ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ (MARCH 6, 2009)

I sometimes see some really bad-mannered and ignorant people, with rings in their ears, razored hair, T-shirts, talking loudly in the latest slang.

Really very peculiar. Mumbling their words with a walkman or whatever in their ears. Let them wear T-shirts and listen to their walkmans if they so choose. Looking ultra-modern in their own eyes, they are really totally ignorant and ill-mannered.  It is none of my business how they shave their heads. If that is what they want, let them. But it is really primitive of them to imagine that this is modern. Because being contemporary means being full of love, compassionate and affectionate, modest, careful of what one says, realizing the importance of one’s words, paying attention to cleanliness, not disturbing other people, loving everything created for the sake of its Creator, being amazed by plants, flowers, children and all beauty, protecting such things and seeing the intricate aspects of all. That environment will inevitably come about when people use all the means made available by Allah. For example, if one uses air conditioning and the television, it means that he’s enjoying the requisites of the age.