Adnan Oktar

It is very easy to drag a society into pessimism. If someone says “we are ruined” then all other people would sink into pessimism, but if someone revives them, then the mood of these people can easily be changed. Hazrat Mahdi (as) is assigned by Allah for this task. He will revive everyone. After Hazrat Mahdi (as) passes away, the Prophet Jesus (as) will lead. However, after the Prophet Jesus (as) passes away, there will be no one who will be a pillar of society.

We need to live through and face some struggles and oppositions. It makes us more passionate and enthusiastic as we go through such a challenging environment.

Some circles want Jews, Christians and Muslims to be each other's enemy, they want us to be in war and shed each other's blood. That is the plot of the satan. The Christians, Jews and Muslims will live by their own beliefs individually as they know it. However they will all approach each other friendly and brotherly, and with compassion. It is natural that every religion thinks that it is the true religion.

Being the Mahdi (pbuh) is a matter of success, not of claiming to be him. We will realize someone is the Mahdi (pbuh) through his success. One cannot want to be the Mahdi (pbuh). Being the Mahdi has to be in one's destiny. Those people's claims to be the Mahdi are therefore wrong in all those regards.

Love is much stronger than violence, love is a thousand times greater than violence. And violence is something repulsive, it has the opposite effect on modern, civilized people. People are influenced by love, scientific accounts, suggestion, sincerity and beauty. All the prophets have preached the faith in that way. There is no compulsion in the faith.

Realistic speech is very important. People are used to various types turning up in the name of religion. They see there is a very sincere and honest conception of Islam. Every explanation is highly rational, based on the Qur’an, free from any nonsense, founded on honesty and friendship and based on reality, and no account is at all illogical. Who can resist that? How? Conscience would never permit it.

Our brothers can eliminate the influence of the dajjal by constantly talking about the way of the Mahdi. One cannot lift the hypnotic spell on people by telling them just once, one has to keep on talking about it.

The way of the Mahdi is a thunderbolt hurled against the dajjal by Allah.

The way of the dajjal affords all kinds of means to those who do not harm its religion. The way of the dajjal is expert at making the world captive with very few numbers. One cannot think any good of the way of the dajjal. It is unacceptable, at a time when the way of the dajjal enfolds the world, not to speak against and wage an intellectual campaign against it.

Merit will decline enormously once Islamic moral values have rules the world. Because there will be no pain and suffering and nothing to display fortitude over. There will be no difficulties. Everything may be delightful and easy and fine, but merit will be very low. That is why Almighty Allah is leaving it to the last moment. Almighty Allah is spreading the way of the Mahdi over 40 years so that Muslims can earn very much merit. The death of the dajjal is taking 40 years. That is explicitly stated in the hadiths.

“How can we wait for the Mahdi? How will these 10 years ever pass?” They will pass very excellently, with conversation and talk. There could be no way of the Mahdi without these other times. The finest years of the way of the Mahdi are these years. These are the hardest, but the best years. Afterward, Islam will rule the world. The Mahdi (as) will sit at home and talk, and they will travel about but the merit earned will be very low. In other words, if one earns a trillion merits in difficult times it will not be possible to earn so much in easier times.

The way of the dajjal prevents Muslims remembering Allah. The prohibition on prayer across the world is the way of the dajjal. But the way of the Mahdi will never submit to that.

[As an analogy], the fact of creation is like an ocean while the theory of evolution was like a drop, but we have even evaporated that drop.

The most effective matter for people to come to faith is the truth about matter. Most people do not know that images form in the brain. But the truth of the life of this world, paradise, hell and the hereafter all become crystal clear in the mind of one who knows the truth about matter.

Our Prophet (saas) had a perfect attitude toward women. Love of woman stems from love of Allah. Love for a child, flowers or cats and dogs all stems from love of Allah. But hypocrites do not realize this as they have no love of Allah.

By Allah’s leave, with the counter-offensive of faith against the hypocrite onslaught greater merit can be earned from such obligatory observances as prayer and fasting.

In the period of Hazrat Mahdi (as); like the collapse of Darwinism and materialism, bigotry and obscurantism will be wiped out. The system of the Mahdi will sweep over obscurantism so much so that it will never come out again. But just after the period of the Mahdi (as) time, communism will rise from the grave again; though [the terror of] the doomsday will break out over those [communists]. That form of communism will be a much more corrupt and bloodier form.

I am stating clearly that, Islam will prevail all around the world and those who are expecting bigotry will see a very modern and quality way of life. The Age of Bliss and bigotry are totally different. Furthermore, atheists and communists will say “if we knew it would be like this, we would have supported it with all our hearts”.

Muslims are rational, affectionate, compassionate, forgiving, respectful, and are humble towards all ideas. They treat Christians, Jews and members of other faiths with respect and watch over their security, honor, integrity and everything else. If they do not do this, they have nothing to do with Islam. They may have original ideas, or be under the influence of Darwinism. They perhaps hold Marxist views. They may be supporting anarchist terrorism. For that reason, it is not enough to say they are Muslims. If they are Muslims they must behave as Islam requires. If they do not, then I think there is little logic in referring to them as Muslims.

The infinite past and infinite future were created in an infinitely short space of time. We must try to understand Allah’s profound knowledge in time and space.

The whole issue is one of making people have faith. It is easy once they have faith; they will pray and fast and give alms and go on the hajj. That is why the signs leading to faith are so important. They must encourage them to visit my web sites to increase their faith. They must watch us on satellite every evening.

A prayer against Hazrat Mahdi (as) will enfold the person who prays. The more Hazrat Mahdi (as) is slandered the finer he will grow.

There can be no Islamic Union without the way of the Mahdi. Islamic countries will not unite. Shiite Iran will not accept a Sunni leader. Neither will a Sunni country accept Shiite leadership. And there can be no Islamic Union under such circumstances. But Shiites will also accept Hazrat Mahdi (as), and Sunnis, and Alawites, and Bektashis and Wahabbists. Christians will also accept him, and Jews. Because Christians and Jews are awaiting Hazrat Mahdi (as).

There was a desire to spread the faith in the time of our Prophet (saas). People concentrated on collecting around our Prophet (saas), being together there and being united. At present, some people regard the fragmentation of Muslims as perfectly legitimate. And that leads to a lack of fertility and potency.

The students of Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be known for their gentleness and cleanliness and will closely resemble one another.