ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV  (January 30, 2009)

For example, men sometimes treat women in a false manner, and women sometimes treat men like that. For example, a young man may weep like a girl, that is, behave really abnormally and speak all emotionally, and that really annoys and upsets the woman. And there is a woman’s falsity, appearing to love a man when she does not; she may deceive a young man she regard as wealthy, if he has a car and is reasonably good looking. That she fell in love with him at first sight, that such a thing had never happened to her before, that she had never previously experienced such a thing, and thus swiftly getting what she wants out of him.

… The fact of the matter is that the world is a huge theatrical stage. Or rather a large part of it is. And it has a great many actors. They play roles for one another. That is wrong. In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), in the End Times, that curtain will be brought down on that stage and people will finally be real people, the truth will come out, and they will show their true faces.  Their masks will be removed. Most people move around behind masks. But because of those masks they are unhappy. When I go out I do not see many people smiling or happy. Because they just see other masks. People like true human beings, though. People like to see one’s true face. Masks make people very uneasy. Falsity makes people very uneasy.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV  (January 30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:For example, a woman or young girl may be wealthy but physically ugly. One often sees that. There was recently the case of the daughter of someone very famous and wealthy. The poor thing was genuinely very ugly, that was how Allah had created her, but culturally and in terms of character she was nothing special. All she had was her wealth. But someone appeared in the press using the most unbelievable language, saying he had been really affected by her, that he had tasted true love for the first time. Everyone was laughing up their sleeves, as it was so obviously a lie. He had obviously planned to deceive her, in his own eyes, and then lay hands on her material assets. That is really ugly and degrading, incompatible with being human. But, for example, if that girl had real taqwa and excellent moral virtues, then even if she was physically ordinary Allah would make her seem very beautiful, because people then acquire a majesty, an amazing power, and unattractiveness turns into beauty. Because intelligence beautifies people, passion beautifies them. That profound power in the soul comes to the surface, but if it does not, then a person is like meat hanging in a butcher’s window. Nothing happens, in other words. They kill the cow, that big animal, and hang it up in the butcher’s shop, but it is still just meat. People can develop human depth with intelligence, taqwa and love of Allah, and then that great force Allah conceals within them comes to the surface. And it comes out as a miracle. I refer to it as a kind of sixth sense. Because nobody who has not experienced it can understand it. In loving one another, people must look for honesty and real intelligence, and for natural humanity. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (January 28, 2009)

For example, people are going to get married. The girl says she has found a really glorious thing. She claims to have fallen in love for the first time, that she has never known such a person before, that it is as if she has been hypnotized, and that she has found the man of her life. And he naively believes her, as people have a natural urge to be liked, or because of a feeling of having his pride satisfied. He never looks into the reason why, he never wonders why that person loves him so much. He never wonders whether she would love him if he had no car or home of his own, or if he earned less than he does. He excitedly believes her, with an innocent expression on his face, delighted to have met someone who has seen the real him. He is stunned at having been discovered. He is amazed that nobody had ever discovered him before, that this is the first time he has been discovered. Yet the woman is now beginning to develop a deep, subconscious hatred for him because of his stupidity, for his failure to see the truth. In other words, she regards him as prey. Like a fly that has fallen into her web. And he wriggles around just like a fly. She gradually spins her web around him, telling him how wonderful and extraordinary he is, that there is nobody in the world quite like him and that kind of thing, and he, poor thing, naively believes her. This is a mutual torment, because he is subconsciously well aware that it is his material possessions that have influenced her, and he deceives himself in the full knowledge that he will hate her later, but subconsciously a hatred for her develops. And the woman is automatically disgusted and repelled by him. But women use their willpower in such situations, and although she is disgusted her self-interest is much more powerful, because the end result will be a car, money and clothes, and these things are highly desirable to her. She draws strength from that against her disgust, knowing that she will enjoy those things and that strength allows her to put up with the other party. She tries not to let on as she puts up with him, of course. She has various ways of bearing him. Different methods of appearing pleasant to one another emerge.   He tells her he has prepared a special dinner for her and has found a really lovely ring. They then cling onto one another and whirl one another around, just like they have seen in the films. But how sad it is to spend one’s whole life pretending, playing a role. It is a terrible torment for a woman to appear to love someone she does not, solely out of self-interest, and to know that the man does not love her, but to deceive herself anyway into thinking he does, and to play all these roles like the greatest actress in the world. These things are some of the worst scourges that Allah inflicts on people.

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

ADNAN OKTAR:People are raised to be mechanical and material, in other words to be imitative, not natural. Whereas if people are genuine they are highly attractive. A sincere woman, for instance, is very beautiful. Women also like sincere men. Insincerity annoys them very much. Women are highly intelligent. Insincerity on the part of the man produces a terrible subconscious anger in them, though they do not let on. That is why most women marry for money, or because of the man’s position, or because his father is well-off or for fame. But they endure that pain all their lives. That hatred remains her secret, a secret that she never divulges. Those poor women spend their whole lives pretending. They constantly put on a show, as if they really loved the other person, and behave falsely, but they are unable to control that chill in their eyes, that lovelessness.  Yet they still attempt to demonstrate love. But the man knows and feels this, and he also behaves artificially. And so there emerges these artificial demonstrations of love, the kind we see in films. And this is one of the worst torments inflicted on people in this world. It is terribly painful for someone to spend a lifetime imitating love. And this mutual role-playing is yet another torment. Whereas in true love there is no need for posing, posturing or role-playing.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 (IZMIR) (March 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: ... an unintelligent woman concentrates on very different things. She concentrates on falsity, games and an artificial language, and also employs artificiality with men. And this turns into an unbearable pain. She assumes a very ugly appearance. She becomes fed up with compliments. Both parties continue their lives in the pain of that artificiality. A secret hatred then arises. Because all women are very intelligent. But most portray themselves as unintelligent. A terrible hatred arises when they feel the man opposite them is also unintelligent. But they adopt a policy of managing him by appearing to be unintelligent in the face of his unintelligence. Some normal, intelligent men also portray themselves as stupid, and adopt such a policy toward the woman, and so a terrible hatred takes wing.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (February 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: A man and woman who speak the truth delight in each other’s company when they come together. But if they are both liars and play games, as I often see in films and on the television, then their false love and games are utterly degrading and painful. The woman hates a man who behaves childishly, falsely and irrationally. But she either does not let on, or else ignores it. She also engages in lunatic behavior, pretending to have tears in her eyes and generally playing a very poor role. Everyone suffers, but the play proceeds nonetheless.