1-    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MARRIAGE IN THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (January 29, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: A woman looks for certain criteria when she is going to marry. First of all money; money above all. Then education, a spouse with a good position, a car, a summer house, and a great many other such attributes. When someone is looking for these she cannot use the passion given her by Allah. In that case, that home is of no use to her. That home will just be four walls to her, somewhere totally empty. In other words, it will have no effect. The car will just be a collection of metal to be used to carry her from one place to another. These materials acquire meaning through love of and passion for Allah. That is why our Prophet (saas) that someone who marries for possessions loses those possessions, while people who marry for beauty lose beauty. Because someone may catch the flu one day and seem repellent, and once can find even the most unexpected things repellent. One may be disgusted when one sees a person in a state of helplessness and cannot avoid that feeling for the rest of his life.

… Money produces a depression in such people because they have to take so many precautions to keep the money.  People worry about their checks bouncing, or what will happen if they put their money in the bank and it goes bust. So they hide it under the mattress, but that is no good, either. At last they put it in a jar but then worry about what if someone finds it. So they suffer a lot and feel restless. People can only find peace, trust and ease through love of Allah. In other words, with many people the more money they have, the worse their restlessness and suffering.  We see many cases of this in the outside world. I do not want to cite individual cases, but we see a great many such people all around. 

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (February 1, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: ... they have no trust in one another even as they get married. They first go and make a pre-nuptial agreement at their lawyer’s, saying how much money will be payable if they get divorced, right from the very start.

ADNAN OKTAR: It is a total catastrophe. If you have so little trust and you are almost sure that you will be deceived and oppressed... then how can you live together with such a person?  What kind of agreement is that? How will you be able to look that man in the face having made such an agreement? But women quite rightly look to have trust in the person they marry. And fear of Allah is essential for there to be trust. And fear of Allah, and profound faith and taqwa. How can one trust anyone who does not fear Allah? Think of a person who  has the kind of mind unable to acknowledge Allah. He is unable to understand that he lives in a lentil-size place inside his brain. Matter does exist on the outside, but he lives inside that tiny space, and his mind is too weak even to realize the presence of Allah. What can one expect from such a person? People surely very much like the one who speaks the truth. That has a huge effect on a woman, speaking the truth. It also has a huge impact on man. A woman who always speaks the truth is very exciting. In other words, she is a great blessing. That person never lies, so that means you have united your brain with hers. You have become a single brain. She never lies, and it is terribly exciting to get in touch with one’s soul, with a woman.  But that connection to brain is broken when lies enter the picture.  You have now entered a false world, which means that that person does not exist. But trust is something very exciting, in other words, to trust someone to death, to hope to be with him/her through all eternity, insha’Allah. To believe s/he will never be disloyal or hypocritical, and that someone is honest, is very exciting for a human being. This is one of the greatest blessings in the world for a believer. But this has been taken away from people, trust and honesty have been taken away. So nothing remains. One has not trust and is sure the other person does not speak the truth. On the other hand, s/he knows that the other party attaches importance to one’s material wealth. One knows the other person loves one for one’s money, or position, or physical attractiveness, not for oneself. Rather than love, this is a kind of ambition. So one becomes sure that she has no respect for one, for one’s soul. So how can a person be happy? That is why people look so miserable. In order to be happy, a person needs wholehearted people that he trusts and loves, and who do not lie, and fear Allah. And, if you notice, people are generally alone, they have no real friends.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON BASKENT TV (March 6, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Look, I recently watched a few of those “find-a-spouse” programs. Believe me, my fever got high. I watched it as long as I could, but it was unbearable. They really humiliate people. Come and sit here, the host says. Right, what possessions have you? Give us a list. The man says he owns a field, and they say that is not enough. So the host turns to the woman and asks her opinion about the man. Is marriage all about possessions? It is about love, affection, compassion, friendship and brotherhood. One cares (in his marriage) about the fear of Allah [of his partner]. What does material goods to do with you? In any case people become like two brothers [in marriage] , and Allah eases their path anyway. So what if the person owns his own home? Even if he does, he can lose it at any moment. A fire may break out. Can it ever be a guarantee? So that means that if that happens they will split up.  

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (January 18, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, when girls are going to get married they prefer someone who is very rich, even if immoral, rather than someone who is devout, rational and morally virtuous. They prefer the person who has money. But we then see that these people have split up, as he has inflicted pain on her and made her restless.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (January 29, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Spouses ascribing partners in one another. I see such cases from time to time. The woman converts to Christianity or Judaism for her husband. Alternatively, the man asks her to stop performing the namaz (daily prayers). And she does. He says he will only marry her if she stops fasting. And the woman agrees. This is a form of polytheism, not something a normal Muslim would do. No rational person would do these things.

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (February 21, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: What they call the “honeymoon”, that honeymoon becomes the incident with which the countdown begins. Ten, nine, eight... They get really excited in the run-up, but then a hatred forms on the first night. The very first night.

But they are still unwilling to wind the company up, as that would be blameworthy, since it is also an economic alliance; since both the mother and father’s sides are wealthy. They ask one another beforehand, and I see this sometimes, do you have your own home, and a car? As if they are setting up a business partnership. What kind of love and conception is that? They get right down to business as soon as they learn the other person’s name. What has that got to do with marriage? It is a company, a business, an alliance of self-interest. That is really dreadful. What kind of love is that?

I see it sometimes. People who should be happy and smiling just fake it. They pretend to be happy and smiling, but in return for money. In other words, they act. How degrading that is, and how distressing. Since it is impossible for someone who is not really loved to be taken in by an imitation, it means they are in for a lifetime of suffering.

What need is there for such a pretense, such a parody, such a disgrace? A person is loved for the sake of Allah. One is loved as a manifestation of Allah, and there is a profound and glorious delight in that. It is an unending force. Allah has bestowed that depth on almost all women. In other words, if a woman is given this, passion, love, depth and loyalty, then she becomes an unbelievable entity. I mean, that woman departs, to be replaced by a literally superhuman entity. In other words, all that beauty, depth and passion in her soul begins to burst out. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (February 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: I have seen many cases of women falling head over heels in love when they first see the particular make of car a person has. If the car is a very expensive one that love takes them over completely. And if that man’s clothes are also very expensive, if he attended a good school, and if his father is well off, then love blinds her entirely and turns into a fierce passion. I hear about such people, who are then ready to do anything. Then, one day, the man says his father has gone broke, which is quite normal during an economic crisis, and that he is also therefore broke. A light then goes out in the woman’s head, and that love vanishes that very moment. All that remains is someone she hates, and her love turns into disgust and anger. That is a punishment inflicted on her by Allah. It is a terrible humiliation. Whereas if she loved the person for the sake of Allah, she would regard the loss of his factory or workplace as a goodness from Allah, and it would make no influence on her whatsoever. But people are educated wrongly right from early childhood. I see mothers whose daughters’ hands have been sought by doctors and engineers, but who have refused permission and even boast about how many suitors they have turned down, and this is embarrassing even to talk about. If people of taqwa and morality had asked for their daughters’ hand you would normally happily give your permission to such people. But these people boast about all the doctors and engineers, people who earn good money, they have turned down. And those hearing this also appreciate it. But all this is so humiliating and degrading. And it is a very improper expression. It means they regard their daughter as a slave, and that is totally inappropriate. Since that is how young girls are brought up, most people tend to look for a wealthy spouse.  It makes no difference to them if he lacks in desirable qualities of personality or a psychopath. These people swear at, beat or humiliate their wives, and their families say you are his wife and it is perfectly normal for him to beat you. The man beats her, throws her out on the street, and her family happily take her back to him and even apologize on her behalf. That is a terrible disgrace. And it goes on very often. Such women are terribly oppressed, but because of the indoctrination from their families and the people around them they put up with those men who so disgust them, because these people are their husbands. Their families tell them to put up with it, and that it is all quite normal. Their mothers point to themselves as examples. They tell them their fathers were like that, and that they put up with them. That is the distorted way some girls are raised. But these things are wrong. True love of Allah, love for the sake of Allah, has the effect of a fire on a woman’s soul. It bestows a profound delight. This is truly amazing both for woman and man. It is a profound feeling. But those who forego it for the sake of material things find themselves drowning in a sea of suffering and corruption. They have to spend all their time with someone who disgusts them, and they suffer that pain for their whole lives. Because they hate the other person’s moral values and character, and they lie all the time. They often offend the woman. The lack of love of the woman is evident from her face and gestures. But it is love of material things and possessions that lies behind all this. The woman becomes proud and obstinate and unaware of her value as a woman. The man is conceited and does not know the value of the woman. So many women are wasted in this way; they spend all their lives in this manner and finally they grow old. I have seen many such lovely women, and then seen them again years later, all soured and in a terrible state, barely human any more, having wasted their youth. That light in their souls has gone. They have wasted that depth in their souls, which is a tragedy. That is why the best measure is to abide by the measure set out by Allah, to seek genuine love, that fine manifestation of Allah, to be very honest and sincere, and to fear and love Allah. People need to know that the profound delight this gives rise to, that stunning joy, is a blessing that Allah bestows on believers. There is a profound miracle unique to Muslims, to those who truly fear Allah. Very few people are aware of it, and it is because they are unaware of it that they live in all this trouble. If they knew it, they would not give it up for all the world. If they knew how truly delightful it is to love with genuine faith then money and cars would be utterly unimportant to them. But they are unaware of it.  


2-    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COURTSHIP IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV  (January 30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:  For example, men sometimes treat women in a false manner, and women sometimes treat men like that. For example, a young man may weep like a girl, that is, behave really abnormally and speak all emotionally, and that really annoys and upsets the woman. And there is a woman’s falsity, appearing to love a man when she does not; she may deceive a young man she regard as wealthy, if he has a car and is reasonably good looking. That she fell in love with him at first sight, that such a thing had never happened to her before, that she had never previously experienced such a thing, and thus swiftly getting what she wants out of him.

… The fact of the matter is that the world is a huge theatrical stage. Or rather a large part of it is. And it has a great many actors. They play roles for one another. That is wrong. In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), in the End Times, that curtain will be brought down on that stage and people will finally be real people, the truth will come out, and they will show their true faces.  Their masks will be removed. Most people move around behind masks. But because of those masks they are unhappy. When I go out I do not see many people smiling or happy. Because they just see other masks. People like true human beings, though. People like to see one’s true face. Masks make people very uneasy. Falsity makes people very uneasy.
 
ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV  (January 30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, a woman or young girl may be wealthy but physically ugly. One often sees that. There was recently the case of the daughter of someone very famous and wealthy. The poor thing was genuinely very ugly, that was how Allah had created her, but culturally and in terms of character she was nothing special. All she had was her wealth. But someone appeared in the press using the most unbelievable language, saying he had been really affected by her, that he had tasted true love for the first time. Everyone was laughing up their sleeves, as it was so obviously a lie. He had obviously planned to deceive her, in his own eyes, and then lay hands on her material assets. That is really ugly and degrading, incompatible with being human. But, for example, if that girl had real taqwa and excellent moral virtues, then even if she was physically ordinary Allah would make her seem very beautiful, because people than acquire a majesty, an amazing power, and unattractiveness turns into beauty. Because intelligence beautifies people, passion beautifies them. That profound power in the soul comes to the surface, but if it does not, then a person is like meat hanging in a butcher’s window. Nothing happens, in other words. They kill the cow, that big animal, and hang it up in the butcher’s shop, but it is still just meat. People can develop human depth with intelligence, taqwa and love of Allah, and then that great force Allah conceals within them comes to the surface. And it comes out as a miracle. I refer to it as a kind of sixth sense. Because nobody who has not experienced it can understand it. In loving one another, people must look for honesty and real intelligence, and for natural humanity.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (January 28, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, people are going to get married. The girl says she has found a really glorious thing. She claims to have fallen in love for the first time, that she has never known such a person before, that it is as if she has been hypnotized, and that she has found the man of her life. And he naively believes her, as people have a natural urge to be liked, or because of a feeling of having his pride satisfied. He never looks into the reason why, he never wonders why that person loves him so much. He never wonders whether she would love him if he had no car or home of his own, or if he earned less than he does. He excitedly believes her, with an innocent expression on his face, delighted to have met someone who has seen the real him. He is stunned at having been discovered. He is amazed that nobody had ever discovered him before, that this is the first time he has been discovered. Yet the woman is now beginning to develop a deep, subconscious hatred for him because of his stupidity. For his failure to see the truth. In other words, she regards him as prey. Like a fly that has fallen into her web. And he wriggles around just like a fly. She gradually spins her web around him, telling him how wonderful and extraordinary he is, that there is nobody in the world quite like him and that kind of thing, and he, poor thing, naively believes her. This is a mutual torment, because he is subconsciously well aware that it is his material possessions that have influenced her, and he deceives himself in the full knowledge that he will hate her later, but subconsciously a hatred for her develops. And the woman is automatically disgusted and repelled by him. But women use their willpower in such situations, and although she is disgusted her self-interest is much more powerful, because the end result will be a car, money and clothes, and these things are highly desirable to her. She draws strength from that against her disgust, knowing that she will enjoy those things and that strength allows her to put up with the other party. She tries not to let on as she puts up with him, of course. She has various ways of bearing him. Different methods of appearing pleasant to one another emerge.   He tells her he has prepared a special dinner for her and has found a really lovely ring. They then cling onto one another and whirl one another around, just like they have seen in the films. But how sad it is to spend one’s whole life pretending, playing a role. It is a terrible torment for a woman to appear to love someone she does not, solely out of self-interest, and to know that the man does not love her, but to deceive herself anyway into thinking he does, and to play all these roles like the greatest actress in the world. These things are some of the worst scourges that Allah inflicts on people.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (January 26,  2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: People are raised to be mechanical and material, in other words to be imitative, not natural. Whereas if people are genuine they are highly attractive. A sincere woman, for instance, is very beautiful. Women also like sincere men. Insincerity annoys them very much. Women are highly intelligent. Insincerity on the part of the man produces a terrible subconscious anger in them, though they do not let on. That is why most women marry for money, or because of the man’s position, or because his father is well-off or for fame. But they endure that pain all their lives. That hatred remains her secret, a secret that she never divulges. Those poor women spend their whole lives pretending. They constantly put on a show, as if they really loved the other person, and behave falsely, but they are unable to control that chill in their eyes, that lovelessness.  Yet they still attempt to demonstrate love. But the man knows and feels this, and he also behaves artificially. And so there emerges these artificial demonstrations of love, the kind we see in films. And this is one of the worst torments inflicted on people in this world. It is terribly painful for someone to spend a lifetime imitating love. And this mutual role-playing is yet another torment. Whereas in true love there is no need for posing, posturing or role-playing.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (March 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: ... an unintelligent woman concentrates on very different things. She concentrates on falsity, games and an artificial language, and also employs artificiality with men. And this turns into an unbearable pain. She assumes a very ugly appearance. She becomes fed up with compliments. Both parties continue their lives in the pain of that artificiality. A secret hatred then arises. Because all women are very intelligent. But most portray themselves as unintelligent. A terrible hatred arises when they feel the man opposite them is also unintelligent. But they adopt a policy of managing him by appearing to be unintelligent in the face of his unintelligence. Some normal, intelligent men also portray themselves as stupid, and adopt such a policy toward the woman, and so a terrible hatred takes wing.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (February 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: A man and woman who speak the truth delight in each other’s company when they come together. But if they are both liars and play games, as I often see in films and on the television, then their false love and games are utterly degrading and painful. The woman hates a man who behaves childishly, falsely and irrationally. But she either does not let on, or else ignores it. She also engages in lunatic behavior, pretending to have tears in her eyes and generally playing a very poor role. Everyone suffers, but the play proceeds nonetheless. 


3-    YOUNG GIRLS’ PSYCHOLOGY IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (February 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: But I look at young girls and I see that some, though not all, are very irritable, with cigarettes in their hands, aggressive, always ready to answer back, and rather grubby. I see and hear that a young person surrounded by psychopaths and even with sinister connections may also be involved in sinister, mafia-like organizations. This is very terrifying, of course, for a young girl to be so aggressive, to be capable of attacking her parents, to swear at and to insult people, to engage in temper tantrums, and they learn this behavior from one another, of course. This is terrifying, and a tragedy for the young girl. Because if a girl is polite, chaste, well brought up and respectful, she will influence people. But such women have already lost all womanly qualities.  

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (April 11, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: .. You look at a young girl. The man who is halal to her should have a profound feeling of respect and love for her, but I look and see that some are totally wild and badly behaved, and you would need a thousand witnesses even to establish that they are young women at all. She looks one right in the face, really aggressively, swears, insults her parents, for instance she talks very inappropiately to her grandmother, and stands around holding cigarettes. Cigarettes damage their health, but that is another matter, this style of theirs is really inappropiate. I mean it is a very bad thing for a young girl.

   
4-    FEMALE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (February  19, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There are women in the poorer parts of town, you know, who shout at people, do things and make suggestions. It is as if one is doing that kind of thing.

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (April 11, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:  With older women, however, these are people one should feel a profound respect for and love very much. But I look and see that many of them are enormously aggressive and not loveable at all. They find nothing to love in this world. They never speak any pleasant words. Everything they say is unpleasant. When they look at a shop, for instance, they say something bad, or she looks someone and again speaks unpleasant words. When she sees the leader of a political party (on the TV), for instance, she immediately says bad things. 

Even when she sees her own grandchildren she says bad things. She never says anything pleasant or auspicious. The fact is that there is something auspicious in everything. One should be lovable and loving. But the other alternative is a huge deficiency in society, and acts like a cancer, it corrupts people’s physical appearances. A woman’s beauty entirely disappears, for instance.

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON MAVI KARADENIZ TV (February 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:  For example, it is very dangerous to compliment an ignorant woman, one who is proud, stubborn and goes along with satan. She will then lose all balance and control and become very proud and ignorant. And if a woman compliments an unbalanced, proud and stubborn man, he will also lose control and become oppressive, awkward and difficult.


5-    THE SHOWY HARRIDAN MENTALITY IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE:

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (March 31, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: You look at the streets in the End Times, and you see a huge rise in the numbers of sluttish, irreligious and aggressive women. Hatred pours from their mouths and eyes, they are aggressive and look for the worst in everything, who look for corruption, who are aggressive and hypocritical in everything, the love in whom had dried up and vanished. People with dark dyed blonde hair. The verse refers to them, too. Their general characteristic is that they are irreligious, atheist and ignorant, and they approach Islam and the Qur’an with hatred. They are also inimical to one another. They gossip and are full of hate and they are dirty.  This is the community of women regarded as polluted and wicked in the Qur’an. These are people who are full of hate, rather like elderly cockerels still full of aggression. Women reminiscent of witches with their dirty nails and twitching bodies. They look for strife day and night. Wherever they see goodness they strive to damage it. They are full of an insane energy. Even if they catch a dangerous disease they still attack Islam and Muslims. Wherever goodness exists they come and try and eliminate it. This is a witch-like type of woman who loves corruption. One seeks refuge from such people in Allah. Their huffing and puffing is a repetition of the bad words spoken above. They repeat foul words. They seek wickedness and strive to disseminate it. They are the sorcerers of the End Times. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (January 22, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There really are people like that, with four layers of nail polish on their fingers, who have their hair done and then walk round with it like that for the next 10 days. They don’t change their underwear, but keep it on for weeks at a time. But they still think they dress very well. Their ear rings rust and threaten to set up an infection in their ears, but they still walk around in great pride and arrogance. Showy harridans, one could call them.
 
ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON AKS TV  (April 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:  For example, I see women and normally at 50 or 60 they are very pleasant; devout women that is… but I also see there has been a huge rise in the number of women who are ‘past their sell-by date,’ as they say.  Repellent and aggressive. They resemble iguanas. One is repelled by them. Their expressions are repellent and full of hatred. When they speak it is either corruption, or gossip, or strife or slander. Have you not the slightest trace of love in your souls? You can love a flower or another human being. Or a cat. You can be someone’s friend. But they fight their own children and husbands and attack their own parents. Such people have multiplied in numbers, and that is very bad, of course.


6-    BEING  A ‘RIGHT-ON’ PERSON IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (January 18, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:  The religion of ignorance exists among people. They say that someone is ‘right-on,’ for example. And you look and see that this person’s behavior is very artificial, that his words, gestures and behavior are all like those of a stage actor, that he is embarrassingly false, his speech is false and his language is false, in other words, he is utterly insincere. There are hundreds of kinds of relevant gestures and ways of speaking. For example, someone arrives and they ask where has he been all this time, why has he stayed away for so long in a very very artificial manner. And that is completely false. Though one can, of course, genuinely express that he has missed someone and love him.

But what need is there for artificiality there? This is the religion of ignorance, this is what I am describing. And that person then responds to that artificiality in the same manner. We see it all over.

Artificiality is wearisome. But honesty is very beautiful. Loving someone honestly is beautiful. Sincere expressions are delightful. That is why, “I  take refuge in Allah from satan”; Allah says that His sincere servants will be saved. In other words, if they were to give a Muslim a choice between the delight of honesty and the repulsiveness of artificiality, he will of course choose that which is natural, even if there is no specific commandment concerning it in the Qur’an. Because a natural person is highly attractive. There is a huge difference between a natural woman and an artificial one. The latter is really repulsive.


7-    HOW SPOILED BEHAVIOR IS ONE OF THE DEFECTIVE TRAITS OF THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (February 23, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Yes, being spoiled is a trait of unintelligent or even stupid people. Someone who is spoiled and out of control contravenes the moral values of the Qur’an and human reason. They adopt a character and personality that hurts others, brings unease with it, is lacking in love and wisdom and is highly disturbing to others. People refer to such characters as being spoiled. A spoiled person gives harm to society and the people around him with his words, laughter and behavior. In contrast, Muslims must be rational, mature, deep, kind, pleasant-natured, logical and modest.


8-    EMPTY TALK; ANOTHER BEHAVIORAL DEFECT IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35  (February 1,  2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Empty talk is a real torment and very difficult for other people to put up with. Note how listening to empty talk really distresses a rational listener. If someone is being gossiped about and you then praise that person, the gossip is thrown back in the face of the people doing it, and that is a very good thing. Just a few words of praise totally invalidate all the spiteful gossip. 


9-    EGOISM; ANOTHER BEHAVIORAL DEFECT IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35  (February 1, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: This also exists in Pharaohs and Nimrods; man does have egocentricity. A man goes insane when this takes over the whole body. They lose all awareness. They become satans, devils, and that is the characteristic of Pharaoh and Nimrod. And sometimes it happens to other people. Pride, self love and arrogance cause people to lose control of their bodies and go quite mad. And you can no longer control them. They lose all awareness. ‘Egoism takes them over’ says Said Nursi, meaning that egoism takes over their whole bodies. They go mad from egoism, out of self-love. They love themselves in all things and imagine that everything they say is true. Have you ever met any such types? 

In other words, they know best, they know everything, they speak best, they establish the truth of all things and recognize nothing and nobody superior to themselves.

PRESENTER: Many such people.

ADNAN OKTAR: In other words, they know best, they know everything, they are the most intelligent one, they speak best, they establish the truth of all things and recognize no being superior to themselves.

ADNAN OKTAR: However, Allah says, “I take refuge in Allah from satan” that “There is always someone who knows more than you.”

ADNAN OKTAR: But they always think they know best.


10-    CUNNING AND OPPORTUNISM: A BEHAVIORAL DEFECT AMONG PEOPLE IN THE RELIGION OF IGNORANCE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (January 26, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: They look for corruption and wickedness everywhere. They do not seek the approval or mercy of Allah. They do not seek His manifestations and His beauties. They constantly see things from a rational point of view. Such people can never free themselves from trouble. Such types regard themselves as very cunning and on the ball, but they have miserable lives. And the more miserable they are, the more cunning and on the ball they try to be, and that just makes matters worse. They are always complaining and telling everyone of all their sufferings, of their illnesses, of how expensive everything is. The songs they listen to are the same, full of pain and sorrow. But all these things can be dispersed by the light of faith and the radiance of the Qur’an. These things are wrong. It is wrong for a person to oppress and inflict suffering on himself.