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Both the universe and the biosphere, the realm of living beings, and the world of humanity, which is capable of understanding abstract concepts, have a dual foundation that Hegel (1770-1831) called transcendental dialectic. Materials such as positive-negative, hot-cold, abstract-concrete, good-evil, feminine-masculine, poor-rich, beautiful-ugly, mind-heart, faith-science fill this dual foundation. This dual structure is also an indispensable reality of the structure of religions themselves. For example:

The Quran states that Islam is the same as the religion of Prophet Abraham, which dates back 4,000 years (22:78). The name of this religion is Islam. Islam reconciles all contradictory opposites by balancing them, turning summer and winter into spring. The fact that Christianity emphasizes spirituality and Judaism emphasizes the state and sharia is a deviation stemming from historical necessity. Otherwise, they were also Islam. (3:84) Yes, Judaism was the unity of Moses and Aaron (sharia and authority). Christianity was the union of the Torah and the Gospel (reason and heart, science and spirituality). (Matthew 5) In the Gospel, Jesus also speaks of the sciences as the light that is with you alongside the Holy Spirit. (John 12:36)

Returning to the beginning, humanity maintained a balance between myth and logos for eight thousand years. However, in the 700s BCE, due to prosperity and freedom, logos and philosophy came to the fore. Hundreds of philosophical movements sprang up like mushrooms. These philosophies put forward so many different views that the sophist movement, which claimed that there is no truth or meaning in existence and life, and even if there is, we cannot know it, took over. Later, Socrates with his ethical principles, Plato with his principles of ideas and spirituality, and Aristotle with his power of logic and science broke the Sophist movement. However, it seems that these three branches of thought regained strength in 325 AD, and when Christianity came to power, it banned all philosophies. Everything turned into rote learning and imitation.

Unfortunately, with the loss of this sacred dialectic in the human world, the Byzantine Empire gradually weakened. The European states that emerged after the Roman Empire also failed to perform well. Fortunately, Muslims had translated the philosophical and scientific heritage of Greece, based on Logos and Mythos, into Arabic in the 9th century. This heritage was transmitted to the West through Andalusia and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries. Then, with the Conquest of Istanbul, the scientific classics of Greece, which had been stored in warehouses, were also taken to the West; Europe experienced the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, which marked the dawn of the light of science.

I say brothers and sisters because I share the same universe, the same planet, the same biology and genes, the same human values. I have only one difference. I perceive existence as infinite and in unity with its abstract and concrete. I believe in some abstract values. I believe: If my brothers and sisters perceived existence as fully and balanced as I do, they too would share my universal abstract values, and we would not only be brothers and sisters, but God-Humans. More than just brothers and sisters, we will be united as eight billion without any difference of race, religion or profession. We will build not just one world, but infinite worlds on the principles of humanism. Let me state immediately that rampant atheism and the dark materialism on which it is based is an attack on this perception and these values, a slander against humanity.

Look how beautifully Ahmed-i Ciziri, who had the same perception of existence and knew the same abstract values as me 600 years ago, when evolution and science had not yet emerged, expressed this God-Human truth in Kurdish. I swear: I have written five books on this subject, but I have not been able to express this universal truth with such clarity. Let the ears of those who insult the Kurdish language ring.

First Hadith: He who learns knowledge is a hundred times better than he who works in the market and in the fields.

Second Hadith Learning knowledge for one hour is better than a year's worship: The five daily prayers, the fast of Ramadan, the Hajj and Zakat of the year.

Unfortunately, while there are ten thousand miraculous facts like this in Islam, all of them have been derailed or misunderstood. That is why secularists and scientists are rapidly fleeing Islam and becoming agnostics or atheists. In fact, the first of these two hadiths has taken the form, "A person who knows hadiths that are considered to be true knowledge, but which reject reason, science and qiyas in law, is a hundred times superior to a mujtahid like Abu Hanifa." He excluded the whole Qur'an based on reason and science. This change will be analyzed later on the second page.

The second hadith took the form of "An hour of knowledge is better than a year of nafl (voluntary) prayers without lying down, eating or going to the toilet."

This is not to take the annual prayers lightly. They are basic duties and obligatory obligations for human beings. But sometimes when you learn about the whole existence and life with an hour of knowledge, you save your faith, you gain eternity. You are useful to billions.

Yes, Allah and His Prophet were not short of words. They were never in the role of misleading people. If nafil (voluntary) prayer was the intention, it would have been said so. Also, those who know a little bit of Arabic emphasis and eloquence will understand that the real intention of the hadith is as we have translated it here.

Seventeen years ago, in 2007, I wrote an article titled 'A Situation Assessment' with my Turkish brothers and published it on the internet. Except for a small racist minority, everyone appreciated it.

If my Turkish brothers, especially the Turkish Republic, were to implement that article, the 21st century would become the Turkish era; the Turkish Republic, with its state and nation, would rise above the level of contemporary civilizations. Otherwise, as outlined in some global powers' Plan C, they will be left impoverished, agitating their religious sentiments and being terrorized, especially against the Christian faith, in the civilized world. As a result, they will be driven to Central Asia. I am sharing that article with you, my esteemed friends, with just eight words changed. Now, instead of a literary article, I will put down only five notes. I cannot write literature because the situation is critical for the fate of the Turks. Hopefully, Turkish nationalists will take these notes seriously.

I had a thoughtful and hardworking spiritual brother who was a literature teacher. He was religious, but prayer felt burdensome to him. Sometimes he would embark on a quest and read Sartre. "I'm going abroad; I will serve the noble cause of Fethullah Hoca Efendi," he would say. Then, as the conflict between Erdogan and Fethullah intensified and millions were either imprisoned or condemned to hunger, he said to me, "Teacher, something is wrong here. If Allah existed, He would definitely help Fethullah." He had not fully understood that the world was created for a test. Despite my deep affection for him, he distanced himself from me for a long time. When he read my responses to Dücane in June 2023, he said, "Teacher, Dücane Cündioğlu is right." I replied, "I guess you haven't read the articles, otherwise you wouldn't say that." He said, "You see those pieces of information because you believe in Allah; I don't believe, so I can't see the information you derive from the Qur'an." It is for this reason that I felt the need to write this short article under this title. It goes like this:

The word "imtihan" means to melt elements like gold and silver in fire to separate them from ash and soil. The word "mihnet" derived from this root means the suffering and torment people endure with the fire of pain and adversity.