Excerpt from Mr.Adnan Oktar's live interview on TV Kayseri dated March 31st 2010
PRESENTER:Allah knows everything that a man would do before he does, would that strip that person from responsibility?
ADNAN OKTAR:Of course it does not. That is because Allah is timeless and we are bound to time. We do everything on our own within the time, Allah creates them all but since they all happen within the same moment, and since Allah is timeless, He knows everything. For instance we ask a person who is a disbeliever; "is there anyone forcing you to do this, to be a disbeliever?" And he says "No, I am doing that on my own." When we ask a Muslim, "Is there anyone forcing you to be a Muslim?" He says "No," as well. Do you feel that you are being forced to anything right now?
PRESENTER :No.
ADNAN OKTAR:You?
PRESENTER:No.
ADNAN OKTAR:I do not feel any kind of pressure on myself either. Consequently Allah's reasoning is just. But when did we have this conversation?
PRESENTER:An eternity ago.
ADNAN OKTAR:While even Hazrat Adam(pbuh)'s body was a sculpture made up of clay. We have had this conversation even before Soul has been breathed into that sculpture. Allah created that sculpture out of clay only as a beauty. I mean people assume that Allah needed –Allah is beyond that- that clay, that He needs a sculpture made up of clay. A human body made up of porcelain, just like the display figures, those lay figures, He created a human body out of porcelain just like them. It has been created by Allah and Allah had breathed Soul to it. And he got up instantly. The main aim here is to make it a miracle. For instance, there is this bird shaped model made up of clay by Prophet Jesus(pbuh). He breathes to the bird and it flies instantly, clay starts to fly instantly. It is not because He needs the clay, actually that is not something that prevents the free will of our minds, I mean for a person who is right beside him that is very very fantastic. But Allah creates this within a reason clearly constructed. That is to say the flying of that bird happens in such a manner that it doesn't remove the free will of the mind. I mean people who were present there knows what happened but we do not know, no matter what in the root of it, it happened without lifting the free will of the mind. All miracles happen that way, not only this one. It happens in such a way that the free wills of the minds of the Prophets are not lifted either. When Hazrat Jesus(pbuh) had formed a bird shaped clay, let us assume that he put it on the floor and he breathes into that bird made up of clay and pulls back in order to prevent him loosing the free will of his mind and after a while this bird takes off flying. That would not strip him off his free will of mind. Is that understood?
PRESENTER :Insha'Allah.
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