Fethullah Gulen Quotes

Criticizing and objecting to everything means an attempt to destruction. If you do not like something, try to make something better than it. Being destructive causes ruins, while being constructive brings about prosperity.

Goodness, beauty, truthfulness, honesty, and being virtuous are the essence of the world. Whatever happens, the world will one day find this essence, for no one can prevent such an event

Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today’s heritage and our new compositions to the future.

True poetry is composed of metaphors and symbols which are born in the heart, rise like clouds, and assume a celestial form; verses formed otherwise are not poetry, but only artificial words, each of which contradicts the feelings inside. The utterances and words that have not been formed in a person’s soul as the voice of conscience are all hollow, no matter how embellished they are or how dazzling they seem to be.

A perfect poem owes its perfection to sounding the voice of the heart and the melodies of the conscience, as well as its ability to reflect the considerations, beliefs, opinions, and horizons of thought of the poet, but not due to its formal or mental aspects.

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Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

We do not have any worldly demands, large or small. We do not have any interest in worldly politics and we have been consciously staying away from it. We believe that getting involved in worldly politics will taint our goal of pleasing God, and will negatively affect our relationship with God as his servants. For this reason, we stay away from political positions which can contaminate our heart and spiritual life.

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

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In fact, poetry has always been like archives that peoples have continually used to serve their feelings, thoughts, national identities and cultures, and it has served as a factor uniting different historical periods. Those who had lost contact with their past for a certain period found and experienced the expression of their own selves in poetry, and the were able to see their history as a whole in it.

Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynamic in thought.

Poetry can be more eloquent than the most eloquent sermons, and it becomes a weapon more formidable than the sharpest of swords; whenever such a poem--which finds its correct tune and conveys the excitement of the heart--rings out, all the miserable, heaped drifts of words fly for shelter and bury themselves in ashamed silence. Whenever such a sword of poetry is drawn from its scabbard, all the false princes of words, who have set their thrones on a void, are thwarted and retreat into seclusion.

True poetry is the perception of human feelings, the voice of the heart, open or hidden. It is the lyrics, compositions, and melody of the relation between humankind, the universe and God, a shadow pinpointing each of the truths we can discern everywhere (from the earth to the stars), a photograph of the creation’s projection cast in our feelings and thoughts and framed through words, a heartfelt tune of our loves and joys played on different strings, and it is a bouquet of our faith, hope, determination, beauty, love, reunion, and yearnings.

Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they are deliberately pursuing fantasies which contrast with their beliefs, opinions, thoughts, and the point of view.

God presents His works embellished with color, meaning, and content in order to make Himself known and loved to those seeking Him. We are sent to this world with the responsibility, then, to affect and reshape things with His permission, to reflect our understanding, but also to be attentive to the true purpose and meaning of the creation of things.

But no matte what kind of an understanding is adopted, whether associated with positivism, which asserts that the truth can only be reached by trial and error, or rationalism, which asserts that everything can be explained and grasped by reason, whether the perspective of romanticism, which overemphasizes imagination and sensitivity, or an approach based on ardent naturalism, whether based on realism, which aims to describe everything as it is including its shortcomings, or a curiosity-raising approach such as surrealism, whether idealism, which asserts that there is nothing real but ideas, or cubism, which asserts that there is nothing real but instead of direct description, or some other such current or perspective, that is not true poetry.

A woman who has found her match with respect to depth of soul and who has quenched her thirst with her children is no different than the women of Paradise, and the home structured around such a person is no different than the gardens of Paradise. And it is no wonder that her children, who grow up savoring affection in the shelter of this paradise, will be no different than heavenly beings. Indeed those who are fortunate enough to be raised in such an atmosphere of affection will live in state of otherworldy joy as if they have been exalted to the heavens, inspiring high spirits all around through their smiles.

Speech is the pen and the sword of humankind and it is the foundation of their kingdom. Wherever the flag of speech waves, the most powerful armies are. defeated and scattered. In the arenas in which speech shouts out, the sounds of cannon balls become like the buzzing of bees. from behind the battlements on which the banner of speech has been raised, the sound of its drums are heard. In the precincts where its march reverberates, kings shake in their boots. The Master of Speech smashed to pieces many insurmountable walls, in the face of which Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and many others despaired or retread; and the pen of Speech, imparting and compliance, was saluted and praised.

The universe and the events in it are thus perfect examples to imitate. However, no matter how perfect the example is, everyone will draw and interpret objects according to their abilities. Charles Lako, commenting on aesthetics once said, that the magnificent scene at sunset would remind a farmer of the rather unaesthetic thought of dinner; the physicist, not of beauty or ugliness, but of the rightness or wrongness of the analysis of a matter. Thus, for Lalo, the sunset is beautiful only for those who are aware of beauty. Therefore, only those who see with God and hear with God can appreciate the beauty that spreads throughout existence as their senses are tuned to the spiritual realms.

Çağ ve Nesil (M. Fethullah Gulen) - Your Highlight on Location 1417-1423 | Added on Friday, April 25, 2014 1:08:16 AM Ah, aceleci insan! Sabırsızlık gösteren sadece sensin. Sensin, eşya arasındaki tertibe riayet etmeyen! Sensin, yükselirken mesafelere tahammülü olmayan ve tırmanmada birkaç merdiveni birden atlamak isteyen! Sensin, sebepleri gözetmeden netice bekleyen! Sensin, olmayacak kuruntulara gömülerek hayâlden sırça saraylar kuran! Sonra da yalancı vehmin ve aldatıcı ümniyelerin altında tükenip giden! Sensin, düşünmeden konuşan, konuştuklarına pişmanlık duyan ve birbirini takip eden pişmanlıklardan ders almayan, uslanmayan! Bir bilsen; bu halinle, ne kadar sevimsiz ve ne kadar uğursuzsun..! Keşke, her biri beliğ bir hatip ve her biri bir dil olan çevrendeki hâdiselerden ders alarak, eşyâ arasında bulunan tertibe riayet etmeyi; sebep ve neticelerin hakkını gözetmeyi ve hayâlinle değil; imanın, azmin ve iradenle var olmayı bilseydin...!

Çağ ve Nesil (M. Fethullah Gulen) - Your Highlight on Location 575-584 | Added on Monday, April 21, 2014 2:20:22 AM Günah bir iç çöküntü, bir terslik ve fıtratla zıtlaşmadır. Günaha giren kimse, kendini, vicdânî azaplara ve kalbî sıkıntılara bırakmış bir talihsiz ve bütün rûhî meleke ve kabiliyetlerini şeytana teslim etmiş bir zavallı ve talihsizdir. Bir de o günahı işlemeye devam ederse, bütün bütün ipi elden kaçırır ve artık, ne bir irade, ne bir direnme, ne de kendini yenilemeye mecâli kalmaz. Günah, iradenin yüzüne atılmış bir tükrük ve rûha içirilmiş bir zakkumdur. Günahtan zevk alan insan, ne sefîl; günahla ruhunu dinamitleyen insan ne hoyrattır..! Günah, insana bahşedilen bilumum istidat ve yüce duyguları söndüren bir fırtına ve kalbî hayatı çepeçevre saran zehirli bir dumandır. Bu fırtınaya marûz kalan kurur; bu zehirli havayı teneffüs eden de ölür. İnsan, günah içine bir kere girmeye dursun; girdi mi, artık ne ölçü, ne kıstas, ne de değer hükmü kalır. Bir uçağın, başaşağı yere inmesinde, yer çekiminin hesaba katılmaması ve fıtrat kanunlarının affetmeyeceği çizgiye varılması ne ise, hikmet elinin koyduğu yasaklar atmosferine girmek de aynı şeydir. ==========

Çağ ve Nesil (M. Fethullah Gulen) - Your Highlight on Location 931-934 | Added on Friday, April 18, 2014 1:04:42 AM Farklı düşüncedeki birinin, yol ve sisteminin kritiğini yapabiliriz. Bu, aklın farklı işleyişinin ifâdesidir. Ama, eğer, aynı ufka ulaşmak için çırpınıp duruyorsak, hiç olmazsa onun düşüncesine de saygı göstermeliyiz. Bu, aynı hedefe yönelik bulunmanın, aynı imanı taşıyor olmanın aynı terminolojiyi kullanmanın ve nihayet her şeyin üstünde Yüce Yaratıcı'nın tebcil ettiği mukaddes manâya saygılı olmanın gereğidir.