements, the Court of First Instance, the same court I was tried at, says that the statements by Fatih Altaylı and Ebru Şimşek are mutually complementary. The court pointed to that as its justification, for which I am duly grateful. The list goes on forever. But a Muslim will regard this as being all for the best, of course. Because Allah creates it. Allah says, &ldquo;He will test those who are steadfast.&rdquo; 

Did the Prophet Joseph (as) spend 7 years in prison because he had committed a crime? The women says he made an improper suggestion to her. The wife of the governor in whose house he was living. He said he would never do that, that he feared Allah. But they sentenced him to 7 years, and off he went. Why? It is a test. What does Almighty Allah say? Look. &ldquo;We will test you until We know the struggling among you&hellip;&rdquo; Allah later made him a prophet. Because He revealed himself to him. He first shows him His superior moral values. He showed him who He was, His might. He told him to be patient before his Lord&rsquo;s command. Allah says, I take refuge in Allah from satan, &ldquo;So wait steadfastly for the judgement of your Lord.&rdquo; When Allah creates something, we will show patience towards it, insha&rsquo;Allah. He says, &ldquo;Be steadfast in the face of what they say and cut yourself off from them &ndash; but courteously.&rdquo; &ldquo;Be steadfast for your Lord,&rdquo; says Allah in Surat 74, verse 7. &ldquo;Be of those who recommend steadfastness to one another, who recommend compassion to one another&hellip;&rdquo; 

Look, recommending patience to one another. Allah&rsquo;s command is for everyone to be patient. We will say, you be patient, and we will be patient, too. And what will we also recommend? Compassion. Be compassionate and forgiving, we will say. That is what we do. Allah describes this as a feature of believers. &ldquo;Only those who have faith and do good works&hellip;&rdquo; Look, believers who do good works. Sincere people. People ask what is special about sincerity. They say, &ldquo;I am sincere&rdquo;. But sincerity is no easy thing. When you are sincere you face all kinds of problems. A sincere man is plagued by troubles, day and night. It is very difficult. Sincerity requires cordialness, enormous hard work and activity. &ldquo;They who advise one another of the truth&hellip;&rdquo; He tells us to be sincere. &ldquo;.. and they who advise one another to steadfastness.&rdquo; Everyone will advise everyone else to be patient. 

That is why everyone is so aggressive out on the streets, because this is regarded as unimportant. People tell others to get out of the way, waving their hands at them from their cars. One then challenges someone else to come and say that to his face. And the other person does, and the fists start flying, and then guns become involved, whether legally carried or otherwise. So what if someone has made a gesture toward you, you can send a greeting back and go on your way. Why prolong the issue? You thus retain the moral high ground, as they say. You need to be patient there, and affectionate. Because at the end of the day, Allah is testing you. What point is there in resorting to killing and all that disgrace? You are hurting a soul bestowed by Allah. The reward is a lifetime of suffering here and Hell for all eternity in the Hereafter. Apart from Allah&rsquo;s forgiveness, that is all a terrible infamy. It is lack of patience that lies behind the scourges that afflict people in this world. Yes, insha&rsquo;Allah.

Patience is more or less the basis of moral virtue. It is one of the fundamental issues. Because impatience lies behind the way that people go off one another, wars, conflicts and killings, people ending up in Hell, immorality and crime. It is a lack of patience and a refusal to see that everything is for the best. There are so many things requiring patience in the course of a day. Let me think of an example. I was going to go to Istinye today, to Istinye Park, to pick up some things, but I was unable to go. That is definitely all for the best, and I did not sit and wonder why I could not go there. I did not get angry or distressed. 

For example, if someone I like is unable to come to see me as planned, that is also for the best. I don&rsquo;t get angry and wonder why he didn&rsquo;t come to see me. He will say that something came up, and that can happen to anyone, or else he will say he was unwell and could not come. I will not ask why he didn&rsquo;t come or why I couldn&rsquo;t get somewhere. I do not ask why I lost. For example, I was recently sentenced to 3 years&rsquo; imprisonment by the courts. I was neither angered nor upset. There is no rancor inside me and, as you can see, I am perfectly at ease, I have no such problem. But when we look at the files, what does the prosecutor say? He says the case file is empty, that there is nothing in it. The prosecutor says there is no element of any crime in it, and that is the court&rsquo;s own prosecutor saying that. He says that half of the defendants have already been acquitted on the same evidence in the same file. And he says the rest of us should be acquitted, too. But I am patient in the face of all that. I did not get upset in any way. 

The prosecutor said they had no lawyers, that their statements were taken under duress, for which reason they are inadmissible as evidence. But the court disagreed. I was patient and said, thank you very much. But I am not upset in any way. We were refused the right to a defense, in other words, but we just said, thank you very much, Allah be praised. The court also added an extra year to my sentence without saying why. And I said thank you very much for that, as well. It is all for the best, so why be upset? Is it not Allah Who created it? So why be distressed? There is goodness in it. Why did the Prophet Joseph (as) spend 7 years in prison? Should he have spent 7 years complaining, may Allah forbid? Complaining about why he was in prison? He was always quite content. He even became part of the prison management. That is in the Torah too. Prophet Joesph (as) was a great man. He was really clever, of course, and the Torah says that the prison governor used to ask his advice. When something happened they would come to ask his advice, what to do about it. The Prophet Joseph (as) was very high quality and highly intelligent. He was always useful to the people in there. That is why we have to bow our heads to Allah in complete submission. 

It would be terribly immoral to get angry over something and question why it has not happened. It would be incompatible with morality and the Qur&rsquo;an. I don&rsquo;t mean that as an insult. But it would be a moral deficiency, something incompatible with the moral values of the Qur&rsquo;an. Moral virtue means treating it with submission, bowing one&rsquo;s head in complete respect to Allah. That is what love of Allah demands. May Allah forbid that Allah does something and a mere human being disapproves! It is like a lovely present coming from your beloved, and you not liking it. May Allah forbid! What a terrible thing. Everything from one&rsquo;s beloved is beautiful, and you cannot say you don&rsquo;t like it. And everything that comes from Allah is also beautiful and for the best. We cannot look on such things as evil. 

One may fall ill all of a sudden. Almighty Allah has to test you, otherwise how is love to be understood? How can you establish someone&rsquo;s love if he does not undergo hardship for the sake of his beloved or make any kind of effort? Let us imagine that someone is unwilling to give up his sleep for his beloved. He says, I am asleep. That is incompatible with love. Love should overcome sleep. Isn&rsquo;t that right? For instance, someone may sit in the cold so his beloved can be warm. He may go hungry so his beloved can eat. That is love. That is how people are in Southeast Turkey. All of Anatolia and all of Turkey is like that. Go to their homes and if they have just one chicken they will cut it to pieces and put some rice with it, even though that is all they have. They will immediately offer it to their guests and be delighted when they eat it. Mardin, Urfa, Siirt, Diyarbakır, Bing&ouml;l and all the other towns are like that. The Black Sea is like that, and Central Anatolia. They rise to their feet to welcome you. They are respectful. They enjoy serving. 

Is it easy to stand up when you see an elderly person? It requires a bit of effort, doesn&rsquo;t it? But that is moral virtue, and an excellent thing, to immediately rise to one&rsquo;s feet. My grandfather used to come in and we would all rise to our feet at once, making a lot of noise with our feet. There would be 30 or 40 people there, and the noise of all our feet as we stood up. That is a wonderful thing. We would immediately make room, and my grandfather would sit in the highest place. Nobody would speak before he did, and that is just good manners. But how do they treat elderly people today? They throw them in a corner and forget all about them. Someone dies, and after 10 days they begin to think someone might have died, due to the disturbance it gives around and inform the authorities. That is the fashion in Europe now. 

We want to join the European Union, but we must teach them proper moral values as we go in. We will put these deficiencies of theirs right as we go in. We will go in as the leader of the Turkish-Islamic world. We will bring them food, money and opportunity. They won&rsquo;t give food or money to us. The Turkish nation is a highly virtuous one, a very great one. It will never ask anyone for anything. We will strive for the good of others. We are givers. We will not enter the European Union in order to ask them for things. They will enter the Turkish-Islamic Union in order to ask things from us. We will enter the European Union with love and good manners, insha&rsquo;Allah.
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<title>WHAT WE THINK IS EVIL MAY BE AUSPICIOUS, AND WHAT WE THINK IS AUSPICIOUS MAY BE EVIL</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview on Kral Karadeniz TV and Kanal Urfa TV, November 21st, 2009)



ADNAN OKTAR:
 Something happens and people really rejoice. But it is in fact evil for them, though they do not know it. For example, let me think... They find some stolen property and happily make off with it. They use it. They imagine it is auspicious for them. But it is actually evil. But let us imagine someone who loses his job, or who trips up on the way to work and spills his lunch. Yet that food had actually gone off and would have poisoned him had he eaten it, or Allah may have done that deliberately to make him reflect. There may be several wise aspects to it. He must look on it as being all for the best. Looking at it as an evil implies no religious observance. Because Allah&rsquo;s creative artistry is highly detailed. 

Look, He creates Hazrat Mahdi (as). Almighty Allah exposes Hazrat Mahdi (as) to the worst difficulties. He has him imprisoned, and slandered and allows his followers to be oppressed, doesn't He? They go through a thousand hardships. What does Hazrat Mahdi (as) say? There is patience here too. It is all for the best, he says. We need to be patient and see the best in it. He says Allah is testing him. Thanks be to Allah, says Hazrat Mahdi (as). But people who think along satanic lines think, I have done so many good things for Allah, I pray and fast, and yet Allah sends me all these troubles, so they stop praying and their religious observances. But they lose out in the end. Almighty Allah tests people. That is why people have to know that what looks like evil is actually all for the best. 

All things are for the best for Muslims. But there is evil in everything that a person with no faith believes to be good. Everything is evil for him. He has a child for instance, but that is evil for him, and his children cause him all kinds of problems. They take away all his happiness. His wife becomes pregnant. She loses her looks and becomes ill. That is evil for him, too. He becomes rich, but develops a stomach ulcer. His hair falls out from worrying about how to protect his wealth and property. Isn&rsquo;t that right? He turns pale yellow, his hands and feet lose their grips and his nerves are ruined. All that property has become a nightmare for him. Or else they earn a great deal of money and eat very well. Then the whole family goes down with cholesterol and he suffers from gout. Isn&rsquo;t that right? It causes a lot of diseases. A poor man has nothing to eat except vegetables and pulses, but he is in the best of health, in the pink. There is no cholesterol in his blood, but he thinks this is all evil. Yet it is all for the best. 

Allah&rsquo;s creative artistry is so detailed that one could go on describing it forever. Indeed, Allah says in one verse that &quot;all the sea, with seven more seas besides, was ink&quot; and &quot;if all the trees on earth were pens&quot;, Almighty Allah says, I seek refuge to Allah from satan &quot;Allah&rsquo;s words still would not run dry.&quot; That is one of the reasons for the suffering of those people who do not grasp this secret. They are always suffering from their nerves or addicted to cocaine and drugs. The people I see around are always crying, ready burst into tears at the slightest provocation. I see it in our people, in the general public, in novels and in films. Insha'Allah, our friends are very steady, however, when it comes to that, masha'Allah.
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<title>PEOPLE ADOPT AN AGGRESSIVE RATHER THAN A SINCERE STATE OF MIND BECAUSE THEY ARE INFLUENCED BY ONE ANOTHER</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview on Kanal 35 TV and TV Kayseri, November 22nd, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: We need to find the secret to being sincere. People are unable to find the secret of sincerity. They act superficially and are greatly influenced by one another. If they see 3 or 4 show-offs, they &ndash;by which I mean some people&ndash; immediately adopt a show-off state of mind, as well. In a crowded environment they adopt an aggressive attitude. I see it on television programs, people who are there just spoiling for a fight are brought to the front on some programs, just so people will disgrace themselves and cause a scandal, shouting and screaming, and then under all that excitement, people call one another on the phone to tell them what is going on, telling them to tune in to whatever channel it is. This causes terrible distress to the human soul. What need is there for such tension? And it is truly amazing. One watches in amazement how someone can be so shameless and suffer such psychological damage. It is something really terrifying. It is disgraceful to encourage it. 

Such people should not be supported anywhere, and such behavior should be condemned. Fighting, arguing, insulting people and humiliating the other party. What we like is compassion, mercy and love. Tension, humiliation&hellip; It is a terrible thing to humiliate someone else on a live broadcast. Or even on a recorded program. What difference does that make? Some people actually think that behaving badly, showing-off or insulting people is virtuous behavior. They applaud when someone is rude or puts someone else in a difficult position as if it is a talent. But that is actually terrible rudeness, because the other party could also behave in that way, with interest, if they so wanted. They could give back twice what they get, or even three times. But someone who is polite and modest is never defeated. He wins, because he is a worthy human being. It is also very important not to have dealings with such people. These people should first be taught manners, and the ugliness of their behavior must be emphasized. In other worse, abuse should never be admired. &ldquo;He is shrewd, vigil, inexorable, so on..&rdquo; Someone who does that is merely vulgar, and nothing more. He is crude, vulgar, low class and base. They shouldn&rsquo;t be admired anyway.

Then you have the type who does not have any benefit to the society, does not produce anything, but only consumes. The kind of people who say I went somewhere for free and had dinner with so-and-so, I got a free plane ticket and flew off somewhere, and there were all these people around me, and you will never guess what we did. Well, what happened was... That kind of talk. They try to make people envious, and that is ugly, too. The kind of people who produce nothing, who are no use to man nor beast, who have absolutely no ideas of their own and who take no interest in the problems of the world, mankind or the country, and who are only interested in enjoying themselves. I turn on the TV and see them continuously playing games. They jump into the pool, eat the free meals the hotel provides. Then there is free entertainment where they leap around like mad things before the cameras. They don&rsquo;t really enjoy it at all, though they pretend to. What is enjoyable about it? They are obviously troubled inside, some are from mafia, or stalkers and things. Not everywhere, and my apologies to them, but some places. 

People are even in danger of their lives in some places. What is enjoyable about that? Some people take drugs or smoke dope. No-one is what they seem. They jump and down all the time, but their troubles and worries accompany them. There is no point in pretending happiness. We need to look for true happiness. We must be honest and well-intentioned. One can find happiness through doing good, by striving to earn Allah&rsquo;s approval. One can be happy if one lives by the Qur&rsquo;an and uses one&rsquo;s mind in a positive way. Otherwise, one can never be happy, insha&rsquo;Allah. 

PRESENTER: Insha&rsquo;Allah.
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<title>LOVE OF ALLAH IS ESSENTIAL IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE BONDS OF LOVE BETWEEN PEOPLE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview on Kanal 35 TV and TV Kayseri, November 22nd, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: Masha&rsquo;Allah, people think of religious statements as usual moral statements as very plain issues, and there are some aspects of this they don&rsquo;t concentrate on. The fact is there are many secrets in the religion. One of these is patience. People live unbelievably comfortably and well thanks to patience. Patience totally eliminates all the obstacles to true love. Without patience, human beings are very sensitive entities, they will finish friendships in just 15 minutes, not even half an hour, when they become fixated with something someone said, a lack of interest on their part or any answers they may have given on any subject. That is enough for them to finish it. They can come up with the most terrible distortions. They can misunderstand something perfectly reasonable or the other party can really behave unreasonably, only doing it once or twice, but people are still open to real love. For that reason it seems almost impossible to maintain the bonds of true love among people, and that this can be seen only very, very rarely. In other words, many people in the world face this problem. 

If you ask, as I was saying just yesterday, they will say they have one real friend, or maybe two, that is all. One needs great care and attention for true love to flourish, because unless people are very wise, very careful and attentive, and unless they know the other person really well, they will constantly clash and begin to behave in a way that the other person finds repulsive. Ignorance, for instance, has a very negative effect on people, but a wise person avoids ignorance, and he can educate himself, and increase their store of knowledge. But people do not regard ignorance as important. Yet it has a huge negative effect, for instance being unwise has a very negative effect, but one can educate ignorance out of people if one loves. The important thing is to decide to love. If you educate someone, their ignorance can vanish by time, being unwise can vanish in time, because once one follows the Qur&rsquo;an one also becomes highlywise as long as he is clever. One has to educate them patiently, and direct them in such a way that they will love Allah. 

It is very dangerous to try and make someone love you; that is always futile in the end. That is how it is. Someone who causes another to love Allah, also makes them love him. In other words, one needs to direct people to the source of true love, not to insist that they love us. Once they love Allah, they will love the other person as a manifestation of Allah. Otherwise their behavior will be very odd, and human beings are utterly helpless creatures with all their natural needs -without the soul, just a piece of flesh-. But the manifestation of Allah in them, His radiance, excites people, and Allah then creates love. In other words, there is a power in the heart known as love, an unknown power, not something deriving from flesh and blood. It is a light bestowed by Allah, a special emotion. And it grows in proportion to people&rsquo;s faith; the more love for Allah a person has, the more human love he will have, too. People with little love of Allah have little capacity for love, they are too weak. 

For example, the souls of the prophets were full of love; they loved animals, their wives, their children, their communities and the people around them. They loved plants and flowers. Our Prophet (saas) was like that, for instance. He was very, very patient and attached great importance to wisdom, regarding it as a manifestation of Allah. He had roses he loved very much. He loved plants, and cats, and his grandchildren. He used to laugh and joke with them. People normally expect a prophet to be serious all the time, but our Prophet (saas) was always very genuine and spontaneous toward Hazrat Hassan and Hussein. They used to come and sit by their grandfather as he performs his prayer. They would come and sit on top of him. He would have to wait for them to sit up from his prostrations. One of the companions prostrated himself in prayer, and when he sat up he saw that his grandson was sitting on top of our Prophet (saas), and that he would not raise his head until his grandson did so. Anyone else might have led the child off or got angry. He used to play catch with his wives, and joke with them, and was full of love. He would embrace Hassan and Hussein wherever he saw them, and was full of love for the children of other believers. He also had a great love of trees, and a love of everything beautiful, and he was exceptionally compassionate, as well as being exceedingly patient. 

For example, somebody would say something, but he never grew angry and always answered in a pleasant manner. Many people became Muslims because of his patience. For example, he forgave Hazrat Wahshi, who martyred Hazrat Hamza, didn&rsquo;t he? That is great patience. At the same time, he did not become angry, he was able to control his anger. He showed him affection for Allah&rsquo;s sake, and he also became a very valuable person. Many people who saw him became Muslims in the same way. But there is a lack of patience today, a lack of patience can cause severe conflict between children going to school and their mothers, between mothers and spouses, between grandparents and grandchildren. For example, we should be more flexible toward the elderly, more tolerant and warmer. Because we should not necessarily seek logic in the elderly, and if their behavior defies logic, then affection must enter the equation. 

There is no question of anyone always being in the right. The word &ldquo;exasperation&rdquo; is used a great deal. The Qur&rsquo;an mentions the word. People become exasperated with their parents, whereas they should treat them with affection, shouldn&rsquo;t they? If one is a believer, a mother or a father who fears Allah, one should treat them with great affection and be forgiving toward them, thus maintaining the bond of love. The reason why marriages fail is again a lack of patience. The husband or his spouse comes home late one day, for example, and a huge row develops. But there may have been a reason why he or she was delayed. We are all human. That is an unnecessary suspicion, isn&rsquo;t it? One needs to have patient in this case, needs to be patient in trust, needs to be patient in putting one&rsquo;s trust in Allah. If people live by these things, the result will be excellent, high-quality individuals, insha&rsquo;Allah. 
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Adnan Oktar together with&nbsp;Seyed Asadollah Avaie, The International Deputy of Bright Future Institute,
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<title>MR. ADNAN OKTAR'S VIEWS ON LOVE OF ALLAH</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 1-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HOW SHOULD LOVE OF ALLAH BE?



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV (6 FEBRUARY 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: For one thing, one must be constantly in a state of profound love, day and night. Even in sleep, one must sleep in that state of profound love. And he thus burns with the love of Allah even in his sleep. That will give us a great energy and vivacity. He must never abandon that, but must always live in that state. A profound submission to Allah and the fear of Allah should be emphasized. Apart from that, there is complete compliance with the Qur&rsquo;an, a submission to the Qur&rsquo;an. There is nothing else apart from that to make a Muslim uneasy or uncomfortable. He just has to place his faith in and surrender to Allah. 



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (10 March 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: A great majority of people have killed the love within their souls. For one thing, they must resurrect that love which is dead in their souls. They must bring that love out again. But the real matter is for love and fear of Allah to enfold a person. Someone who attains love of Allah also attains all the beauties in the world and all the beauties of the hereafter. Once a person has attained the consent of Allah, that person&rsquo;s mind will be attached to Allah&rsquo;s mind. Allah guides that person from that point on, meaning he is no longer under satan&rsquo;s control. Someone who had fully submitted his heart to Allah is under His complete control from that on. Such a person experiences constant profundity, happiness and beauty.

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ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON AKS TV (APRIL 14th, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: People have one true love. They either love Allah, or else the world. If they love the world, it means they have lost their reason. His mind would be gone then.

REPORTER:&nbsp; Allah forbid.

ADNAN OKTAR: Of course. He should be in love with Allah, will love the world with love of Allah. I mean, he will love the world because they love Allah, for His approval.&nbsp;&nbsp; 


ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (FEBRUARY 10th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR:&nbsp; Loving Allah causes a lover&rsquo;s electricity to develop in a person. Such a person would have the face of a lover. Every cell in a person&rsquo;s body knows Allah, they recognize Allah and love Allah and when one loves Allah, his cells become vibrant and very healthy.

REPORTER: Insha&rsquo;Allah,

ADNAN OKTAR: In other words, all the cells of the body rejoice with the love of Allah, they open out. The more a servant of Allah loves Allah, the more all the cells of his body live in peace and comfort, and by Allah&rsquo;s leave they are therefore sound and healthy.&nbsp;&nbsp; 



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (MARCH 24th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: We live mad with love of Allah and take great delight in everything that Allah shows us. Do we take any less delight in this image of the sea that it is being shown to us now thinking that it is just an image? Instead we just see and realize our own weakness and helplessness, that all power actually belongs to Allah. And we see from that how easy it is to go to Paradise or Hell. And everything becomes a sign leading to faith for us. This watch on my arm, for instance, I would believe solely because of that. Just because of that; had there be not any other evidence, I would look at this watch. What is the Power that creates it in my brain? Who can give me such an image? No technology or scientist or anything can do that. Because we also watch, what we refer to as technology or scientists, on the screens inside our brains. Absolute power belongs to Allah. That is why just a glass is enough for us to believe. This makes everything a sign leading to faith. For someone who possesses this knowledge, this secret, not just insects, birds and animals but even all technological devices are signs leading to faith.


ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (January 26th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: I always say right from the outset, it is very important, being genuine in such a way as to open the path to all eternity, then fearing Allah very deeply and loving Allah, but so as to be in love with Allah. In the sense of being madly in love with Allah. To rise in the morning and go to bed at night with love of Allah. To know the Qur&rsquo;an well, to have read it at least a few times. To be punctilious about religious observances. To take great care over the salat. For women to take care over their chastity and for men to watch over theirs. 

 
ADNAN OKTAR'S AL QUDS INTERVIEW


 ADNAN OKTAR: ... Any action without love, affection, and a profound fear and love of Allah would be unsuccessful.&nbsp; In order for an action to succeed, one has to have a profound love and fear of Allah. One has to have a joyous, Muslim love and a spirit of unity and togetherness.




 


2-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;LOVE OF ALAH IS BASED ON A DEEP FEAR OF HIM



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW WITH KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (February 7th,2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: I mean how it can be possible not to fear Allah. An entity created as an image in a space no bigger than a lentil, in case he becomes rebellious towards the rule of Allah, Allah would destroy that person. I mean even if He just swamps us into darkness without even doing anything else, we would be ruined. For example, if He takes away our sense of sight and hearing, Allah can paralyze us in that lentil-sized space, if He pleases so. He can make it impossible for us to move our hands or feet, He can paralyze us and keep us in that state. Or He can take us directly and cast us into Hell. Of course we must fear Allah. They ask whether a person is Hazrat Mahdi (as) or whether I am Hazrat Mahdi (as), but nobody can make such a claim. All believers have a fear of Allah, they have to fear Him. This enables us to be people of love. In other words, love of Allah produces both profound reason and profound love and passion. Love of Allah in any case roots from fear of Him. And that fear is one that comes with passionate love. This is not an ordinary fear of the kind we are used to know. It is not like just avoiding a danger, but a fear that comes with passionate love. In other words, the fear of a lover, the fear of offending the Beloved, a fear of falling out with the Beloved, a believer is terrified of these things. He is terrified of offending Allah. Or else a passionate lover would be a lover in Hell as well. I mean, Allah forbid, even if Allah casts a Muslim into Hell, the believer will burn with love for Him there for all eternity. But Allah does no such thing. A person madly in love with Allah does not go to Hell, insha&rsquo;Allah.&nbsp; I am just speaking hypothetically so that people can understand.&nbsp; In other words, we love Allah unconditionally. We do not say that we will love Allah if He is to send us to Paradise, but won&rsquo;t if He does put us in Hell.&nbsp;&nbsp; We love Allah under all circumstances. We are in love Him under all circumstances. 



3-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BELIEF IN AND LOVE OF ALLAH WILL VERY SOON RULE THE WORLD



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S GOLOS NEWSPAPER (CRIMEA) INTERVIEW (OCTOBER 2008)


ADNAN OKTAR: We are tested here. We undergo an excellent test. But if we root ourselves in love and affection, peace and brotherhood, then Allah will make this world Paradise for us, insha&rsquo;Allah. He first made it into Hell, because people were rooted in racism, atheism, materialism and Darwinism. People saw the First and Second World Wars and suffered terrible hardship and pain. That means that this is what materialism, atheism and Darwinism lead to. Now that the Darwinism and atheism have now been torn down, the belief in creation rules, the belief in and the love of Allah is ruling. Look at the world now, it has begin turning into a paradise. There is more plenty and abundance. But if an error is committed anywhere, Allah immediately breaks the strength of that place, if you notice. Allah will break the strength of any place where there are people whose consciences are impaired or who inflict suffering on others. But Allah gives plenty and abundance to anywhere where people promise peace and love and live this. But the future will be most delightful, Alhamdulillah. We will see very happy days, insha&rsquo;Allah.&nbsp;&nbsp; 



4-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SOMEONE WHO LOOKS AT EVERYTHING WITH THE LOVE OF ALLAH WILL ALSO LOVE HELL 



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW WITH KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (February 14th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: The way people look at Hell, they do not approach it through the love of Allah. If they looked with love of Allah they would also love the Hell. The Hell is in fact the source of love. Because Hell is a threat to the cruel, a great weapon that does away with immorality. And it is the source of happiness. Allah makes it His instrument. For example, Allah did not show them Hell in the time of Adam (as).&nbsp; You have seen the falseness and hypocrisy of satan and you know that he deceived Adam (as). And he deceived Hawwa, and they behaved in the opposite way to what Allah commanded. But Hell exists now. Hell is an excellent training for all people, for all Muslims. We will also see Hell from Paradise, and that will have a huge positive effect on us. Hell will stoke up our love and passion. The lover needs Hell, in other words. It is very important. 



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (FEBRUARY 23rd, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: Now if one who loves Allah goes to Hell, he will burn with love of Allah there. He will burn with love of Allah for all eternity and never renounce that love. I am speaking in that sense, but of course the true lover of Allah will never go to Hell. But even if he does, he will still give thanks to Allah. The lover of Allah is pleased with all that comes from Him. 






 

5-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PEOPLE CAN ONLY FIND PEACE WITH LOVE OF ALLAH



ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KA&Ccedil;KAR TV&nbsp; (January 29th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: One can only find peace, and have trust in Allah and comfort, with the love of Allah. In other words, the more money many people have, the more they suffer unease and hardships. We see this on the outside. There are many such cases in the outside world.&nbsp; I do not want to cite individual examples, but people will see this all around them. 



ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW IN CAY TV&nbsp; (FEBRUARY 25th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: When love of Allah does not exist in the heart of a person, he cannot look around himself with love of Allah. And when he can&rsquo;t do that, he loses all love and passion. He loses that glorious power within him. A huge emptiness arises when one loses love and passion and these are replaced by troubles and woes, fears, tensions and doubts. People either turn to drugs to escape that suffering or to cocaine or various other dangerous substances that cloud the mind and harm the human body and soul. The end result is of course very terrible. Allah forbid, they collapse both mentally and physically and materially. Sometimes they wind up in jail or are excluded from society, or else they commit crimes under the influence of those drugs and when they come to their senses they have no memory of what they did. But they had already committed it, that is no way out. And it is of course a national disaster for them to do these things, a great danger. And we need to adopt a firm stance against it as a society. The way we call on people to live by the moral values of the Qur&rsquo;an, draw people towards that enfolding warmth of love of Allah, tell them of the profound beauty of that love and passion, look at all things through love of Allah and regard everything as a manifestation of Him is the foundation of our living happily and pleasantly in this world, too.&nbsp; We do not have faith in order to be happy of course, but we are happy because we have faith. That is also highly important. 



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (FEBRUARY 16th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: The Qur&rsquo;an and the hadith are the source of glad tidings. Allah tells us the secret of joy, love and passion in the Qur&rsquo;an and the hadith.&nbsp; Someone who loves Allah with a passion experiences that joy and love through the love of Allah. And always feels the profound beauty of that.



6-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE CONCEPTION OF LOVE IN THE MORAL VALUES OF THE QUR&rsquo;AN



ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (January 28th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: The conception of love in the Qur&rsquo;an; Allah wants us to love and fear Him. If someone does not love and fear Him, may Allah forbid, then Allah takes away the light of love in his heart, his power of love. I mean no matter how hard he tries, whatever he may do, he can neither love nor get anyone else to love him. He loses two powers at once, in other words, not just one. He loses the power to love and also the power of being loved. But since believers approach all things with a love and fear of Allah and look around them with the passionate love of Allah, they see the manifestation of Allah everywhere. That is why they are capable of feeling an ardent love. When a believer looks at a child, he sees the beauty that Allah creates in the children of the Paradise. He regards the child as the radiance of Allah, the manifestation of Allah. He delights in it. Feelings affection, compassion and a desire to protect arises in his heart. But it is Allah Who bestows that love. Allah refers to giving the Prophet Musa (as) a lovableness from His presence. That means that human beings are not lovable through any virtue of their own, but because Allah bestows it upon them. For instance, Allah bestowed an extraordinary beauty on the Prophet Yusuf (as). It came about through the will and creation of Allah, because if people were to be affected, they would have been so affected on first seeing the Prophet Yusuf (as). But they were not affected when they first saw him in the well. Allah says in a verse about Prophet Yusuf (as) that &ldquo;..considering him to be of little worth.&rdquo;.&nbsp; But later on, women were so affected by the Prophet Yusuf (as) as to slash their own hands. &ldquo;Surely Allah is beyond that,&rdquo; they say, &ldquo;but he must be an angel.&rdquo; They compare him to an angel. They were extraordinarily affected by him. But if a believer does not bear and approach matters with Allah&rsquo;s mercy, then there can be no love in his heart. For instance, sometimes when people are preparing to get married, the girl says it is an extraordinary situation for her.&nbsp; She says she has fallen in love for the first time in her life, that she has never seen such a person, that she has literally been hypnotized and that she has found the man of her life. And because that poor fellow is desirous of being liked, he naively believes her, as this is a feeling that satisfies his pride. He never looks into the reason behind it or asks why that person loves him. He never wonders whether she would love him if he had no car or home of his own, or if his salary were less than it is. He just believes her out of a naive excitement that comes from having met someone who has discovered him at last. He is amazed at that discovery. He is amazed that nobody had discovered him before but now that she did. But the fact is that subconsciously the woman hates him for his stupidity, for his failure to see the truth. Because she regards him as prey, like a fly caught in her web, like a tiny fly. And he wriggles around there just like a fly. And she slowly weaves her web around him. He naively believes, the poor thing, that he has really affected her, that he is quite extraordinary, that there can be nobody else like him and all that kind of thing. But this is mutual suffering. She is just fooling herself, as she knows in her heart of hearts that it is his possessions that have affected her and that she will hate him in the event these cease to exist. Subconsciously, she develops a deep hatred for him. The woman automatically finds him repulsive and disgusting. But women use their wills under such circumstances, and they put up with the other party and the prospect of advantage overcomes their disgust, since money, cars and fine clothes will be forthcoming, and since she finds these more desirable and since the enjoyment these will give her, is greater than the disgust he will cause her. In putting up with him, she tries not to let him feel this, of course. She employs various means of covering up that she is only putting up with him. They have various ways of appearing lovable to one another. She says she has prepared a special dinner for him and has been waiting for him, while he tells her he has found a beautiful ring. They then embrace one another like in the movies. Posing and pretending for a lifetime is so painful. I mean, for a woman to live in the pretence that she loves someone when she does not, all for gain, and for a man to give the impression of being loved when he knows he is not, to pretend he is deceived when he does not believe it, for them both to pretend they love the other, like an actor and actress, is one of the most painful things in the world. It is one of the worst torments Allah inflicts on people. Whereas in true love a person seeks neither property, nor possessions nor this, nor that. If a woman sees a manifestation of Allah in a man, if she sees the mind of Allah in him, a woman will be literally hypnotized by that man. Allah gives such a power to that man. The wife of Pharaoh was extraordinarily affected by the Prophet Musa (as). She left the Pharaoh and married the Prophet Musa (as) in the desert, travelling with him for 40 years. The Prophet Musa (as) had no property. He gave her just hardship and tribulation. But she saw the manifestation of Allah in the Prophet Musa (as), for which reason she felt a powerful love for him. That is known as passion. As for our Prophet (saas), the wife of one of his slaves divorced him and married the Prophet (saas). Because she saw the radiance, beauty and manifestation of Allah in him. She saw much more in him. She saw a much greater, much more intense manifestation in him than in her own husband. Allah says to our Prophet (saas), you were ashamed of this and kept it hidden from people and concealed it in your heart, but Allah knew it. And He says that Allah&rsquo;s command has now come to pass. By a verse of the Qur&rsquo;an Allah enabled that woman to divorce that servant, and she married our Prophet (saas). Our Prophet (saas) was reluctant. He told his later wife, &ldquo;Carry on as you are, do not get divorced.&rdquo; He wanted her marriage to continue. But things came out when Allah sent down His revelation and Allah&rsquo;s command was obeyed. In other words, this is a passion. In other words, the woman did this excellent thing because of her passion for the manifestation of Allah. We see many examples of this in history. This manifestation of Allah was seen in other prophets, too. And also in our own Prophet (saas). Loving for Allah&rsquo;s approval is something else again. It is a profound delight. There is a special power in people in that regard, a feeling like a sixth sense. It resembles neither seeing nor touching nor hearing. It is an indescribably intense delight, a profound force. We call it passion. People imitate love and passion on the streets, I hear that on the television. They say they are in love. When I ask according to what criterion, meaning would that love persist if they had no job or money, they say they would get divorced. That means it has nothing to do with love.&nbsp; 





 

7-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;THE DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY BELIEVERS IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD ARE A MEANS OF EXPRESSING THEIR LOVE OF ALLAH 



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (FEBRUARY 16th, 2009)


ADNAN OKTAR: Those who strive on Allah&rsquo;s path walk through the roads of the prophets. Every believer goes through the stages the prophets went through. If the Prophet Yusuf (as) went to prison, so does the believer, and if the Prophet Musa (as) was watched, followed and placed under surveillance, so is the believer. Ayyub (as) suffered tribulations and difficulties, and met them with fortitude. The believer will suffer them, too. Those who attempted to burn the Prophet Ibrahim (as) for opposing the idols may also seek to burn those who strive on Allah&rsquo;s path. This is an important means for the believer to express his love of Allah. It is a way of expressing the love of the lover, the way of expressing the love of Allah. There must be suffering and difficulties to emphasize the love of Allah. Otherwise, love of Allah cannot be expressed while one is sitting comfortably in one&rsquo;s chair. That is why believers regard such things as a mercy from Allah. Tribulations pour down like rain, depending on a believer&rsquo;s takwa, depth and closeness to Allah. They regard them as a mercy, as blessings. Scourges increase their radiance, enthusiasm and excitement and also make them healthy. Hardships beautify the believer. Hardships made the Prophet Yusuf (as) so attractive. Allah made suffering His instrument in making him so good-looking. Women who looked at him had their breath taken away. They say that hardships wear a person down, but hardships undergone on Allah&rsquo;s path give one good health and chase away difficulties. They make one more joyful, healthy, attractive and longer-lived. Well-being and prosperity bring sickness with them, and scourges, and make one ugly and evil.&nbsp; Failing to strive on the path of Allah, failing to walk on the path indicated by Him, avoiding hardships, has always brought suffering with it. Such people collapse and are ruined, wrecked by sickness and tribulations. Allah does not give such people peace and ease. But there is constant unease and suffering in their hearts. For a believer, a difficult environment is Paradise for him. For example, when a believer goes to prison, it is as if he is entering Paradise. Because everything he does on Allah&rsquo;s path will earn him merit many times over. For example, if he earns one merit on the outside, he will earn a million in a day in prison. That is why it is highly welcome, and that is why believers seek out such tribulations, insha&rsquo;Allah. 



8-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ONE MAY ONLY WEEP FOR LOVE OF ALLAH ALONE



ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S KON TV KONYA INTERVIEW (August 31st, 2008)


ADNAN OKTAR: One may only weep for the love of Allah. One weeps from joy and fervor. One weeps from the fervor of love of Allah. Apart from that, weeping is unbecoming of a Muslim. As is feeling sorrow. But one can weep from the love of Allah, and the fear of Allah, insha&rsquo;Allah.&nbsp; 


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<description><![CDATA[ ADNAN OKTAR: &hellip; My meeting with Rabbis wound them up, and they published pictures of it. Let me show this (New Humanist magazine). Because they announced that Jews were the enemies of Muslims and planned to set Jews and Muslims at war. 

PRESENTER: By provoking.

ADNAN OKTAR: I thwarted those plans. I showed our friendship, brotherhood and love for Jews, thus spoiling that corruption, thanks be to Allah. 

PRESENTER: Masha&rsquo;Allah. 

ADNAN OKTAR: They tried to incite war between Iran and Turkey. By Allah&rsquo;s leave, we were instrumental in thwarting that plan. America was thinking of a bloody assault on Iran. We prevented that. Thanks be to Allah. 

PRESENTER: Masha&rsquo;Allah... 

ADNAN OKTAR: Of course. Terrible madness. And they (Iranians) were saying they would destroy Israel, Ahmadinejad said he would wipe Israel off the map. But I said &quot;Brother, what you say is out of question. That is because there are Muslims there, and devout Jews, and children, immaculate people who have committed no crime or no sin.&quot; Let&rsquo;s say atheist Zionists are our targets... but why kill them? Should even atheist Zionists be killed? If they are oppressing people, you can still win them over by talking to them... 

PRESENTER: Of course. Is killing the answer? 

ADNAN OKTAR: These (devout Jews) are very lovely and loving people. Jews in any case like me very much indeed. For example, they say: &quot;May things turn out as you say. If only the Turkish-Islamic Union were to be founded and everyone could live at ease, but there is pressure put on us.&quot; How could one raise a hand against such delightful people? Even if someone is irreligious, he is still a child of your motherland. He is irreligious today, but he may believe tomorrow. And even if he does not believe, Allah will punish him, and we cannot know it. He may even believe in secret. How can we tell? We cannot. Are we to go to his house in the last 10 minutes?&nbsp; 

PRESENTER: Of course.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR: He says, &quot;O Lord&quot;, does he not? He prostrates himself and says, &quot;Forgive me, forgive my sins.&quot; Allah will forgive him. How can we know? 

PRESENTER: Insha&lsquo;Allah. 

ADNAN OKTAR:&nbsp; So it is wrong to sit down and label people. We strive for the good, for improvement...&nbsp; 
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<description><![CDATA[ 1-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MARRIAGE IN THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (JANUARY 29, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: A woman looks for certain criteria when she is going to marry. First of all money; money above all. Then education, a spouse with a good position, a car, a summer house, and a great many other such attributes. When someone is looking for these she can not use the passion given her by Allah. In that case, that home is of no use to her. That home will just be four walls to her, somewhere totally empty. In other words, it will have no effect. The car will just be a collection of metal to be used to carry her from one place to another. These materials acquire meaning through love of and passion for Allah. That is why our Prophet (saas) says that someone who marries for possessions loses those possessions, while people who marry for beauty lose beauty. Because that beautiful person may catch the flu one day and seem repellent to the other party. One can find even the most unexpected things repellent. One may be disgusted when one sees a person in a state of helplessness and cannot avoid that feeling for the rest of his life.&nbsp; 

&hellip; Money produces a depression in such people because they have to take so many precautions to keep the money.&nbsp; People worry about their checks bouncing, or what will happen if they put their money in the bank and it goes bust. So they hide it under the mattress, but that is no good, either. At last they put it in a jar but then worry about what if someone finds it. So they suffer a lot and feel restless. People can only find peace, trust and ease through love of Allah. In other words, with many people the more money they have, the worse their restlessness and suffering.&nbsp; We see many cases of this in the world outside. I do not want to cite individual cases, but we see a great many such people all around.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR' INTERVIEW FOR KANAL 35 (FEBRUARY 1, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: ... they have no trust in one another even as they get married. They first go and make a pre-nuptial agreement at their lawyer&rsquo;s, saying how much money will be payable if they get divorced, right from the very start. 

ADNAN OKTAR: It is a total catastrophe. If you have so little trust and you are almost sure that you will be deceived and oppressed... then how can you live together with such a person?&nbsp; What kind of agreement is that? How will you be able to look that man in the face having made such an agreement? But women quite rightly look to have trust in the person they marry. And fear of Allah is essential for there to be trust. And fear of Allah, and profound faith and taqwa. How can one trust anyone who does not fear Allah? Think of a person who has the kind of mind unable to acknowledge Allah. He is unable to understand that he lives in a lentil-size place inside his brain. Matter does exist on the outside, but he lives inside that tiny space, and his mind is too weak even to realize the presence of Allah. What can one expect from such a person? People surely very much like the one who speaks the truth. That has a huge effect on a woman, speaking the truth. It also has a huge impact on man. A woman who always speaks the truth is very exciting. In other words, she is a great blessing. That person never lies, so that means you have united your brain with hers. You have become a single brain. She never lies, and it is terribly exciting to get in touch with one&rsquo;s soul, with a woman.&nbsp; But that connection to brain is broken when lies enter the picture.&nbsp; You have now entered a false world, which means that that person does not exist. But trust is something very exciting, in other words, to trust someone to death, to hope to be with him or her through all eternity, insha&rsquo;Allah. To believe that someone is honest and will never be disloyal or hypocritical is very exciting for a human being. This is one of the greatest blessings in the world for a believer. But this has been taken away from people, trust and honesty have been taken away. So nothing remains. One has no trust and is sure the other person does not speak the truth. On the other hand, he or she knows that the other party attaches importance to one&rsquo;s material wealth. One knows the other person loves one for one&rsquo;s money, or position, or physical attractiveness, not for oneself. Rather than love, this is a kind of ambition. So one becomes sure that he or she has no respect for one, for one&rsquo;s soul. So how can a person be happy? That is why people look so miserable. In order to be happy, a person needs wholehearted people that he trusts and loves, and who do not lie, and fear Allah. And, if you notice, people are generally alone, they have no real friends. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON BAŞKENT TV (MARCH 6, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Look, I recently watched a few of those &ldquo;find-a-spouse&rdquo; programs. Believe me, my fever got high. I watched it as long as I could, but it was unbearable. They really humiliate people. Come and sit here, the host says. Right, what possessions have you got? Give us a list. The man says he owns a field, and they say that is not enough. So the host turns to the woman and asks her opinion about the man. Is marriage all about possessions? It is about love, affection, compassion, friendship and brotherhood. One cares about the fear of Allah of his partner. What does material goods to do with you? In any case people become like sister and brother [in marriage] , and Allah eases their path anyway. So what if the person owns his own home? Even if he does, he can lose it at any moment. A fire may break out. Can it ever be a guarantee? So that means that if that happens they will split up.&nbsp;&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (JANUARY 18, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, when girls are going to get married they prefer someone who is very rich, even if immoral, rather than someone who is devout, rational and morally virtuous. They prefer the person who has money. But we then see that these people have split up, as he has inflicted pain on her and made her restless.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (JANUARY  29, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Spouses ascribing partners in one another. I see such cases from time to time. The woman converts to Christianity or Judaism for her husband. Alternatively, the man asks her to stop performing the salat. And she does. He says he will only marry her if she stops fasting. And the woman agrees. This is a form of polytheism, not something a normal Muslim would do. No rational person would do these things. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW FOR KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (FEBRUARY 21, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: What they call the &ldquo;honeymoon&rdquo;, that honeymoon becomes the incident with which the countdown begins. Ten, nine, eight... They get really excited in the run-up, but then a hatred forms on the first night. The very first night.&nbsp; 

But they are still unwilling to wind the company up, as that would be blameworthy, since it is also an economic alliance; since both the mother and father&rsquo;s sides are wealthy. They ask one another beforehand, and I see this sometimes, do you have your own home, and a car? As if they are setting up a business partnership. What kind of love and conception is that? They get right down to business as soon as they learn the other person&rsquo;s name. What has that got to do with marriage? It is a company, a business, an alliance of self-interest. That is really dreadful. What kind of love is that? 

I see it sometimes. People who should be happy and smiling just fake it. They pretend to be happy and smiling, but in return for money. In other words, they act. How degrading that is, and how distressing. Since it is impossible for someone who is aware that he is not really loved to be taken in by an imitation, it means they are in for a lifetime of suffering. 

What need is there for such a pretense, such a parody, such a disgrace? A person is loved for the sake of Allah. One is loved as a manifestation of Allah, and there is a profound and glorious delight in that. It is an unending force. Allah has bestowed that depth on almost all women. In other words, if a woman is given this, passion, love, depth and loyalty, then she becomes an unbelievable entity. I mean, that woman departs, to be replaced by a literally superhuman entity. In other words, all that beauty, depth and passion in her soul begins to burst out.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (FEBRUARY 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: I have seen many cases of women falling head over heels in love when they first see the particular make of car a person has. If the car is a very expensive one that love takes them over completely. And if that man&rsquo;s clothes are also very expensive, if he attended a good school, and if his father is well off, then love blinds her entirely and turns into a fierce passion. I hear about such people, who are then ready to do anything. Then, one day, the man says his father has gone broke, which is quite normal during an economic crisis, and that he is also therefore broke. A light then goes out in the woman&rsquo;s head, and that love vanishes that very moment. All that remains is someone she hates, and her love turns into disgust and anger. That is a punishment inflicted on her by Allah. It is a terrible humiliation. Whereas if she loved the person for the sake of Allah, she would regard the loss of his factory or workplace as a blessing from Allah, and it would make no influence on her whatsoever. But people are educated wrongly right from early childhood. I see mothers whose daughters&rsquo; hands have been sought by doctors and engineers, but who have refused permission and even boast about how many suitors they have turned down, and this is embarrassing even to talk about. If people of taqwa and morality had asked for their daughters&rsquo; hand you would normally happily give your permission to such people. But these people boast about all the doctors and engineers, people who earn good money, they have turned down. And those hearing this also appreciate it. But all this is so humiliating and degrading. And it is a very improper expression. It means they regard their daughter as a slave, and that is totally inappropriate. Since that is how young girls are brought up, most people tend to look for a wealthy spouse.&nbsp; It makes no difference to them if he lacks in desirable qualities of personality or he is a psychopath. These people swear at, beat or humiliate their wives, and their families say you are his wife and it is perfectly normal for him to beat you. The man beats her, throws her out on the street, and her family happily takes her back to him and even apologizes on her behalf. That is a terrible disgrace. And it goes on very often. Such women are terribly oppressed, but because of the indoctrination from their families and the people around them they put up with those men who so disgust them, because these people are their husbands. Their families tell them to put up with it, and that it is all quite normal. Their mothers point to themselves as examples. They tell them their fathers were like that, and that they put up with them. That is the distorted way some girls are raised. But these things are wrong. True love of Allah, love for the sake of Allah, has the effect of a fire on a woman&rsquo;s soul. It bestows a profound delight. This is truly amazing both for woman and man. It is a profound feeling. But those who forego it for the sake of material things find themselves drowning in a sea of suffering and corruption. They have to spend all their time with someone who disgusts them, and they suffer that pain for their whole lives. Because they hate the other person&rsquo;s moral values and character, and they lie all the time. They often offend the woman. The lack of love of the woman is evident from her face and gestures. But it is love of material things and possessions that lies behind all this. The woman becomes proud and obstinate and unaware of her value as a woman. The man is conceited and does not know the value of the woman. So many women are wasted in this way; they spend all their lives in this manner and finally they grow old. I have seen many such lovely women, and then seen them again years later, all soured and in a terrible state, barely human any more, having wasted their youth. That light in their souls has gone. They have wasted that depth in their souls, which is a tragedy. That is why the best measure is to abide by the measure set out by Allah, to seek genuine love, that fine manifestation of Allah, to be very honest and sincere, and to fear and love Allah. People need to know that the profound delight this gives rise to, that stunning joy, is a blessing that Allah bestows on believers. There is a profound miracle unique to Muslims, to those who truly fear Allah. Very few people are aware of it, and it is because they are unaware of it that they live in all this trouble. If they knew it, they would not give it up for all the world. If they knew how truly delightful it is to love with genuine faith then money and cars would be utterly unimportant to them. But they are unaware of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; 


2-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COURTSHIP IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV&nbsp; (JANUARY 30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, men sometimes treat women in a false manner, and women sometimes treat men like that. For example, a young man may weep like a girl, that is, behave really abnormally and speak all emotionally, and that really annoys and upsets the woman. And there is a woman&rsquo;s falsity, appearing to love a man when she does not; she may deceive a young man she regard as wealthy, if he has a car and is reasonably good looking. That she fell in love with him at first sight, that such a thing had never happened to her before, that she had never previously experienced such a thing, and thus swiftly getting what she wants out of him. 

&hellip; The fact of the matter is that the world is a huge theatrical stage. Or rather a large part of it is. And it has a great many actors. They play roles for one another. That is wrong. In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), in the End Times, that curtain will be brought down on that stage and people will finally be real people, the truth will come out, and they will show their true faces.&nbsp; Their masks will be removed. Most people move around behind masks. But because of those masks they are unhappy. When I go out I do not see many people smiling or happy. Because they just see other masks. People like true human beings, though. People like to see one&rsquo;s true face. Masks make people very uneasy. Falsity makes people very uneasy. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV&nbsp; (JANUARY 30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, a woman or young girl may be wealthy but physically ugly. One often sees that. There was recently the case of the daughter of someone very famous and wealthy. The poor thing was genuinely very ugly, that was how Allah had created her, but culturally and in terms of character she was nothing special. All she had was her wealth. But someone appeared in the press using the most unbelievable language, saying he had been really affected by her, that he had tasted true love for the first time. Everyone was laughing up their sleeves, as it was so obviously a lie. He had obviously planned to deceive her, in his own eyes, and then lay hands on her material assets. That is really ugly and degrading, incompatible with being human. But, for example, if that girl had real taqwa and excellent moral virtues, then even if she was physically ordinary Allah would make her seem very beautiful, because people then acquire a majesty, an amazing power, and unattractiveness turns into beauty. Because intelligence beautifies people, passion beautifies them. That profound power in the soul comes to the surface, but if it does not, then a person is like meat hanging in a butcher&rsquo;s window. Nothing happens, in other words. They kill the cow, that big animal, and hang it up in the butcher&rsquo;s shop, but it is still just meat. People can develop human depth with intelligence, taqwa and love of Allah, and then that great force Allah conceals within them comes to the surface. And it comes out as a miracle. I refer to it as a kind of sixth sense. Because nobody who has not experienced it can understand it. In loving one another, people must look for honesty and real intelligence, and for natural humanity. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (JANUARY 28, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, people are going to get married. The girl says she has found a really glorious thing. She claims to have fallen in love for the first time, that she has never known such a person before, that it is as if she has been hypnotized, and that she has found the man of her life. And he naively believes her, as people have a natural urge to be liked, or because of a feeling of having his pride satisfied. He never looks into the reason why, he never wonders why that person loves him so much. He never wonders whether she would love him if he had no car or home of his own, or if he earned less than he does. He excitedly believes her, with an innocent expression on his face, delighted to have met someone who has seen the real him. He is stunned at having been discovered. He is amazed that nobody had ever discovered him before, that this is the first time he has been discovered. Yet the woman is now beginning to develop a deep, subconscious hatred for him because of his stupidity, for his failure to see the truth. In other words, she regards him as prey. Like a fly that has fallen into her web. And he wriggles around just like a fly. She gradually spins her web around him, telling him how wonderful and extraordinary he is, that there is nobody in the world quite like him and that kind of thing, and he, poor thing, naively believes her. This is a mutual torment, because he is subconsciously well aware that it is his material possessions that have influenced her, and he deceives himself in the full knowledge that he will hate her later, but subconsciously a hatred for her develops. And the woman is automatically disgusted and repelled by him. But women use their willpower in such situations, and although she is disgusted her self-interest is much more powerful, because the end result will be a car, money and clothes, and these things are highly desirable to her. She draws strength from that against her disgust, knowing that she will enjoy those things and that strength allows her to put up with the other party. She tries not to let on as she puts up with him, of course. She has various ways of bearing him. Different methods of appearing pleasant to one another emerge.&nbsp;&nbsp; He tells her he has prepared a special dinner for her and has found a really lovely ring. They then cling onto one another and whirl one another around, just like they have seen in the films. But how sad it is to spend one&rsquo;s whole life pretending, playing a role. It is a terrible torment for a woman to appear to love someone she does not, solely out of self-interest, and to know that the man does not love her, but to deceive herself anyway into thinking he does, and to play all these roles like the greatest actress in the world. These things are some of the worst scourges that Allah inflicts on people. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (JANUARY 26,&nbsp; 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: People are raised to be mechanical and material, in other words to be imitative, not natural. Whereas if people are genuine they are highly attractive. A sincere woman, for instance, is very beautiful. Women also like sincere men. Insincerity annoys them very much. Women are highly intelligent. Insincerity on the part of the man produces a terrible subconscious anger in them, though they do not let on. That is why most women marry for money, or because of the man&rsquo;s position, or because his father is well-off or for fame. But they endure that pain all their lives. That hatred remains her secret, a secret that she never divulges. Those poor women spend their whole lives pretending. They constantly put on a show, as if they really loved the other person, and behave falsely, but they are unable to control that chill in their eyes, that lovelessness.&nbsp; Yet they still attempt to demonstrate love. But the man knows and feels this, and he also behaves artificially. And so there emerges these artificial demonstrations of love, the kind we see in films. And this is one of the worst torments inflicted on people in this world. It is terribly painful for someone to spend a lifetime imitating love. And this mutual role-playing is yet another torment. Whereas in true love there is no need for posing, posturing or role-playing. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (MARCH 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: ... an unintelligent woman concentrates on very different things. She concentrates on falsity, games and an artificial language, and also employs artificiality with men. And this turns into an unbearable pain. She assumes a very ugly appearance. She becomes fed up with compliments. Both parties continue their lives in the pain of that artificiality. A secret hatred then arises. Because all women are very intelligent. But most portray themselves as unintelligent. A terrible hatred arises when they feel the man opposite them is also unintelligent. But they adopt a policy of managing him by appearing to be unintelligent in the face of his unintelligence. Some normal, intelligent men also portray themselves as stupid, and adopt such a policy toward the woman, and so a terrible hatred takes wing. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (FEBRUARY 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: A man and woman who speak the truth delight in each other&rsquo;s company when they come together. But if they are both liars and play games, as I often see in films and on the television, then their false love and games are utterly degrading and painful. The woman hates a man who behaves childishly, falsely and irrationally. But she either does not let on, or else ignores it. She also engages in lunatic behavior, pretending to have tears in her eyes and generally playing a very poor role. Everyone suffers, but the play proceeds nonetheless.&nbsp; 


3-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; YOUNG GIRLS&rsquo; PSYCHOLOGY IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (FEBRUARY 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: But I look at young girls and I see that some, though not all, are very irritable, with cigarettes in their hands, aggressive, always ready to answer back, and rather grubby. I see and hear that a young person surrounded by psychopaths and even with sinister connections, may also be involved in sinister, mafia-like organizations. This is very terrifying, of course, for a young girl to be so aggressive, to be capable of attacking her parents, to swear at and to insult people, to engage in temper tantrums, and they learn this behavior from one another, of course. This is terrifying, and a tragedy for the young girl. Because if a girl is polite, chaste, well brought up and respectful, she will influence people. But such women have already lost all womanly qualities.&nbsp;&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW FOR KANAL 35 (APRIL 11, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: .. You look at a young girl. The man who is halal to her should have a profound feeling of respect and love for her, but I look and see that some are totally wild and badly behaved, and you would need a thousand witnesses even to establish that they are young women at all. She looks one right in the face, really aggressively, swears, insults her parents, for instance she talks very inappropriately to her grandmother, and stands around holding cigarettes. Cigarettes damage their health, but that is another matter, this style of theirs is really inappropriate. I mean it is a very bad thing for a young girl.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
4-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FEMALE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (FEBRUARY 19, 2009)

There are women in the poorer parts of town, you know, who shout at people, do things and make suggestions. It is as if one is doing that kind of thing.

ADNAN OKTAR'S KANAL 35 INTERVIEW&nbsp; (APRIL 11, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: With older women, however, these are people one should feel a profound respect for and love very much. But I look and see that many of them are enormously aggressive and not loveable at all. They find nothing to love in this world. They never speak any pleasant words. Everything they say is unpleasant. When they look at a shop, for instance, they say something bad, or she looks someone and again speaks unpleasant words. When she sees the leader of a political party on the TV, for instance, she immediately says bad things.&nbsp; 

Even when she sees her own grandchildren she says bad things. She never says anything pleasant or auspicious. The fact is that there is something auspicious in everything. One should be lovable and loving. But the other alternative is a huge deficiency in society, and acts like a cancer, it corrupts people&rsquo;s physical appearances. A woman&rsquo;s beauty entirely disappears, for instance. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON MAVI KARADENIZ TV (FEBRUARY 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, it is very dangerous to compliment an ignorant woman, one who is proud, stubborn and goes along with satan. She will then lose all balance and control and become very proud and ignorant. And if a woman compliments an unbalanced, proud and stubborn man, he will also lose control and become oppressive, awkward and difficult. 


5-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE SHOWY HARRIDAN MENTALITY IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW FOR TEMPO TV (MARCH 31, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: You look at the streets in the End Times, and you see a huge rise in the numbers of sluttish, irreligious and aggressive women. Hatred pours from their mouths and eyes, they are aggressive and look for the worst in everything, who look for corruption, who are aggressive and hypocritical in everything, the love in them had dried up and vanished. People with unclean oxidized yellow skins. The verse refers to them, too. Their general characteristic is that they are irreligious, atheist and ignorant, and they approach Islam and the Qur&rsquo;an with hatred. They are also inimical to one another. They gossip and are full of hate and they are dirty.&nbsp; This is the community of women regarded as polluted and wicked in the Qur&rsquo;an. These are people who are full of hate, rather like elderly cockerels still full of aggression. Women reminiscent of witches with their dirty nails and twitching bodies. They look for strife day and night. Wherever they see goodness they strive to damage it. They are full of an insane energy. Even if they catch a dangerous disease they still attack Islam and Muslims. Wherever goodness exists they come and try and eliminate it. This is a witch-like type of woman who loves corruption. One seeks refuge from such people in Allah. Their huffing and puffing is a repetition of the bad words spoken above. They repeat foul words. They seek wickedness and strive to disseminate it. They are the sorcerers of the End Times.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (JANUARY 22, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There really are people like that, with four layers of nail polish on their fingers, who have their hair done and then walk round with it like that for the next 10 days. They don&rsquo;t change their underwear, but keep it on for weeks at a time. But they still think they dress very well. Their ear rings rust and threaten to set up an infection in their ears, but they still walk around in great pride and arrogance. Showy harridans, one could call them.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR'S AKS INTERVIEW&nbsp; (APRIL 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, I see women and normally at 50 or 60 they are very pleasant; devout women that is&hellip; but I also see there has been a huge rise in the number of women who are &lsquo;past their sell-by date,&rsquo; as they say.&nbsp; Repellent and aggressive. They resemble iguanas. One is repelled by them. Their expressions are repellent and full of hatred. When they speak it is either corruption, or gossip, or strife or slander. Have you not the slightest trace of love in your souls? You can love a flower or another human being. Or a cat. You can be someone&rsquo;s friend. But they fight their own children and husbands and attack their own parents. Such people have multiplied in numbers, and that is very bad, of course. 


6-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BEING&nbsp; A &lsquo;RIGHT-ON&rsquo; PERSON IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (JANUARY 18, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: The religion of ignorance exists among people. They say that someone is &lsquo;right-on,&rsquo; for example. And you look and see that this person&rsquo;s behavior is very artificial, that his words, gestures and behavior are all like those of a stage actor, that he is embarrassingly false, his speech is false and his language is false, in other words, he is utterly insincere. There are hundreds of kinds of relevant gestures and ways of speaking. For example, someone arrives and they ask where has he been all this time, why has he stayed away for so long in a very very artificial manner. And that is completely false. Though one can, of course, genuinely express that he has missed someone and love him.

But what need is there for artificiality there? This is the religion of ignorance, this is what I am describing. And that person then responds to that artificiality in the same manner. We see it all over. 

Artificiality is wearisome. But honesty is very beautiful. Loving someone honestly is beautiful. Sincere expressions are delightful. That is why, &ldquo;I&nbsp; take refuge in Allah from satan&rdquo;; Allah says that His sincere servants will be saved. In other words, if they were to give a Muslim a choice between the delight of honesty and the repulsiveness of artificiality, he will of course choose that which is natural, even if there is no specific commandment concerning it in the Qur&rsquo;an. Because a natural person is highly attractive. There is a huge difference between a natural woman and an artificial one. The latter is really repulsive. 


7-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SPOILED BEHAVIOR; ONE OF THE DEFECTIVE TRAITS OF THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (FEBRUARY 23, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Yes, being spoiled is a trait of unintelligent or even stupid people. Someone who is spoiled and out of control contravenes the moral values of the Qur&rsquo;an and human reason. They adopt a character and personality that hurts others, brings unease with it, is lacking in love and wisdom and is highly disturbing to others. People refer to such characters as being spoiled. A spoiled person gives harm to society and the people around him with his words, laughter and behavior. In contrast, Muslims must be rational, mature, deep, kind, pleasant-natured, logical and modest. 


8-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; EMPTY TALK; ANOTHER BEHAVIORAL DEFECT IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR'S KANAL 35 INTERVIEW&nbsp; (FEBRUARY 1,&nbsp; 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Empty talk is a real torment and very difficult for other people to put up with. Note how listening to empty talk really distresses a rational listener. If someone is being gossiped about and you then praise that person, the gossip is thrown back in the face of the people doing it, and that is a very good thing. Just a few words of praise totally invalidate all the spiteful gossip.&nbsp; 


9-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; EGOISM; ANOTHER BEHAVIORAL DEFECT IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR'S KANAL 35 INTERVIEW&nbsp; (FEBRUARY 1, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: This also exists in Pharaohs and Nimrods; man does have egocentricity. A man goes insane when this takes over the whole body. They lose all awareness. They become demons, devils, and that is the characteristic of Pharaoh and Nimrod. And sometimes it happens to other people. Pride, self love and arrogance cause people to lose control of their bodies and go quite mad. And you can no longer control them. They lose all awareness. &lsquo;Egoism takes them over&rsquo; says Said Nursi, meaning that egoism takes over their whole bodies. They go mad from egoism, out of self-love. They love themselves in all things and imagine that everything they say is true. Have you ever met any such types?&nbsp; 

In other words, they know best, they know everything, they speak best, they establish the truth of all things and recognize nothing and nobody superior to themselves. 

PRESENTER: Many such people.

ADNAN OKTAR: In other words, they know best, they know everything, they are the most intelligent one, they speak best, they establish the truth of all things and recognize no being superior to themselves. 

PRESENTER: Yes.

ADNAN OKTAR: However, Allah says, &ldquo;I take refuge in Allah from satan&rdquo; that &ldquo;There is always someone who knows more than you.&rdquo;

PRESENTER: Yes.

ADNAN OKTAR: But they always think they know best.


10-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CUNNING AND OPPORTUNISM: A BEHAVIORAL DEFECT AMONG PEOPLE IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (JANUARY 26, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: They look for corruption and wickedness everywhere. They do not seek the approval or mercy of Allah. They do not seek His manifestations and His beauties. They constantly see things from a rational point of view. Such people can never free themselves from trouble. Such types regard themselves as very cunning and on the ball, but they have miserable lives. And the more miserable they are, the more cunning and on the ball they try to be, and that just makes matters worse. They are always complaining and telling everyone of all their sufferings, of their illnesses, of how expensive everything is. The songs they listen to are the same, full of pain and sorrow. But all these things can be dispersed by the light of faith and the radiance of the Qur&rsquo;an. These things are wrong. It is wrong for a person to oppress and inflict suffering on himself.&nbsp; 
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<description><![CDATA[ As for those who believe and do right actions and humble themselves before their Lord, they are the Companions of the Heaven, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (Surah Hud, 23) 

Sincerity means being deeply devoted to Allah by heart. A sincere person has a deep fear for Allah, profoundly believes in Him, sees and advocates the righteousness in the best way. A sincere person is the one who believes in Allah with certainty, the Hereafter, prophets, the Heaven and the Hell and angels. 

WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS NOT ONE&rsquo;S SEEING HIMSELF SINCERE BUT THE RECOGNITION OF HIS SINCERITY BY ALLAH. 

The Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), the Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him), the Prophet Moses (pbuh), the Prophet Abraham (pbuh), the Prophet Solomon (pbuh), the Prophet Joseph (pbuh), the Prophet Jonah (pbuh), the Prophet Job (pbuh) and all the other prophets are the sincere servants of Allah. We are aware of prophets&rsquo; sincerity because Allah sees them sincere and declares them to be so. All of the prophets were blessed people who were devoted to our All-Mighty Lord with great love and experienced sincerity in its most profound state. Likewise, due to their sincerity, all the prophets were blessed people who absolutely engaged in the most accurate act, whose deeds resulted in good and beauty and who truly turned to Allah in all their deeds. 

Due to his fear for Allah and profound love of Allah, a sincere person is someone who readily discriminates between the right and the wrong, who absolutely implements what is right according to the Qur&rsquo;an and, without seeing any limits in closeness to Allah and love for him, who discharges all the requirements of the religion in the most accurate and absolute manner. Consequently, sincerity is the kind of attitude which appears with fear of Allah, and closeness and love of Him and is experienced in the form as depicted in the Qur&rsquo;an. If a Christian is devoid of any Islamic knowledge, we may hope&nbsp; for his enterance to the Heaven, as long as he advocates Allah&rsquo;s existence and unity, believes in the Heaven and the Hell, has faith in the destiny and the Hereafter, performs his regular prayers (salat), fasts albeit in his own way, and pays the alms. Similarly, if a Jew has no knowledge about Islam, then we can hope that he can go to the Heaven as long as he observes what is lawful and unlawful, has faith in the destiny and Hereafter, performs his regular prayers (salat) and fasts. All of these are the commandments stated in the Torah and the Gospel. If he is sincere and has no knowledge about Islam, by Allah&rsquo;s leave, we may hope that a Christian or a Jew can also enter the Heaven as long as he wholeheartedly fulfills all these religious obligations. 

When one examines the Qur&rsquo;an with a sincere heart one can immediately see that the Qur&rsquo;an is the true Divine book. But if someone has never had access to the Qur&rsquo;an, then he is AHL AL-FATRAT, but if he believes in the one Allah, loves and fears Allah, does good works for His approval and prays, fasts and performs his religious duties as required by the religion, then that person may hope for Paradise. Because this person may not implement some parts of the Qur&rsquo;an, out of ignorance, but if he lives by the remaining of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) then since this person is ahl al-fatrat he may hope to enter Paradise. 

However, nobody can ever be certain that either he or anyone else will go to Heaven or Hell. One can never say for certain that anyone, be he Christian, Jew or Muslim, will go to Heaven or Hell. So long as a morally virtuous person lives for the approval of Allah he may hope for Paradise from Him, and one may hope that this person will be one of the saved, though one can never be certain of this. As Allah reveals in the Qur&rsquo;an, all believers live &ldquo;between hope and fear:&rdquo; 

Their sides eschew their beds as they call on their Lord in fear and ardent hope. And they give of what We have provided for them. (Surat as-Sajda, 16)

Since sincerity can only be experienced with unconditional belief in Allah, hoping for the Heaven merely saying, &ldquo;I am sincere&rdquo;, without fulfilling the decrees of the religion is an insincere view that only deceives the person himself. It is a great collapse of reason to appear with a reasoning commanding that &ldquo;satanists can go to the Heaven if they are sincere&rdquo; and try to show a criminal person who overtly murders a human being and who evidently denies Allah as a sincere person deserving the Heaven. 

A person who denies Allah, commits crimes and engages in immoral acts commits all these misdeeds due to his insincerity and his disbelieving and rebellious mind. Such a person is not even remotely close to sincerity. He is dishonest and a liar. What is essential is not one&rsquo;s seeing himself sincere but the recognition of his sincerity by Allah. As long as a satanist does not regret, repent and turn to Allah with sincerity, he is an unbeliever who is doomed to the Hell. (Allah knows the truth)

Almighty Allah gives as an example in the Qur&rsquo;an of a man who owns a garden and who considers himself sincere and thinks that he deserves the Heaven even though he is in complete denial of the Hereafter:
He entered his garden and wronged himself by saying, &ldquo;I do not think that this will ever end.&rdquo;
&ldquo;I do not think the Hour will ever come. But if I should be sent back to my Lord, I will definitely get something better in return.&rdquo; (Surat al-Kahf, 35-36)

Our Lord informs us of the condition of the person whose garden was destroyed as a calamity that came over him due to his denial.&nbsp;&nbsp; 

There was no group to come to his aid, besides Allah, and he was not given any help.
In that situation the only protection is from Allah, the Real. He gives the best reward and the best outcome. (Surat al-Kahf, 43-44)
Almighty Allah &ldquo;knows what their hearts keep hidden and what they divulge&rdquo; (Surat an-Naml, 74). Those who are insincere to Allah are people who cannot appreciate Allah properly and who cannot comprehend this great fact.&nbsp; Almighty Allah, Who knows all what is concealed, is certainly the One, Who knows best the sincerity in a person&rsquo;s heart. Our Lord states in one verse of the Qur&rsquo;an as thus: 
Your Lord knows best what is in your selves. If you are righteous, He is Ever-Forgiving to the remorseful. (Surat al-Isra, 25)


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<description><![CDATA[ 11-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;BEHAVIORAL DEFECTS IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE: ARTIFICIALITY

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KA&Ccedil;KAR TV (MARCH 12, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: The religion of ignorance is a reality our brother encounters in many sections of society. Extreme artificiality, extremely artificial speech, in other words, not being natural. He sees someone, for instance, and starts saying in a very exaggerated manner, &ldquo;Whereeee have you been?&rdquo; Instead of this one says sincerely that he has missed that person and thanks Allah that they have seen one another again. This becomes a really candid speech. But he again and again says, &ldquo;Believe me, I am so happy to see you. You cannot imagine how much I missed you.&rdquo; Are you trying to convince the other person because you lie? They swear they are really delighted to see the other person. What did you expect? Are you supposed to be sad? Of course you will be pleased. But I am talking about these utterly artificial expressions of emotion. This is an unnatural style of speech that makes people uneasy in many sections of society. Of course, there are also people who speak honestly. And that comes as a great relief to people. Such people say what they think, from the heart. But with an artificial person, one just wishes he would stop talking. That kind of talk is really difficult to put up with. If someone you talk to is very annoying, you can be sure he is from the religion of ignorance. But if one listens to him very happily and easily, if his presence puts one at ease, then he does not&nbsp; live by the religion of ignorance. I can cite that as a very certain and definite measure, insha&rsquo;Allah. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR (FEBRUARY 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: You know the kind of people who are really artificial, who use mad gestures and speech as if they were on the stage or reciting verse, for instance, and adopt a really false mode of behavior and put on a very awkward show, that is the kind of bizarre style people adopt while talking about religion. But people who look carefully and are able to check their memories understand immediately what is happening. These people adopt a very strange style, roll their eyes around and do other things, as if one needed a special form of behavior to talk about religion, as if there was a light sound track playing in the background, the tune of a flute or an end-blown flute. What need is there for all that? Religion is evidently the reality itself.&nbsp; 

Someone who is really having a nice time wears a particular expression. But these people are not happy. Not all, but majority of them, put on a big show and pretend to be happy. That is a very painful thing. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KRADENİZ TV (JANUARY 16, 2209)

ADNAN OKTAR: Now, let us suppose you are watching the television, and they show you delightful views with animals and plants that are very lovely. But two people are constantly talking. A man and woman are talking, gossiping using ugly gestures and artificial movements. They talk to one another for hours like that, but what beauty is there in it? What can they learn from one another? What we have is immoral behavior, artificial facial gestures , embarrassing expressions, answering back, and behavior that I call religion of ignorance that is incompatible with morality love, affection and compassion. Instead of that, however, they could be broadcasting excellent statements emphasizing love and affection or very pleasant images. There are infinite number of delightful places in this world, so many lovely views, they could show documentaries or recount historical episodes, or discuss foreign countries or show cute kids or excellent people and talk about their moral virtues. That is the kind of thing we should be watching.&nbsp; 


12-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BEHAVIORAL DEFECTS IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE: EGOISM AND SELFISHNESS&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S BUYUKHABER INTERVIEW (DECEMBER 12, 2008)

ADNAN OKTAR: Materialist, darwinist thinking automatically brings with it egotistical and selfish state of mind, that is a philosophy of selfishness. A kind of &lsquo;who cares what happens to anyone else so long as I am all right&rsquo; mentality develops. Egoism is a dreadful thing. It is really disturbing and oppressive. Selfish communities and selfish individuals. Because selfish working groups adopt a selfish approach, they always strive for their own self-interest. They therefore recognize no rules or bounds. They recognize no law and regard such feelings as beauty, love, compassion and respect as surplus to requirements. That is why the current economic crisis is able to develop so strongly on such a foundation. Yet if people were to place their trust in Allah, if they saw the good in everything, if they watched out for their neighbor more than for themselves, if they adopted the fine words of the Prophet (saas) that he who lies down while his neighbor is hungry is not one of us as their guiding principle, a very different environment would result. For instance, alms are not donated, people hardly donate alms. The fact is however, Muslims protect the poor and do good deeds to people. They especially absolve people of their debts, for example, and forgiving debts is very important. And they do not amass possessions, gold, silver or money out of greed or a concern for the future. Instead, they use those things on Allah&rsquo;s path, because they hope it from Allah, they simply hope to have also in the future.&nbsp; That is why there is currently a contraction across the world. Because everyone is holding onto their money and gold, nobody wants to export anything, and everyone is awaiting the outcome with fear and unease.&nbsp; That is wrong. This means collapse, a complete dead end. It is a sickness. In order for it to be defeated, large sums of money must be distributed to the poor as a matter of urgency and wages must be raised. Nobody must worry what will happen then. Because when that is done the markets will be revived, meaning that money will enter the state&rsquo;s coffers. No money can enter those coffers if the markets are not revived. In other words, if the state spends money on the one hand, there will be a huge flow of funds to it on the other. Production will go up enormously. Reducing interest rates to zero will have a literally explosive impact. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (FEBRUARY 25, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: ...... for example, an old, radiant grandfather type; one treats him with affection, helps him cross the street, carries anything heavy he has with him and gives up one&rsquo;s seat on the bus to him.&nbsp; But when someone brought up to be egotistical, selfish and irreligious sees an elderly person, on the bus say, they prefer to look somewhere else instead. They turn their eyes away on the street.&nbsp; There he is doubled over in pain and you are young and as strong as a lion, so you should carry his bags for him wherever he wants to go, isn&rsquo;t that right? Showing someone like that love and respect will bring happiness with it, and Allah will then bestow strength and joy and happiness. The selfish person may imagine he is very clever because of his egotism and cruelty, but he immediately suffers the recompense for it, like a slap in the face. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S EKIN TV INTERVIEW (JANUARY 19, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There is a very selfish and egotistical idea taught by society that has a great deal to do with selfishness and egoism; &ldquo;Never trust anyone, not even your own father.&rdquo; But in the societal model we want to see, everyone will trust everyone else. Everyone will love everyone else. But I go out on the streets and everyone looks so gloomy. Majority of people look gloomy, their eyes downcast. People should look at beauty of all kinds, greet other people and be friends with them. The Turkish nation, this motherland, Turkey with its extraordinary loveliness are ours, masha&rsquo;Allah. It is an incredibly beautiful country masha&rsquo;Allah. And our people are most humane. Our nation is normally full of love if it feels trust and respect and feels itself to be safe. But as a result of the vile activities of the so-called Ergenekon organization, a huge fear has spread through society. Nobody knows who will be killed, or where. People have no idea what to do out of fear for their lives. People send their children to school and do not know if they will come back safe and still alive. Bombings take place. People send their sons off to military service and can not know if they will come back alive. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S TRABZON TV INTERVIEW (SEPTEMBER 4, 2008)

ADNAN OKTAR: Nobody freezes to death in Turkey, or only very rarely. The municipalities always provide a solution. So why all this greed? For example, some people complain of having no money to buy meat or cheese. While those who do eat meat and cheese complain that these things have clotted up their arteries and raised their cholesterol levels. I wish I had known before, they say, and not eaten all those things. While people who subsist on vegetables wish they had eaten more meat. Yet there is a secret in all this. Someone who lives on vegetables, who eats spinach and leeks, for example, imagines that these are very bad. Yet Allah bestows good health through them. People who live in rural areas always have rosy cheeks and more healthy.&nbsp; But it is also of course important for there to be social justice among people. It is important that Islamic moral values should develop. Our Prophet (saas) says that he who goes to bed on a full stomach while his neighbor is hungry is not one of us. 


13-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SENTIMENTALITY: A BEHAVIORAL DEFECT IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (MARCH 10, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Being romantic means being unrealistic. We see this in male-female relations. Girls are more intelligent and realistic. But they are regarded as romantic, but it is really men who are romantic. I am talking about the majority here, or those from a particular section of society, girls deal with men like dealing with lunatics.&nbsp; You see fully-grown, hairy great men weeping like babies. They cry and go down on bended knee and beg, write letters and light candles. Like lunatics. This is really primitive behavior.&nbsp; They write letters, stain them up a bit and say that came from their tears. It is hard to find the words to describe such people. A huge great man is left with no more sense than a plank of wood. But people are normally honest and genuine. When you look in someone&rsquo;s face you want to see their true face, hear their real voice and real words, and learn their true ideas. But we see grown-up men behaving like films from the 1940s. Their movements slow down, they behave differently, their expressions are different, everything about them is artificial. Their tone of voice is artificial. They try to make others feel sorry for them. They walk around in the rain, as it pours down on their heads, just like lunatics. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENİZ TV (JANUARY  30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For one thing, romanticism is highly amusing. It is both very amusing and also terrible torment for people to pose like stage actors, play roles, hide their true faces, use entirely artificial gestures and facial expressions, and act a part with an artificial language and words, just as if they were on the stage.&nbsp; It is also very difficult to talk to such a person. I see that a great many people are artificial. A rational person fiercely avoids artificiality. But it is really disturbing to talk to and watch someone who is completely artificial. 

Some women also behave in that way toward men, and men behave in an artificial manner toward women. A great big grown-up man will weep like a woman, behave really oddly, and speak sentimental words. And that really annoys and upsets the woman. A woman may engage in artificiality when she sees a man who is wealthy, even though she does not really like him at all, if he is reasonably attractive and has a car. She will say that she is completely smitten by him, that this is the first time such a thing has ever happened to her. And the poor thing will be taken in and shortly made to do all her bidding. 

For example, there is a real plant, a violet say, and an artificial violet. The latter is sold and made of plastic. People use artificial plants in a great many places. In other words, they try to imitate the real violet. They try to imitate the real love; to do something concerning love in the same way as a stage actor, but the person involved immediately realizes the true state of affairs, and when you ask her why she loves him, she will say for his car, home or good looks. So there is clearly nothing there resembling love, because it is obvious that when he loses his looks, when something happens to them, she will hate him and immediately leave him. So why bother with all the acting? But that is how they deceive some poor souls. And they believe it all. 


14-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BAD MANNERS AND AFFECTATION: BEHAVIORAL DEFECTS OF THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ&nbsp; (MARCH 6, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: I sometimes see some really bad-mannered and ignorant people, with rings in their ears, razored hair, T-shirts, talking loudly in the latest slang. 

Really very peculiar. Mumbling their words with a walkman or whatever in their ears. Let them wear T-shirts and listen to their walkmans if they so choose. Looking ultra-modern in their own eyes, they are really totally ignorant and ill-mannered.&nbsp; It is none of my business how they shave their heads. If that is what they want, let them. But it is really primitive of them to imagine that this is modern. Because being contemporary means being full of love, compassionate and affectionate, modest, careful of what one says, realizing the importance of one&rsquo;s words, paying attention to cleanliness, not disturbing other people, loving everything created for the sake of its Creator, being amazed by plants, flowers, children and all beauty, protecting such things and seeing the intricate aspects of all. That environment will inevitably come about when people use all the means made available by Allah. For example, if one uses air conditioning and the television, it means that he&rsquo;s enjoying the requisites of the age.&nbsp; 


15-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TRYING TO BEHAVE LOGICALLY: A BEHAVIORAL DEFECT OF THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW WITH KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (FEBRUARY 07, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: In other words, people generally behave logically, because logic is taught to people from all sides. Their mothers tell them to come to their senses and be logical, that they must be very unintelligent if they try and help everyone. They give them lessons in logic. Most families are very logical. Most, not all, and my apologies to the rest. But materialist and Darwinist families base most things on logic. For example, if something illicit is going to be done at work, if you decline to join in, people will ask what makes you so honest when everyone else is at it. They will let you to be logical and make you do whatever it is.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW WITH KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (FEBRUARY 7, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: People get constricted with logic. Their tongues and teeth become impacted from behaving logically. Note how their eyes become one single point. They contract like a woodlouse because of such logic, self-interest and gain. They contract terribly. Because they imagine that the slightest error they make will have a harmful impact on their interests.

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (MARCH 4, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: But generally, when people are sincere this conflicts with their logic. I have already described this. They evaluate the situation not according to their sincere feelings but with intelligence. They wonder whether to behave logically or else heed the voice of their consciences. Behaving logically they end up in serious trouble. There are always problems in logic. They should act according to their consciences. A genuine person always acts according to his conscience. Of course people who act according to their consciences encounter difficulties. Honesty is difficult, not easy. Honesty brings a thousand troubles with it. People can avoid these troubles by using their logic, but it makes things worse, as then the real problem reveals itself. But these are all sweet troubles. 

For example, a car hits someone, knocks him down. All the other cars drive past, but leave the man there. You pick the man up and carry him to hospital. Then the police ask if it was you that killed him. This has happened to many people. So be it. I will pick the person up, for Allah&rsquo;s sake, he will say, and you do whatever you will. If necessary, he will even be arrested. But that person should never be left there. 
Or imagine a man who attempts to kill a woman. Another man merely looks on. That woman has to be saved, no matter what the cost. What would happen? So is he just going to sit by and watch? Recently I have seen such an incident. A poor woman, and the man had drawn a knife. They broadcasted it on the television. The man is plunging the knife into her. Everybody around is watching. What does that mean? I am unable to understand.&nbsp; In order to save that woman, one can resort to every measure. Everything is permissible there. You strike his hand with a piece of wood and kick the knife away, and it is all over. Why prolong it? They went to save her after she had been all cut up. I saw it on the television, there were lots of people around but nobody lifted a finger. What kind of&nbsp; harm can there be here? Can one just sit by and watch? Or one could move in quite politely and say you want to tell him something. You can tell him that there is a truth you want to say. This is all very reasonable. And then, watching over his moment of heedlessness, you can move in and take the knife from his hand. What meaning is there in that poor woman being all cut up? So many similar incidents take place. Why? Because people prefer logic to good conscience.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (JANUARY 26, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Worldly desires and self-interest, acting in the light of logic, cloud a person&rsquo;s reason. For example, one wants to help a poor person, but logic says if you give him money you will be impoverishing yourself, so it is best not to give him any. He may say I will behave logically and does not hand over the money. He then spends that money to cover his treatment costs in a hospital. But still he thinks he did the right thing and it was just as well he did not give it away before. He uses logic there, in other words.


16-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOVELESSNESS: A BEHAVIORAL DEFECT IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON BASKENT TV (MARCH 6, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Lovelessness has enfolded the world. Nobody looks anyone else in the face. And this is not the case only in Turkey. There is a wide-ranging lovelessness in Turkey. Anatolia is fine, but people in big cities such as Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara are more strangers to one another. But in smaller places, in villages, there is of course a warmer and friendlier environment. But abroad, even in villages and small towns people are strangers to one another; they even never make eye contact. There is no love. Allah has deprived people of true and deep love, which is like taking someone&rsquo;s soul away, and neither love nor anything else remains, meaning that people are hollow inside. 
They make shopping, for instance, and contact with the shop owners. Those salesmen already have a difficult job. They are in great difficulty in that shop. It is a very troublesome, very difficult, chilly environment. You can go and say hello, ask after them, get them on your side. Those people need love and friendship. It is unacceptable to enter the shop in a rude manner and scold the people there while negotiating. Love and affection should be the guiding principle everywhere. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (FEBRUARY 25, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Now when there is no love of Allah in people&rsquo;s hearts, they can not look around them with love of Allah. And when they do not look around with love of Allah, they lose passion and love. They lose that enormous power within them. When people lose love and passion a terrible emptiness results, and they are replaced by suffering, fear, worry, tensions and doubts. In order to escape that suffering people use drugs, or cocaine, other dangerous substances that cloud their minds and give harm to their bodies and the outcome is naturally very bad.&nbsp; 

May Allah spare us, they collapse both mentally and physically. They sometimes end up in jail or are excluded or oppressed by society or commit crimes under the influence of those drugs and then say they have no knowledge of them when they come round, but they have once committed them. That is no justification of course, and this is a national disaster, a huge threat. We need to oppose this very seriously as a society. We need to call people to the moral values of the Qur&rsquo;an, to draw people to that lovely embracing love of Allah, to tell people of the beauty of profound love and passion. We must look at everything with the love of Allah and see everything as a manifestation of Allah, and must take living happily as a basic principle. We do not have faith in order to be happy, of course, but we are happy because we have faith. That is also very important.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (MARCH 11, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: What our society needs most of all is love. There is lack of love in our society, and everyone who steps outside it can see. There are a great many glum faces, I exclude all of them, but there are a lot. People do not look one another in the eye, but avoid one another. A real fear rules, they avoid one another out of a fear of someone else asking what they are looking at or giving them harm or something like that. Their souls&rsquo; ability to delight in beauty has also declined, or some people have very little of that left and it is even disappearing entirely. We need to be good role models here, ensure that our nation and society love one another, cause them to feel love, affection, compassion and forgiveness, bestow a feeling of union and unity on them and give them a sense of security. We need to trust people, and not be searched from tip to toe when we enter a shop as if we were entering a prison. There should be no need to even search inside our bags. People must be able to look freely at and talk freely to one another, to be free to greet one another. What our society needs most of all is love and trust. Leading members of the community must also inculcate love and trust, rather than enmity and hatred, and need to indoctrinate everyone along those lines. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (JANUARY 6, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Not knowing real love is a terrible sadness. Allah has inflicted a terrible scourge on people in the End Times. Love has been taken away from so many people. A catastrophe, a terrible scourge has been visited upon people, but they are unaware of it. I mean, if love has gone from people&rsquo;s hearts, then everything has gone and their souls have been ruined. People&rsquo;s souls have been hollowed out, but the majority of people are unaware that this has happened. There are now imitations of love. We see in films how a woman is given a ring and how happy that makes her. But that is really degrading for a woman. I mean her feeling love through that diamond. Whereas if she felt love through his taqwa, his moral virtues, his closeness to Allah and his sincerity, that would make her very happy. But she feels happiness from that diamond. But two days later that love comes to an end. So now he takes her to a restaurant and she is happy again. These things are not love, but copies. True love is the profound and powerful pleasure that stems from regarding everything as a manifestation of Allah. People have an ineffable sixth sense, and this is known as love and passion. This has been taken away from people but they are unaware of it. You cannot describe seeing to someone who is blind from birth, they cannot know what they are being given. One can only know by comparing it with something else. But when true love is taken away from someone who has never experienced it, they do not fully experience the pain of it. 


17-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CRUELTY: A BEHAVIORAL DEFECT OF THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (JANUARY 29, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There are some people who protect stray dogs on the streets and take them home, but who throw their own old people out on those same streets. They see children going hungry and do nothing about it, but who are really protective when it comes to a dog. When you ask, they say that they are very pure of heart, which is why they are so protective. But what use is that kind of purity of heart?

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (FEBRUARY 25, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Yes, it is utterly immoral to beat a woman, an innocent, defenseless woman. It is appalling behavior, utterly low-grade and not brave. Rather than proving someone&rsquo;s superiority, it actually shows how inferior and vile they are. The signs of superiority are intelligence, moral virtue, kindness, intelligent speech and appropriate behavior. Since when did stupid, mindless behavior become a sign of superiority? In that event, elephants, crocodiles or bison would also be superior, as they can also lay a human being out with a single blow. An elephant can pick someone up with his trunk and smash him to the ground. But that does not show its superiority. It shows that it is an animal, and reveals its animal behavior. 


18-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE UNHAPPY LIVES OF PEOPLE IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (FEBRUARY 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: But other people have money, food and drink and wealth, in brief, everything but they are still unhappy. That food make them unhappy, as they regard it as a source of lethal cholesterol. They simply see them as a nuisance. They are always terrified their house might go up in flames, or be taken away from them, or of going bust due to the economic crisis... They are unable to shake off such fears. They send their children off to school, and they worry about them. What if they have had an accident? What if something has happened to them. They are really troubled. They feel something in their eye and wonder if they have got cancer. Something happens to their lip and they wonder if they have got cancer of the lip. Is that lump a possible tumor? Is that pain appendicitis? They are in a constant state of fear and worry. Not just for themselves, but also for their families. So their nerves are always shot to pieces. They either smoke all the time, or are difficult and aggressive, or else they start taking drugs. That is very common across the world, as you know. It is especially the main subject in America. There are very few people who do not take one form of drug or another. This is very common, from the people in charge of the state right down to those at the bottom of the public. 

Every aspect of life becomes utterly hellish. They even become afraid to drink water, scared it will stick in their throats or something. But the other way, they will be totally at ease. Otherwise, a person&rsquo;s worldly troubles will never end. It is impossible for Allah to give him peace. Just the fear of an earthquake is enough to spoil people&rsquo;s lives, as you know. People are always terrified of the prospect, and at the slightest tremor they rush out into the streets. The slightest movement in bed and they begin running downstairs. Is that normal? Then there is a fear of fire breaking out, of anarchy and terror, of disease or of going mad...The list would contain thousands of items.&nbsp; Human beings are weak entities. They cannot bear so much fear. The end result is sickness. Whereas if they were to place their trust in Allah, they would live in abundance, plenty, peace and security. Knowing that one is under Allah&rsquo;s protection is a precondition of faith. That means one cannot believe if one does not trust Allah. This would be a very abnormal situation. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S INTERVIEW FOR KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (FEBRUARY 21, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: &hellip;they imitate happiness. They talk about how much they enjoyed themselves somewhere. Whereas they really had a dreadful time and hated every minute. They go to discos. For instance, and jump around like apes, but their sadness and unhappiness just jumps around with them. Because the sorrow is in their brains. They throw themselves around but cannot escape it. Let&rsquo;s leave this disco and go to another one, they say. They imagine they will be happier there. But their troubles are inside them and just accompany them there. They cannot work it out. Eventually they decide to go home and breathe a sigh of relief, kicking the front door open. Their troubled state of mind never leaves them. They try to sleep, but they cannot. 

Nothing ever pleases them. They see an attractive person and that makes them really envious. Yet a believer is delighted to see an attractive person. He gives thanks to Allah. He wants that person to be even better, even more attractive. Those other people see someone rich and it really upsets them. 

For example, it lifts the spirits to go somewhere nice, doesn&rsquo;t it? Beautiful things make one happy. We see the artistry and manifestations of Allah. That delights us. But this is not the case with these negative types, with negative people. Everything torments them. Wealth and beauty in particular cause them awful suffering. For example, if a girl is irreligious and hypocritical, it will make her unhappy to see a pretty girl, or an ugly one, or an ordinary one. That will make her unhappy right through the day.&nbsp; 

This also applies to men. For example, if they see someone flashier than them it makes them very miserable. That is why they are always trying to get the better of one another, and that lies at the heart of their immorality. They say things designed to put one another down and to cunningly get one over on each other. The result is a fight and hatred. That is why I describe these things in such detail in my book &ldquo;The Religion of Ignorance.&rdquo;&nbsp; People have very cunning ways of getting one over on each other. There are open ways and covert ones, ones that do not make themselves apparent. These secret methods represent 99% of the whole, and the open methods just 1%. These people have turned into machines that just oppress one another. Like satan, they try to crush other people wherever they see them. 

Whereas believers strive to make each other happy and at peace when they see one another and are made happy by their beauty or wealth or health, and they want these things to increase even more and Muslims are truly delighted by this. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (FEBRUARY 7, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There are some people who are constantly afflicted by a fear of cancer. The slightest thing and they imagine they must have cancer of the brain or leukemia. They keep checking their lymph glands or necks. They check their bodies... what a dreadful life. Then they worry about the possibility of earthquakes, or war, or famine... 

INTERVIEWER: Is logic the reason behind their worries?

ADNAN OKTAR: Logic, of course. They think they are being very rational. They say they are thinking of the future. They imagine they are very on the ball. But if they are so on the ball, how come they are in such a dreadful state?&nbsp; Why are you suffering so much. Don&rsquo;t they think? They live with the suffering that comes from not placing one&rsquo;s trust in Allah. 

For example, they may earn a lot of money. But they always worry about what if the checks stop coming, what if they cannot make more money, what if their factory goes bust, what if someone scratches their car? Or will the children come back safe from school, what if a car hits them? Yet that person will still think he is the cleverest person in the world. Even he has close circuit cameras installed to keep an eye on his children. There are cameras everywhere. That is really difficult, a really difficult life. 


19-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE IDEA OF ISLAM IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S INTERVIEW WITH BUGRA AYAN (FEBRUARY 28, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: They still believe in Allah. There is still some element of belief in Allah in their heads. But they cannot bear the secret of the test. That is at one point they can not persist in their belief. For instance, everyone gives thanks to Allah when they sit down to a nice table. It pleases them. When guests arrive, they give thanks to Allah and say what a nice place this is. But what happens if a lamp falls on someone&rsquo;s head? They will lose all their beliefs in Allah on the spot. But that is a test. Who knows what wisdom lies behind the lamp falling on that person&rsquo;s head? Maybe it will bring him to his senses, or make him think about Allah, or maybe Allah uses it as means of neutralizing someone who is mad. Perhaps it will increase his level of religious devotion. Allah will make him more perfect. Allah knows the wisdom behind it. That is why it is essential for people to know the essence of the secret of the test and to behave accordingly. They must think about it day and night. On the existence of Allah and this matter.&nbsp; 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (APRIL 8, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: These are generally people with a feeling of inferiority, and that is a terrible thing. It crushes and burns most people. People are ashamed to have religious devotion in some places. Sometimes they are embarrassed to pray or to fast, but not, for example, to be sexual deviant or immoral. They have no shame over sexual deviations, and even boast about them. Yet some idiots are embarrassed to say that they perform their prayers, that they are Muslims. So they go off and become masons. They think that being a mason will free them somewhat from those feelings of inferiority. But that is not enough, and they go and become darwinists and materialists, and deny Paradise and Hell and the angels and the djinn. They establish a bit of equilibrium, and when they mock religion (Allah forbid) a little bit, they imagine they can be totally freed from that inferiority. But the disgrace degrades them even more, and certainly degrades them in the eyes of believers, insha&rsquo;Allah. We are told in the hadith that there will be such a time; Rasulullah says that 70,000 religious scholars will follow the dajjal in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). That may be, they may be some of the people from that community, some of them may have embarked upon that scourge out of ignorance or heedlessness. But some have embarked on it deliberately. It is a miracle of the Prophet&rsquo;s (saas) because it is a feature of the End Times. But all these abnormalities will be isolated and a clear, pure and unsullied conception of Islam and the Qur&rsquo;an will rule the world. The matter will be firmly established with the coming of the Messiah, insha&rsquo;Allah. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (JANUARY  18, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: When they tell children about the religion, they do so using a very backward and conservative language and mindset. And that is very terrible. It is not the religion at all. It is an unbelievable scourge, what they describe using such terrifying, restrictive, unhealthy and improper language. 


20-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; JOKING ABOUT RELIGIOUS MATTERS 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 TV (IZMIR) (JANUARY  25, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, when talking about Allah, may He forbid, some people use a very shameless, and sometimes even hypocritical style that is improper with respect to religion. It amazes me. They even make jokes about religious matters, jokes about the Hereafter, Paradise and Hell and the angels. They laugh about them with other people I believe people making such offensive jokes should be immediately humiliated, made ashamed and sent to the rightabout if necessary. Because this is a terrible rudeness and lack of good conscience. It is the most bare-faced effrontery to make jokes about Allah and the religion, and the most terrible hypocrisy. 

ADNAN OKTAR&rsquo;S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENİZ TV (FEBRUARY 13, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: They also tell a great many jokes about religion. That is very widespread. It is a disgrace, a sin and utterly vile, and will attract a terrible response. They should avoid that at all costs. It entertains nobody and makes Muslims very uneasy. It wounds Muslims and is a vile thing to be fiercely avoided. 

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