ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW WITH KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (February 07, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (March 4, 2009)

But generally, when people are sincere this conflicts with their logic. I have already described this. They evaluate the situation not according to their sincere feelings but with intelligence. They wonder whether to behave logically or else heed the voice of their consciences. Behaving logically they end up in serious trouble. There are always problems in logic. They should act according to their consciences. A genuine person always acts according to his conscience. Of course people who act according to their consciences encounter difficulties. Honesty is difficult, not easy. Honesty brings a thousand troubles with it. People can avoid these troubles by using their logic, but it makes things worse, as then the real problem reveals itself. But these are all sweet troubles.

For example, a car hits someone, knocks him down. All the other cars drive past, but leave the man there. You pick the man up and carry him to hospital. Then the police ask if it was you that killed him. This has happened to many people. So be it. I will pick the person up, for Allah’s sake, he will say, and you do whatever you will. If necessary, he will even be arrested. But that person should never be left there.

Or imagine a man who attempts to kill a woman. Another man merely looks on. That woman has to be saved, no matter what the cost. What would happen? So is he just going to sit by and watch? Recently I have seen such an incident. A poor woman, and the man had drawn a knife. They broadcasted it on the television. The man is plunging the knife into her. Everybody around is watching. What does that mean? I am unable to understand.  In order to save that woman, one can resort to every measure. Everything is permissible there. You strike his hand with a piece of wood and kick the knife away, and it is all over. Why prolong it? They went to save her after she had been all cut up. I saw it on the television, there were lots of people around but nobody lifted a finger. What kind of harm can there be here? Can one just sit by and watch? Or one could move in quite politely and say you want to tell him something. You can tell him that there is a truth you want to say. This is all very reasonable. And then, watching over his moment of heedlessness, you can move in and take the knife from his hand. What meaning is there in that poor woman being all cut up? So many similar incidents take place. Why? Because people prefer logic to good conscience. 

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

Worldly desires and self-interest, acting in the light of logic, cloud a person’s reason. For example, one wants to help a poor person, but logic says if you give him money you will be impoverishing yourself, so it is best not to give him any. He may say I will behave logically and does not hand over the money. He then spends that money to cover his treatment costs in a hospital. But still he thinks he did the right thing and it was just as well he did not give it away before. He uses logic there, in other words.