Foreword

A Subject That Concerns Everyone Living in the Whole World — Personally!

The Lord looked, and great was the evil that man did upon the earth, and his every thought and inclination was continually toward evil… God looked upon the earth and saw how corrupt everything had become… God said to Noah: “I will make an end of all mankind,” he said, “for through them the earth is filled with violence. And I will destroy them together with the earth.” (New translation of the Holy Scripture, the book of Genesis, chapter 6, verses 5 and 12–13) …O my Lord, forgive, …and increase the wrongdoers in nothing but ruin. (The Quran, the Surah of Noah, the 71st surah, verse 28.)

The words above belong to God Himself; they are taken from the Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel and the Quran, which He had written down through His prophets. Just as we can read of their relevance to our own time in the words of many prophets, here I will try to show you only one more verse. In the Gospel, in the book of Matthew, Jesus the Messiah says the following about the last days:

As the days of Noah were, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man (that is, of Jesus the Messiah). For in the days before the flood, until the day Noah entered the ark, people were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage; and just as they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew, chapter 24, verses 37–39

Please consider whether the things you have read concern you personally or not. If you doubt that God Himself is concerned with all of humanity, one by one, and with the earth, read these words:

Not a leaf falls but that He knows it. Surah Al-An’am, the 6th surah, verse 59

And even the hairs of your head are all numbered. The Matthew section of the Holy Scripture, chapter 11, verse 30.

Think of the trees upon the earth; can you reckon the number of the leaves that fall from them? Think again of all the people on the earth, and how many hairs fall from them each day and how many new ones grow in their place — can you count these? In truth it is something impossible for us — and that even with the technology in which we live. It may even seem unnecessary. Which mother or father, however much they love their child, has counted the hairs of its head and knows their number exactly at every moment? Do all these things seem absurd to us? Perhaps; but what is meant is that our Creator knows all of this. Above, we read the verses that show this to be so. Alongside hundreds of verses, are even these two verses not proofs showing how mighty He is, and how very closely He is concerned with all His creatures? Would a God who is concerned with the number of the hairs of each one of us not be concerned with what passes through our hearts, with what we do, with what we will do, with what we say? Yes — to our deeds, our thoughts, the motives of our conduct, and the things we set up in our hearts, God gives far greater importance.

We have surely heard something about these things since our childhood. However irreligious we may be, and however badly we may have been burned by those who pass themselves off as religious, let us be concerned with Him — not in the way that God Himself is concerned with us, but in the way He expects of us. We cannot count the hairs of our Creator; that would be absurd. But if we set aside time and seek the true knowledge, this will mean life for us.

By means of this book, I would advise you to read with thought the things I wish to tell you — for they concern you personally as well. We may say that many things — politics, the Turkish–Kurdish question, wars, terror, the millions of refugees, poverty, hunger, the problems between men and women, the course of the world — do not concern us. Often, indeed, they do not, for generally there is nothing we can do; even if we expend great effort for their sake, we cannot change them.

But the subjects spoken of here concern you yourself — yes, all of humanity — whoever you may be. For this is the relationship between God and you; for you it may mean either eternal life or the bearing of an eternal sentence. And though we cannot change many things, we can change ourselves. For we live in a time just like the days of Noah.

The interpretations and understandings you will read in this book are not prophecy. That is, God did not speak to me in words, as He did with His prophets. Rather, from the words of the prophets and the knowledge I have gained through research, I strive — through prayer and supplication to God — to arrive at a correct understanding. Learning also from the mistakes that many in the past have made, knowingly or unknowingly, I have tried to draw a conclusion, or a beginning.

God also foretold that things would be so in our day. In the book of Daniel in the Holy Scripture, chapter 12, verse 4, God says:

“But you, O Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall search, and knowledge shall increase.”

It is precisely because we live in the time of the end that I will try to pass on to everyone the knowledge I possess.

Be well and at peace.