In the End Times people flee the violence of Dajjal by boats but the persecution of Dajjal will be upon them

“Narrated from Abdullah bin Amr: He said: “In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), such a time will come upon people that a person will want to get on a boat with his family and flee,” as you see the situation of the Syrian refugees is told by our Prophet (saas),  “but the trouble they face within the waves of sea becomes more severen tan the one on land.” While they don’t face such a danger when they are on land, with the sinking of the ship or the boat, they will drown. That would be more severe, it is told. Nuaym bin Hammad, Kitab Al Fitan, Hadith. 1294

From Mr. Adnan Oktar’s Live Conversation on A9TV on 14h  September 2015

The hadith referring to the Jordanian pilot burnt to death by ISIS is a sign of Hazrat Mahdi (as)’s appearance

ADNAN OKTAR:

ISIS crashed down a Jordanian warplane on 24th December 2014. Do you recall that? The Jordanian pilot Muath Youssef al-Kasasbeh was taken as hostage. And on 3rd February 2015 that pilot was executed by being burnt to death. Upon this incident, the Jordanian King Abdullah broke short his visit to America and decided to go back to Jordan.

This young man who was burnt is a member of the al-Kasasbeh family which is one of the prominent families in Jordan of the Bararsheh tribe. The father of Muath al-Kasasbeh is a professor and his uncle was a Major General in the Royal Jordanian Army. Therefore, the capturing of this young pilot shook entire Jordan as it was a very significant happening in the Jordanian army.

And as you know, how the young was burnt to death was video recorded by ISIS.

Our Prophet (pbuh) gave all the details of this occurrence and this is given in Bihar al-Anwar, volume 51, page 116.

(Another sign of Mahdi (as)’s appearance is) “A man of important rank of the supporters of the Abbasides,” these are the Hashemites, the Arab army, the Abbasides. And a young man from that lineage, of important rank, “will be burnt between Jalula and Khaniqin.” See that at the time of Mahdi (as), a young man from this army is burnt to death and God discloses this in great detail. Since, they found that to be a very eminent happening. The reason is that they do not burn people in general, but either slaughter or shoot them.

Yes, you know that they burnt him in a cage. From the Abbasides, the army of the Arabs, this is a man of important rank and he is burnt between Jalula and Khaniqin. Our Prophet (pbuh) even spells out the location and states that he will be burnt to death. This reference is 1200 year dated, and the event is narrated in volume 51, page 116. The Messenger of God (pbuh) has put into words the map of all occurrences.

From Mr. Adnan Oktar’s A9 TV interview on  August 02nd , 2015

The Mahdi (pbuh) will pass away nine years after the reign of the morality of Islam

An excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar’s interview on February 9^th, 2015, on A9 TV

- (Viever’s question): “The Mahdi (as) is of my lineage, if his life were long or short, he would live [to rule] for seven, eight or nine years.” Mr. Adnan Oktar, is this hadith authentic?

Of course it is authentic, “seven or nine years.” How? Along with the reign of morality of Islam over the world. Once Islam reigns over the world, the meaning of the system of Mahdi and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be over because the purpose is already accomplished. See, there is a flood of blood all over, before Hazrat Mahdi’s appearance. Millions of people die before the emergence of Hazrat Mahdi. But when Hazrat Mahdi (as) comes, the purpose is accomplished. Then his life also reaches its purpose. Then it is time for him to meet his Lover. That is why God keeps the reign of Islam short, seven or nine years. Then the hadith narrates, “He passes away suddenly in his vehicle.” Possibly while he is going somewhere, “...he passes away suddenly.” That is all. Following his death, an enormous corruption starts. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) becomes the leader. Hazrat Mahdi (as) has a will. It is stated that he would tell the Prophet Jesus  when he is still alive, that “After me, [leadership] is Jesus Messiah’s”. Then when he also passes away, he has his place already reserved next to our Prophet (pbuh). The place next to the grave of our Prophet  is left vacant. Our Prophet has said, “Bury him next to me.” So it is left vacant on purpose. For instance, Hazrat Abu Baqr  had his grave, and so did Hazrat Omar, but there is a huge space there [near that of our Prophet] so that Prophet Jesus  can be buried there. It is made of concrete, but [at that time] it will be broken and opened up. Beneath it is earth. He will be buried there. Our Prophet (saas) said, “Bury him next to me. We will first rise together, Jesus Messiah and me.” This is when people will be revived. Two of them together. This is the manifestation of God’s attribute of al-Hayy [The Ever-Living]. There is also wisdom in this. As you know, the Prophet Jesus  revived the dead, that is how God grants him such a soul. He creates such a manifestation there. God makes him revive the dead with His attribute al-Hayy [The Ever-Living]. They rise together, hand in hand with our Prophet. They are the first ones who rise. And then the entire world revives. After Islam religion reigns over the world, there is no meaning in living [any more] because it is like being in misery. Bediuzzaman calls it, "Ahl al-Qubur", that is, “The ones who are the people of spirituality are aggrieved of your desire to live in this world.” He says, “It is no longer becoming to want to [live in this world]. He says, “You should call on God and ask Him, “My Lord! If my duty here is over, take me away [to Your Side].” That is to say he says, “Do not insist on staying in this world.” That is why it is seven or nine years, not to make the Islamic community feel concerned, it is, “...between seven and nine years.” Maybe he will die on the seventh year or the ninth year. The time is not exact. Some time in-between. For instance maybe he will pass away in his eighth year, but I believe he will die in his ninth year, God knows best, because it complies with narratives. “It is similar to the life of Hazrat Abraham.” ”His life is long. ” When we consider these two hadiths together, it becomes reasonable, insha’Allah.

Using Incirlik airbase to target Muslims will be murder

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar’s A9 TV interview on March 15th, 2015

- Turkish and US military officials agreed to deploy armed drones to İncirlik Airbase to strike IS targets.

Adnan Oktar: - Don’t they dare. Don’t they even think about it. Even saying something like this is outrageous. That would be murder. A Muslim cannot kill a Muslim, and if he does, he’ll be a murderer. Instigating murder, being an accomplice to it, it is all murder. Don't they dare. This is completely unacceptable. IS is a Muslim community. They have faults, they make mistakes, but they are Muslim youngsters. Killing them, bombing them would be murder, whoever does it. And God says that the punishment for murder is eternal hell. You don't know if the person you are bombing actually committed a crime. There are children, women, innocent people on the ground. Who do you think you are bombing with those drones? Turkey cannot be an accomplice to such a murder. Don't they even dare try to test the waters with us. We will never accept it. Our government would never accept such a tyranny, Mr. Erdogan would never accept such a tyranny. Mr. Erdogan should make an announcement and show his clear stance against it. It is great tyranny, incredibly brutal and it is illegal according to Islam. Illegal. Murder is illegal according to Islam. Unmanned aerial vehicle, in other words, unconscious machines. It kills everyone down there, doesn't matter if there are children, or women. It is outrageous. Turkey would never, ever be an accomplice to such a horrible thing, to such a horrid murder. We will not allow anyone to use this country for such filthy things. Mr. Erdogan should make a statement and so should the Prime Minister. They should relieve us from the burden of being exposed to such horrible statements. This would make implicate the entire Turkey. Don't they dare. We don't care what others are doing, this has got nothing to do with us.

- Mr. Oktar, when this coalition was first set up months ago, you said that they were doing it to pit Muslims against each other. At the moment, US officials almost admit it with regards to the drones.

Adnan Oktar: - Yes. And they want to use hellfire with those drones. Hellfire. How can you do that to Muslims? It’s such a big sin, it is illegal. If they had done something wrong, warn them. Explain them their errors. Where is this bombing coming from? It is clearly murder. Don't they even think about it. They are doing this amongst themselves. But we want no part of it, and we are not interested. We are just warning them: ‘Don't do it, solve the problems with love, compassion. Be friends. Don't hurt each other’. But we cannot do anything other than that to them. But we will never allow something like this to happen in our own country. For example in Pakistan, more than 3500 people lost their lives in drone strikes since the beginning of 2014 and 550 of them are civilians and 175 are children. These are horrible murders. Horrific murders. In Yemen too. Everywhere they do this. They are trying to make Muslims kill other Muslims, trying to turn Muslims against each other. No one should fall in that trap.

- And when they’re asked about this, they reply ‘but no Americans die’.

Adnan Oktar: - Right, because Muslims are not humans according to them.

 - They admit that lots of Muslims die with the drones, but no Americans die.

Adnan Oktar: - This despicable approach is beyond words. Mr. Erdogan is a fearless man. He should give an answer this despicable approach deserves. The Prime Minister should also give the necessary answer that would be suitable. The Turkish name for these drones is ‘reaper’. It reaps everyone.  God forbid, if we allow this to be applied to Muslims, we would be committing a sin, and then God would punish us and then we would end up being the ones on the receiving end of these drone attacks. We cannot be a part of this disaster. They keep bombing the weddings and then they say ‘sorry, we didn't know.’ This is outrageous.

- In Pakistan people developed psychological problems now. Every time they hear a sound similar to that of the drones, they get panicked. They say their days turn into nightmares as a result.

Adnan Oktar: - Can’t they shoot down those drones?

 - Sometimes, they do. Iran did it a couple of times.

Adnan Oktar: - I think they could easily do it with machine guns. They should shoot them down. All of them. Iran must have an anti-drone system, they must have rockets to hit them easily. Pakistan as well. They should shoot the drones down. Then the US wouldn't be able to do anything about it, and the problem would be solved.

They say that the drone operators are operating these machines in airbases in the USA to hit targets 15.000 km away from them. The people on the ground don't feel that the drones are approaching. Poor Muslims. They are willingly allowing to be treated like this. Look at the shameless attitude of the Pakistani government just because they want to please the Americans. They should shoot the drones down immediately with machine guns. Every time you see it, just bring it down.

-  It’s the same in Yemen, you must already know. They had a deal with the government, just like in Pakistan. And they let their villages get bombed under the disguise of fight against terrorism.

Adnan Oktar: It is unbelievable. And it’s always the kids, the innocent that die. The women, the children.

- One American soldier leaked the images of such drone attacks. At the moment they are seeking a life sentence for him.

Adnan Oktar: It must be very easy to determine that. It is a huge machine, should be very easy to shoot it down with machine guns. With long-range guns. If 10-15 people start shooting with machine guns, they could easily do it. They should do it every time.

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The wickedness and war that people experience in this world are actually a taste of hell

From Mr. Adnan Oktar’s interview on A9 TV on 24 February 2015

-  In the context of hell, we have spoken about their behavior, of the way they push one about and express their regret.

- When people arrive in hell they are asked, ‘Were you not sent a messenger?’  They admit that they were. Then the guardians say; ‘So in that case you deserve what you get. Enter the gates of hell and remain there for all time.’

ADNAN OKTAR: Some people, particularly the young, say, ‘The flames and chains are figments of people’s imaginations.’ But look around you here. There are chains and cages all over the Middle East. This is going on everywhere. People are being burned in cages, bombs rain down from the sky, and millions of people are living in ruins. You say, ‘That does not happen.’ But it is happening in this world! Who is doing it? God. ‘I will do this in the hereafter, too,’ He says. But not all of hell is like that. It is quite various. Some parts are filthy and squalid. There are flames in other parts. Other parts are freezing cold. There is total silence in some parts. The aim is to make people really uncomfortable. It is the same in this world. When you go to the North Pole it is freezing cold. You go somewhere else and it is baking hot. People are literally being cooked alive. Hell is like that. But of course Almighty God uses an arresting kind of language to describe it in the Qur’an. When you see it happening, you will realize it is true. The reality and the description are rather different though. It is the same with the system of the Mahdi. The reality and the descriptions differ. The system of the Mahdi is happening now, but the description is wonderful. For example, our Prophet (pbuh) says. ‘The Mahdi will speak and the whole world will listen.’ People imagine that means he will shout out in a loud voice. Obviously not. They think he will have a very loud, deep voice. It doesn’t matter how deep his voice is, it would still be impossible for everyone to hear it. It obviously refers to TV and the internet.

- Muslims in paradise say, ‘Similar things were shown us in the life of the world, insha’Allah. The people in hell also see similar things. 

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Adnan Oktar’s statement about Jordanian pilot’s execution

Adnan Oktar’s statement about Jordanian pilot’s execution

Factories in Jordan are producing hellfire missiles and using them on Muslims

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated dated February 13th, 2015

- A relative of the Jordanian pilot issued a statement. He said that the killing of the pilot took place in a planned manner and that the images were equally good as Hollywood films. He added that the execution exceeded the organization’s means and there were obviously other groups involved. He said that the aim of the organization is to ‘blacken Islam’ (surely Islam is beyond that). 

Adnan Oktar: IS thinks it is serving Islam. The king of Jordan also thinks he is serving Islam by hanging members of ISIL. One kills by hanging and says, ‘I killed better.’ The other kills by burning and says, ‘I killed better.’ There is a contest of barbarity. There is nothing to be proud of in that. This scourge can only come to an end with the Mahdi. The Islamic scholars who pretend not to realize that will do so in the end. 

- King Abdullah of Jordan said, ‘The killing of our pilot was a vile terrorist action by a perverse group that has nothing to do with Islam.’ U.S. President Obama said, ‘If true, this incident is a sign of the vile nature and barbarity of the organization. King Abdullah of Jordan is also going to fly his own plane tomorrow and bomb targets with an F-16 warplane. 

Adnan Oktar: They will shoot his plane down and capture him, too. Terrible things are happening. The king of Jordan is flying off to bomb Muslims. They do not choose forgiveness, love and compassion. They say, ‘You burned by soldier, so I will bomb you.’ The king is planning to burn the people there to death. He will drop napalm or general purpose bombs on them. All the women and children in the place he bombs will die and be martyred. They regard that as heroic. The bomb does not differentiate. Cities are generally home to women and children. IS is not in the cities. Why should they wait for them in the towns? They are spread out in open territory.

Had there been anything of use to IS in Kobane they would have moved heaven and earth to get it. They would have carried everything off. All there is in Kobane now of concrete and stone. That is why they are not coming any more. Had there been things of use to them there like cars, or especially weapons, they would immediately come back for them. The PKK are trembling like dogs in the ruins there. They say they will turn those ruins into a museum. 

They are rejoicing because Jordan hanged a 44-year-old woman. The king of Jordan is saying he will now personally go and bomb women and children. They congratulate him because he will commit murder. Look at the scale of the horror! See what a wretched position Muslims are in. We think the king is a rational person. But he has entirely taken leave of his senses. 

Shiite militias in Iraq frequently burn Sunnis. They do not regard those deaths as important. They burn houses down with Muslims still in them. The other side then responds in like manner. They love all this slaughter. See, both sides are Muslims and say, ‘La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad an Rasulullah. [There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God]’ They are both radiant Muslims. What do you do? Pull yourselves together. What kind of conception of compassion and love is that? 

Shiite mullahs [clergy] came here. They are very devout people. They know the Qur’an off by heart. Most have memorized it. They are all people of the kiblah and love the Prophet. How can you seek to kill such people? That is terrible evil, a terrible sin. The punishment is a lifetime in hell. 

- IS tried to justify the killing of the Jordanian pilot by saying, ‘This is how we will punish those who rain bombs down on our towns.’ 

Adnan Oktar: That pilot may have caused the martyrdom of thousands of people. They send napalm bombs down from the air and burn thousands of people, children included. They load napalm bombs onto their jets, and they turn an area of at least 50-60 meters into hell on earth. The heat exceeds 3000 degrees and even melts metal. Now if anyone regards the burning of Muslims as sensible that is also oppression. The pilots are burning women and children to death with napalm. That is oppression. Then IS go and burn that pilot. That is also persecution. The Muslim world is being ruined. Both sides are wronging one another. 

May Almighty God speed up the coming of the Mahdi. May He produce the Mahdi. The Mahdi will appear when God tells him to. He can not appear if Almighty God does not tell him to do so. Of course, not in the manner we know. Almighty God will inspire the identity of the Mahdi in Muslims. And Muslims will then produce him. 

-Teacher, will the people who call for the Mahdi be scholars? They may be politicians, or scholars, or anyone. Anyone who finds no other solution. 

Adnan Oktar: Anyone who is wise. Anyone who is pained by the situation of Muslims. Everyone who cannot find salvation. Because we are told by our Prophet that all paths and systems and people will be tried first [without success]. He says that all political leaders and ideas will be tried, but that they will all be seen to fail, and people will realize there is no other salvation than the Mahdi. 

They are burning Muslims with missiles called ‘Hellfire missiles.’ These missiles are being used in attacks by Jordan. Hellfire – they turn wherever they hit into a hell on earth. They martyr Muslims by burning them to death. IS then says, ‘If you burn children and women, then we will burn you.’ Both sides are burning one another all the time. And unbelievers sit back and applaud. The Mahdi is the only salvation for the Islamic world. 

- IS militants put TVs and projectors out on the streets in Raqqa yesterday evening. They showed the people images of people bombed and burned to death by warplanes and of the burning to death of that Jordanian pilot.

Adnan Oktar: Those missiles are called ‘Hellfire.’ They fire napalm bombs. They make it from nitroglycerine. They mix that with other substances. The temperature reaches up to 3000 degrees. It makes a hell on earth. Children’s bodies are made unrecognizable. Factories in Jordan keep producing these weapons and using them. The king of Jordan is now saying, ‘I will now bomb and burn Muslims.’ You should be a rational person. You have been declared king. So you should come to your senses. What good is killing and burning? You must treat people with love, affection, friendship, brotherhood and compassion. You should stand up against Darwinism and approach people with the miracles of the Qur’an and the signs leading to faith. You also live in the Holy Land, where the Prophet Moses lived. The tomb of Moses is in Jordan. He wandered those mountains. His footprints are there. What are you playing at? Pull yourself together! Come to your senses! He says they have burned people, so he is going to burn also. Both sides are giving one another hellfire. Stop it! Embrace one another and be friends. Renounce this enmity. They all say, ‘La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammed an Rasulullah [There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God]’ This is all terrible corruption. 

Let us show a picture of a Hellfire missile. 

- King Abdullah of Jordan issued a statement about IS: ‘This terrorist organization is not only fighting us. It is fighting Islam and its tolerant values. We are waging this war to protect our faith, values and human principles. The war we wage will therefore be ruthless. We will be on our guard against the guilty. We will strike them in their own homes.’ 

Adnan Oktar: Let me tell the king of Jordan now that IS will defeat him. IS may also enter Jordan and devastate it. The king must pull himself together. He must not be a bully. He is easy to defeat. He should resolve the matter through peace, negotiation and love. That is my advice to him. Those words look like someone’s last words. He must come to his senses. Waging war against IS and Muslims does not bestow superiority. If people are ignorant and on the wrong path, you can educate them. You cannot resolve problems through bloodshed. Blood cannot wipe away blood. Both sides are hurting the other. The king of Jordan has sent his pilots and made them burn Muslims alive. You have burned thousands of young people, women and children with napalm at 3000 degrees. Then they went and burned that pilot in a cage. Then the king says, ‘I will go and kill them myself.’ He has become crazed by anger. You must be on the side of love, compassion, peace and friendship. Resolve the relations between you. If you want to put them right, do so with knowledge and virtue. By talking. Not by fighting. 

The Jordanian foreign minister announced they will send land forces against IS. They will kill them all. This is foolishness. It is a sin for Muslim to kill Muslim. If people are mistaken, you warn them. We are told to command what is good and eschew what is bad. Going there and killing people is no good.

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2014 in retrospect

On the eve of the New Year, people wish to believe that things will change for better, a new order with emerge. “Let’s hope for a better year,” they say, that is a good intention, a fine expectation and a source of hope for them. That is what we also hope will happen, of course. Insha’Allah (God willing), 2015 will be a good year for the whole world.

This hope must be maintained; however, it must not be forgotten that a new year is not a magic wand to change the course of events. The difficulties we faced over the year, the toxic ideologies and slowly strengthening hatred, will not suddenly come to an end. We hope that 2015 will be a year when peace will reign, but we also need to do things to bring that about. We therefore need to cast our eyes briefly over what was done wrong in the difficult year 2014:

We entered 2014 with the Syrian civil war. The war, which began in 2011, is still going on, with no intervention from the outside and no proposed solution, and 2014 went down as the year that saw the worst losses in the Syrian war. The death toll has exceeded 200,000, and is known to be certainly very much higher.

The self-ascribed Islamic State (IS), born out of the Syrian civil war, founded a state of its own in 2014. Strategic areas of Syria and Iraq are now under its control. This terrorist organization, which rendered NATO, the UN and the super powers helpless, is the result of wrong western policies toward the Middle East.

The Ukraine crisis, the result of greed alone, ended in a nightmare for a fine European country and ended in nearly 3,000 dead. The EU, which sought to extend its influence in Ukraine while sidelining Russia but which also sat back and watched the internal conflicts, and Russia, which refuses to blink on the subject of its former allies, are still settling their accounts. The resurrection of the Cold War era rivalries appears to be the handiwork of the US deep state.

While all this was going on, the horror of Ebola also appeared, though initially it attracted little world interest. The international organizations believed that money set aside for a solution to the problem in poor countries would not “bring profit.” Vaccination campaigns only began toward the end of the year, after the disease started appearing in the US and Europe; and after more than 6,000 deaths.

In 2014, Crimea went under Russian control. Scotland made a bid for independence, but failed. While the Central African Republic (CAR) was the scene of murder and genocide, Boko Haram continued with its horrifying attacks in Nigeria. One action by Boko Haram, which attracted global condemnation, was the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls, of whom 223 are still in the custody of the terrorist organization.

While all this was going on, 748 people lost their lives in incidents in Iraq in March alone.

As the Israeli-Gaza conflict was making headlines, other conflicts were raging on in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. While all this was happening, a Malaysian jet disappeared, another was shot down over Ukraine, 289 people lost their lives in a ferry disaster in South Korea and 301 in the Soma mine disaster in Turkey. Millions of people were made refugees in 2014, and hundreds lost their lives while seeking refuge in new countries in rickety boats. People also starved to death in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.

As the number of refugees was rising and the world was being dragged into poverty, Europe began introducing laws to prevent the arrival of migrants. The European Parliament’s elections resulted in wins for extreme right and left wing parties rather than those from the center. Since being anti-migrant is regarded as a “vote winner” it became a popular policy with parties contesting the polls. Anti-migrant protests are still taking place in Germany in these last days of 2014. The economic crisis has had a devastating impact on countries such as Greece, Iceland, Greek Cyprus, Belgium and Italy, but has also affected the entire euro zone. Falling oil prices have affected Russia and the Middle East most of all. 

NSA snooping records, pictures of torture perpetrated by the regime in Syria and finally the CIA torture report were all exposed documents that left their mark on 2014. But these actually said nothing new.

2014 was a difficult year. But when we look back, we see that a great many of these tragedies were the result of using violence against violence, selfishness in the face of ambition or a preference for self-interest over human life. Again when we look back, we see that all these tragedies served the world’s arms manufacturers and various lobbies that profit from the artificial Cold War climate that efforts are being made to establish. The savagery we witnessed over the year had perhaps never before been so wide-ranging and horrifying.

We will be entering 2015 with problems. Nothing is just going to vanish with a magic wand. If the policy of violence in the world persists, then nobody should be surprised if these incidents are multiplied many times over in the years ahead. If the global community and the super powers in particular, fails to learn from 2014 and insists on implementing the same failed policy, then this scourge afflicting almost all countries will continue to grow and become even more ghastly. The year 2014 teaches us is: Violence in the face of violence is leading the world to destruction. The means are wrong. The policy being applied needs to change. The source of the violence must be targeted, and an age of education using the language of love must begin. The scale of the horror means that we need to understand the sign given us by Allah. Unless the method changes, the years ahead will see even more sufferings and afflictions. It would be a shame to waste another tragic year in order to grasp this fact. Let us not forget that 2015 will change nothing; it is we who can be the instruments of change.

Adnan Oktar's piece on Arab News:

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/680241

In the world we dream of children are not killed

http://www.riyadhvision.com/2014/08/31/world-dream-children-killed

http://dailymailnews.com/2014/12/20/in-the-world-we-dream-of-children-are-not-killed

By: Harun Yahya

Any reasonable person with good conscience would want to live in a world in which children are playing and laughing in joy, in which women are held in high esteem as first class citizens without any discrimination because of their style of dress or their vision of the world, and in which all people have high living standards; anyone would want a life with a high level of welfare, a high level of education, cutting edge technology, a life fulfilled with arts and aesthetics, a life full of freedoms in which young girls and young boys will live comfortably.

Human nature is prone to beauty, aesthetics and comfort. People are fond of clean, new things, technological advances and most important of all, freedoms. Anyone would enjoy beautiful houses, clean and neat gardens, aesthetically pleasing clothes, top model cars, delicious, well- prepared food. Everyone dreams about a life full of these pleasures .

The bird’s eye view of the world we actually are living in at the moment does not present us the image everyone dreams about and wishes for. In the vast majority of the world we see troubles, poverty, tears, bloodshed, wars and unrest.

The world we are living in now, the world, in which children are passing away in wars in Syria, or in Palestine as their tiny bodies are smashed, is nowhere near the world that we dream of.

The world we are living in now is a world in which children are starving to death in Africa and Iraq because of famine; this is nowhere near the world we dream of in which a healthy generation is brought up eating anything they feel like eating.

The world we are living in now is a world in which women are stoned to death in Bahrain, in Saudi Arabia, in Nigeria, Somali and Afghanistan, a world in which about 130 million of them are forcibly circumcised (according to the UN reports) against their will; this is nowhere near the world we dream of where women have the right to speak out their minds, having the right to dress, have fun and dance as ever they like.

The world we are living in now is a world in which we only see devastated houses in Syria, Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan and it is nowhere near the world we dream of in which everyone lives in luxury villas, drives top model cars and benefits from cutting edge technology.

The world we dream of and the one we actually are living in are very different from each other. The fact that a certain socio-economic stratum enjoys the standards we all dream of does not mean that the world as we dream of exists. The world we dream of could only come true when all the people living on it enjoy the same luxuries. The fact that we see a startling contrast when we turn our faces from one side to another indicates that the world we dream of is still far away.

The reports prepared by international organizations numerically reveal these bitter facts. For example; according to the United Nations Development Program, the world’s richest 1% own 40% of all wealth and 50% of the world’s adults own just %1 of all wealth.

According to reports by the International Labor Organization, more than 10 million children are made to work as slaves in various jobs and the ages of 6.5 million of these children are between 5-14. According to data provided by UNICEF, each year approximately 1.2 million children fall into the hands of human traffickers.

According to the latest report of the World Health Organization, despite all the studies done and programs undertaken, violence towards women could not be prevented; on the contrary, violence has increased over time. One of every three women in the world is subjected to violence.

These are only a few of the facts revealing the current state of the world. Enter ” woman”, “children”, “persecution”, “violence”, “hunger” in any search engine and you will come across ten thousands of articles which once more drum the fact into our souls that we are light years away from the world we dream of.

Actually the world we dream of is not unattainable. There is only one key to make this possible and that key is love. It is a matter of embedding love into the souls of all people.

Providing a proper education is the most important path to make love prevail the world. If we patiently and resolutely create a positive education, both in schools starting from childhood and in visual and written media – as well as social media – it is apparent that this spirit of hatred that is all too common today would fade away.

If we develop a spirit of love, a spirit of compassion, a spirit of forgiving mistakes and atoning errors, a spirit of enjoying the beauties of other people. – Harun Yahya

If we develop a spirit of love, a spirit of compassion, a spirit of forgiving mistakes and atoning errors, a spirit of enjoying the beauties of other people instead of the spirit of hatred, rage and vengeance, instead of the spirit of jealousy and competition, we could start eliminating the cruelty and persecution going on in the world right now. The important thing is to hold tight to the key of love which will open the door to the world we dream of.

There will be no place for war, for crime, for evils and treachery in the world created by a sharing, charitable, selfless generation brought up being taught to abstain from offending anyone, to constantly think about the comfort, peace and ease of the others, to enjoy the success of others. Then we can have the world we dream of, but only when we let love into our hearts.

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The writer has authored more than 300 books translated in 73 languages on politics, religion and science.

He tweets @harun_yahya

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Communist Savagery

Communism has never led to anything other than killing, destruction and suffering.

Tens of millions of people have been forced to migrate, subjected to systematic famine and worked to death like slaves in labor camps. Millions of people have also been the targets of shootings by communist terror organizations or else have lived in fear of being so targeted.

YOU ARE NOW ABOUT TO SEE a few examples of the savagery inflicted by communist ideology, which attaches no value to human beings;

- LENIN SEIZED ALL THE PEASANT’S PRODUCTS AND SEEDS AND ABANDONED 29 MILLION PEOPLE TO STARVE TO DEATH BETWEEN 1921 TO 1922. FIVE MILLION OF THESE PEOPLE DIED OF FAMINE AFTER LONG SUFFERING.

- Stalin established "requisitioning detachments" that would confiscate peasants’ harvests by force. As a result, SIX MILLION PEOPLE DIED OF FAMINE IN THE MOST HORRIBLE MANNER. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of tons of cereals were actually exported to prevent other countries becoming aware of this evil.

- In Stalin’s time IT WAS A SERIOUS CRIME to sell grain on the market, have an employee to help with the harvest or even possess two samovars. Peasants were arrested on the pretext that they had "taken part in commerce," when they had sold something of their own making.

- Famine caused the deaths of six million men, women, children, old people and infants in Stalin’s time, not because Soviet farms produced insufficient grain, but because the Communist party wanted this man-made famine to happen. In other words, it was mass murder.

- Many people were sent to concentrations camps known as ‘Gulags’ in the time of the Soviet dictator Stalin, where they were worked to death under extremely harsh conditions. Most people never left the camps alive.  MILLIONS OF WORKERS AND PEASANTS WHO REVOLTED AGAINST THE BOLSHEVIK REGIME BETWEEN 1918 AND 1953 WERE SLAUGHTERED.

- Following the Red Army’s invasion of Afghanistan it employed the most despicable methods against Muslims; they made mines that resembled toys so that Afghan children would pick them up. Captured religious fighters were horribly tortured and the civilian population was shelled without the slightest compunction.

- Mao seized power in China with a communist revolution in 1949 and instituted a program known as the ‘Great Leap Forward’ in the mid-1950s. As with the Soviets, that project also inflicted famine and misery on the people.

- The famine across China in 1958-1961 caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward is regarded as the worst and deadliest famine ever. Up to 40 MILLION PEOPLE DIED. That is the equivalent of the entire population of Turkey at that time.

- Prisoners in Mao’s time were forced to work in mines, where 300 PEOPLE A DAY WOULD DIE. PRISONERS WERE BURIED ALIVE, HUMILIATED AND SUBJECTED TO THE MOST HORRIBLE MALTREATMENT.

- Mao later initiated the Cultural Revolution ostensibly so that the people would understand communism better. Thousands of senior bureaucrats, university teachers, scientists and intellectuals were later rounded up and executed after being tortured for ‘opposition to communism.’

- MAO'S RED GUARDS ARRESTED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, TORTURED AND EXECUTED THEM SOLELY FOR LISTENING TO MUSIC, HAVING A PET ANIMAL OR ENGAGING IN WORSHIP.

- Between six and ten million people were killed under Mao's directives, and another 20 million ‘counter-revolutionaries’ spent much of their lives in prison.

- Following Mao's seizure of power, a systematic genocide began being employed against the Uighur Turks of East Turkestan.

- Uighur Turks were forbidden by the Chinese communists to PERFORM THEIR RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES, SCHOOLS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP WERE CLOSED, CLERGY IN MANY AREAS WERE ARRESTED AND A GREAT MANY OF THESE WERE MARTYRED.

- 2.8 MILLION MUSLIM UIGHUR TURKS WERE MARTYRED BY THE CHINESE IN VARIOUS WAYS IN 1949-1952, 3.5 MILLION IN 1952-1957, 6.7 MILLION IN 1958-1960 AND 13 MILLION IN 1961-1965.

- Between 1975 and 1979 the communist Khmer Rouge turned the rice paddies of Cambodia into ‘killing fields.’ Three million of the country’s total nine million population were either shot, hacked to pieces, suffocated with bags over their heads or left to starve.

- A deliberate famine was also set in motion by the communist regime in CAMBODIA. Despite people starving to death in the country, only one-fifth of its arable land was permitted to be used for agriculture.

- UNDER THE REGIME OF THE COMMUNIST HO CHI MINH, 40,000 PEOPLE WERE PACKED INTO SPACES INTENDED FOR 8,000 IN THE PRISONS BETWEEN 1975 AND 1977. PRISONERS EITHER STARVED, SUFFOCATED, WERE TORTURED TO DEATH OR KILLED THEMSELVES.

These are some of the ruthless practices of communism.

THOSE WHO SEEK SOCIAL JUSTICE CAN NEVER FIND IT IN COMMUNISM BECAUSE SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHIN COMMUNISM MEANS MISERY AND POVERTY. Communism exploits people, eliminates art, science and joy, and turns people into little more than unhappy automatons. No artist, scientist or intellectual with a free mind ever emerges from communist society.

It is impossible for communism, which denies that humans are entities with souls and regards them as a type of animal, to establish an order based on happiness, peace, prosperity and security.

Human beings are not valued under the communist system. The prevailing idea is one of ‘There are many members of the herd, so if one gets lost it does not matter.’

THOSE WHO ARE HANDICAPED OR CANNOT WORK ARE REGARDED AS SICKLY AND HARMFUL AND OFTEN LEFT TO DIE. THERE IS NO CONCEPTION OF FORGIVENESS, COMPASSION OR LOYALTY.

People’s moral values, intentions or state of mind are never considered. Since there is no altruism, everyone thinks of himself first, and thus society fails to progress. Since people have no compassion it is impossible for there to be peace in society.

The just system desired by those who seek social justice exists solely in Islam, in the Qur’an.  all people, men and women, are equal and protected under Islamic values. Love of humanity is what counts in Islam. Everyone, be they sick, handicapped or elderly is protected. Nobody goes hungry while there are those around who have enough to eat. There is no compulsion or obligation. Even unbelievers are helped and shown affection. Everyone is protected and watched over in a society that lives by Islamic moral values. There is love and respect. THE SOCIAL JUSTICE THAT IS SOUGHT CAN ONLY BE A REALITY UNDER THE MORAL VALUES OF THE QUR’AN, NOT UNDER IDEOLOGIES THAT HAVE SLAUGHTERED MILLIONS.

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The USA must lead the way to peace and brotherhood

From initially talking of bringing “democracy” to the region, the USA - which has been fighting radical Islamist organizations ever since the 9/11 attacks - is now talking about “eradicating” ISIS. It is of course impossible to ignore the contribution that America has made to the building of peace in various parts of the world, such as Kosovo. The sensitivity it displays on the subject of supplying humanitarian aid to almost everywhere in the world, despite its own economic problems, is also praiseworthy. There is also no doubt that democracy needs to come to Islamic lands and that the violence of ISIS needs to cease to exist for the sake of world peace. The important thing, however, is how this is to be done. 

One concrete fact stands after 13 years of military operations, from Afghanistan to Libya and from Nigeria to Iraq, radical terrorist groups have not ceased to exist through military force, violence and oppression, on the contrary, they grow even stronger. 

Statistics reveal that the USA has spent some $7 trillion in Afghanistan and Iraq. Again according to the figures, $10 million of US taxpayers’ money goes to the fight against terror every hour. The lives that have been lost are, of course, beyond any material measurement. 

That picture can be changed, however. This is what needs to be done: 

1. All kinds of military operation, including air strikes, just further anti-Americanism. Such strikes lead to civilian deaths, damage cities and destroy infrastructure, causing increasing fury in the countries concerned and that fury mostly benefits radical organizations. Spending billions of dollars on producing people opposing it, and thus providing human resources for terror organizations, is a most undesirable state of affairs for the USA.  

2. Although killing off the leaders of terror organizations is presented as an effective technique by some military analysts, looked at from a wider perspective, no results are actually obtained from it at all. In the most recent incident, 25 people lost their lives in a suicide attack on a UN convoy in the immediate wake of the killing of the leader of al-Shabaab. Violence grows in proportion to the scale of the destruction, resulting in a vicious circle of violence. 

3. In order to break the spiral of terror, it is essential to see the factors affecting people in the region and to assess them accurately. The most influential of these factors is without doubt Islam.  

4. President Obama’s emphasizing that ISIS is not representative of Islam is a most valuable and important step: However, the ideology that ISIS does represent needs to be accurately identified. Indeed, ISIS does not represent Islam and Muslims, but unfortunately many of the values it espouses are based on interpretations found in basic Islamic works. Careful examination of the basic works of Sunni Islamic culture such as those of Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi shows that they do refer to primitive and barbaric modes of punishment such as “striking on the neck and stoning,” even though these are not in the Qur’an. First and foremost, these remarks must be removed from Islamic sources and there must be a return to the essence of the faith, to the Qur’an in other words. The whole Islamic world must be told, in detail, that there is no violence in the Qur’an and that such interpretations are incompatible with the Qur’an. 

5. If we want a spirit based on love, compassion, understanding and affection to prevail across the Islamic world, the way to bring this about is a return to the moral values of the Qur’an, which have been ignored for centuries. Through such concepts as, “You have your faith and I have my faith” and “There is no compulsion in the faith,” Islam laid the foundations of secularism and democracy 14 centuries ago. Once people live by the Qur’an, nobody can be accused of heresy for belonging to a different sect, nobody will be killed for being a Christian or Jew, no criminals will be crucified and nobody will be enslaved because of a different ethnic origin. When people abide by the Qur’an, everyone, be they Christian, Jew, Muslim or atheist will live as first-class citizens, democracy will function properly and universal law will ensure the provision of justice.  

6. Therefore, what needs to be done is to expose, with evidence from the Qur’an, the invalidity of the information that ISIS and other radical terror groups use as supposed evidence and that appears in various Islamic sources. Thousands of young Europeans and Americans who have joined ISIS can be won back through education and by revealing the truth instead of error, not by killing tens of thousands of people in the Middle East and raining bombs down on them. 

7. As a superpower, the USA also has a powerful military. It has great expertise in the strategy of war and invasion. Yet what would really become the USA is to build and develop civilization and to contribute to progress. The way to do that is through educational and cultural activities. Correct education with accurate ideas needs to be implemented; teaching the true Islam based on the Qur’an, rather than the classic, orthodox conception of Islam, can make people who currently favor violence espouse peace, love and brotherhood instead. This would be far more economical than spending trillions of dollars on weaponry and later spending billions more on humanitarian aid, and is a method that will produce guaranteed results.  

8. Some circles in the USA are wary of supporting the teaching of the Islam of the Qur’an. One of the reasons for that caution is the false idea that “It is wrong for America to teach Muslims about Islam.” The USA should certainly not impose any particular idea or insist upon any particular opinion on Muslims. What the USA needs to do is to support cultural activities intended to teach and spread the Islam of the Qur’an. 

9. It would be a very good idea for Muslim countries to be included in the coalition to be set up against ISIS. However, it must not be forgotten that a harsh and radical concept of Islam, similar to that of ISIS, also prevails in many of the countries in that coalition. Beheadings as capital punishment are carried out in those countries, women are treated as second-class citizens and freedom of thought and expression is routinely trampled underfoot. It is therefore impossible for the mindset that imposes a ruthless lifestyle on its own peoples to fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria or to provide the peoples of other regions with the peace they long for. Surely there are reasonable, rational and modern leaders in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. However, most of the time these people are forced to give in to the demands of the fundamentalists living in those countries. For this reason, it is paramount that these leaders are supported and made stronger. If the USA is to forge an alliance it must be with Muslims of the Qur’an, and it must develop common strategies with them.

10. What the Middle East, with its hundreds of sects, beliefs and ethnicities, needs is not new micro-states in perpetual conflict with one another, but a union such as the European Union and a spirit of alliance.

11. An Islamic world capable of acting as one in industry, economy, defense and most importantly of all in cultural activities will lighten the burden on the USA. It will be able to resolve its own problems, guarantee its own energy resources and prepare the ground for the ending of conflicts and regeneration.  

Implementation of the solutions summarized in this film is essential, not just for the Middle East, but for world peace. Instead of resorting to a new military operation that will doubtlessly last for years and produce no results, the rational thing is to turn to these proposals, which have never been tried before but that would indeed produce the desired results. Unless the foundations of terror are eradicated through educational and cultural activities - unless the swamp is dried up in other words - there is no point in simply swatting at mosquitoes.  

Our common prayer is to achieve a world in which there is no terror and violence, in which all people are valued, no matter what their religious beliefs, language or race, a world of joy and happiness. We hope that the USA will be instrumental in making that common prayer a reality and leading the way to peace and brotherhood.

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