Adnan Oktar A9 TV; July 13th, 2013

If you exert pressure, people would feel abased. You would make people who normally would not consume alcohol start consuming alcohol, you would cause people who would normally perform their prayers, stand apart from prayers; things that would not normally happen would start to happen. I mean oppression would disrupt a person’s balance.

Hazrat Khidr (pbuh) is waiting for centuries to perform prayers in Hagia Sophia with Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) and the Prophet Jesus Messiah (pbuh).

Some people assume that what is meant by standing in awe during prayers is to loose one's self. In fact standing in awe is sincerity. It is a sincere connection with God, it is feeling love for God with an open conscience. That is what standing in awe means.

How is it acceptable to initiate children into performing prayers as if they are initiated into gymnastics? Children should be taught why they should be performing prayers and how one prays lovingly, by feeling inside, by understanding the meaning of the prayer.

Religion is not very complex. Religion is very pure and simple. It is not something you would perceive after months, years of education. Islam can easily be understood in two-three hours.

Simplifying is the characteristic of the Mahdis. They ease religion, they ease what is ordered, they ease life, they relieve people of their heavy loads and the chains which were around them. The task of the Mahdi (pbuh) is to facilitate. He will relieve people of their heavy loads and chains but bigots will say; "this one has killed our religion. Our religion was a hard and heavy religion, we have had many loads but this one has eased and killed our religion. "

Mahdi (pbuh) will ease the religion because that is what God wants.

Easing religion and life is the characteristic of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will relieve people of their heavy loads and the chains around them.

Complicating performing prayers is an intrigue of the bigoted mindset. Prayers should never be abandoned.

There is goodness in the morning prayers. It brings health and abundance. The morning should be greeted awake with prayers.

The prayers (salat) should be performed immaculately just like it is described in the Qur'an with great sincerity. There is nothing complex. You perform your prayers joyfully, lovingly and peacefully. Trying to complicate the prayers is a satanic behavior. Satan attempts to turn it into something complicated so that people abandon their prayers.

Our brothers should wake up happily for their prayers. How nice it is that when we wake up we see a bright and clear world. One might wake up paralyzed in the morning. One might wake up and see that he is physically disabled with his face disfigured. Or he might wake up and see that he is in Hell. How nice it is that Allah wakes us up nicely, feeling delighted.

A Muslim would wake up for the morning prayers feeling in rejoice.

Ocalan should repent and ask Allah for forgiveness and submit himself to Allah. He should read the Qur'an and perform his prayers and prepare for the Hereafter. He should ask for the Unity of Islam. These are the best things that he can do.

Our people longed for such a government for years. We have a President and a Prime Minister both of whom perform their prayers. That is a great blessing and a great beauty.

A Christian, a Jew is also obliged to perform prayers.

In the Qur'an, Allah says that our religion is as easy as the religion of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh). Allah says; "Allah desires ease for you; He does not desire difficulty for you." Some people try to make religion difficult; they try to show things that are not in religion as if they are. Allah has made religion easy, He has relieved people of heavy loads and chains around them. Almighty Allah says this about our Prophet (saas) ".. those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel, commanding them to do right and forbidding them to do wrong, making good things halal for them and bad things haram for them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the chains which were around them. "

Allah would not wrong His servants. Allah would not want Muslims to live in pain. Allah would not want women to live in pain. Allah loves women. Allah created them to be loved, not to be oppressed.

Qur'an is a very plain and pure Book. The commands of Allah are very plain and quite simple. Complicating life is not religion. I mean propagating an environment in which people are in dirty clothes, eating filthy food, living in a filthy, listless environment with dirty looking women and men; no music, no paintings, no arts, no science, no aesthetics in an ugly rotten structure; with slanders and revilements constantly in their language and feeling hatred towards everyone. Such a religion is not acceptable. This has nothing to do with religion.

What does the bigoted mindset do to make people alienate from religion? They complicate the religion. That is a very sly plot of the satan. When they complicate the religion even though it is really very easy, people start thinking that religion cannot be practiced and give up. Actually living by religion is really easy.

They misrepresent Islam as such an intricate, such a difficult and hard religion and they show the understanding of quality in Muslims'lives as such a sheepish, such a deficient life that it seems like –may Allah forbid- a living Hell to people. Why do you not present Islam like Paradise as it actually is, why do you not present an ambiance like that of Paradise, a manner like reminds Paradise?

Satan shouldn’t be allowed to deceive people by presenting salat and other religious services as difficult, Millions of people keep aloof from religion just because taking ablution and performing prayers are presented as if they are very difficult to do.

People suffer for no reason. For instance, the fury they exhibit in football matches. However it is very easy to understand Allah. It is very beautiful to live in peace. It is difficult to live in anger.

Satan dragged down Islam in the world by specifically complicating it. Complicating religion is a satanic method. It appeared as the product of that filthy mind of the satan.

We need to think that Commander in Chief of Egypt, General Sisi might be well intentioned as well. Morsi and Sisi should come to Turkey so that we can smooth things over between them.