Our most important objective is to learn, live and tell about His religion. Knowing that it is our duty to make wake up as much as we wake up from the worldly sleep, by showing loyalty to our covenant (al-‘Ahd); we are sharing everything material and spiritual that has been given to us for this purpose, according to religion, for the sake of raising enlightened minds without seeking any material or non-material benefit.

Religion means “System of Faith and Worshipping Rules”. Its meaning for human beings is to directly obey the laws that Allah has determined for the beings that are subject to the consciousness evolution plan in the daily flow of current life, personally, directly, right now.

Therefore, religion is the awareness that people are connected to and responsible for other people, the world, and the whole universe. If there is no such connection and responsibility, the state, society, family, and man himself is just a breathing corpse. But whoever thinks and lives in accordance with His religion (laws), he/she is now alive. In other words, he/she is a Muslim.

Hence, the concept of “Islam”, which is included in the sub-definition of religion, is a sign/mark of submission to Him, which occurs as a result of accepting religion only by bowing down to His laws.

Sign/mark will emerge only if it is harmonized with the Book and the fitrah (purpose of creation). Thus, the thing that will unite us in a collective consciousness structure is the determination of the content and boundaries of religion according to the only source which is the Qur’an itself. Out of this, seeking another source of judgment and wisdom (hikmah) is deception, and accepting it is shirk.

Unfortunately, right after the death of Muhammad (as), a trend started contrary to this basic understanding of the Qur’an, and Islam was firstly corrupted/degenerated by the intervention of the sons of Umayyad (Umayyad Caliphate).

Afterwards, this corruption/degeneration was deepened by sects and tariqas, and the Book was abandoned by accepting things contrary to the essence of the Qur’an with many fabricated hadiths and narrations. And the ideas put forward by those who orphaned the Book and those who followed them were presented with books and fatwas like opium, and societies were put to sleep.

Those people who know no boundaries considering themselves partners with Him, came to the conclusion that who is a believer (have īmān) and who is a denier by determining halal and haram according to their own desires and whims; and they have distributed belief (īmān) and the Hereafter (ākhirah) according to their own distorted minds.

It is due to a profoundly incorrect grounding of the Qur’an, Islam, and, additionally, Muslim identity that they have labelled everyone who does not believe as they do as non-Muslim, excluded them from the religion condemning them as disbelievers.

Whether they are aware of it or not, those who propound this error have cut what Allah has ordered to be united and divided them into sects. Because, a person who submitting to religion, which is the laws of right thought and behaviour determined by Almighty Allah for people, is a Muslim, regardless of his/her language, race, colour or geography. The religion referred to in the four holy books revealed so far is Islam.

Islam is not a religion that came with Muhammad (as), it is a religion that was complemented (ikmâl) with him. Therefore, again in the Qur’an, the attendants in charge of conveying (tablīgh) the Holy Books before the Qur’an and those who follow them are defined as Muslims. Again, this definition was made for the hawārīs who were subject to Jesus (as) or young comrades and people of Moses (as) who were subject to him.

While the definitions of Islam and Muslims are given so clearly in the verses, to start Islam 1400 years ago and to call those who followed previous nabiyys non-Muslims is to defy Almighty Allah.

What falls to Muslims in this regard is to unite His religion, which Allah has commanded to be united, not to split into sects and not to cause corruption in the earth.

As our Rabb conveys us in the verse “Say: “O People of the Book! Come to a word that is the same between you and us. Let us not be servants to anyone but Allah, and not associate anything with Him, and let some of us not take others as Rabbs other than Allah.” After that if they return, then; Say, “Bear witness that we are Muslims/submitters”, our aim is to invite them to our word (Islam), which is common with those who follow the Books conveyed before, and to tell the Book to them.

Owners of the mentality that seems to be Muslims but has abandoned the Book, today, in every country of the Islamic geography, have turned religion and belief (īmān) into a corporate company, and by having put their fingernails on the masses of innocent people, they continue their exploiting without shame or hesitation and by hiding the truth.

And unfortunately, the masses are drowning in the turmoil of contradictions, inconsistencies and irrationality that are against the Qur’an brought forward by these limitless/borderless people. Therefore, Islam, which should lead humanity to happiness and harmony, has turned into a hearth of depression and disintegration in the hands of those people who have no boundaries.

However, it is essential that we do not forget the following fact; The earth is the place where those who gather around the “consciousness of Allah” and those on the opposite side are literally separated and come face to face. The Glorious Qur’an has conveyed the value judgment and sense of belonging in accordance with the religion, by running all kinds of value judgments and sense of belonging upside down that are contrary to fitrah (purpose of creation), lying between the past, the future, the period in which it was descended, and the present.

According to this comprehension of value and belonging that is everlasting, people are divided into Allah’s side/party (+) and Iblis’ side/faction (-). No value can get ahead of these or get above of these. Everyone serves either of these two sides. If Allah’s side is served, it is acceptable; otherwise it is a false/superstition case.

By aware that the most beautiful hadith was sent down by Him and that the unchangeable Sunnatullah (His Laws) belongs to Him, the duty of those who want to be on the side of the truth and on the right is;

• To make an effort to elimination of corruption resulting from all shirk-containing fabrications and deceptions; to make an effort to replace the ignorance resulting from straying from the main source with wisdom; to make an effort to bring the light into the darkness.
• It is to bring religion before humanity as it is in the Book of Allah, purifying it from all the separators that come between the Qur’an and human beings, with a perspective that is beneficial to the people in the street, and in a way that appeals to the mind and heart as much as possible as described in the Book.

Because only as a result of these, the being reaches the level of servitude and begins to walk with Almighty Allah. Such a person at times becomes the heart of the heartless world, and at times he/she becomes the voice of conscience and mercy. He/she cannot sleep at night and he sets out on the path, because of crying of an orphan, the cry of a woman screaming “help”, the cry of the oppressed saying “is humanity dead?”

The immutable truth is that standing united in defense of Islam—by upholding the rights of all the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the victimized across the world; by confronting the despots and pharaohs who seize those rights; and by resisting oppression and tyranny, occupation and injustice, corruption and wrongdoing, the abuse of religion, and those who deceive in the name of Allah—is a responsibility reserved exclusively for His servants. And they exist in every scene of history. They were either thrown into the fires, crucified, or stoned to death.

So where are you in this story?

Are you one of those who choose to be bad?

Are you one of those who see evil and keep silent?

Or are you on the path of the One who sent you to the Earth?

Whatever you are, today is not too late to choose the truth, the fair one, the right and the beautiful.

We are not those who invite you to follow us. On the contrary, we are the ones who invite to obey Allah without any intermediary, and so to be competent in the Qur’an, in which all of His orders and commands are completed and integrated, and to respond to His call.

Because “It is no possible for a human being (bashar) to say: “Be a servant to me other than Allah”, after Allah gave him the book, wisdom and nabiyyhood (nubuwata). But since you have read and learned the book and are teaching it, he only says: ”Become servants of the Rabb (devoted to the Rabb/rabbāniyyīna).”1

Thinking is a servant’s duty (fard)…

¹Ali İmran 79