· How do satan, earthly desires and Hell bestow depth on a person?
· What is the wisdom behind the creation of difficulties?
As revealed in verse 30 of Surat al-Baqara, " When your Lord said to
the angels, 'I am putting a successive authority onthe earth,' they
said, 'Why put on it one who will cause corruption on it and shed
blood when we glorify You with praise and proclaim Yourpurity?' He
said, 'I know what you do not know'," Allah created conscious
entities, human beings, even though angels were already in existence
This is becauseAllah loves human beings according to their piety, who
harbor a fervent love and fear of Him, who know and praise His might,
who love and appreciate His creations, who know and are content with
all the beauties He creates and who delight in all these things, more
than He does the angels. The reason why Allah loves human beings more
than the angels is that angels simply obey Allah's commands, while
human beings strive against satan and earthly desires and believe in
the mysteries without seeing Him. It is because of these traits that
separate man from the angels that our Lord addresses our Prophet
(saas) as "beloved," thus indicating the love He feels for the
Messengers and devout believers. Rasulullah (saas) notes this love
that Allah feels for His servants in a hadith, " ALLAH said: "I have
created you from My own light, and other things from your light." (
Îmân Ahmed, Musnad IV-127; Hâkim, Mustadrak II-600/4175; Ibni Hibban,
Al- Ihsân XIV-312/6404; Ajlûnî, Keshfu' al-Hâfâ I-265/827 ).
" Who could have a better faith than someone who submits himself
completely to Allah and is a good-doer,and follows the religion of
Abraham, a man of pure natural belief? Allah took Abraham as an
intimate friend." (Surat an-Nisa, 125)
In verse 125 of Surat an-Nisa', our Lord expresses His love of those
who have faith by speaking of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) as an
"intimate friend."
Our Lord Created Satan, Earthly Desires and Hell for Human Beings to Compare
Allah loves all fine things, including virtuous people, pleasant views
and delightful scenes and places. And He wants human beings to
delightin them, too. For example, He has sent down the verses of the
Qur'an with a delightful, melodious and magnificent harmony. Had He
wished, He could have sent them down without that harmony. Had He
wished, He could have created man in Paradise, without creating the
Earth and Hell at all. But if human beings had been createddirectly in
Paradise, theycould never have knownthe deficiencies of this world and
the torments of Hell, and could never have compared them and attained
the fervor, depth and submission desired by Allah. As revealed in
verses of the Qur'an, Allah created the Prophet Adam (pbuh) and his
wife in Paradise. Despite being a prophet,Adam (pbuh) fell into error
because he knew nowhere else other thanParadise. Indeed, verses reveal
that the sorrow the prophet Adam (pbuh) felt when he descended to
earth stemmed from his comparing this world with that of Paradise.
This regret is described as follows in verses:
" But satan made them slip up by means of it, expelling them from
where they were. We said, 'Go down from here as enemies to each other!
You will have residence on the earth and enjoyment for a time.'
Then Adam received some words from his Lord and He turned towards
him. He is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful." (Surat al-Baqara,
36- 37)
The beauty of anything can only be appreciated in comparison with what
is unpleasant and ugly, and virtue can onlybe appreciated when
compared with vice. Onecan compare the glorious variety and beauty of
life by putting good and bad, attractiveand ugly side by side and thus
come to appreciate all the blessings one possesses. Otherwise, one
cannot give thanks for or appreciate the value of one's blessings, and
one would not wish to strive against one's earthly desires in order to
attainthe infinite delights of Paradise. One can only appreciate
delights in this world and enjoy Paradise in the Hereafterby making
comparisons. But in that event, by Allah's will, Paradise and all of
its delights becomea true blessing.
Striving against Satan and His Supporters Bestows a Feeling of Fervor and Depth
In the verse " Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And
do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He truly is an outright enemy
to you" ( Surat al-Baqara , 168) Allah reveals that satan is the enemy
of man and commands man to strive against him. Had our Lord not
created satan, there would be no struggle between him and his
supporters and Muslims, and no preaching of the word. Having a
profound faith,waging an intellectual struggle to bring about the
glorious reign of Islam, intending to be a follower of Hazrat
Mahdi(pbuh), being a strong and honorable believer and intellectually
annihilating superstitionand the way of the dajjalall bring great joy
and fervor to devout believers.
Indeed Allah in the past created Pharaoh against the Prophet Moses
(pbuh), Nimrod against the Prophet Abraham (pbuh), pagans and
hypocrites such as Abu Lahab and Abu Jahil against our Prophet (saas)
and the dajjal against Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), so that believers can
enjoy beauty and zeal. Allah sends the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) back to
earth for there to be beauty and so Muslims can delight in it,and
makes Hazrat KHidhir (pbuh) instrumental in many events.
Allah gives Muslims the impression that the innocent are suffering
for the test. They appear to be suffering and dying. But they do not
suffer at all. Our Lord says this of martyred Muslims, " They are
alive and well provided for in the very presence of their Lord, "
(Surat al-'Imran, 169) thus making their condition in His Presence
perfectly clear. But by creating troubles and martyrdom in this way,
Allah increases Muslims' feelings of zeal and eliminates apathy and
monotony.
Striving against Earthly Desires and the Difficulties One Encounters
Bestow Depth on a Person
Striving against satan and earthly desires allowone to reflect very
deeply. Allah loves a servant who thanks Him deeply, finds him very
beautiful, and at the endof his life in this world He will reward the
believer with the eternal life of Paradise.
One who fails to see the marvels and details that Allah creates in
this world will also fail to seethem in Paradise. Someone who acts in
the light of earthly desires, who gives in to troubles and fails to
strive against them can take no pleasure fromPparadise if Allah places
him there. The glorious life of Paradise and all its delights will
mean nothing to him because he has not striven to earn Paradise, has
made no comparisonbetween deficiencies and beauties and has acquired
no spiritual depth. But in the face of satan, Hell, and earthly
desires one acquires a glorious depth and never forgets one's struggle
for all time. One's endeavors in the face of these tests created by
Allah give one a profound mind and soul. That is when Paradise becomes
delightful for the believer. As commanded in verses:
" O self at rest and at peace, return to your Lord, well-pleasing and
well-pleased! Enter among My slaves!
Enter My Garden.(Surat al-Fajr, 27- 30)
Mr. Adnan Oktar Describes How Allah Will Not Give One a Greater Burden
Than One Can Bear
I am 55, for example. I cannot remember any burdens I could not bear.
I entered a mental asylum. They put me in there with the worst madmen.
But I thought of that verse and was really not troubled at all.Allah,
Allah. I was really very comfortable. They put me in the lunatics'
ward in prison, and I was quite comfortable. The people put on that
ward had all killed people. They were walking around in front of me.
We became friends and talked. The colonel in charge of the prison
said, "I sent him there on purpose." . My ward was full of them, not
just one or two such people. "They became sothey would not hurt a fly.
They became full of love alongside Adnan Hodja," he said. You can ask
him, the colonel is still alive. "I sent him there on purpose. They
became so they would not hurt a fly, really pleasant-natured," he
said. He tells everyone that. You can ask him, the prison colonel.
Bayrampaşa Prison, he was known as the colonel at the time, though he
is retired now. Ask him. These things are part of the test. It is
Almighty Allah Who made them so mild and gentle. These peoplefight at
the drop of a hatin prison, anything couldhave happened, but nothing
did. The inmatesbroke down the door where I was and did all kinds of
things to each other. They killed seven people during my time there,
the mental patients. But nothing happened to me, alhamdulillah, and I
was not even uneasy. I was perfectly comfortable. I had a little tape
machineI took in there. I played Ceddin Deden and Turkish military
music. I made a chin-up bar, andthe inmates saw me and started making
them, too. There were iron bars there, and I coveredone with nylon and
made a chin-up bar. So Allah makes even difficult conditions bearable.
One characteristic of mine is that I enjoy boiled meat. There is a
herd of sheep in the mental hospital there, and they kill them every
day. They boil them up fresh, and the bones just melt away. I had my
own bowl, and they would ladle that meat into it. The mental hospital
also made greatbread, huge great loaves. We ate it like soldiers. Then
everyone started doing chin-ups. The inmates there thought I was a
doctor. They were amazed at mybeing there because they were all there
for murder. Most were unaware what was happening, they would fight one
another and shout and scream and were unable to take careof their
natural functions. But I was perfectly comfortable under those
conditions. But my mother's face was getting blanched when she came to
visit me. Her face was normally red but becamewhite during the visits.
She regarded them as a danger, but they were really inoffensive. They
would not harm anyone.But someone who did not know that, that would be
really alarmed.When the doctors and nurses came into the ward, they
fainted because of the terrifyingatmosphere there. You can look it up
in books. People could not even bear the sight of it. They would faint
within 10 minutes. But nothing happened to me, alhamdulillah. I was
quite comfortable. Why?.This was a test. You had to be brave. I had
alwaysexperienced difficult situations ever since I was a child. And
they strengthened and hardened me. Otherwise, who knows what might
have become of me? These difficulties are also the reason why I am so
zealous and full of love.
No comments:
Post a Comment