Adnan Oktar A9 TV; January 8th, 2017

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Most people stay away from performing prayers because bigots portray it like it is a difficult practice. On the contrary, it is very easy and brings happiness. Turning prayer/ablution into difficult practices, is satan’s plot. Allah explains ablution in one verse in Qur’an. But some people write 300-page books explaining it.

Islam is an easy religion, easy to practice. It only takes sincerity and earnestness.

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.

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.

God has made all commandments in the Qur'an explicit, everything is crystal clear. Islam does not include ambiguities.

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.

Assuming that Islam kills all the good aspects of life like arts and science, people distance themselves from religion. However Islam is joy and life itself. People say they will live by religion when they grow old because they believe Islam is a system that will depress them. But Islam removes all the rules that oppress people.

Bigots preach a religion that is impossible to live by as if it is Islam, but they don’t practice it as they preach either. In fact, Islam in the Qur’an is very easy to live by.

Islam is very easy to live by as it is based on sincerity and love. What every believer reads and understands from the Qur’an is sufficient.

Religion is very easy. We will be sincere and follow what God inspires to our hearts.

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.

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

Some circles misrepresented Islam as if it were introverted, joyless and far removed from freedoms. It is not possible to live by the religion they portray. Many people who appear to be conservative do not even perform their prayers. Because they have presented prayers as if it were an intricate, complex form of worship that is impossible to perform. The religion God described in the Qur’an is easy.