Asrın Getirdiği Tereddütler 2

by M. Fethullah Gülen

“Asırlardır biriken tereddüt ve şüpheler, beyinlerde bir törpü, bir burgu gibi içten içe, fert fert veya gruplar hâlinde insanların inançlarını aşındırıp delik-deşik etti. Bilhassa asrımızda toptan bir inkâr hâlinde ortaya çıktı. Dünyanın bir kesimi bu şüpheler karşısında dayanamamıştı. Bizde de ilk anda sendelemeler oldu. Hatta, bu asrın başında inancını kaybeden bazı gençler, son olarak yazıp bıraktıkları mektuplarında, iman olmadan yaşamanın mânâsızlığına dikkati çekerek intihar ediyorlardı. Bin senedir tedârik ve teraküm edilen müfsit âletler ile kalb-i umumî ve efkâr-ı âmme dehşetli yaralanmış, insanımızın, bilhassa avam halkın istinatgâhları olan İslâmî esaslar, İslâmî cereyanlar, İslâmî şiârlar kırılmış; bunların neticesi vicdan-ı umumî bozulmaya yüz tutmuştu. Bu geniş yaralar Kur’ân’ın ve imanın ilaçları ile tedavi edilmeliydi...”

296 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1985

About the author

Muhammed Fethullah Gülen was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement who as of 2016 had millions of followers. Gülen was an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective that embraces democratic modernity. Gülen was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981 and he was a citizen of Turkey until his denaturalization by the Turkish government in 2017. Over the years, Gülen became a centrist political figure in Turkey prior to his being there as a fugitive. From 1999 until his death in 2024, Gülen lived in self-exile in the United States near Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.
Gülen said his social criticisms are focused upon individuals' faith and morality and a lesser extent toward political ends, and self described as rejecting an Islamist political philosophy, advocating instead for full participation within professions, society, and political life by religious and secular individuals who profess high moral or ethical principles and who wholly support secular rule, within Muslim-majority countries and elsewhere. Gülen was described in the English-language media as an imam "who promoted a tolerant Islam which emphasises altruism, hard work, and education" and as "one of the world's most important Muslim figures".
In 2003, a number of Gülen movement participants allied with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's right wing Justice and Development Party (AKP), providing the AKP political and sorely-needed administrative support. This political alliance worked together to weaken left-of-center Kemalist factions, but fractured in 2011. Turkish prosecutors accused Gülen of attempts to overthrow the government by allegedly directing politically motivated corruption investigations by Gülen-linked investigators then in the judiciary, who illegally wiretapped the executive office of the Turkish president, and Gülen's alleged instigations of the 2016 coup attempt. Gülen denied the accusations.
A Turkish criminal court issued an arrest warrant for Gülen in 2016, and Turkey demanded his extradition from the United States. U.S. government officials did not believe he was associated with any terrorist activity, and requested evidence to be provided by the Turkish government to substantiate the allegations in the warrant requesting extradition, frequently rejecting Turkish calls for his extradition.
Gülen was wanted as a terrorist leader in Turkey and Pakistan, as well as by the OIC and GCC.

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