Adnan Oktar A9 TV; October 15th, 2012

It would be very wrong to form a religion according to one's own mind and then to look for it in the Qur'an. One should directly look at the Qur'an. There is no adjudicator other than Allah.

Religion is not lived upon implications. All judgments are clear and explicit. Allah is Just, He would not hold people responsible of anything through implications.

The Qur'an teaches us how to use this world. The world will be ruined when the commands of the Qur'an are not implemented.

Sometimes a person may be taken unawares, he may have a moment of forgetfulness and commit some mistakes. This is simply human nature. It would be a sin to remind him of this mistake incessantly.

A person would become immaculately pure and chaste when he/she repents and gives up the mistakes he/she had done in the past.

Purity is the whole of the Qur'an, everything that is deemed unlawful would be a grave sin.

Having fun is not illegitimate or unlawful by religion, it is perfectly permissible.

What are the things Muslims should be very attentive about? They should be attentive about lawful and unlawful acts, they should love Allah deeply, they should constantly praise Allah, they should constantly keep their hearts with Allah. What would that bring? There is a secret here. Allah says "you will then be at ease."

Interest is unlawful both in Judaism and in Islam. That means Divine, Abrahamic religions have all declared interest as religiously unlawful.

Religion is metaphysical. We are living side by side with the angels. Angels are here at the moment. There are angels on both our sides. There are djinns here at the moment. This world is a metaphysical place.

Religion is the Qur'an. If you live by the Qur'an, then it is okay. Or else putting lights on pine trees and putting lights for one's garden and on streets would not contravene religion.

Lovelessness is unlawful according to religion.

The joy, sweetness of children that immaculate expression on their faces and that radiance coming from their innocence is amazing. It is a great blessing to watch children. That is because you are face to face with an innocent person, like an angel, that is amazing. Masha’Allah.

There is this peace, radiance and cleanliness of innocence on children.

The government is acting sagacious with the precautions they have taken about the sales of alcohol. People taking alcohol are numbed. We need a robust, alive generation.

If you exert pressure, people would feel abased. You would make people who normally would not consume alcohol start consuming alcohol, you would cause people who would normally perform their prayers, stand apart from prayers; things that would not normally happen would start to happen. I mean oppression would disrupt a person’s balance.

Drinking wine, rakı and whisky, being poisoned and wasted is not having fun. There is such a false culture of alcohol and that is a grave mistake. Alcohol is by no manner of means entertaining. It is a very harmful and very disruptive substance.

It is wrong to promote drinking alcohol, which harms the body severely and gives enormous damage.

Having fun together, having dinners together, these are all good; but it should be without the alcohol. Alcohol devastates the body. Losing one’s control completely so that one can barely stand up due to alcohol is nothing fun. There is nothing fun about getting intoxicated.

Some people are so much used to assuming that happiness can only come through drinking alcohol and the like that they cannot grasp the joy and happiness of believers who do not drink alcohol.

Alcoholic beverages have nothing good about them. Before all else it’s forbidden according to religion. It’s very harmful, it harms the liver and the brain.

Some people keep saying they cannot feel relaxed unless they consume alcoholic beverage. The truth is they poison themselves with alcoholic drinks and losing their consciousness always causes them regret afterwards.

Our Prophet (saas) was a very kind, high quality and classy person.

The soul is trained through hardships and ordeals.

Allah regards people's attaining value by being subjected to tests as very significant.