ADNAN OKTAR: The world is of course a place of test and training. Millions of people are put in this world. Among those millions of people only a very few could be in the desired quality.  For instance, I cannot give a specific percentage but some think that the things important in this world are their business places, kids, weddings, marriages, their eating, dressing good and being famous. But when they look at these things in a rational manner.. For instance, a person who is eating is only in contact with the image of that food for once; that is for one. When he eats that meal, he becomes ill because of the cholesterol and etc. in that food. That is the food one consumes would not necessarily bring wellness. People can also get ill with food. Even if one eats without any problems, if he is 20 years old today, within two-ten years he will become 40. One or two-ten years later he becomes 60 years old. That means life is passing by fast.

People have to spare some time to eat, they brush their teeth and make an effort for that; the day after they spare some time to eat again and again but days pass by instantly, all they eat and drink will remain here and men will be put under the ground. Their flesh would disintegrate under the soil. I mean all that flesh they painstakingly formed would become all disintegrated. For instance one is into body building, he is working out for that, the soil would disintegrate that built body even better as there would be broader means. For instance a woman might be extra-ordinarily beautiful but the soil would not care about beauty, the soil would disintegrate her as well. When the soil covers the most beautiful young men and the most beautiful women, it rips them apart, makes them dust. Within this environment we are being tested. Our personalities, our characters; for instance are we tender, are we humane, are we forgiving, compassionate, kind.. We do see these ourselves. Allah knows us anyway. We would thus be seeing our personality. Actually when you look at things reasonably, the world is not a place that crazy things could be done. There is nothing to be that much ambitious about. People are helpless from start to finish. You see what happens when one does not wash his face. For instance women do make up, they comb their hair, they take care of themselves, they eat and only then can pull themselves together, only then they can be in a state to be looked at. But this happens almost every day. Because people hide this helplessness, they tend to see each other as if they were made of steel. In fact they all are in that helplessness but that helplessness is being hidden. For instance the man washes his nose every day, he washes his mouth every day, he cleans his ears, he has to clean his ears, he has to wash his hair for instance as helplessness surfaces in that hair, in that body. He uses things like deodorants for his armpits every day. Or else things could become very disturbing. But all his body parts are like this, they are created in a way to make it disturbing one by one specifically. I mean each part has been created to make it uncomfortable one by one. People come face to face with their natural needs every day. And despite all these helplessness for instance, even though there is cancer, ulcer, headaches, back aches all over people intensively, since people do not make it sensed to each other, everyone presents himself as if he living like steel to the people around. In fact this is not the case. Almost everyone is using medications, they use a thousand different types of pills; one for headaches, one for toothache, one for infections, they use different pills for various illnesses.  However since they do not make it sensed to each other, they are not aware of that and they cannot see the helplessness that much.  Allah does all these to make people think about Himself. I mean He creates them to prevent people being devoted to this world. But despite this, since there is a competitive environment, people get devoted to this world like crazy. But when we look at the things reasonably, we see that there is nothing in this world. There is nothing material to be devoted that insanely to this world. When we look at the things we like most, we see that loving Allah is the most beautiful of all. The most pleasing, the only endless One is Him. Everything other than that is vain. I mean it is meaningless if you eat or not, that is the same for humans, for instance people die and break into pieces. The cars wither away, they broke into pieces, they become out-fashioned, they become invalid. People lose grasp on their ranks and positions. For instance one becomes famous but his fame goes in a very short time. Look at the most famous people, they are not around today, one by one, two by two.. Every famous person would be forgotten after a while. Look, people used to love Sakip Sabanci a while ago, he was on the agenda every day, now he is not around. Many names from the high society are not around today, many of our prime ministers, many politicians are not around, many artists, many authors are not around. They were all very famous, very well known but none of them are around now. One by one new people come around and on the other hand one by one people go under the ground. Some people come out of the ground and some get into it on a constant basis, this goes on. To have this fact thought of, some brief explanations should be made. I mean making long explanations is not a must. People's reminding each other about this from time to time is essential. If not; people might easily slip into heedlessness. For instance Marilyn Monroe used to get on stage in between applauses at the time, the applauses were resounding the place. Then they have taken a picture of the woman's corpse, her hands and face were all swollen, she was  in a wretched situation. Kennedy was very famous, and he's gone. The American Presidents all looked like invincible, indestructible men of their times but one by one they all have gone. The most famous pashas, the most famous soldiers, the most famous people, artists and so are all passing away one by one. But since death is not that much reminded to people, since people are only seeing alive and robust people around, they do not want to think about death, they do not want to think about the Hereafter. But short explanations, brief colloquial explanations are very important, they would have great benefits. I mean they would cause people to think neatly. When nobody explains these, very few people could be in a position to think about it but such explanations even if they are short would cause people to think on it deeply.