ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW WITH KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (February 7^th,2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: I mean how it can be possible not to fear Allah. An entity created as an image in a space no bigger than a lentil, in case he becomes rebellious towards the rule of Allah, Allah would destroy that person. I mean even if He just swamps us into darkness without even doing anything else, we would be ruined. For example, if He takes away our sense of sight and hearing, Allah can paralyze us in that lentil-sized space, if He pleases so. He can make it impossible for us to move our hands or feet, He can paralyze us and keep us in that state. Or He can take us directly and cast us into Hell. Of course we must fear Allah. They ask whether a person is Hazrat Mahdi (as) or whether I am Hazrat Mahdi (as), but nobody can make such a claim. All believers have a fear of Allah, they have to fear Him. This enables us to be people of love. In other words, love of Allah produces both profound reason and profound love and passion. Love of Allah in any case roots from fear of Him. And that fear is one that comes with passionate love. This is not an ordinary fear of the kind we are used to know. It is not like just avoiding a danger, but a fear that comes with passionate love. In other words, the fear of a lover, the fear of offending the Beloved, a fear of falling out with the Beloved, a believer is terrified of these things. He is terrified of offending Allah. Or else a passionate lover would be a lover in Hell as well. I mean, Allah forbid, even if Allah casts a Muslim into Hell, the believer will burn with love for Him there for all eternity. But Allah does no such thing. A person madly in love with Allah does not go to Hell, insha’Allah.  I am just speaking hypothetically so that people can understand.  In other words, we love Allah unconditionally. We do not say that we will love Allah if He is to send us to Paradise, but won’t if He does put us in Hell.   We love Allah under all circumstances. We are in love Him under all circumstances.