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Love of Allah

How nice. Do you have a car? Yes, comes the answer. Then they
suddenly say they feel love for the other person, an ineffable love.
The depth of that love grows with the list of their possessions.
They now say they feel a mad love. Then the man says he is aw-
fully sorry, but he has gone bust. Three days later she will suggest

they go their separate ways. Easy come, easy go. They go where the
money is, where the flesh is.
REPORTER: These are the effects of materialism.
ADNAN OKTAR: Of course. They get married on the basis of
people's looks. Then they find someone better looking. They get
married for money, but then they find someone a bit richer, and
when he winks at them, off they go. Or for someone's work. The

man may be an engineer, but when she finds a chief engineer she
goes off with him. Whatever they get married for, that is who they
go off with. That is why no real love can develop, no real passion.
Allah has inflicted a terrible scourge on the world. I mean, the world
is meaningless without love. In that event, all that is left is the daily
grind; eating, watching TV, going to bed, getting up again, having a
bath, eating again, going to bed, getting up again and going off to
work. Work is like a prison for them. A mass of concrete; the office,
concrete to right and left and over their heads. They put a computer

in front of them. And they slave away from 8 in the morning until
who knows when in the evening. They then come home, to another
concrete box. There they eat, wash the dishes and clothes, then they
fight and go to sleep. Then in the morning they eat once again and
go back to those concrete boxes. This goes on for 30 years. Then they
retire. Then once they have retired they just spend their time in one
cardboard box. What life is that? Is that why we come into this

world? That is just sheer misery.
REPORTER: This applies to the whole world at the moment,
but...

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