ADNAN OKTAR: A life depending on love is beautiful. This is the characteristic of the Mahdi (as) era, because he will bring back the love, sincerity, peace and brotherhood pulled away from the people’s hearts. And there will be no cutting like the leek, hanging or butchering, or limitation of freedoms or killing the joy of people. Hazrat Mahdi (as...

The hadith of our Prophet (saas) provide a lot of information showing that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will emerge from Istanbul. One hadith states that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear from Turkey and will never leave it until the end of his struggle: THE MAHDI WILL NOT LEAVE R...

Apart from sincere believers in the world, there are also some people that can be misguided or who live by the religion in the light of false beliefs. Freemasons, targeting to bring in irreligion, slaughter, war and cruelty to the world, aim to attain their end by resorting to ruse on such people and plotting mischief among them. For this end, they have...

The hadith of our Prophet (saas) state that Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) name will be compatible with that of our Prophet (saas) and that Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) father’s name will be compatible with that of the father of the Prophet (saas). According to Abu Dawu...

Hazrat Mahdi (as), who is revealed in the hadith as coming in the End Times, is a holy individual awaited with great love and fervor by the whole Islamic world for some 1400 years, whom all Muslims at all times wish to live alongside, and blessed and charged with a most honorable task by Allah (God). Our Prophet (saas) reveals that Allah will send Hazra...

One of the forms of behaviour noted in the Qur’an is concealed in a revelation vouchsafed to the Prophet Ayyub (as): Remember Our servant Ayyub when he called on his Lord: “Satan has afflicted me with exhaustion and suffering.” “Stamp your foot! Here is a cool bath and water to drink.” (Qur’an, 38:41-42) One of...

According to research by David B. Larson, of the American National Health Research Center, and his team, comparisons of devout and non-religious Americans have given very surprising results. For instance, religious people suffer 60% less heart disease than those with little or no religious belief, the suicide rate among them is 100% lower, they suffer f...

Leave to Me the creature whom I created bare and alone!To whom I granted resources in abundance, and sons to be by his side!To whom I made life smooth and comfortable! Yet is he greedythat I should add yet more.By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! Soon I will visit him mounting calamities! For he thought and he plotted;Woe to him! How h...

Allah charges everyone with obeying the prophets He has sent. These messengers were blessed men who abided by Allah's commands, communicated His revelations, represented the human model most pleasing to Allah by means of their words and actions, in short by their whole manner of living. Allah reveals in the Qur'an that those who abide by His messengers ...

Homo floresiensis and Homo sapiens An excavation team under the leadership of Australian and Indonesian scientists have unearthed the remains of eight human beings of rather short stature and small brain volume in the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. The fossils were ascribed the name Homo floresiensis (Flores Man) ...

The main reason why Darwin said, “the thought of the eye made me cold all over” is the fact he had no explanation to offer in the face of the eye’s extraordinary complexity. But the fact is that Darwin knew very little about the eye. Genetics had not been discovered in his day, there were no electron microscopes and nobody even dreamed...

Our Prophet Muhammad (saas) expended enormous energy on preaching the Islamic moral values taught him by Allah until the very end of his life. By Allah’s leave, this message initiated through such sincere endeavors on the part of our Prophet (saas) spread across a very wide region in a short space of time by means of his honesty, determination and...

Birds are the ultimate nest-builders. Each different species has its own unique nest-building techniques and constructs these structures without ever getting confused. When the parent birds leave the nest to search for food, their offspring are completely defenseless. Their nests that are concealed with great skill in treetops, holes in trees and cliff...

Thousands of chemical and physical events take place in the depths of the body outside the individual’s knowledge and will. For example, human beings cannot decide on their height or the size of their organs. It is the growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that does this, under Allah’s inspiration. The growth process takes place in ...

Recent research into bird eggs has revealed that the speckles on the egg shells are not just important for camouflage, but also serve important mechanical purposes. In some regions, the soil is weak in terms of calcium levels, which leads to a calcium deficiency in the shells of bird eggs in those areas. That deficiency makes eggs more fragile at certa...

Contemporary world politics make it necessary for nations to integrate into international unions in the interest of their own national security and economy. In these international unions, which are usually based upon geographic location, such factors as natural resources, trading blocs, and even cultural val...

Your Lord says, "Call on Me and I will answer you. Those who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject." (Qur'an, 40:60) According to the Qur'an, prayer, meaning "calling, giving expression, requesting, seeking help," is a person's turning sincerely to Allah, and seeking help from Him, the Almighty, the Compassionate and M...

In our day, people seriously lack a purpose in life. Almost everyone adopts a standard way of living. To feed one's self, to find a house in which to reside, to set up a family, and to have a job are the praised values to which one mostly aspires. In this standard way of living, the most important goal in life is to find ways to make a better living and...

Darwinists Have Deceived the World with Fraud   Let us consider a scientific theory, the Big Bang for instance. This theory was first proposed on the basis of a suspicion and a hypothesis based on Einstein's theory of relativity. Following that, the search began for the evidence needed to prove that this huge explosion happened. This evidence ...

The preparations for the United States' planned military operation against Iraq are moving full-speed ahead. It seems that unless something happens to reduce the tension between the United States and Iraq, there will be war in the Middle East. Inevitably, that war will cost the lives of tens of thousands of people and will lead to the deaths of innocent...

The only solution in these years when mankind stands most in need of peace, calm and brotherhood is to raise people with proper moral values, who are just, devout and patriotic.  The way to do that is by elevating national and spiritual values by using modern means and methods of communication. The current young generation of Turks must be made awa...

The hadiths of our Prophet (saas) contain a great deal of detailed information and signs about the End Times that will take place close to Doomsday. According to the information imparted by our Prophet (saas), a great many significant events will take place one after the other at that time. In the first stage of the End Times there will be great corrupt...

The Prophet Jesus’ (as) Activities In the first part of this article, published last month, we examined the physical and spiritual characteristics that will enable the Prophet Jesus (as) to be recognised when he returns to Earth, in the light of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) and the views of Islamic scholars. In this month’s s...

Prayer is very important since it is the visible expression of man’s being a Muslim. However, The Qur’an expresses disapproval of such prayer as is offered without sincerity:   “ Woe to the praying ones, who are unmindful of their prayers; Those who (want but) to be seen (of man).” (Surat al-Maun, 107:4-6) That...

In the Qur'an, Allah informs us how belief benefits a woman: Do not marry women who associate [others with Allah] until they believe. A slave girl who is one of the believers is better for you than a woman who associates [others with Allah], even though she may attract you. And do not marry men who associate [others with Allah] until they believe. A ...

PRESENTER: You said that the Islamic Union will include Israel as well as the countries of the European Union? ADNAN OKTAR: Yes. PRESENTER: How will that happen? ADNAN OKTAR: Israel also represents the People of the Book. They lived in great ease during the time of our Prophet (saas), and will do so again. It will be a union that also include...

REPORTER: What will be the future activities of the dajjal (antichrist) as described in the hadith? Who will strive against the antichrist and what methods will that struggle employ? ADNAN OKTAR: Look, whichever the most wide-ranging and largest organization opposed to Allah is, look closely and you will see the antichrist in it. For example, how do...

S'hirk',the word used for idolatry in Arabic means "partnership/association".   In the Qur'an, to practise idolatry is to associate any other being, any other person, or concept with God, considering them to be equal to God, and to act upon this unsound belief.   In translations of the Qur'an, idolatry is explained as "associating a partn...

The Qur'an is the last divine book, which was revealed from Allah as a declaration and guidance to mankind. It is an explanation of all things and means for men to be rightly guided. In many verses of the Qur'an, it is commanded to obey the prophet of Allah. This is quite a significant point because understanding the Qur'an fully can only be possible wi...

Flores Man is not a separate species from Homo sapiens... Teuku Jacob We have already responded to the claims made regarding the discovery of Flores Man that elicited such worldwide media interest. The latest reactions from the scientific world have been of such a nature as to confirm that response. One important figure to announce his view...