Adnan Oktar A9 TV; December 19th, 2015

Some people imagine that having fun would draw the Wrath of God. Actually not being loved, being forgotten, ungratefulness and a lack of love draw the Wrath of God.

The British deep state is trying to replace Islam with Rumism. Muslims should be very cautious against this plot.

There is no hatred for Jews and Christians in Islam. On the contrary, they are protected as the People of Book in the Qur'an. A Muslim cannot have any aversion neither to them, nor to their places of worship. God tells us in the Qur'an that Muslims may marry Jewish and Christian ladies; indeed, some of the wives of our Prophet (saas) were Jewish and Christian.

Of course we can have music and dancing and fun. You must not add artificial prohibitions to the faith. And then Islam will rule the world.

People are preaching religion wrongly. They are talking of it as a horrible and inextricable system. Praise be to God, being the radiant face of Islam, we have spoiled that plot of the satan. Or else Islamaphobia is a system that could annihilate all Muslims.

We are the radiant face of Islam for the whole world. When those who know Islam as a horrible, introverted, loveless system that has a grudge against women, that has turned life into a horror, see Islam as we live it, when they see Islam as it was lived at the time of the Companions, they feel an admiration for Islam. And they recognize that Islam is their salvation. Otherwise, they are all in misery.

Why are you pushing for difficulty? There is music in Islam, there are arts. You can laugh and have fun, you can dance as you like and perform your prayers as well. Then you can go travel and swim if you like. Killing every aspect of social life has no place in Islam. You deem all lawful things unlawful. God has given all those to you as blessings, and by wiping out these blessings, you are struggling against the religion of God.

The Islamic community lives in a festive environment with an amazing enthusiasm. Everyone goes to each other's homes for sleep-overs, for dinners. They visit one another. For instance, let us say that one will build a home, everyone goes there and helps out and they build it together. They are served food there and eat together.

They superfluously make Islam into something horrible. Wherever there is something awful, they attach it to Islam. There is no such thing. Islam is like a spring festival.

Music is lawful by religion, paintings are lawful, having fun is lawful, sculpture is lawful. I mean, lawful things are innumerable. Things that are forbidden by religion are concisely defined in the Qur'an and they are very few. God says, 'I have deemed everything other than those lawful for you.' How do you come up with all those forbidden acts on your own?

The presumed Islamic commandments such as 'women are evil, they shouldn't wear nice clothes, they shouldn't be allowed to go out' are [nothing but] the products of bigotry and they have no place in Islam.

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.

Arts, entertainment, beauty and music are not forbidden in Islam. They ruined the Islamic world by taking all the beauties away from Muslims.

It is alright to listen to music, it is alright to have fun and to laugh. Anything to the contrary would disrupt human nature; it would destabilize one's balance. May God forbid, you would make yourself fall ill if you disrupt your nature. Be joyous, be happy, have fun, laugh and be playful. That is how God created you. Otherwise, you turn in on yourself, you become ill, your health would then be disrupted, you would then lose your strength to think. It also makes it impossible for you to live by Islam.

God will create entertainment and beauty duly in paradise. God created this world with imperfections on purpose.

By taking music, science, entertainment away from Muslims, they have developed an introverted Muslim style that has no joy of life. They wanted Muslims to be introverted, insecure and completely deprived of the beauties of life. We foiled that devious plot. To counter the plot to shut Muslims away in ghettos, we kept repeating that faith should be everywhere; in beaches, clubs, etc. They claimed that Muslims are tasteless, crude and don't know how to have fun. Muslims live life to the fullest, deserve the best. They kept women from approaching Islam and tried to insult and oppress them with decrees that have no place in Islam. They made life a living hell not for only women but also for the youth. They created a fake religion where everything is punishable by death. They created such a wrong religious model, people thought embracing Islam would be like hell (surely Islam is beyond this). We destroyed that wrong thinking with the Qur’an.

A person who ponders deeply over bees, spiders, flies would end up out of breath due to fascination. If thought about in a shallow fashion, a person may fall in heedlessness.

Some people never accept patience and ordeals, yet ask directly for blessings. That is unacceptable. You can neither attain Heaven like that nor attain the good pleasure of God. This is a place of trial not a place of fun. Almighty God says, "If We had desired to have some amusement, We would have derived it from Our Presence, but We did not do that." Heaven is the place of amusement, there is no such thing in this world.

The human mind is very open to unawareness. On a single strand of hair there is the complete information about that person. But those who are heedless do not think about this great miracle in the human DNA.

Intelligence observed in the atom, molecule and chromosome is much superior compared to that of man. People don't ponder due to an evil ignorance.

Hypocrites want to pull Muslims away from remembering God by making them fall into blindness. They are adrift in blindness despite the fact that time of death is so close. “Mankind’s Reckoning has drawn very close to them, yet they heedlessly turn away.” (Qur’an, 21/1)

Some people forget about aggrieved Muslims all over the world and fall into blindness by making excuses of worries of making a living. This is relentlessness. Those who fall into blindness worrying over making a living forget that they will leave everything behind with death. They are sort of in a race of blindness.

Almighty God, the Almighty Creator, conceals Himself. He opens the veil for those who love and closes that veil to those who look at things with heedlessness so that they cannot see. That is the same for the Mahdi (pbuh); God opens the veil on the Mahdi for those who love Him and does not let those who do not love Him see that person.

It is not possible to understand that people do not remember God although they are aware of the system in vision, hearing and touch. That is great unawareness.

If we become a very modern country, a very enlightened country, if we attain the highest levels in the rights of women, if we become outstanding in arts, science, aesthetics and quality, we would become the strongest country in the world. Otherwise we would be a country that inevitably remains in the chain of Middle Eastern countries. Everyone would walk all over us and we would be devastated, may God forbid.