ADNAN OKTAR: Artificial behavior in a women is of course most repellent. And it is also repellent in a man. Young people, for instance, get together on the beach in the evenings. Some of them in some places race in snobbery. Young men in particular, engage in stupid, demeaning behavior in order to impress the girls and make themselves look cute. This happens proportional to their foolishness. They imagine they are behaving very finely. They bluster, strut around and belittle one another, don’t they? They imagine that makes them sweet. But the result is actually an intense anger and hatred. But they pretend to respect him at the time. He is unaware of that. Allah hides that. Girls also sometimes behave stupidly and act like losing all control of themselves. They really put on airs, if that is the right term these days. They copy artists who give the impression of attaching no importance to anything. They imagine that this will produce a pleasant environment and that they will be able to make an impression. The fact is, however, that the human subconscious is very important. Subconscious hatred is a very serious matter. Conscious love and respect are another matter. I mean, you can put it on at the conscious level, saying, “Darling, I have a huge love and respect for you.” But there is also a subconscious love. And subconscious love is the most intense of all. They call it “profound respect.” But that superficial love is just posing. It is just put on for show. But with profound love, a person may sometimes not show it at all. They love so profoundly. But you may not feel it from their face or language. Profound love may be felt through small sparks. That is why one must concentrate on profound love. Profound love of Allah, profound devotion to the Qur’an, mediating profoundly, profound care and passion, and observing profoundly these things are highly acceptable. But mere imitation is meaningless. Superficial behavior will obviously have no impact. But it is apparent in some people, in young girls and men. “Nobody really loves in this world” they say. And so there is nobody they will really respect. They believe one lives alone and that such people are bearable, that one can thus live together with them. A great many people think like that. They pose before one another and strut about. Various tactics are employed. Images of love are produced, like a stage show. They act out scenes from films. Both sides thus act out a role for the other. This is very painful, to think that the other person’s love is just a game. It is very annoying to think they are posing like that. Human beings can only be satisfied with profound love. They are satisfied by and find peace with that. The other way, the suspicion just annoys and upsets. But it is the second one that is generally preferred, by that I mean the artificial acts. I sometimes see young people. For instance, a huge young man all over his girlfriend in August, in that summer heat. One hand on her shoulder, the other hand in hers. She is already sweating, and now he has put his huge, heavy arm on her shoulder, like a log. And they walk and walk and spend their time in that position until evening. It is a show of love, but he is posing to both everyone around and also to the girl herself. What has that got to do with love? It is an exceedingly uncomfortable situation. There is clearly no need for it. One should be more sincere. Love can obviously not be shown in this way, but shown with mind. Profound love is felt in the soul. One feels that depth in soul, and that is called love. Otherwise scattering rose petals from a helicopter or throwing confetti from the roof of one’s house or whatever, writing on walls, these are just annoying. They are repellent and upsetting. They are also actions that produce an uncomfortable image. Such people inspire suspicion in others. They will inspire suspicion in a young girl or man. It is not normal behavior. But since it is superficiality that interests them, some people hugely admire and act like Lady Gaga and others act like others and show abnormal behavior. The result is a very odd state of affairs, a very astonishing state of affairs. Poor role models may sometimes develop one after the other. Lady Gaga may do what she does to attract attention, but what the other people do is really very much stranger. They dedicate their lives to her. They spend their lives imitating Lady Gaga or whatever. That is not normal. A person may depict that kind of life in a film, but in real life he is not like that at all. He behaves differently. But these ones spend 24 hours a day living and breathing Lady Gaga, and that is an insane obsession. It is dangerous and very peculiar behavior.