Adopt my faith, or die

Bigotry: The Dark Danger

“Adopt my faith, or die!” That is the slogan of the fanatics. There is no such concept as democracy, freedom of ideas, love, respect, affection, friendship or altruism in fanaticism. Some people imagine that fanaticism, and its offshoot radicalism, can settle inside a true faith. Yet fanaticism is itself a religion; there are representatives of the religion of fanaticism inside every idea. There are fanatics in Islam, in Judaism and in Christianity, just as there are in Marxism, fascism and atheism. They all espouse the same false faith; “I don't like your ideas! Either go along with my ideas, or die!”

A Muslim Woman Knows How to Dress in Accordance with the Qur'an

One important point that needs to be made here is that a Muslim woman knows perfectly well how to dress in accordance with the Qur'an so there is no need for a man to tell women how to dress. A man has no right whatsoever to interfere in what a woman wears, much less tell her how to dress or judge her. God has not given man that right. Today, this is an important matter that needs to be brought up and emphasized, especially in Muslim societies.

A woman may wear the head-covering, or cover herself up entirely or uncover her head or wear low-cut clothes. Once she says, “I am a Muslim,” nobody has the right to judge her. It is known only in the Sight of God which is more virtuous. It is sincerity that counts in the faith, not clothing. In the same way that someone who covers up entirely may be insincere and go to hell, a woman who wears low-cut clothes may also earn the right to enter paradise. It is God alone Who will decide.

When people adopt guides other than the Qur'an, problems arise that are unsuited to human nature and will invariably make trouble of one kind or another. These also cease to be individual problems and can transform into social conflicts or problems. The distinction based on forms of dress – such as with or without the head-covering, or low-cut clothing versus covering up entirely - is a false perception that has no place in the Qur'an and leads to tensions in society. God reveals in a verse that according to the Qur'an, superiority lies not in dress and external appearance but in piety, or taqwa (acting out of a fear of God):

Children of Adam! We have sent down clothing to you to conceal your private parts, as well as to be an adornment to you, but the garment of piety–that is best! That is one of God's signs, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (Qur'an, 7:26)

Faith is lived and made reality in the heart. Faith manifests itself through moral virtues, a person's warmth, affection, generosity, forgiving nature, quality, culture, manners and conception of art and science; in short, in everything. It is therefore important to evaluate people through their moral values, not by their external appearance.

No matter what their external appearance, people who say, “I am a Muslim” are all precious Muslims. It is wrong to discriminate between them. Nobody has the right to discriminate.

http://www.harunyahya.com/en/Articles/199091/A-Muslim-Woman-Knows-How-to-Dress-in--Accordance-with-the-Quran 

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• Surat an-Nur Verse 31, 1st Part
• Misleading or Incorrect Translations Based on Fabricated Hadiths
• What Needs to Be Known about the Meanings of the Arabic Versions of Verses and Accuracy of Interpretations
• Surat an-Nur Verse 31, 2nd Part
• The Error of Making Adornments and Accessories Unlawful
• How Is the Word “Ornament” Used in the Qur'an?
• The Region Referred to in Verse 31 of Surat an-Nur
• Fabricated Hadiths on the Subject of the Head-Covering and Their Internal Inconsistencies
• Forbidden Things Are Not Left Obscure in the Qur'an
• The Desire to Shut Only Women and Their Bodies Away
• Surat al-Ahzab Verse 59
• Espousing the Head-Covering but Never Mentioning the “Jilbab”
• A Muslim Woman Knows How to Dress in Accordance with the Qur'an

Secrets and Wisdom from the Quran; Heavy burden that bigotry loads on women

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The Solution to ISIS

The Solution to ISIS

http://www.harunyahya.com/en/pages/id/1920/The-Solution-of-ISIS

• The Solution to ISIS by Adnan Oktar
• Adnan Oktar says
• End of Times
• Bigotry: The Dark Danger
• Our Prophet (saas) Foretold the Incidents Happening in Iraq and ISIS 1400 years ago

See Also:

http://pakistan-harunyahya.blogspot.com/2014/08/our-prophet-saas-foretold-incidents.html

Charlie Hebdo

Mr. Adnan Oktar’s comments about the attack on the office of French magazine Charlie Hebdo

- An armed attack has taken place in Paris on the office of a magazine that published a cartoon of a person under the name of the Prophet Muhammed (saas).

- This afternoon. Twelve people have died, two of them police officers.

- The magazine is a leftist one. It attracted strong criticism from all over the Islamic world for publishing cartoons mocking Islam in 2006 and 2011. However, they also targeted Christianity and Judaism, not just Islam. The editor-in-chief of the magazine, known for its communist leanings, said that all faiths were open to mockery and that this was not against the law. They issued statements along the line of; "Religious people need not read us. I am an atheist. I also hear things I do not wish to when I go to a mosque or a church." That person, who had received threats from al-Qaeda for some time, was one of those who died.

Adnan Oktar: One cannot get anywhere by killing. But you can by criticism and warnings. You can criticize and hold meetings. You can explain that what they are doing is disrespectful and unkind. You can explain that what they are doing has nothing to do with freedom of ideas, and is simply a system that distresses people. In that way you can gather support in society, and they will also be influenced. But going there and killing people with Kalashnikovs is very wrong.

- The French police have announced that the attackers shouted, “We have taken revenge for the Prophet.” One person who hid from the attackers and escaped said that they spoke perfect French and that they said they were acting in revenge for al-Qaeda.

Adnan Oktar: That would be meaningful if there were such a concept as ‘revenge’ in Islam. Their actions are incompatible with Islam. They should approach people with love and affection. You can go and tell people how offended Muslims are. You can say; "I would be equally pained if a communist were treated in that way. But we can have a discussion of ideas. And there may be people who disagree.” You can have religious debates. Nobody will mind that. But insults and defamation are senseless. One can explain how ugly their actions are.

The magazine’s editor-in-chief referred to legal proceedings brought by Muslims against them by saying, “Nothing will come of that, because Islam is illegal.”

That person was speaking unnecessarily and rudely. He wanted to give Muslims the impression that they are helpless, that “Whatever you do, the law does not work for you.”   

But killing them is no good at all. That is not a path compatible with Islam and the Qur’an.

- In the latest issue of the magazine, it carried a very unpleasant cartoon under the names of Jesus and Mary. The presentation was highly defamatory. French President Hollande issued a statement saying that such drawings should be considered within the framework of freedom of thought and that the attack on the journal was a violation of freedom of thought. 

Adnan Oktar: Of course, there is something wrong there. Hollande says it is a violation of freedom of thought. But is it compatible with love and respect? They need to ask that first. No, it is not. Freedom of thought is not all that matters. Love and respect and manners are also important. Freedom of thought does not mean insulting everyone, hurting and offending everyone, or trying to suppress people’s love and joy. They should make love the important thing. Freedom of ideas is sacred, but love is even more sacred. Kindness is even more sacred. Respect is even more sacred. But going and mowing people down is also no good, of course. If the law does not help, you can go and protest.

People need to turn to the Qur’an. And you need the system of the Mahdi for people to turn to the Qur’an. It will be very hard to turn to the Qur’an without the system of the Mahdi. Had it been easy, it would already have happened. But hundreds of years have gone by.

Had the families of the people who drew these cartoons been insulted, someone would have been punished under French law. They would have issued a writ at once. Of course defamation is wrong, but if it had happened they would have sued and won. But French law says nothing about Islam. There are laws preventing the defamation of Judaism and Christianity. Proceedings can be brought. But there is nothing about Islam.

Lovelessness is everywhere. The magazine is also founded on hatred and rejects love. It is all hatred. They know no love. Had they known love they would have had a perfect state of mind and their language would have been immaculate.

Look, 83 people were killed in bombings today in Iraq. Martyred. Another 38 people were bombed and martyred in Yemen, and 18 in Afghanistan. But there were no reports of those anywhere. Yet the events in France brought the whole world to its feet. No value is attached to Muslims. Our Prophet says in the hadiths that this is how it will be. 'Muslims will not be valued in the End Times,’ he says. He sets it all out in detail. 'The faith will flourish again with the return of Muhammed the Mahdi,’ he says. ‘Muslims will enjoy their former prestige. Muslims will be valued,’ he says. We are entering that age. But I said that great things would happen as we entered 2015. Look, tragedies have started right at the beginning of the year. This will continue until the coming of the Mahdi.

Bigotry - The Dark Danger

The fanatics’ problem is that they learn their faith from specious superstition. However, those who criticize those fanatics are sometimes just as radical as them and believe in the accuracy of that same superstition. The more we produce evidence from the Qur’an, the more they try to produce their own from the superstition the fanatics subscribe to. That is where they make their gravest mistake. If they want to know the true Islam and find a solution to fanaticism, they must heed the true faith described here. Unless they do that, radicalism will continue to plague the world.

http://www.darkdangerbigotry.com/

Terror has no religion - Harun Yahya

Published: 28 September 2013

We are at a time when offensiveness, violence and hate have become ordinary in almost every corner of the world. There is news of more bloodshed from a different region almost every day, and the violence targets mostly innocent people.

The terrorist attacks which have taken place in Kenya and Pakistan over the last weekend have once again brought Islam and the subject of violence to the world agenda. Even though Islam is a religion of love and peace - and quite clearly states that everyone must be treated as first-class citizens regardless of faith, race, language and thought - how come there is so much violence and pain in the Muslim world?

No religion commands violence. No religion encourages ruthlessness, selfishness, lovelessness and massacre. Violence and the conditions that pave the way for violence develops when ideologies that promote conflict replace the moral values of religion that sees people as equal servants created by Allah and praises modesty, patience, compassion and unrequited love.

Simply because various terrorists call themselves Muslims, who execute people by shooting them when they cannot get an answer after asking them about the "pillars of faith", who resort to their guns when they hear the answer "Yes" to the question of "Are you a Christian?" and who ruthlessly murder innocents, does not make these persecutors Muslim.

A suicide attack in a church in Pakistan has nothing to do with Islam as well. Allah mentions in the Quran that churches are "where Allah's name is mentioned much", (22:40) and thus, churches are under Allah's protection. Anyone who tries to damage churches contradicts the command of Allah.

Conflict goes hand-in-hand with lovelessness. Let's take a look at the Islamic world. Today some of the Shia Muslims do not accept Sunnis as real Muslims and there are Sunnis who do not consider the Shias as Muslims. However, no matter their differences, both the Shias and the Sunnis are Muslims who believe in the same Allah and the same prophets, turn to the same qiblah and read the same Holy Quran. There is no difference in the Quran between Sunni and Shia. So why is there enmity instead of finding the least common denominator? Why is bloodshed and hatred encouraged? The answer is simple: Lovelessness. The problem is not sectarianism. Sectarianism is just another name for legalising hate and violence.

The essence of Islam is love, compassion and friendship. Muslims are obliged to defend and protect the freedom of thought and faith with the command in the Quran, "You have your religion and I have my religion" (109:6) and "...There is no compulsion where the religion is concerned" (2:256). This approach is the best description of democracy and ensures that members of every faith - are protected.

Saying that a religion, which has commands "... if anyone forgoes that [retaliation] as charity, it will act as expiation for him.... " (5:45) even for someone who has committed murder, promotes violence is both ignorance and remorselessness. Every Muslim is obliged to believe that "killing one person is like killing all mankind and giving life to one person is like giving life to all mankind". (5:32) without distinguishing between religions, way of living and thought.

One of the reasons which lead some Muslims who embrace terror and violence as the "right path" - despite these explicit commands of the Qur'an - is that they drift away from the essence of Islam. When the bigoted mentality that embraces false hadiths that conflict with the Qur'an is combined with ignorance, a structure of hate and anger emerges.

The only way to avoid this is to spread the true spirit and morality of the Qur'an, which is love and peace. There are many lessons that the Muslim world needs to take from the Prophet Muhammad, who allowed Christians to perform their own prayer at Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque in Medina), spread his own cloak for Jewish and Christian guests to sit on and who stood up and paid his respects when a Jewish funeral procession passed by him. To learn from these lessons, the Muslim world must know the Quran and our Prophet more closely. They need to explore the beauty of Islam with a reasonable, rational, realistic point of view purified of superstitions. This can only be achieved through education.

The West also has some responsibilities to end the violence; it can be honest and take the first step by recognising the pains caused by the policies they have followed since the beginning of the 20th century. When this is done, the West can also see that it is an irrational method to attempt to shape the Muslim world in line with their own interests. No doubt, every state first thinks about the welfare of its citizens and country; however, they must know that when they do this in a manner that ignores the rights of others and treats them callously, it will generate a backlash as surely as night follows day.

The only way to solve these problems created by the mistakes of the last century is to build a new civilization. Gun-running, supporting dictatorial regimes, overt and covert pressure and oppression cannot build civilizations. That can only be achieved by changing people's minds. For this, we need to start a new education campaign together both in the West and the East. Let's teach this peace-loving, forgiving, moderate, compassionate, understanding, mature spirit that Allah wants from us to all people again. Let's be the teachers of love.

If the prudent, moderate, rational peoples of the West and the Islamic world become allies, we can make big significant changes in little a short period of time. Let's not forget that the good are greater in numbers, but they don't ally, whereas the evil becomes more effective because they do ally and are determined in spite of the fact that they are numerically inferior and less in numbers.

* Harun Yahya is the pen name of Adnan Oktar, a Turkish author who has authored some 300 books in 73 languages.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/terror-has-no-religion-harun-yahya

    

The idea that women are crooked

Woman has been created from a rib and will in no way be straightened for you; so if you wish to benefit by her, benefit by her while crookedness remains in her. And if you attempt to straighten her, you will break her, and breaking her is divorcing her. (Sahih Muslim, Book 8, Hadith 3467; an-Nasai)

The creation of human beings is described in detail in the Qur’an:

We created man from the purest kind of clay; then made him a drop in a secure receptacle; then formed the drop into a clot and formed the clot into a lump and formed the lump into bones and clothed the bones in flesh; and then brought him into being as another creature. Blessed be God, the Best of Creators! (Surat al-Muminun, 12-14)

No verse of the Qur’an says anything about woman being created from a rib bone and being crooked. In contrast to these terms employed by fanatics, our Almighty Lord reveals that men and women were created “in the best of forms:”

It is God Who made the earth a stable home for you and the sky a dome, and formed you, giving you the best of forms, and provided you with good and wholesome things. That is God, your Lord. Blessed be God, the Lord of all the worlds. (Surah Ghafir, 64)

The words “if you attempt to straighten her, you will break her” in the false hadith in question implies that she is crooked in both body and mind and can never be put right; however, no such words appear in the Qur’an. This shows the basis of the fanatics’ anger-filled attitude toward women.

The lesson we receive from the Qur’an is this; everyone, man or woman, has flaws and can make mistakes. According to the Qur’an, these flaws should be corrected by pointing them out in kindly language, showing the person what is right and wrong, and addressing the conscience of the person in question. Nobody has the right to cast anyone aside and say, “This person can never be put right.” Someone who does that and regards himself as superior may see that the person he regarded as “incorrigible” is actually in a better position than him in the Hereafter. Only God knows who is on the true path.

The fanatics’ superstitious belief that women are flawed and deficient right from the outset has been strengthened by the idea that it is also impossible for them to change subsequently. Many false hadiths therefore contain false information to the effect that good women are very few in number and that most women are not worthy of Paradise.

Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Chapter 3: The Fanatics’ Hatred of Women
http://www.harunyahya.com/tr/Books/191085/Bigotry-The-Dark-Danger/chapter/15444/Ch3-The-Fanatics%E2%80%99-Hatred-of-Women

America should fight ISIS with books and ideas

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated October 24th, 2014

- You have been describing the need for a struggle of ideas for 20 years.

Adnan Oktar: Using ideas alone. Our American friends ask, what they should throw them, what they are expected to do. Should we throw flowers at them? No, they don’t need flowers. Throw books, they need information. They never think of providing them with information. They always say an intellectual campaign against fanaticism is essential, but they never do it. They regard a campaign of ideas as essential, but they keep on dropping bombs. Stop the bombing and educate people through radio, TV and newspapers. Drop pamphlets from airplanes. Enlighten and inform people. If only America would do that just once! If you cannot do it, there are people who can. Let us work together. Let us do it with science and love.

The PKK can also be brought to heel through ideas. There is no need to bomb them either. You can drop pamphlets for them, as well. You can teach them by radio and TV and win them over.

The fight against ISIS can take the same form. ISIS has its system of ideas. Why go and bomb them? You should tell them your ideas instead of theirs. You can win people over. For example, I am opposed to ISIS. I say that they are killing and murdering, that they ascribe equals to God and that they are sinning. Yet they still use very respectful language toward me. They say, ‘Everyone must respect Adnan Oktar’ on their web sites. I explicitly say that they murder people. Yet they still use respectful language about me. Because they know I am sincere. ISIS understands what I am saying but America does not. That amazes me. Either they are ignoring it, or they do not know.

You cannot fight people by bombing mountains and rocks. They are always dropping bombs. Fight them with the pen. If you drop a bomb it may land on a shepherd or someone else. It is still no good even if you do hit a PKK terrorist. PKK members are put on trial in Turkey and get life imprisonment at most. That is if they have committed murder. If not, we let them go. If they have not committed any crime when they appear before the prosecutor, then they are released. But they are killing people with their bombardments. That is incompatible with the Qur’an. We condemn the wicked deeds of ISIS, the acts of terror of the PKK and the massacres perpetrated by America. We want no bloodshed.

- You have written books against the PKK that demolish Darwinism. And you have written a book about fanaticism against ISIS.

Adnan Oktar: My book ‘Bigotry: The Dark Danger’ offers a complete solution to ISIS. America can take this book and use it as it wished. I will turn over all the rights to them. They can use it as they wish. Nobody can have any objection to my book. I clearly show the error of those hadiths. I explain how the Qur’an is sufficient. I explain how Islam is a religion of love. I explain how there is no room for murder and killing in it. What people think of when Islam is mentioned today is swords.

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Those who want women out of life actually wish to take Islam out of life

Those who want women out of life actually wish to take Islam out of life (04&12.06.2014)

Those who want women out of life actually wish to take  

Islam out of life

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated June 04&12th, 2014

(viewer letter) "Tell me your goal for God's sake; I'm asking so please write me an answer." 

Our aim is to live for the sake of God. We don't have any other aim. We have a spirit that prevents those who kill women and who want to kill women and kill Islam.

Those  who would kill Islam would kill woman. We are against the killing of woman and Islam and we won’t let this happen, insha'Allah.

Our Prophet says that the “Mahdi will bring Islam back after it has been killed”, masha'Allah, so we are the students of Mahdi, I’m the student of Mahdi.

You have spoke erroneously to eighty million Muslims; no,  not eighty million, but you spoke erroneously to one and a half billion  Muslims and you allow Muslims to be oppressed by a handful of irreligious people.

They slaughtered Muslims, they kill and destroy them, they martryed them. They don’t have any value at all in the world in the presence of so many people.

And yet Muslims are not valuing other Muslims and you let them  be severely oppressed and you deliver Muslims into the hands of satan.

And now we are the ones who are suppressing satan under our feet, insha'Allah.

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Adnan Oktar:  It’s shocking. Listen to what they say: women lack faith or intelligence. They say women cannot be religious or clever. How can you respect such a person if they really think like that about women? You believe that she has no religion, no intelligence. 

How can you marry her then? How can you be lovers with her? And what makes you so perfect? What makes her so deficient? The truth is that women are very loving, compassionate, considerate beings. Those people [who make these preposterous remarks about women] should look at his intelligence. Then he should compare it with his wife’s intelligence. His wife would be much more intelligent than him. [They say] women lack intelligence and faith. What kind of a plot is this? They are oppressing such lovely beings with these methods. Look at these lovely ladies, they dance and have fun. [But these people say] look at them, they are dancing! What about the weddings? You go there and dance with ladies, show off your moves? Their wives dress up, with bouncy curls and everything, or big bouffant hairstyles with tons of hairspray on. They put on their necklaces and everything left from their grannies, wear perfumes bought maybe forty years ago. Put on rouge and go to weddings and dance there with everything they have;  of course my words are addressed to those people who make these comments. Of course, women should have fun in weddings and of course they will dress up. Or they have showers in their houses, or engagement parties, weddings, or other meetings, and ladies and men have fun together in all those things. In the Black sea region, ladies and men do the traditional horon dance all together. Young girls get up and dance. It is the same everywhere, in  Southeastern Anatolia, in the entirety of Anatolia. It is the same for our Alawite brothers and sisters. 

[They say] ask women what they think and then do the opposite. They say, don't listen to women, object to them. They almost want to strangle women! They say, opposing women will bring blessings. They say, leave women behind just like God left them behind. They think that women don't deserve to have fun, or wear nice clothes, or look good or even smile. But when it comes to them, they get drunk, make scenes and everything else; but with the ladies, they say ‘no’. However ‘in weddings, it’s OK’ they say, ‘you can go there and dance there’. So religion to them is very flexible, they bend it whenever they want to, [whenever it suits their interests]. If it is fine to dance for ladies in weddings, why is it a problem when they dance in other places? They say it’s acceptable only when it’s a wedding. They go to weddings with their whole families; wives, daughters, sons and all and all of them get to the dance floor and dance. Boys and girls, all together. They say it’s normal with weddings, but not in other places, like on a TV show for instance.  

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Andan Oktar: Onur Demir .. Onur says, ''For the love of the Prophet of God, what business do those women have in religious discussion? What is non-mahram Mr. Oktar?''

What can I say to these people? He is saying; “Women cannot talk about religion. They cannot sit with men, they cannot laugh, their religion is half-formed, they are only semi-intelligent, they will all go to hell, they must not wear make-up and must not use perfume.”  

Erdem Ertüzün: They also invalidate prayer.

Adnan Oktar: They depict them as creatures that invalidate prayer. Look, dogs, pigs, Jews and women. Look, a horse does not invalidate it if it goes by, nor a hyena, nor anything else. But if a woman goes by, she invalidates it. A man does not invalidate it if he goes by. But a woman does, whatever she does.”

That wretched nature of that mentality is obvious, but they still espouse it. Non-Mahram, it is described in Surat an-Nur. A woman’s chest, her sexual organ; nobody must see them apart from the people listed in the Qur’an. That is the question. Since there is no question of them being seen, what is the problem? 

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Ahl al-Bayt (People of the House) were martyred by radicals because of their modernity and valuing women

Ahl al-Bayt (People of the House) were martyred by radicals because of their modernity and valuing women (05.06.2014)

Ahl al-Bayt (People of the House) were martyred by radicals because of their modernity and valuing women

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated June 05th, 2014

Hassan and Hussein, my dear ones, were very extroverted and joyful. Hz. Ali was also very affable and they were all ultramodern.

The reason why radicals martyred them was because they were not radicals like themselves, and did not approve of that radicalism.

They also did not  follow our Prophet (pbuh) and those hypocrites founded the Masjid al-Dirar (Mosque of Mischief).

The only reason why Ahl al-Bayt (People of the House) were martyred was their modernity, love for women and advocacy for freedoms of women, holding women to be greater and in high esteem, being stylish and clean, smelling nicely with beautiful fragrance, conversing with jokes and compliments, having love for all of humanity and compassion to people of other faiths, acting with courtesy and a classy attitude, all of which made the radicals angry.

On that account, those villains martyred them all. And it is the same dishonorable ones and that satan that have generated the same radicals appearing 1,400 years later again. These radicals are from the same family and if they were to see Hz. Hassan and Hz. Hussein  in our day, they would again martyr them. It is the radicals of this century that would martyr Hz. Ali once again.

They seem to have love for our Prophet (pbuh), but in their heart they have hatred, may God forbid.

And they state, ‘We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of God.’ Yet, God informs us, ‘God knows that you are indeed His Messenger and God bears witness that the hypocrites are certainly liars.’ Radicals are liars, and they try to turn life into filth. For instance, they make women have the most repulsive appearance. They attain the most appalling form; their eating, sitting, standing, all are abhorrent.

The Messenger of God  was a classy person, and everything about him was of quality.

-          You look like very much like him in that respect.

Masha’Allah, the grandson looks like the grandfather, insha’Allah.

Our Prophet (pbuh) had great love for women and he has mentioned this persistently in the hadiths.

Hz. Hassan and Hz. Hussein were together with the Companions and they were addressing the Prophet, saying all the young women were in love with Hz. Hassan  and Hz. Hussein. They said women were getting married with them, and none would be remaining for them, so what should they do. Our Prophet said they resembled their grandfather. Masha’Allah, alhamdulillah; what a beautiful statement, that girls would like to get married to them all the time.

When they went out to Mecca and Medina, everyone is fascinated, masha’Allah. Hz. Hassan and Hz. Hussein are breathtakingly handsome, pure and appealing with their eyes. Some have black or green eyes, for instance, Hz. Ali has  green eyes, insha’Allah.

But the mindset of radicals did not change throughout history, Hz. Ali is beautiful just like the Prophet Joseph (pbuh,) who is from the lineage of the Prophet David (pbuh), insha’Allah.

That beauty of those eyes has passed from generation to generation. And the beautiful eyes of the Prophet (pbuh) are from the Prophet Abraham (pbuh). They say the Prophet has exactly the same appearance with the Prophet Abraham with his black eyes, slight protrusion on the nose, well-built body and wide shoulders, strong arms and bones.

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God reveals that we will only be held to account in terms of the Qur’an, but the fanatics say it is no good without the hadiths

God reveals that we will only be held to account in terms of the Qur’an, but the fanatics say it is no good without the hadiths (21.05.2014)

God reveals that we will only be held to account in terms of the Qur’an, but the fanatics say it is no good without the hadiths

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated May 21th, 2014

Adnan Oktar: Verse 31 of Surat an-Nur speaks of women’s freedom. They have only just realized this. Look, they say not a word. They were terrified when they saw that. Some of them are saying, ‘If that is what this verse means, then I am irreligious.’ There is someone who claims to be a religious scholar who says that quite explicitly. ‘If that is what this verse means, then I am irreligious,’ he says.

- In another verse God says, “They invented monasticism.. but even so they did not observe it as it should have been observed’’ 

Adnan Oktar: Of course, God says, ‘We did not prescribe it [monasticism] for them’ They invented it for themselves. They do not abide by the traditional, orthodox faith. I am only referring to some of them of course. 

Bülent Sezgin: In one verse God says, ‘We have made the Qur’an easy to remember. But is there any rememberer there?’ 

Adnan Oktar: "He does not desire difficulty for you" says Almighty God. "God desires ease for you; He does not desire difficulty for you.” The traditionalist faith is built upon difficulty. I ask them what it would be like if everyone lived by the Qur’an. I even asked one of them what he would do on a desert island if only the Qur’an were available. He had a long think… so the Qur’an is sufficient, he said. He was asking whether one can be a Muslim with the Qur’an alone. He said there would be some things missing in Islam in that case. There would be things missing in prayer and other areas, he said. He never answered my question. My brothers can ask other fanatics that question. Is it possible to live as a Muslim on a desert island with only the Qur’an? They say it is not possible. 

Aylin Kocaman: In another verse God says, ‘Or do they have partners who have laid down a religion for them for which God has not given any authority?. They are building a sharia law that is not in the faith. 

Adnan Oktar: They produce commandments that God never spoke and are inventing a new religion. Fethullah Gülen says, ‘A perversion called the Islam of the Qur’an has appeared. ’In other words, people who say the Qur’an is sufficient are perverse. Everyone said the Qur’an was sufficient in the time of the Companions. So in Gülen's opinion, what do these words of the Companions mean? There were no hadiths in the time of the Companions. There was no abiding by the hadiths. Everyone abided by the Qur’an. The Companions took the Qur’an with them when they went to preach, and that is all. They preached with the Qur’an. God says we will be held to account solely with the Qur’an in the hereafter. We will only be questioned with the Qur’an. But according to Fethullah Hodja that is perversion. Look, he says, ‘A perversion called the Islam of the Qur’an has appeared.’  He speaks of the ‘scholars of the customary faith,’ not of the Qur’an. He says the Qur’an needs the hadiths more than the hadiths need the Qur’an. He says the Qur’an needs the hadiths. He says the Qur’an is unimportant without the hadiths. He says the Qur’an will have no or little effect without them. He says the Qur’an has no function without the hadiths. But he says the hadiths have no need of the Qur’an. He says there is a greater need for hadiths than for the Qur’an. He says the Qur’an is not indispensible. Saying that the Qur’an needs the hadiths is equivalent to saying that the Qur’an is invalid without them.

Gökalp Barlan: In one verse God says, " Am I to desire someone other than God as a judge when it is He Who has sent down the Book to you clarifying everything? "

Adnan Oktar: Look, "Am I to desire someone other than God as a judge". In this case an arbiter other than God is being sought. "when it is He Who has sent down the Book to you clarifying everything?" He says. These people are saying the Qur’an is not clear, that we cannot understand it. So what is the Qur’an then? Let them go and ask the fanatics whether they could live as a Muslim on an island with only the Qur’an? They will say you cannot. The Companions would chase these people away if they could hear them. It is unbelievable.

Bülent Sezgin: God says in another verse, " This Qur’an guides to the most upright Way."

Adnan Oktar: The Qur’an leads to the true path. In the traditionalist orthodox conception of Islam you have to recite the Qur’an with the right pronunciation. The Abyssinians read it and the Iranians read it. However a person reads it, that is the right way. Minor quibbles prevent people from praying. A language that makes things difficult is wrong. The whole nation knows Surah Fatiha, but 99% or 99.9% cannot recite it properly. This a prayer heeded in the Sight of God. It is accepted by God because it is made sincerely. For example, the word ‘come’ is pronounced differently with a Black Sea accent or an Istanbul. But both are valid. Almighty God knows that person’s intention. It is therefore very wrong to turn people away from praying by insisting on reciting things with no mistakes. 

(Viewer’s question) How should we apply the command to obey God and His Messenger in verse 59 of Surat an-Nisa’?   

What does obeying God and His Messenger mean? Means obeying to the Qur'an. What does abiding by the Qur’an mean? Could the messenger tell you not to pray? No. He reveals to you the commands of the Qur’an. Almighty God says that he also has a duty to abide by the Qur’an. The prophet (pbuh) has to obey the Qur’an. Almighty God says, " If he had made up any sayings and ascribed them to Us, We would have seized him by force, and then We would have cut off his life-blood and not one of you could have protected him." What else would you like Almighty God to say? He is quite explicit, but they fail to understand. Look, God speaks to them in a language they can understand. He says He will tear out Prophet's jugulars. He says He will tear out the Prophet’s (pbuh) jugular if he tries to make any addition to the Qur’an or take anything from it or put something from himself in it. God says that nobody will be able to save him, but people still fail to understand. Obedience to the Prophet (pbuh) as a commander-in-chief and as a religious leader is obligatory. Obedience to all the prophets is obligatory, not just to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). This is a command to obey those in authority. Everything the Prophet (pbuh) says is to be obeyed, but he cannot make any new commandments. He cannot produce a commandment that is not in the Qur’an. He has no authority to change the Qur’an. Our Prophet (pbuh) has to obey what was revealed.

Aslı Sume: God says of the Prophet (pbuh) in another verse, " nor does he [Muhammad] speak from whim. It is nothing but Revelation revealed,"

Adnan Oktar: Masha’Allah. What does that mean? The Qur’an. Revelation means the Qur’an. 

Gökalp Barlan: Verse 51 of Surat al-An’am says, " I follow nothing except what is revealed to me. I fear, were I to disobey my Lord, the punishment of a Dreadful Day.’"

Adnan Oktar: What is revealed appears in the Qur’an. You cannot have secret revelation. You cannot have secret commandments. If it is God’s command, God will put it in the Qur’an. They say that God did not put something in the Qur’an. So where is it? It was written on a leaf, but a goat ate it, they say. Ask where the leaf is, and they say a goat ate it. Even assuming that the goat ate it, did the Companions not memorize the Qur’an? He would put it in the Qur’an. Such a thing is impossible. If you did such a thing then the Companions would all come down on you.  

Aylin Kocaman: In one verse God says; "It is not right for any human being that God should give him the Book and Judgment and Prophethood, and then that he should say to people, ‘Be worshippers of me rather than God.’ Rather he will say, ‘Be people of the Lord because of your knowledge of the Book and because you study.’ "

Adnan Oktar: Look, on the basis of the Qur’an. "Be people of the Lord because of your knowledge of the Book and because you study.’" He says. The prophet does not refer to himself. He does not say he will come up with new revelations and new commandments. He says he obeys the commandments of God and that we must all obey this book. 

It is unbelievable how they fail to understand this. It is a miracle. Someone says, ‘The Prophet changed the commandments in the Qur’an.’ ‘Is he not a prophet? So he can do it,’ they say. I ask where they get that idea from. 'Abu Hanifa said so,’ they say. We look at the hadiths of Imam Shafi, and he says ‘What Abu Hanifa says is a lie.’ Imam Maliq says, 'What they both say is wrong. There is only one true account, and that is what I say.’ And Imam Hanbal says, ‘All three are mistaken, only I speak the truth.’ 

Do you not see? The four schools all have different commandments. The four all contradict one another. They all say the others are lying. The rules about prayer differ in the four schools. Reading Surah Fatiha is obligatory in some, but not in others. That is a very different thing. The rules about the last two complete sets differ, the rules about lawful foods differ. What is lawful in one is unlawful in another. Imam Hanbal says that Imam Hanifa’s hadiths are false. Imam Hanifa says someone else’s hadiths are false. Which one should we believe? They do not heed the Qur’an, all four depart from the faith. These are four separate beliefs. 

Oktar Babuna: In one verse God says, "those who split up their religion, and form into sects, each faction exulting in what they have."

Adnan Oktar: They all say they had attained salvation.

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Muslims’ suffering is due to some Muslims who does not regard the Qur’an as sufficient

Muslims’ suffering is due to some Muslims who does not regard the Qur’an as sufficient (21.05.2014)

Muslims’ suffering is due to some Muslims who does not regard the Qur’an as sufficient

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated May 21th, 2014

Gökalp Barlan: God says this in one verse, I seek shelter from the accursed satan; "Among them is a group who distort the Book with their tongues so that you think it is from the Book when it is not from the Book. They say, ‘It is from God,’ but it is not from God. They tell a lie against God and they know it."

Adnan Oktar: Could you repeat that?

Gökalp Barlan: "Among them is a group who distort the Book with their tongues so that you think it is from the Book.”

Adnan Oktar: They say something, and you ask where did you get that from? I am speaking from the Qur’an, he says. They say the hadiths already say something. Have you gone crazy, my brother?  You say things are in the Qur’an and then in the hadiths. If they are in the Qur’an, then point to the verses.

“It makes no difference if something is in the Qur’an or the hadiths, they are one and the same,” they say. My brother, you have made it up, it is a fabrication. The Qur’an is the word of God.

Gökalp Barlan: Yet they say it is not from that book.

Adnan Oktar: But this is not the command of the Qur’an and not that of God.

Ender Ataç: Another verse says, "..We bring you the truth and the best of explanations. " 

Adnan Oktar: Look, in verse 51 of Surat al-‘Ankabut God says, "Is it not enough for them that We have sent down to you the Book which is recited to them?“ 

Do you know what they say? “It is not enough, not enough at all.” “The Qur’an is of no value without the hadiths,” they say. If we compare the Qur’an and the hadiths, are the hadiths by themselves sufficient,” one asks. “Yes,” they say. “Is the Qur’an sufficient by itself?” “No.”

“They say, “If you act in the light of the Qur’an you will go wrong, but if you act in the light of the hadiths alone you will be saved.” 

So why have you been so devastated? Look, "Is it not enough for them that We have sent down to you the Book which is recited to them?“ says God. These people say that it is not sufficient. 

Look, verse 116 of Surat an-Nahl, "Do not say about what your lying tongues describe…’ do not produce false hadiths, in other words, do not say “This is lawful and this is unlawful.” 

You ask whether this is unlawful according to the Qur’an, and they say, “Of course it is not unlawful according to the Qur’an.” 

Look, I met an orthodox Muslim type the other day. “On the basis of the Qur’an a very simple form of faith emerges. Everything is too easy. So there will be no faith left,” he said. 

He says that there will be no faith left, that it will all be too easy. What kind of religion would that be, he says. 

Look, he has invented a religion off the top of his own head, then he looks for that in the Qur’an. When he cannot find it, he rejects the Qur’an. I look for the faith I have invented in the Qur’an, and if I cannot find it there, then the Qur’an is invalid, he is saying.

Gökalp Barlan: There is another verse in which God says, “Say: ‘Do you presume to teach God your religion” 

Adnan Oktar: They have the presumption to try and teach God religion and moral values.

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Adnan Oktar: Find the verses about the sufficiency of the Qur’an, and let us read them. People must reflect on these. They never wonder why the Muslim world has been so devastated. Yet the fact they do not regard the Qur’an as sufficient is concrete evidence, isn’t it? 

Why should God destroy you if you read the Qur’an. God says that if people abide by the Qur’an, He will not destroy them. But you have been ruined. So, my brother, you should be reflecting on what you have done. You have not abided by the Qur’an. You did not regard the Qur’an as sufficient, so you have been ruined.

That is why Afghanistan has been devastated and why Iraq has been devastated. It is why Syria and Libya have been devastated. The whole Muslim world has been made wretched.

And lovelessness and selfishness prevail across the world.

Bülent Sezgin: In another verse, God says; " When they are told, ‘Follow what God has sent down to you,’ They say, ‘We are following what we found our fathers doing.’"

Adnan Oktar: Tradition. Traditions from their forefathers. 

Bülent Sezgin: " What, even though their fathers did not understand a thing and were not guided!

Adnan Oktar: My brother, why go along with your forefathers if they did not abide by the Qur’an? They did wrong. Are you ancestors more truthful, or the Qur’an? They say their forefathers cannot make a mistake. Can the Qur’an make a mistake? They should say that ‘God, forgive us’ and that the Qur’an cannot make a mistake.

They say their forefathers cannot make a mistake. My brother, your ancestor has made a mistake, and that is why you are in such trouble.

The Qur’an cannot be in error. God cannot be in error.

Kartal Göktan: In another verse, God says; "When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, those who do not expect to meet Us say, ‘Bring a Qur’an other than this one or change it.’ Say: ‘It is not for me to change it of my own accord. I follow nothing except what is revealed to me. I fear, were I to disobey my Lord, the punishment of a Dreadful Day.’"

Adnan Oktar: Look, they add things to the Qur’an or take bits out. They are doing the same thing now. They have added things to the Qur’an and taken other things out, and they have changed the practices in the Qur’an.

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