"Islam is not to be renewed. It is the understanding that must be renewed."

Understanding? The reflection of the light in the mirror... To renew the mirror...

The sun cannot be renewed. It is the eye that is renewed.

Islam is the name of the eternal new that has no beginning and no end... It is to penetrate it a little more each moment; that is what renewal is...

It is the infinite wisdom in the hadith "He who spends two consecutive days the same is deceived" that has brought the secret of the new and renewal.

The cause is, in this sense, molding the new generation of Islam...

Islam's newest, immutable, and exemplary generation is the Companions molded by the hand of the Messenger...

Although the "Tabi'un" following the Companions extended this generational line, after them, the cause suffered a weakness on the social level, and it was impossible to go beyond the sorrowful groups surrounded by great individual manifestations. In this manifestation, the divine wisdom is evident as the result of losing love, which is the most difficult thing to preserve, and remaining on the outer plane alone with a crude intellect...

The standard of the Islamic state, which passed into the hands of the Turk following the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, provided a bed for such a generation in only 250 years of its 600-plus years of true state life; after that, it entered a 300-year era devoid of true love and superior understanding, and for the last 100-plus years, with the same crude, bigoted, and reactionary understanding reversed, it has found all its effort in opposing Islam.

From that day to this, those introduced to generations as heroes have been the intellectual and practical executors of the hatred of Islam.

When the roots of the generations capable of embracing Islam with all its purity and originality—without sacrificing an atom of its essence—and renewing it within their own souls began to be destroyed, compromising temperaments unable to fully rid themselves of the need for religion turned the matter into reformism everywhere; and instead of Islam as it is, they sought to open the door to an Islam in the manner they wished it to be.

The reformist, in terms of trying to hitch Islam to the locomotive of this or that view or sect, attempting to attach it not to its own essence and origin but to his own personal self and perception, and thus trying to buttress a building he deems rotten with his own supports, is more dangerous than those who are frontally opposed to Islam; and the generation that will protect Islam through the renewal of heart and eye will recognize three enemies for itself within the social circle: The loveless, crude bigot; the heartless infidel; and the unblessed reformist... That is, the one who encrusts the soul in a blind self, the one who denies it entirely, and the one who attempts to mediate between the two...

Islam was corrupted in Turkey, which held its sword for 500 years, and was overturned everywhere. This is a divine warning that it can only attain health everywhere if it is corrected in Turkey...

The generation that will renew Islam is tasked with emerging in this Turkey of spiritual and material disasters as the final and concrete, holistic and integrated reaction...

After such a decline, only an era of perfection can be opened.

Kicking sounds from the womb are being heard from the generation powerful enough to resolve the cause of renewing Islam on the threshold of the 15th Islamic Century, fully equipped and completed with mercy, bravery, decorum, and intellect—the mottos of the four great caliphs in order. Going to the moon is no skill; the true skill is to raise these sounds in thought and action to a degree that they can be heard from the sun...