Adnan Oktar A9 TV; May 22nd, 2016

The life of this world is very brief and it is a brief trial. People need to think about it and understand it.

Muslims should be gentle, kind and patient in the face of difficulties. All prophets had gone through difficult tests.

The period of the system of Mahdi is a long one. The reason this period will be as long as 40 years is so that it possesses a great spiritual merit. Otherwise, God could establish the reign of Islam in one year if He wished so. However, the believers would earn one year’s worth of spiritual merit in that case. God extended the period of the system of Mahdi to 40 years so that it has great spiritual merit.

There would be no trial in this world if people who have no faith, mock religion, and are against Islam did not exist. God creates such people even if they do not exist in the first place. They have to exist so that believers can be compared to them, so that their trial gains meaning through them.

Some people assume they will live for all eternity in this world but they will certainly pass away in quite a short period of time.

Satan, the self, dissentious people, blood-shedders, warmongers, thieves, evil people; all are a part of the trial. "If it weren't for " some people say. They will always exist. If the trial exists, so will they. What you must do is to respond to them patiently through wisdom and willpower and defeat them.

What God wants is to make us love Him, He wants draw attention to Him and test us. People do not know the value of beauty without suffering.

This life is short, our life in hereafter is the real one.

Khidr (pbuh) tests people from time to time just as the way he tested the Prophet Moses (pbuh). People do not realize they are being tested by him. He not only tests but also educates people.

Without profound love, there will be no meaning to Heaven. That is why we are taking a very thorough education with a difficult trial in this world. Without this training, there will be no meaning to Heaven.

People become obsessed with this world in vain. This world is hollow and a very difficult place of trial. In the end everyone ends up in a coffin.

The more difficulties one encounters, the more favorable it becomes in the Sight of God for him. That's why being disabled or having illnesses becomes instrumental to attain great good deeds.

There is the joy of faith in difficulties and hardships. One needs to experience the joy and the beauty of them.

The palaces, the rivers, the fruits of Heaven; none of them would have a meaning if it weren't for love, for passion. And to achieve true love, we have to go through training, through suffering.

God wants us to love Him sincerely and honestly and this is possible only through trial. By going through trial, we witness our love towards God as well.

God constantly shows people that this world is transient. Heaven is the real abode. God constantly draws attention to love towards Him.

This life is not for getting rich, or pursuing worldly goals. This life is to love and fear God.

The Dajjal movement wants people to consider life as pointless and vain. It wants people to have the sole purpose of getting rich and married or just procreation and watching soccer games, etc. Those people usually live without thinking about the Hereafter, remembering it only on their deathbed.

Many people cannot understand that this world is a place of trial. Their workplaces and the things they do at work make them forget the trial.

Family, getting married, having children are all matters that the hypocrites prefer to religion. That is why they remain irresolute between religion and their idols. Hypocrites idolize their families; they idolize their children. They regard them as leverage against Islam.

If you run after the transient world, God would make it constantly run away from you and the world would then become a trouble for you. However, the world would become beautiful with self-sacrificing people. For instance, our Prophet (saas) was very altruistic and selfless. His companions were very altruistic and selfless. None of them were self-seeking. Societies with self-seeking people collapse.

Many people are after their own pleasure and their own joy and use Islam to that end. They keep busy with their trade, looking for ways to eat, drink and travel, to get married and get on with their lives. This is the mindset of a great portion of the Islamic world. That is why God ruins the Islamic world. God wants them to turn towards Him yet they do not. God says, "You are after the transient blessings of this world but the Hereafter is the abode that is auspicious and beautiful, if you only knew."

God turns the world into a living hell for those that forget God, and chase the world instead. With their darkened faces, they live unhappily.

The only One to be revered is God. He is the Greatest, He is Omnipotent.

The only real solution for Syria and Iraq is the union of the Islamic world. The Islamic Union must be established.