Everything, favorable or unfavorable, flows into the sea of the system of the Mahdi (28.11.2013)
Everything, favorable or
unfavorable, flows into the sea of the system of the Mahdi
Excerpt from Mr.
Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated November 28th, 2013
Islamic Union is developing
fast, the spirit of the system of the Mahdi is developing fast, Qur’anic moral
values are spreading fast, extremism is disappearing, and we can see from signs
that Almighty God will bring the system and beauty we desire to the whole world.
But Almighty God has made events quite complex within a destiny. Look, there is
an action in those events. God does not desire monotony and stasis. For
example, if there is a mountain, He makes it a volcano. If there is flat land,
He moves it with an earthquake. He either bestows sickness or rejoicing on
people, or else takes their souls, but Almighty God always creates a liveliness
rather than stasis. And every movement works in favor of the system of the
Mahdi. This movement is in favor of the system of the Mahdi and against that of
the antichrist. Otherwise, the days would just come and go, Wednesdays followed
by Thursdays, and life would come and go. But God does not do that. You see an
earthquake in Ankara, then an earthquake in Istanbul, then extraordinary things
happen in the press, amazing things happen in systems. But it all flows in one
direction, toward the sea of the system of the Mahdi. Wherever it may be, it
flows to the sea of the system of the Mahdi. The earthquake flows to the sea of
the system of the Mahdi, and the volcano. Everything flows toward the sea of
the system of the Mahdi. He constantly
raises the system of the Mahdi. He raises it centimeter by centimeter. For
example, these recent events are directly in favor of the system of the Mahdi.
They constantly elevate and expand it. But they always work against other systems
in other places. They work against someone sitting [in power] over there,
whether it be a political system or a particular group or whatever. It will be
for the best, but against them. It will be in the best interests of Islam but
against them. It will be in favor of Islam and the Qur’an. It is a state of
affairs that will benefit believers and will be auspicious for them. For
example, an article appears about us. They say a lot of pieces have appeared
recently about the Torah Code. People who look only superficially cannot
understand. But people who look intelligently… If I address one person, through
him, 10,000 come to hear. People become curious. What is this Torah Code? A
person will then investigate it. Where are these codes? His horizons open up
for the first time. He realizes there is a code in the Torah. Then he wonders
about the Code of the Qur’an. What are the codes in the Qur’an, he wonders. He
looks into them. Where does this all flow? To the sea of the system of the Mahdi.
The sea of the system of the Mahdi is greater than the seven seas. It fills up
day and night. For instance, they say, “Someone is under suspicion somewhere.”
“That is sad,” people say. That flows directly into the sea of the system of
the Mahdi. They say, “Such and such a person has become a Muslim, a scholar,
and this atheist has become a Muslim.” That
also flows into the sea of the system of the Mahdi. Look, notice how
everything, favorable or not, flows into the sea of the system of the Mahdi.
But that is not the case in other systems. It always works against people. It
will do damage to someone, or hurt them. Someone may be rich but then troubles
will afflict him. Someone will be living a quiet, peaceful life and becomes
rich. But then everyone turns against him. His money becomes a scourge for him.
He looks for a hole to hide away in. But that is not how it works in the system
of the Mahdi, It always works favorably. There is always a positive and
auspicious development. Nothing happens that does not flow into the sea of the
system of the Mahdi. Its level rises all the time. But the sea will not burst
its banks until it is full. Almighty God has been filling that sea of 40 years.
When the sea overflows at the end of those 40 years, God will see the boat to
land, as with Noah’s Ark, insha’Allah. Our prophet (pbuh) says that the system
of the antichrist has a life span of 40 years. The struggle between the systems
of the Mahdi and the antichrist will last for 40 years. Then the Mahdi will
finish it in 40 years.
They can oppose it all they
like. When there is opposition to the system of the Mahdi our Prophet says, “Intellectuals
and the religious scholars will always be opposed to the Mahdi.” He says that
in the hadiths. He even says, “A scholar in Istanbul, a well-known scholar, a
scholar with the soul of Pharaoh, will afflict the Mahdi with unbelief and with
pride.” Imam Rabbani describes it in his Letters. But that just fills the sea
of the system of the Mahdi. The system of the Mahdi could not grow without
opposition. Someone is opposed to the system of the Mahdi because God uses him
as His vanguard. He is actually assisting it. Someone works against the system
of the Mahdi on the internet, in a way that has never been seen before. There
are writings and talk about how “The system of the Mahdi will never come.” Many
so-called scholars say that the Mahdi will never come, when they are asked.
People have this lack of belief in their hearts and souls. Some of them even go
so far as not to believe in God, may He forbid, or not to believe in the
Prophet. That becomes a sickness. There is doubt in the soul, in people. But
the believer uses doubt in his favor. He uses it to benefit our Lord. Souls
with a tendency to pride try and use this against God, but that just brings
them tragedy and disaster. That spirit of doubt, that spirit of questioning
literally drives them crazy. Now if you say, “He said the Mahdi will not be
coming,” people will start obsessing about that future. If you say, “The Mahdi
will come,” then people will investigate that. I say that he will be coming,
and people look into that. If people say he will not be coming, then people
also investigate that. That is in the human soul. Now when they look into
whether he will not be coming, they still find themselves looking at the system
of the Mahdi. He will “be coming” because the evidence is very clear when we
compare the two. How many proofs are there? There are 200. But how many proofs
do the other side have?
Millions of antichrists and
a great many Nimrods and pharaohs have afflicted the system of the Mahdi by God’s
mercy. Hypocrites of various kinds, atheist djinn, human djinn and creatures of
all kinds have infested the system of the Mahdi. God says in a verse that He
has created enemies of all kinds for all prophets. Almighty God says He has
created them specially. God creates a great many enemies of the system of the
Mahdi. He creates opponents, Nimrods, hypocrites and the ignorant. The system
of the Mahdi then assumes a glorious size and volume. Normally, the Mahdi is a
very small person, but the attacks by unbelief and the attacks of evil make a
giant out of him. The world becomes too small to hold him. He grows so much
that he welcomes attacks. We must see that such attacks flow into the sea of
the system of the Mahdi and must welcome them. People who fail to see this will
fail to see the beauty of the blessing.
The most important of those Islamic scholars who explained the true nature of matter was Imam Rabbani, who has been widely respected in the Islamic world for hundreds of years and is seen as "the greatest reformer of the 10th century according to the Muslim calendar." In his book Letters, Imam Rabbani provides a detailed commentary on this very subject. In one of his letters, Imam Rabbani says that God created the entire universe at the level of perception:
These explanations regarding the fact that the matter is illusion are misunderstood by some people and likened to the views of some ancient Greek philosophers or some other disbelieving philosophers. Indeed, there have been philosophers who said matter is illusion, yet these people went astray since they failed to grasp that this illusion was created by God. For instance, ancient Greek sophists said, "Matter is a perception we have created ourselves." This view is rationally and scientifically flawed, and departs from true religion. As stressed from the very beginning, the truth is that matter is created by God and does exist, but we don’t know the actual matter but merely a version of it we perceive in our minds. 
As we have seen, the fact that we merely deal wih the version of matter in our minds is a very important fact also stated by Islamic scholars. Yet throughout history, this issue has never been accessible to the masses; only a limited number of people knew about it. In this century, this fact has now become explicable, thanks to the evidence science has provided. The fact that we have no experience of the actual material world that exists outside our minds is, for the first time in history, being clearly and comprehensibly explained. For this reason, everyone must seriously consider the matter. Muslims in particular must attach vital importance to it, because comprehending the true facts about matter is important for attaining true faith in God. Otherwise people will assume matter to be the absolute truth, which will help the development of materialist philosophies that deny God or perverted faiths.
