Adnan Oktar A9 TV; February 14th, 2018

Let us develop a very modern Turkey in line with the Qur’an, shaped with the understanding of freedom defined in the Qur’an. If Turkey becomes ultra-modern, if women are provided an environment in which they would live freely as they like, if freedoms are broadened, Turkey would become the strongest state of Europe.

One should enjoy utmost freedom under the condition that he would not do harm to others. The Qur’an is the Book that describes freedom.

Religion would not destroy one's life. Religion gives joy to life. When people are religious they become lively, joyous and full of life. Since the traditionalist understanding of Islam preaches the opposite of this, people regard being religious as being introverted and as forfeiting life. When that is the case, they wait to get older to start practicing religion. They think; ‘When I get older I will not enjoy life anyway, so I won’t be losing anything while practicing religion.” Actually religion is practiced both while young and while old. Delaying the practice of religion to one’s old age is a delusion caused by the traditionalist understanding of Islam.

The great majority of the religious conservatives do not even think of preaching religion to women who wear décolleté. It is not right to discard such a great mass. It is the responsibility of Muslims to communicate the message of God to such people as well. We are practically the only community who is able to reach that segment of the society. We have been instrumental for that segment of the society to love religion, to agree with Islam and to see the fact that religion is easy to live by.

Utmost freedom within the limits of the Qur’an, without preventing another’s happiness, without causing pain to anyone is the only limit to freedom.

Hypocrites are one of the greatest dangers facing the Islamic countries. Hypocrites present themselves as honest, rational people who live by Islam. But it is not Islam that they live by, theirs is a religion they have come up with in their minds. 99 % of the Qur’an doesn’t exist in the religion of the hypocrites.

I only abide by the Qur’an. It is freedom that I like. Both women and men should enjoy freedom. Pressure would disrupt one’s ability to think, ability to compilation, ability to create. It would depress people, get them down and disrupt their ability to speak. The Qur’an is a blessing of freedom presented to the Qur’an by God, it is the book of freedom. There is no system, no faith, no understanding of morality that brings as much freedom to people as the Qur’an does.

True religions bring freedoms. Hypocrites are jealous about the freedom religion brings and they criticize that freedom. Hypocrites unite with those who are against religion and strive together to prevent the practice of the freedoms religion brings. They do not like the religion prophets bring –may God forbid the thought. They step out with the appearance of a conservative hardliner and regard themselves superior than the prophets. Furthermore, they claim that they have even higher moral stance than God Himself, may God forbid the thought. They are incredibly jealous of the freedom the Prophets enjoy, their love for beauty, their living in wealth and abundance, their being vivacious. To cover up their jealousy, they claim that they are more conservative and that the Prophets stray away from the religion. In fact the hypocrites are super corrupted and characterless. They are vindictive, they lack quality and have aggressive souls. Hypocrites carry this same characteristics at every period of time.

Even the fiercest opponents have subconsciously accepted the real Islam that brings rationality, love, kindness, beauty and quality to the forefront, as explained in the Qur’an. Everyone is aware of the fact that there is no other livable model other than the real Islam the we are preaching.

Hypocrites constantly attack believers claiming that they are against the freedoms believers are enjoying and that freedoms should be limited somehow. They step up saying ‘We are conservative, we have greater piety and taqwa ,’ yet in fact they are incredibly corrupted. They need to present themselves as devout, honest people who have taqwa to be able to carry out their dissension, so they persistently emphasize that they are against freedoms.

In the subconscious of some people, there is a flawed logic which states that one should endure pain for religion, that people should not laugh, should not have fun and that otherwise it would not be possible to go to Heaven. According to this mentality, the flawed mindset claiming that ‘religion should be inextricably difficult for people to advance well in religion,’ prevails among them. In fact, Islam always brings the freedom of Heaven. All true religions, including the religion the Prophet Abraham brought, the one the Prophet Solomon brought and the religion our Prophet (saas) brought bring the spirit, the beauty, the freedom, the quality and the joy of Heaven. The hypocritical systems on the other hand bring the dilemma of hell, the fruitlessness and the torment of hell. With the Qur’an, Our Prophet (saas) brought utmost freedom and preached this to people. God deemed the freedoms people want in their hearts lawful with the Qur’an. He removed all the pressures on people. Commands bringing freedoms came one after the other with the Qur’an. God removed the heavy chains on people. As the freedoms enjoyed by the believers increased, the hypocrites got jealous and imagined that they had thus attained an advantage in front of the public. They tried to influence people by saying ‘we are more conservative, they are (the prophets and the companions) are living by religion easier and are changing our religion.” All the hypocrites talk about is their criticisms about how the Prophet lived religion. They state that they do not trust the Prophet in every speech they make. They regard every command about the freedoms God revealed to our Prophet with suspicion. Those hypocrites with that treacherous and ignoble mentality became stronger after our Prophet (saas) passed away and created the foundation of the Orthodox Islamic understanding. They added their own horrifying interpretations that humiliate women and claim that women are satanic and should be beaten as if they were in Islam. Muslims that came afterwards claimed that false, fabricated interpretations unknowingly as if they were the commands of God. We will insha’Allah correct this error that reached today from those days by preaching the true Islam as explained in the Qur’an.

One other good aspect of our activities is that we have an understanding that conciliates the conservative part of the society with the secular part. There is a lack of communication between these two parts that is being used by those who want to dissociate the society. Many examples of these have been experienced in the past. Our activities are of crucial importance to avoid experiencing similar incidents again. Both parts are the children of this country, both sides are valuable. When there is a rigid understanding, it would not be possible for the conservative part to reach people who live by the shores, to the secular ones. Both sides continue their lives among themselves. By explaining the fact that the Qur’an brings democracy, secularity and freedom, we remove the prejudices of both parties. But it seems as though some bigots are determined to divide society, so we are trying to correct this. We will insha’Allah live together as brothers with love.

Claiming that it is not possible to have fun and entertainment in an environment in which the Qur’an and religion is discussed would mean taking Islam out of a wide expanse of life. The Qur’an is everywhere in Anatolia, they are dancing halay and have their weddings in houses where there are copies of the Qur’an. Women and men of Black Sea play horon together. They have the Qur’an with them as well. In the Southeast of Turkey, women dance halay together with men. They too have the Qur’an. God’s name is mentioned and verses are read, the Prophets are talked about in djemevi in which women and men whirl together. Do they think all those should be banned as well? Since such a thing would not be acceptable, it is important to create an environment in which people will be able live according to their thoughts and their faiths comfortably.

Bigotry is the plot of the satan; it is the religion of satan. Islam is the religion in the Qur’an. Islam is a pure and immaculately radiant religion. Bigotry is like mixing milk with poison. Islam is the religion of good manners, joy, high quality, vivacity, happiness, love and peace.

Satan wants to complicate religion. In fact God deemed religion easy. In the Qur’an, God says : “God desires ease for you; He does not desire difficulty for you.” (Surat al-Baqara, 185) “We will ease you to the Easy Way.” (Surat al-A’la, 8) “He (God) has selected you and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion — the religion of your forefather Ibrahim.” (Surat al-Hajj, 78)

Some people believe that they need to behave arrogantly in order to prevent being crushed when they see an arrogant person. Actually arrogance is something that humiliates and disgraces that person. Some people believe that they need to behave arrogantly in order to prevent being crushed when they see an arrogant person. In high-schools and social environments many people gather around an arrogant person even though they all hate that person. That is why the others falsely believe that being arrogant is important and precious. Actually arrogance is something that humiliates and disgraces that person. An arrogant person is half-insane. That is because without religion people fail to make correct evaluations and define weird criteria so they start to make zig zags. God shows us the importance of religion once more. A person who approaches matters with the morality of the Qur’an would understand the matters precisely.

Those who lie in God’s name made it impossible to live by religion. Most of them do not practice their own lies and those who do live in pain.

Accepting jokes about religion as normal and ordinary only shows how far removed a person is from religion. A believer would never accept that.

A truly sincere person has a soul. A person who has a soul is created with faith in heart; that person would find religion no matter what.

A person who constantly thinks about God, who loves God and is sincere all the time would always think good. Those who submit themselves to God would think in the best manner all the time.

A person’s sincerity would instantly be understood from the cordiality in his manners and language. One feels at ease and peaceful in the presence of a sincere person. The negativity of the insincere person would be felt instantly. Our Prophet (saas) was a very sincere person, people felt very at ease and safe in his presence. Hazrat Hamza came to him while he was fully armed yet he instantly found tranquility and peace when he saw our Prophet’s positive tone and electricity.

A profound love for God is required before all else for respect to exist. Once one’s attention is constantly given to God, respect would come about. Otherwise selfishness would develop and people would almost be reduced to a bestial state and become aggressive.

A strong movement of dajjal is necessary for the trial of Muslims. What is miraculous is that those who believe are able to defeat the system of the dajjal despite their limited means. The Prophet Abraham defeated all the armies of Nimrod with his limited means, so did the Prophet Moses and our Prophet. God says the followings in the Qur’an: “Those who are unbelievers should not imagine that the extra time We grant to them is good for them. We only allow them more time so they will increase in evildoing. They will have a humiliating punishment.” (Surah Al-Imran, 176) “Do not be deceived by the fact that those who do not believe move freely about the earth. A brief enjoyment; then their shelter will be Hell. What an evil resting-place!” (Surah Al-Imran, 196,197)

All hardships, all troubles are created with wisdom to bring goodness. No hardship could ever come about accidentally. Everything is created neatly, systematically and orderly in a timely manner.

Ataturk was a classy, devout person. Those who protect the values Ataturk brought should be modern, enlightened, high quality, class and devout. Protecting the values Ataturk brought is only possible by emulating his devoutness, his living by Islam as described in the Qur’an, his kindness, his good manners and high quality.