Adnan Oktar A9 TV; November 5th, 2015

God's cursing a nation as a whole would not befit God's justice. There is no nation cursed by God. There might be individual people God cursed because of the offenses they have committed. Those who commit crimes are the ones who are cursed. Or else what is the sense in putting the blame on children? What is the sense in blaming the descendants of people?

Animosity against Israel is presented as if it is a merit, a sign of piety or superiority. Actually animosity against the People of the Book is atrocious. We love Jews, we love Christians. We are compassionate towards atheists as well.

It is important that sincere, honest, modern -thinking pious people are at the forefront in all aspects of life. It is because such people are a guarantees for everyone: Christians, Jews, atheists: Those people fear God and won’t do anything that is not in good conscience. This is a great guarantee for everyone.

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.

In Islam, it is wrong to be averse to Jews. Surely, one can feel resentment towards those individuals who have committed sins or those who have oppressed people. In that case, those individuals should be held accountable through the legal system. But blaming the entire Israeli people, that is forbidden. It is not Islamic.

Our Prophet (pbuh) spoke with Christians and with Jews. He was friends with them. He spoke and preached to pagans and idol worshipers. That is what Islam requires.

Jews regard Muslims as faithful people, as people of faith. They regard Muslims as the people of Noah and we would regard Muslims as faithful people so long as they accept the prophethood of the prophet Mohammad (saas). They are Muslims if they perform their prayers as depicted in the Torah, if they give alms as described in the Torah and if they accept the prophethood of our Prophet Mohammed (saas): Then everything is okay.

It is a fact that the Jews are not that much liked both in Turkey and in the Middle East. That is a wrong attitude and it is against good conscience. Jews are from the line of the prophets; they are a devout community, faithful to the Prophet Moses (pbuh). Attempting to crush them, thinking that they are but few in number and easy to overpower, would bring about inauspiciousness. That would be a sin. That would be shameful. That would be lack of good conscience.

It is better for us to come across fierce communists, anarchist-Stalinists or devout Jewish people with their kippahs and ringlets, with the Torah in their hands invoking the Name of God night and day, when we go to Israel? Of course it is better to see those who invoke God. That is a great blessing. And they are showing an immense loyalty towards the Prophet Moses (pbuh) for four thousand years.

Pious Jews are pleasant people. They have been devoted to the Prophet Moses (pbuh) for thousands of years. However, satan is trying to saw the seeds of animosity among believers.

Pious Jews are quite pleasant people. They love God dearly, have good morals, are honest, and devoted to God through a passionate love. How nice it is that they have been devoted to the Prophet Moses (pbuh), devoted the Torah for 3500 years.

It is also accepted in Judaism that the Mahdi will appear in Istanbul. Ancient Judaic sources relate that the Mahdi will appear in Istanbul.

According to Jewish sources, the Mahdi (pbuh) will resemble the Prophet Moses (pbuh) the most in terms of disposition; and the Prophet Solomon (pbuh) in terms of humorousness.

The belief that Jews are cursed people don’t comply with the Qur’an. God has cursed only those who have wronged themselves in that era.

It is a pagan belief to claim that the entirety of a specific community is cursed inherently. God has cursed only those people who have committed crime and acted cruelly.

Every society harbors both good and evil people. A society cannot be collectively cursed. Such an understanding of curse is not fitting to the Qur’an.

God damns persecutors. He would not damn an entire society without separating the inoffensive ones from the persecutors. Such damnation only exists in the pagan way of thinking.

The blind hatred of Jews is diametrically opposed to the Qur'an. God would never curse an entire people.

Their knowledge about many issues is wrong. God does not curse a nation as a whole. If you claim that a newborn would also be cursed just because he is born a Jewish you would not be acting in line with the Qur’an. The child of an atheist mother and an atheist father would be innocent as well. Children are innocent. God curses the irreligious, faithless, cruel Jews, cruel idolaters, cruel hypocrites. They never mention the fact that God curses the idolaters. In many verses of the Qur’an, God talks about faithful Jews. He says not all of the People of the Book are the same. It is not in compliance with Islam to declare the whole of a nation as cursed. That is a pagan belief reminiscent from the period of the idolaters. Real Muslims differentiate the cruel ones from the aggrieved ones and protect those who are aggrieved.

May the curse of Allah be upon those who deviously attempt to divide our people. May the curse of Allah be upon those who deviously attempt to divide our nation. May the curse of Allah be upon those who deviously attempt to divide our country.

Allah would not curse a nation as a whole. Curse that is mentioned in some verses refer to those people in unbelief among that nation. Expecting an unjust approach from Allah would come to mean failing to know Allah.

Religion is like a user's manual on how to use this world. It teaches us what we should do for the Hereafter and for this world. Or else we wouldn't have known how to behave.

One should have only good opinions about God; God should never be forsaken. Good opinions about God must not ever be given up even under the most difficult conditions.

Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will start a festive period. The hearts of the people will become rich in an instant. They will give what they have to one another, they will share their money and their means and everyone will watch over one another. An immense richness will come about. Goods will be distributed profusely. The whole ummah will rejoice. The whole world, the poor and the needy, those living in misery, everyone will rejoice.

The festivities of the Islamic world will start with the system of the Mahdi. There will not be a single person in need. Goods will constantly be distributed among them.