ADNAN OKTAR:  For instance, if Muslims were to let be on their own, I consider all of them free of this but a great majority of them would not be after the Islamic Union, nor anything else.  One would be sitting at home with his wife, he would go to his mosque, send his children to school and get on with his life. However, Allah doesn't want such a plain life here; He doesn't want such a life. Allah wants a cut-throat intellectual struggle with the unbelievers from us. He wants a very ardent life. In the Qur'an, there isn't a tame and calm family life. As they say, "I'll go to a seaside town, we can have a duplex pink house" or green or blue whatever; there are such people talking like that. "I want to live in peace." There is no such world. Had Allah aimed peace here then He would put us in the Heaven directly. We came here for the test; we didn't come here for peace. I mean peace is okay of course, but not in the sense that is meant there. We have the peace of having faith.  We came here for intellectual struggle. We came here for an ardent life and to be a servant of Allah. If the man doesn't understand this, Allah explains it to him in a way that he wouldn't fail to understand. Therefore, no one should look for a calm life. I mean if it doesn't happen, Allah disrupts that calmness with troubles and pain. At the very least Allah gives his soul a panic, a fear to his heart. There is the verse, for instance, He says, "I will put fear in their hearts." One can feel a causeless fear.  He fears everything without a reason. The world sours.  For that reason, people have to change their perspective completely. Look what does Bediuzaman say? He says: "The salvation prescription for a glorious continent" he means Asia, "an illustrious state," he means the Turkish state, "a noble though ownerless people," the Turkish nation, "is the Union of Islam." It is the Islamic Union, that is very clear.

Of course, these are not word by word but I am expounding the statements of Bediuzzaman. This is from the Letters, Seeds of Reality page 452. Bediuzzaman explains this as such.

Look, "When they want to abide their own whims and desires instead of the right way, he (Hazrat Mahdi [pbuh]) will want to abide the right way instead of whims and desires. "  That means people will, in that time, in the End Times, "want to abide their own whims and desires instead of the right way." How does this happen? He says, "What shall we do tonight? I'm bored." He says, "Let's go to a club and have fun." Brother, they are smothering and killing your brother, sister and mother there. Okay have fun but is this the time to have fun? Right? There is a case of urgency. Or he says, "I'm going to go to overseas and complete my education. I'll become a professor in the long term. Then I'll come and serve." He freezes his life until then. There is no service until that time. Such a logic is not acceptable. Or he says, "I'll become very rich in the long term and then I'll serve people." It's not certain when he is going to be rich, or when he is going to do what. Allah shows them the morality of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) in comparison to this. Look; "When they want to abide their own whims and desires instead of the right way, he (Hazrat Mahdi [pbuh]) will want to abide the right way instead of whims and desires."  So he leads people towards the right way. "If they want their own preferences against the Qur'an" meaning if they try to bring humane evidences against the Qur'an, "he will want to abide by the Qur'an against their own preferences" He says that he only wants to act in the morality of the Qur'an.