Adnan Oktar A9 TV; March 2nd, 2016

God wants to be loved. Because without love, Heaven would lose its meaning. The universe would lose its meaning; everything would lose its meaning. They all find meaning in love and passion.

The palaces, the rivers, the fruits of Heaven; none of them would have a meaning if it weren't for love, for passion. And to achieve true love, we have to go through training, through suffering.

In this world the trial we are living is a seemingly one; actually, in the esoteric sense, we are being educated, this world is a course. Because God already knows what we will do. He is the One Who created us. In other words, God knows what we will do since eternally before. We have already been here and done that. The point of this trial is to train us, to show us our true selves. God makes us face our true selves. In other words, He makes us love ourselves. He is preparing us for the afterlife.

There is a beauty, a profoundness, a delightfulness in the gaze of those whose hearts are with God. But the gaze of those whose hearts are careless and distant from God gives their true nature away. Almighty God informs us about this in the verse of the Quran: "If We wished, We would show them to you and you would know them by their mark.." What God refers to here by mark is their gaze. The reason behind their purposeless gazes is that their souls are hollow.

The fear and love of God prevents people from gazing purposelessly. There can be no explanation for the purposeless gazes of those who fear God. The gazes of those who fear God are definitely clever, piercing and watchful.

Khidr (pbuh) tests people from time to time just as the way he tested the Prophet Moses (pbuh). People do not realize they are being tested by him. He not only tests but also educates people.

Believers find excitement in the eagerness to carry out jihad, that is to say, struggling intellectually for the sake of Islam. If the hearts of people are plagued by laziness and carelessness, they grow weary and negligent. They withdraw into themselves as they do not concern themselves with religion, fear of God, or love of God. They do not feel any excitement that will reflect on their faces.

The fear and love of God the pious, faithful people posses reflect themselves on their faces, and is felt and seen as excitement. Yet it is impossible to witness this in a person with a hollow soul, body, and mind. Because they are careless as they have severed their ties with God. And as they are careless, they have lost their sense of excitement.

The love of God does not give way to laziness. A Muslim does not become lazy. He is daring, vivacious and vigilant at all times. Laziness gives rise to all kinds of troubles. May God forbid it.

The existence of God and faith in God are the greatest blessings. We love Him with a great love.

So long as the Darwinist education system exists, women murders will continue. Because the Darwinist philosophy belittles women. It takes away the love towards God, compassion, and fondness in people. On the other hand, the people with faith hold women in high regard. And this will happen in the era of the system of the Mahdi.

Satan, the self, dissentious people, blood-shedders, warmongers, thieves, evil people; all are a part of the trial. "If it weren't for " some people say. They will always exist. If the trial exists, so will they. What you must do is to respond to them patiently through wisdom and willpower and defeat them.

Knowledge might turn people towards violence. For example, they might become communists, Stalinists, terrorists. However, this is not the case for love; love is what makes us human. With love comes the fear and the love of God, the love towards others. When knowledge is combined with love, it gives rise to something magnificent.

Faith is the greatest blessing in the world. We’re believers not for the gifts God bestows upon us, but because God exists and we are in love with Him.

There would be no trial in this world if people who have no faith, mock religion, and are against Islam did not exist. God creates such people even if they do not exist in the first place. They have to exist so that believers can be compared to them, so that their trial gains meaning through them.

Because people don’t experience loving for God’s sake, their relationships often end up in pain. Happiness comes when one loves for God.

Our Prophet was a man of love. He loved women, kids, cats, everything because he had a deep love for God.

The period of the system of Mahdi is a long one. The reason this period will be as long as 40 years is so that it possesses a great spiritual merit. Otherwise, God could establish the reign of Islam in one year if He wished so. However, the believers would earn one year’s worth of spiritual merit in that case. God extended the period of the system of Mahdi to 40 years so that it has great spiritual merit.

God created an amazing environment for testing. The short human life, diseases, troubles; they are all a part of our test in this world. Most people are stuck in their test, not really seeing they’re being tested. Because they are not sincere with God, God punishes them.

Muslims should be gentle, kind and patient in the face of difficulties. All prophets had gone through difficult tests.

What God wants is to make us love Him, He wants draw attention to Him and test us. People do not know the value of beauty without suffering.

Without profound love, there will be no meaning to Heaven. That is why we are taking a very thorough education with a difficult trial in this world. Without this training, there will be no meaning to Heaven.

People become obsessed with this world in vain. This world is hollow and a very difficult place of trial. In the end everyone ends up in a coffin.

The more difficulties one encounters, the more favorable it becomes in the Sight of God for him. That's why being disabled or having illnesses becomes instrumental to attain great good deeds.

"Do not spy" (Surah al-Hujurat, 12) This verse is aimed at hypocrites who carry information about Muslims. This is the commandment of God in the Qur'an against those cowards who try to raise difficulties for Muslims by informing on them.