ADNAN OKTAR:Something happens and people really rejoice. But it is in fact evil for them, though they do not know it. For example, let me think... They find some stolen property and happily make off with it. They use it. They imagine it is auspicious for them. But it is actually evil. But let us imagine someone who loses his job, or who trips up on the way to work and spills his lunch. Yet that food had actually gone off and would have poisoned him had he eaten it, or Allah may have done that deliberately to make him reflect. There may be several wise aspects to it. He must look on it as being all for the best. Looking at it as an evil implies no religious observance. Because Allah’s creative artistry is highly detailed.

Look, He creates Hazrat Mahdi (as). Almighty Allah exposes Hazrat Mahdi (as) to the worst difficulties of his time. He has him imprisoned, and slandered and allows his followers to be oppressed, doesn’t He? They go through a thousand hardships. What does Hazrat Mahdi (as) say? “There is patience here too. It is all for the best”, he says. “We need to be patient and see the best in it.” He says “Allah is testing him. Thanks be to Allah”, says Hazrat Mahdi (as). But people who haves an evil way of thinking say, “I have done so many good things for Allah, I pray and fast, and yet Allah sends me all these troubles”, so they stop praying and their religious observances. But they lose out in the end. Almighty Allah tests people. That is why people have to know that what looks like evil is actually all for the best.

All things are for the best for Muslims. But there is evil in everything that a person with no faith believes to be good. Everything is evil for him. He has a child for instance, but that is evil for him, and his children cause him all kinds of problems. They take away all his happiness. His wife becomes pregnant. She loses her looks and becomes ill. That is evil for him, too. He becomes rich, but develops a stomach ulcer. His hair falls out from worrying about how to protect his wealth and property. Isn’t that right? He turns pale yellow, his hands and feet lose their grips and his nerves are ruined. All that property has become a nightmare for him. Or else they earn a great deal of money and eat very well. Then the whole family goes down with cholesterol and he suffers from gout. Isn’t that right? It causes a lot of diseases. A poor man has nothing to eat except vegetables and pulses, but he is in the best of health, in the pink. There is no cholesterol in his blood, but he thinks this is all evil. Yet it is all for the best.

Allah’s creative artistry is so detailed that one could go on describing it forever. Indeed, Allah says in one verse that “all the sea, with seven more seas besides, was ink”and “if all the trees on earth were pens”, Almighty Allah says, I seek refuge to Allah from satan “Allah’s words still would not run dry.” That is one of the reasons for the suffering of those people who do not grasp this secret. They are always suffering from their nerves or addicted to cocaine and drugs. The people I see around are always crying, ready burst into tears at the slightest provocation. I see it in our people, in the general public, in novels and in films. Insha’Allah, our friends are very steady, however, when it comes to that, masha’Allah.