Adnan Oktar A9 TV; April 9th, 2016

All words related to marriage in the Qur'an including tazwij, zawj, zawja are used with meanings of matrimony between men and women. There is no indication of only men in any of these verses.

Many marriages today are like corporate contracts. Women question the income of men, men question women's ability to clean; the lack of love here is quite obvious.

In paradise, spouses will have deep passion for one another. Men and women will never think of any illegitimate sexual relations.

The fact that hypocrites’ understanding of marriage is based on looting of the other party’s property shows their vileness even more.

The aim in the marriages of hypocrites is to extort the other person’s property. They calculate every step of this extortion.

I never married because my whole time is devoted to God, to Islam and to spreading the beautiful message of Islam.

Some women are so fixated on marriage for material reasons that they turn mad. They don't give importance to God –may God forbid- as they attach to marriage.

Muslims aim the good pleasure of God when choosing the person they will marry. In marriage, Muslims make their choices considering the other person’s morality and piety, not occupation and income level.

If one gets married simply to reproduce, he would be like an animal. If one goes to school only for his own interests, he would be an egotistical, ordinary person. But if one lives for the good pleasure of God in all things, he would have a lofty and superior goals. Then Almighty God gives him a clear mind, plentitude, facility and beauty.

Women are beautiful beings created only to serve God. Those men who think ladies exist to serve them are grossly mistaken. One should marry a woman to experience true love with her, as a reflection of love for God. But some people wrongly view women as an object.

Marriage is a lifetime promise of friendship. How can a person leave someone whom he hopes to be friends in Heaven? This could never happen.

Marriage should be based on a desire to please God. While choosing a significant other, one must ask if that person is devoted to God. In choosing spouses, one must choose a partner for eternity and see if they love God, intellectually work to spread Islam and is selfless or not.

Men’s criterion on marriage is also material: They treat a woman from a rich family differently than they treat a woman from a poorer family. This is very wrong.

Young women see marriage as a way out sometimes. It is a pity that due to a fear of the future, they consider marriage as an institution of financial guarantees and put up with the disrespectful attitudes of men.

Marriage is an act of worship. With marriage, one chooses her/his companion in the Hereafter. One gets married for the love of God to be able to fully experience love, passion and the most beautiful feelings.

A believer only weeps out of joy and happiness. He would never cry out of grief.

The love of believers for one another infiltrates their cells. Every cell in the body recognizes love and finds life in love. Lovelessness makes one suffer.

Neither our Jewish citizens nor Israel should feel concerned; Israel must not call its citizens back.

Believers should always be cheerful. Humans are created weak and such a being cannot afford to feel grief; that would destroy him.

Let the joy, beauty, excitement of faith spread all over. We want the happiness, beauty of heaven. We do not want tears. Believers should not cry and should always be happy. There is an attempt to hurt believers with grief.

A believer will never defy God, and will be content with Him no matter what happens. He will always trust God.

Men can flee the PKK, but women cannot. The PKK catches them, rapes and kills them.

We want large praying rooms everywhere, in schools, hospitals, shopping malls. Especially rooms for ladies should be very well kept. Ladies should be given separate, spacious, nice places to pray and take ablution, so that they will have no difficulty in crammed places.

My new book about the ordeal of the Rohingya people is out and will be available in English soon. Rohingyas are great people. They suffered a lot. We are sending our deepest regards to them.

It is crucial that mosques are clean, spotless, very well maintained, kept, and airy.