Adnan Oktar A9 TV; April 26th, 2016

There is neither neighborhood pressure in Islam, nor rules prescribed by the world. Rules people have invented take away the joy of life. Islam removes all the pressure of the streets or which customs enforce, and it gives utmost freedom to people.

Arts, entertainment, beauty and music are not forbidden in Islam. They ruined the Islamic world by taking all the beauties away from Muslims.

They can’t believe that women can be free or that people can be happy. God doesn't want difficulty for people, He wants freedom for them.

It is an evil system to complicate religion to the point of being impracticable, and devastating religion by creating a population unable to live it. However, God offers us a straightforward religion through the Quran, a religion that can be lived by all the communities. Bigots make people abandon it and adopt a religious conception that is impracticable and hellish instead.

They think that it is heroic to complicate Islam to the point of being impracticable. They want plenty of things to be rendered unlawful. Yet they don’t even refrain from committing the deeds declared unlawful by themselves. They say, "Otherwise everything would become lawful". That is the way Islam is; everything is lawful. Unlawful deeds are in the few. Such compulsion has no place in Islam. Prayers are quite easy to perform as well. Bigots are devastating the religion by complicating it.

Islam religion is promoted as a hell by those abiding by the traditionalist Orthodox Islamic conception. The religion they promote is like a system that is bent on clouding the mind, insight and foresight, destroying all its vital aspects, eliminating art, aesthetic and beauty, one that virtually despises happiness of people. It is a system that ruins people by turning them into schizophrenics. It is impossible for people to maintain a normal mental and physical health within the confines of the traditionalist Orthodox system.

Satan wants to drown people in details in order to alienate them from prayer. Bigots complicate prayer by listing thousands of things that will render the prayer invalid; however, performing prayer is quite easy. That is why God did not go into detail in the Qur'an regarding prayer; He only mentions ruqu [bowing down], sujud [prostration] and qiyam [standing up]. Perform your prayer and leave: That is it.

There is no difficulty in Islam: God wants it to be convenient as He emphasizes that in verses multiple times, and says that the Prophet Abraham’s (as) religion is easy. In another verse He says, “God desires ease for you; He does not desire difficulty for you.” (2/185) Islam is like a festival; it is a religion of joy. Things like hanging people, cutting them up, beating people, blasphemy, making women’s lives miserable do not exist in it. Islam considers women to be flowers.

Our understanding of the high-spirited Islam is the Qur'an's way of being a Muslim. All beautiful things are a part of Islam.

Traditional Muslims want religion to be difficult and most are almost obsessive about it. They usually can’t see that the Qur’an is sufficient.

The human mind can’t work well under strain. That’s why God made religion easy. God wants people to be at ease.

One of the features of the Mahdi movement is that it will call people kindly to what is right and will make religion easier as it is the Qur’an.

Religion is love, it is relief, beauty, exhilaration and joy. It enables you to use the blessings of God legitimately in the most beautiful manner. An understanding of religion which claims that it is an offense to turn right or to turn left, to look upwards or to look downwards, is not acceptable. That would devastate people make them psychopathic and cause them lose their sanity. It is cruelty to complicate religion. And they are carrying out this cruelty without being aware of it.

Some people think that they would get even closer to God as they complicate religion. Actually you would end up in Hell for failing to give an account for keeping people away from God's religion. One should show people the ease in religion, just like God has revealed.

Making religion difficult is a cruelty inflicted upon the whole world. That is because people suffer anguish when they become estranged to religion.

‘’We did not send down the Qur'an to you to make you miserable." (Surah Ta-Ha, 2) One would think. Do you not understand? If you are miserable that means you are on the wrong path, if you are having difficulties that means you are on the wrong path. Islam is a religion of ease.

Islam is a pure and easy religion. Islam is embedded in the social life. God exists everywhere; while running, having fun, in all spheres of life. God is remembered everywhere.

Religion is not difficult as presented by some traditionalist Muslims. Those who are used to seeing religion as superstitious polytheist traditions are surprised to see that religion is actually very easy.

God informs us that He made the Qur’an easy for seeking advice. But those with a polytheistic mindset lie by saying that it is difficult to understand the Qur’an.

When you abide by the easy religion of God, when you abide by Islam that is natural, pure belief, the religion of Mohammed (saas), you go to Heaven. But in the religion you make difficult with superstitions, in the religion you rarified and made impossible to live by, you go to Hell. Both your world and your Hereafter will be Hell. Why are you looking for such trouble?

God creates easiness for us and deems us successful in easiness. Those who look for difficulty are ruined; they are defeated, they are crushed. All those looking for traditionalist Islam, for orthodox Islam, are crushed. Who needs that; why would you change the immaculately radiant religion of God? Why do you raise difficulties while God has created religion of ease? How nice it is, live joyfully.

You might be doing something wrong if you have difficulty in living religion. It means you are not putting the Qur'an into practice. That is because there is no difficulty in the Qur'an, there is no difficulty in Islam. It is always easiness. Islam is the religion of easiness.

Islam is the religion of ease, not difficulty. But radicals have made it very difficult, so much so that it became impossible to live by. That is why a great portion of the people in the Islamic world do not live by Islam.

Some people follow what they learned from their ancestors, and not God’s commands. However, the Qur’an is sufficient as our guide and Islam is easy to practice.

Religion does not complicate things. On the contrary, God only expects sincerity and honesty. Religion is easy and simple.