Adnan Oktar A9 TV; December 1st, 2012

Crying for martyrs would make the antichrist happy. It is not acceptable to cry after the post of martyrdom Allah has praised. We consider all those who cry out of excitement clear of this.

Martyrdom is an honor. Mourning after a martyr will be impertinent towards that exalted rank.

Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is a cheerful person. He is from the line of the Prophet David (pbuh) and his voice is beautiful just like the Prophet David (pbuh).

We see good in everything. Joy and happiness is the characteristic of a Muslim. A weak, weeping mindset would be unbecoming for a Muslim.

Gaiety is a quality. Happiness is a quality. Joking is a quality. Being sociable and easy is a quality. For instance kindness, courtesy is a quality.

It would be amazing if love were to prevail in the region. In love people's lives would be prolonged. Their gayety would increase, their health and welfare would increase.

We are celebrating our faith and Allah's creating us as servants every single day. I mean there is a celebration every single day. Every single day we celebrate the joy we have for being Muslims, for being from the Ummah of our Prophet (saas).

Allah created us in a way to be cheerful.

We carry the Qur'an in our hearts. We live with the Qur'an. The mindset which demands that there should be no fun around the Qur'an is a very wrongful mindset. There is joy, happiness and elation around the Qur'an.

Bigoted mindset would even prohibit laughing. It destroys people's merriness and healthiness. It ruins people.

The Heaven is an abode of joy and it is eternal happiness, eternal beauty. When you are sending your child to the Hereafter you are actually sending your child to an abode that everything is perfect, so mourning would be extremely wrong while doing so. It would mean to say; -may God forbid- “I didn’t like what God wanted, I know better”. And that would be ascribing partners to God.

The mentality of mourning is fundamentally wrong. A Muslim would never do that. God is the One Who brings us to this world, and God is the One Who takes us back to His Sight. The right thing to do is to submit to our destiny and to put our trust in the goodness, beauty and abundance of what God gives. Anything other than that would not befit a Muslim.

There is no spirit of mourning in Islam. That is idolatry. It is rebellion against God, it is unlawful, it is a sin. Consequently, talking about something that actually means idolatry as if it is a religious act would be wrong.

The mentality that urges one to cry after everything is abnormal. This is a remnant system from the idolaters of Mecca, from the idolaters of Sumeria, from way back. That is outright insincerity. This is an act which shows that one does not have trust in God- may God forbid. One would only cry if he thinks –may God forbid- that God is not the One Who creates that event.

People die every day. We are living in the world, this is a place of testing. People get sick every day. How do they come up with the idea of mourning? There is no such thing in the Qur'an. There is no such understanding in Islam. It only has a place in idolatry, in the totemist mentality, in the belief system of the idolaters. This is a characteristic of pagan religions, but there is no such thing in Islam.

Mourning after a deceased person was a custom of the idolaters of Mecca. It is a pagan tradition reminiscent from the Sumerians, from the ancient Greek.

Alewism is love, it is brotherhood, it is peace, it is bravery, it is courage. Alewism is a system that depicts love very beautifully. There is profundity in Alewism.

Fervent love to twelve imams is nice. Some people only talk about twelve imams very rarely. That is not something pleasant, they will not be able to make use of their benediction. Those who do not love the twelve imams do not love our Prophet (saas), either: Those who do not love Hazrat Ali (ra) do not love our Prophet (saas), either.

We need to approach Shias with compassion. They love Hazrat Ali (ra) very much. An attitude that isolates and externalizes them is unacceptable.

Shia are perfect Muslims just like Sunnis. It is very wrong to refrain from going to their mosques. It is great that Shias love Hazrat Ali.

The Shia are people of light, they are Muslims who have profound love for Hazrat Ali (ra).

Iran and Turkey are two brother countries. Shia and Sunni are brothers. Shias are lovers of Hazrat Ali just as Sunnis. No one should give credit to the hate speech used against Sunnis and Shias.

Thanks be to God, He created a religious country who is in love with God and Hazrat Ali at our border. As Muslims we are proud of this fact.

Alawites love God very much and are in love with Hazrat Ali. They have a deep love for animals, plants, people and everything God created in their hearts, they detest bigotry and are in love with Islam in the Qur’an. The existence of Alawites is a great blessing for Turkey. May God deem them precious both in this world and in Heaven. We love our Alawite brothers and sisters very dearly.

All of the four prominent schools say that "Mahdi will come."