Adnan Oktar A9 TV; April 1st, 2012

When we say “love”, THE LOVE FINDS ITS VALUE IN RELATION TO THE ORDEALS ONE GOES THROUGH. For instance in the case of Layla and Majnun, the essential factor is the suffering they go through. If Layla and Majnun were in love in a palace, that would not be of any interest.

HAVING A POOR LOVE OF ALLAH IS NOT BECOMING TO ALMIGHTY ALLAH’S GLORY. LOVE OF ALLAH MUST BE PASSIONATE. That is why Allah creates prophets, Mahdis, saints. They are few in number, but that is sufficient for Allah. Allah admires it.

One does not enjoy a woman out of lust alone. You must enjoy her passion, her role as a manifestation of Allah, her affection and her compassion. You must delight in protecting and watching over her. You enjoy her goodness and beauty and happiness. You delight in her loyalty and, above all, her religious devotion.

A person is passionately devoted to someone he loves. He has compassion and wants to protect and watch over them all throughout his life. Most important of all, he wants to be together with them in the hereafter. That love is love for Allah.

We, on the other hand, say, “We love Allah most”. ALL LOVE BELONGS TO ALLAH, for Allah creates whatever we see. Besides, it is Allah Who makes us love, He inspires some kind of attraction between the two parties, which is very beautiful. A great blessing, masha’Allah. That is why it is very important to devote one’s whole love to Allah.

The earth is black mud. With all their fresh, bright, pure appearance, those big strawberries are ready to be eaten, Masha ‘Allah.

People are inclined to possessions and a believer gives that possession he loves to Allah. He gives. The soul is Allah’s, and a person gives that soul to Allah, grants him back to Allah. This comes to mean the expression of Allah.

ALLAH MAKES HIM THE MAHDI ONLY BECAUSE HE TOLERATES SUFFERING AND TROUBLE, AND BECAUSE OF HIS SINCERE LOVE OF ALLAH. In a time span of ten thousand, twenty thousand years, Allah grants that blessing, the blessing of being the Mahdi, only to him. Only because of his endurance to that hardship and trouble.

If a person goes through the suffering of Hazrat Mahdi (as) only for a day, a person who does not act in compliance with the Qur’an, may Allah forbid, may deny Allah. Only one day. While it stirs up one’s love for Allah, it may make a person with weak faith lose his belief. That is the secret of the test.

If you say you are in love with Allah, how will you show that love? The struggle you make against hardship, advocating the Beloved One under the hardest of circumstances and siding with Him. Then your faith, love and compassion becomes evident. Otherwise it is not recognized.

Allah does not love insincere love. Allah loves the genuine lover. The one who really loves Him.

The one who is beautiful takes pleasure from the appreciation of that beauty. This is an inspiration of Allah to us. ALLAH ALSO LIKES TO BE APPRECIATED. ALLAH LIKES US TO BE IN LOVE WITH HIM. ALLAH LIKES TO BE LOVED WITH PASSION.

ALLAH PUTS US ON TRIAL, FOR ALMIGHTY ALLAH WANTS GENUINE LOVE. If everyone loves one another like robots, if Allah made it obligatory for them, you would be loving each other under compulsion. That is not what Allah wants. ALLAH WANTS US TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER AMID PAIN, SUFFERING AND HARDSHIP.

Allah does not want artificial love. He does not want compulsory love. He wants the fervent love of a lover. He wants that suffering that goes hand-in-hand with love.

The soul is trained through hardships and ordeals.

Do you know how strong the passion in the Heaven is? It is such a profound passion that it can move mountains. Passion felt in the Heaven is a feeling that has never been seen before, insha'Allah. I mean it is so perfect that it can melt one's heart.

Passion cannot be imitated, Allah creates passion. Those who submit themselves to Allah feels passion. In real passion is presented to the other side for the good pleasure of Allah.

One looks at how the other serves Allah as is due, how he serves Islam as is due with love, compassion and intelligence, how he devotes himself to Allah, how clever he is, how wise he acts. If one sees that, passion will be formed as well.

Allah is the One Who creates passion. No matter how much one tries to imitate passion, one can only do the imitated gaze seen in the movies and that would be a fake one and it would be very repulsive.

To attain a resolute love for Allah by thinking, by finding Him in a complicated system, And not to leave Him in any way; this is the love that Allah admires most. For instance, a scourge is inflicted on him but he never gives up loving Allah; he suffers trouble, in his old age or in times of sickness but never abandons Him. Then the quality of his love increases tremendously.

Allah does not want a love that is devoid of quality. The entire current system is established upon this poor-quality love right now.

Allah loves beauty, to be admired, to love and be loved.

Allah wants plentiful beauty. Where is sacrifice? Where is loyalty? In the absence of these, the value of love diminishes. That is why Almighty Allah postpones the reign of Islam until the last stage.

Some wear burqa, some wear scarves, some don’t, and some go to beach. Everyone is being put to the test individually. We must respect everyone, and consider everyone as our Muslim brothers.

AS LONG AS A PERSON MAKES EFFORT AND USES HİS MİND ALLAH GRANTS HİM FAİTH. Still, what is predestined comes about but that person feels as if he labors to attain something. The faith that comes into being following it becomes very precious.