Adnan Oktar A9 TV, May, 1st 2012

BECAUSE LOVE IS FROM ALLAH, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO DIRECT THE LOVE WITH ATTENTION. It is a unscrupulousness to withdraw one’s attention from Allah. ONE NEEDS TO FOCUS HIS ATTENTION ON ALLAH AND DO WITH HIS UTMOST CARE.

Allah always says in the Qur’an, “People are cruel and ignorant, ungrateful and give little thanks to Allah.” Somehow people’s minds have been divorced from Allah. That is why while calling on Allah we need to say, “MY LORD MAKE MY ATTENTION BE ALWAYS UPON YOU” but we also need to implore, “MY LORD! GRANT ME A PROFOUND LOVE FOR YOU THAT IS PURIFIED FROM ANY DOUBTS.”

It is also Allah Who gives the love for Himself. It is also Allah Who gives that strength. Once a person attains it, he attains the greatest blessing. He is relieved from a ton of troubles. He feels enormous ease.

ONCE ALL LOVE IS DIRECTED TO ALLAH, DEPENDENCE ON SLEEP BECOMES VERY LITTLE. For instance, our Prophet (saas) slept very little because his body was not harmed.

ONE NEEDS TO FOCUS ALL HIS ATTENTION WITH A SHARP JOY, KEEN FAITH AND ATTENTION. We need to mature our faith and love and while doing this one needs to think rationally and reasonably to attain it.

ONE NEEDS TO DEVOTE ALL HIS ATTENTION TO ALLAH, HAVING NO DOUBT OF HIM. THEN A RELIEVED, HONEST, WISE FAITH COMES INTO BEING.

People are inclined to possessions and a believer gives that possession he loves to Allah. He gives. The soul is Allah’s, and a person gives that soul to Allah, grants him back to Allah. This comes to mean the expression of Allah.

One needs to focus all his attention and love on Allah.

ALLAH MAKES HIM THE MAHDI ONLY BECAUSE HE TOLERATES SUFFERING AND TROUBLE, AND BECAUSE OF HIS SINCERE LOVE OF ALLAH. In a time span of ten thousand, twenty thousand years, Allah grants that blessing, the blessing of being the Mahdi, only to him. Only because of his endurance to that hardship and trouble.

If a person goes through the suffering of Hazrat Mahdi (as) only for a day, a person who does not act in compliance with the Qur’an, may Allah forbid, may deny Allah. Only one day. While it stirs up one’s love for Allah, it may make a person with weak faith lose his belief. That is the secret of the test.

HAVE A LOVEABLE OUTLOOK ON LIFE. ALLAH CREATED THE WORLD WITH LOVE. It is not Almighty Allah’s intention to persecute us and fill all of Hell with us. There is a verse in the Qur’an which relates, “What would Allah do by persecuting you?”

If you say you are in love with Allah, how will you show that love? The struggle you make against hardship, advocating the Beloved One under the hardest of circumstances and siding with Him. Then your faith, love and compassion becomes evident. Otherwise it is not recognized.

Allah does not love insincere love. Allah loves the genuine lover. The one who really loves Him.

ALLAH WANTS TO BE LOVED, BUT HE WANTS TO BE LOVED PROPERLY. Normally even a human being feels offended when he is normally loved. How does one want to be loved? He demands deep love, very intense love.

NOTICE THAT MANY BIGOTS DO NOT LIKE ALLAH. They also do not like our Prophet (saas). They love their sheikhs, their hodjas, their scholars. They love their idols who are their own men.

Why would Allah put an end to the love of a person who is in love? Who would want the love to be stopped? Allah, in no way, wants that. That is why ALLAH WANTS TO BE LOVED FOR ALL ETERNITY. BUT WITH LOVE, NOT WITH SOME SUPERFICIAL LOVE, NOT WITH AN AVERAGE LOVE.

The one who is beautiful takes pleasure from the appreciation of that beauty. This is an inspiration of Allah to us. ALLAH ALSO LIKES TO BE APPRECIATED. ALLAH LIKES US TO BE IN LOVE WITH HIM. ALLAH LIKES TO BE LOVED WITH PASSION.

ALTHOUGH ALLAH DESERVES AN INFINITE LOVE, PEOPLE DON’T GIVE HIM ENOUGH LOVE. THEY DON’T APPRECIATE HIM VERY MUCH. That is why, Allah says, “They do not measure Allah with His true measure.” THE FACT IS, HOWEVER, ALLAH MUST BE LOVED WITH ZEAL. ALL THESE BEAUTIES BELONG TO HIM. All this passion must be diverted to Him. Almighty Allah deserves it.

To Whom do the images belong? They belong to Allah. To Whom does our love belong? To Allah. How can one forget about Allah? There is such an abnormality. Allah wants us to be thankful, and in return He says that He will increase His blessings upon Us. That is because everything belongs to Him.

Allah wants to love and be loved for all eternity.

ALLAH PUTS US ON TRIAL, FOR ALMIGHTY ALLAH WANTS GENUINE LOVE. If everyone loves one another like robots, if Allah made it obligatory for them, you would be loving each other under compulsion. That is not what Allah wants. ALLAH WANTS US TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER AMID PAIN, SUFFERING AND HARDSHIP.

THE BODY IS TORN MOSTLY BECAUSE OF FORGETTING ALLAH. THE BODY SUFFERS A LOT. The body pulls itself together by sleeping. It recovers from that enormous destruction only by sleeping.

WEAKNESS OF FAITH, FORGETTING ALLAH CAUSES ENORMOUS DESTRUCTION TO THE BODY. THE BODY IS DEVASTATED. That poor body collects itself only by sleeping for seven or eight hours.

We are not created in a way to find it difficult to have faith. WE ARE CREATED IN A WAY TO BELIEVE IN AN EASY MANNER. But a person assumes that there are very intricate notions, and he has to make tremendous effort. That is out of the question. The only thing is to OPEN ONE'S CONSCIOUSNESS AND LET IT BE RELAXED. That is it.

The conscience of a person has to be extremely at ease. He will be honest to the end. He will cease to worry about this world, for this world is a lie, not real. We see that this world is only an illusion. There is no point in bothering for this world. But we attain this idea only by thinking in a sincere manner. We do not urge ourselves to think this way, thinking that this world is really alluring.