Adnan Oktar A9 TV; December 21st, 2016

God wants us to approach people with compassion not with cruelty. Using a loveless approach towards our Syrian brothers is unacceptable.

We don't want bloodshed in any part of the world. We are against all kinds of tyranny, oppression and violence.

Any kind of attack targeting inoffensive people is persecution. It is as if some people regard use of chemical weapons as a war crime, but is fine with the ongoing killing with other weapons. That is abnormal.

By the grace of God, poverty and tyranny will come to an end at time of Mahdi.

The Dajjal brings oppression and bloodshed. But when the Mahdi and Jesus appear, tyranny will end; joy and peace will prevail in the world.

Muslims all around the world are suffering and there is bloodshed everywhere. But some so-called scholars are talking about completely irrelevant and trivial subjects.

Slaughtering children is a tradition of Pharaohs and Nimrods. It is evil and tyrannous. The dajjal system is now tyrannizing people in the same way.

Terror, violence, killing people, bombing civilians, homosexuality are all atrociousness; they all are atrocious acts that God has forbidden.

Some people say not a single word about the children being killed in Syria, Iraq or Mediterranean, but an attack in a different part of the world hits headlines. Remaining silent in the face of the killings of innocent Syrians and Iraqis is also a form of persecution.

They deem peace to be difficult, but inflicting pain on people, waging wars and persecution are troublesome. Love, friendship and brotherhood is a great joy, delight and beauty.

The solution to persecution is love, it is peace and rationalism, knowledge and science; the solution is the struggle against radicalism that would be given with the facts of the Qur'an. There might be some who feign ignorance right now, but in the very near future, they will all understand as the incidents that are taking place get even bigger. Write down what I have just said, you will see that things will happen exactly as said. Everything will happen exactly as said.

Everyone who complains of lovelessness and oppression, and advocates love is a student of the Mahdi.

Islam will prevail with compassion, art, beauty and wisdom as told in the Qur’an. It is not right to do evil to evil-doers or oppress the oppressors.

There will not be any permanent solutions - neither for Arakan nor for Syria - without the Islamic Union and the Mahdi movement.

The solution to the persecution and the sufferings going on in the region cannot be found solely with diplomacy. It can be solved with love, with connection to God.

God wants ease for people, not a painful life. People only torment themselves.

Radicals are about to wipe the beautiful religion of Islam off the face of this world, because of the religion of their ancestors. They have ruined Muslims as well. Everywhere around the world people are being cut up, beaten, abused, insulted and spit upon. Some behead others, some drag others on the ground behind moving cars, they riddle others with bullets, they throw barrel bombs at them. There is an inconceivable system of persecution. These will all come to an end if and when they turn towards the Qur'an.

A Muslim should enhance his love infinitely, his compassion, his beneficence infinitely. He should be trustworthy. He should not spy on Muslims. He should not play games and stab them in the back; he should not persecute them.

Does the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) ever do anything cruel? No, he doesn't. He is a compassionate, merciful, gentle person. I mean he never engages in anything against Muslims. He always acted in favor of Muslims and there was goodness in every one of his acts. Such people are the people of guidance.

The Qur'an defines these acts as cruelty; all kinds of attitudes that would disturb Muslims, that would sadden them, that would tire them or that would intimidate them or spy on Muslims. Cruelty means devising plots against Muslims, setting traps against Muslims. Performing prayers would not save such a person; he should avoid all kinds of cruelty.

A Muslim cannot act abnormally. According to the Qur'an, Muslims "have faith and do not mix up their faith with any wrongdoing." I mean, they do not attempt to do any wrongdoing and they never act on cruelty.

If there is an evil person, you would not persecute such an evil person either. You would simply explain to him the truth. If one persecutes another, he would be ruined as well. That menace would multiply a thousand-fold.

God inflicts a persecutor upon another persecutor. The Qur'an mentions God's driving some people back by means of others. And there is a saying in Turkish to that effect; "send a thief to catch a thief."

Those looking for atrocities are worthy of atrocities. If you encourage persecution, if you encourage scourges and bloodshed, those scourges suffocate you. That bloodshed drowns you. If you had approached them with love, they would have come to you with love. You've asked for blood and are faced with blood.

God deletes a nation that persecutes others. And that happens to the state if it is the state that executes persecution or to the nation if it is the nation that executes persecution, may God forbid. That is what is going on in Syria.