ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL 35 (IZMIR) (1 February 2009)
ADNAN OKTAR: People can die both spiritually and physically as they talk. There are some types who engage in immorality and shameful behavior and who imagine that nothing will happen, but Allah immediately seizes them from behind. Izra’il (as) drags them to hell. We continue talking to them, and one imagines they are still alive, though they have in fact been placed in the middle of hell. The Qur’an says there are people who go to hell with no questions asked. They are sent directly to hell. For instance, a man may have died a week ago, and they say the light has gone from his eyes and his speech is impaired and his words are not really conscious. People do not realize that he is dead and has stopped breathing, since a person can die spiritually before his physical death.
ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (25 February 2009)
ADNAN OKTAR: ... Everything in disbelief, every stage of it, is terrifying. There is the suffering stage, and the stage of the departure of the soul. There is the stage of the soul’s being carried away. It is beaten and it is dragged off. Then it is humiliated at its destination. They drag it along the ground. They have to crawl, there is no working upright.
For instance, some people’s eyes do not see, and their ears do not hear. They are in a very distressing situation, one in which they should regret what they have done. People imagine they must really regret their actions, but their obstinacy and excess just grow still further in hell.
Allah says they ”glance around them furtively”. In one verse, He says, they conceal their regret.In other words, they become even more fanatical and contrary. And most do not request a direct blessing from Allah. ‘Tell your Lord,’ he says. They address the keepers and demons of hell in those terms, and they also address believers in paradise in such terms.
ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (26 January 2009)
ADNAN OKTAR: Allah so adorns the universe that human beings will like it. For example, when we go to the hereafter, Allah could put us into paradise straightaway, as soon as we die. But He does not. He first collects everyone together by the edges of hell, where an excitement arises, one that will please them. There is a light in front of them. If He so wished, He could illuminate everywhere, and there would be no need for that. There is a light to their right, intended as an adornment, something attractive. He then tells Muslims to move on, that they are going to paradise. And Muslims feel an enormous excitement. They enter paradise chanting the takbir. Meanwhile, the dwellers in hell suffer enormously and are terrified and devastated, and that is a tribulation upon them. And that is the form the tribulation should take. Allah gives the tribulation that form. If He so wished, Allah could put them into a chamber in hell and constantly inflict sufferings upon them if torment were the only aim. But Allah wishes to create an image there, a majesty. Those who see hell are terrified, for example. Allah creates Doomsday for them to see His might. A great terror and amazement result, in terms of His demonstrating His own might. Allah adorns all things. He adorns human beings, giving them muscles, eyes and noses. This is part of that adornment.
ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (26 January 2009)
ADNAN OKTAR: When the dwellers in hell arrive there, they say, ‘Yes, we deserve it.’ Even if they do not say it themselves, their tongues and skins, their bodily organs, will say it.