THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ADNAN OKTAR @ HARUN YAHYA

August 2007

Adnan Oktar writes his books under the pen name of Harun Yahya. He is a world-renowned man of ideas. Ever since his university years, he has dedicated his life to telling of the existence and oneness of Almighty Allah, to disseminating the moral values of the Qur’an, to the intellectual defeat of materialist and atheist ideologies, to propagating the real Ataturk way and to defending the permanence of the state and the unity of the nation. He has never wavered in the face of difficulties and despite oppression from materialist, Darwinist and separatist circles, still continues this intellectual struggle today exhibiting great patience and determination. 

One of Mr. Adnan Oktar's photos from his elementary school years

Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar lived there through his high school years. During this period, his devotion to Islamic moral values grew even stronger. He deepened his profound knowledge of Islam by reading works of all the great Islamic scholars and decided to tell everyone about Islam’s moral values and summon them to a knowledge of truth and beauty.

To continue his education, he entered Istanbul’s Mimar Sinan University in 1979 coming in third from among thousands of candidates. Mr. Oktar, a talented artist since childhood who regards art as a manifestation of Allah’s superior creation, painted surrealist pictures from time to time and gave away a large number of paintings as gifts to friends. In addition, Mr. Oktar numbers animals, plants and flowers among his spheres of interest, as well as horticulture, interior design, and décor.

ADNAN OKTAR DESCRIBES HOW 

HE SPENDS HIS DAYS

Oda TV, September 25-2008

Adnan Oktar: My days are very busy and full of activity, and I do not have much time for sleep. I do not like to waste that time, because I regard sleep as time deducted from life. So I sleep no more than 4 hours, then I get up for the morning prayer. After that I am in a constant state of activity. I like the newspapers very much. I like reading the newspapers particularly, rather than the Internet. I scan the news very quickly and underline those places of interest to me. Then I give them to colleagues for closer examination. 

But you may be interested in my leisure time pursuits. I am very fond of animals, flowers and plants. I have several cats which are very, very cute. A few days ago, for instance, one of them was left to fend for itself by its mother. It was fully grown but still a kitten at heart. It is constantly looking for affection and never leaves the front of the house. Cats usually go out and find things to do outside, but this one is always in front of the window. I am very fond of it. It produces huge feelings of affection in me. It is also always hungry, so we keep having to provide liver for it. I have trees, fruit trees I take an interest in. The fruit on some has just ripened, and I take a close interest in their fertilizer and pruning their branches and that kind of thing. I bought a flower a few days ago, and that has really opened up, giving off lots of tiny seeds. I watched it closely in the evening, it was a really lovely, glorious thing. It had an amazing long, thin stalk. Its flow was lovely, too, full of colors. These are delightful blessings bestowed by Allah. There is so much to see and delight in. We have neither enough time nor enough years in our lives.

Tempo TV, December 24-2008

Adnan Oktar: In my high school years I spent my life researching; I was always reading, enquiring and investigating. I was not someone who spent much time out and about on the streets. I had a chemistry lab at home that I spent time on. I used to work on ceramics and things at home, making statues out of clay, or painting pictures. I still do. I am painting a 3 x 3 meter oil painting. I do modern surrealist pictures and have given many away to friends, and many have them in their homes. I used to enjoy working with charcoal. I made models, small models of various objects, at home. That was how I spent my days. I read books. Reading was what I enjoyed most of all.

Kirsehir Ahi TV, July 15-2008

Adnan Oktar: Masha’Allah. Of course, it is Allah Who leads to guidance. I did not perform the namaz (regular prayers) until my high school days. At the end of high school, in the final years, there was widespread anarchy and terror in Turkey. I thought about the question of the oneness and existence of Allah. I investigated Marxism and fascism. The environment I was in was a really active one. Ankara’s Political Science Faculty, Ankara’s Kurtulus High School, The Law Faculty and Hacettepe University were my stamping grounds. There were always armed clashes, bombings and similar happenings going on. I saw people beaten up before my very eyes. There were shootings. Allah protected me. I saw them all from close up. There were marches in the streets. People from all shades of opinion would take part. There would be major happenings. Allah raised me in such an environment. I thought for myself in that climate and went down this path. Praise be to Allah. I went down the path of Islam, the path of the Qur’an. I never forget, when the time came for me to pray I went to Ulus, in Ankara. It was a Sunday, to the best of my recollection. Books, small books were on sale on the ground. There was one called the Namaz Teacher. A small book. I bought a copy there. I was unable to find anyone to teach me how to pray. I could not find anyone to ask. So I tried to put what the book said into practice as best as I could. I read and studied and put it into practice. I then got a copy of Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen’s Catechism. That was fully comprehensive. I used to read it day and night at that time. I bought Imam al-Ghazali’s Religious Exercises. And Imam Rabbani’s Letters. Finally, I bought Said Nursi’s, the Teacher Bediüzzaman’s, Risale-i Nur Collection. That had a really profound effect on me. It was very useful, praise be to Allah. 

As my knowledge had really grown I was now looking for people to tell about it. What was I to do? The Academy of Fine Arts, Findikli. That looked good to me. It was very good. It was somewhere full of Marxists, entirely in their hands, in other words. But it was also a bastion of art. The scholar Said Nursi says we must wage a united fight against atheism by means of art and learning. I was headed for just the right place, I thought. I took the exams. Thanks be to Allah, I came third. I sat the painting exams. They liked them very much. Teachers would wander in and out. I did very good pictures in charcoal. They were very impressed. I came third. The school was very good for me. There was studio work. Attendance was compulsory but not monitored all that strictly. School was from morning to evening. The studio was open, too. Thanks be to Allah, I was unimaginably active there. I distributed books about Darwinism. I preached the word. Once that school had come round, I decided to transfer to the Istanbul University Philosophy Department. I took the university exams. That department was my first choice, and I got in. I began carrying out my activities there, too. But I saw that instead of talking to individuals one by one, it would be more effective to communicate through books, aimed at a wider audience. I then decided to begin writing books. Then, as you know, those works started appearing. I used to describe things with individual documentation. I had collected documents about Darwinism together, I had a file full of them, a black file. I would open it up and discuss subjects. I then thought it might be better to make a book out of it and hand that out, rather than carrying my file around. After that, thanks be to Allah, very successful activities ensued. But it is of course Allah Who causes me to do everything. It is Allah Who does it all. It is Allah Who gathers people around me and makes them like me. It was a miracle. People who were university students, young, good-looking and wealthy, highly intelligent, college graduates and members of good family could expect all the blessings of this world. But they heard my name and about me from one another and came to talk to me. They were highly influenced by my words, praise be to Allah. Allah may have made my honesty instrumental in that. I am still amazed at how so many people like me, gather around me, are so loyal, devoted and wholehearted, despite all the pressure inflicted on us as everyone can see.

Mersin TV, September 5-2008 

Adnan Oktar: I entered the academy in ’79. The Academy of Fine Arts. The Findikli Academy of Fine Arts. The academy had a library. I found my first fossil pictures there. I was doing anti-Darwinist work, but the books were pro-Darwin. But they still put pictures of fossils in them. I saw that these fossils had not changed at all. I looked at many pages. They had not put many in, but none of them had changed. The school library had a photocopier. I made copies of it. I made a file for myself, a thick file. We had a teacher called Hilmi Yavuz. He was a philosopher, and a Marxist with leftist views. He was opposed to religion, in other words. He did not believe in religion. But I gave him one of those little pamphlets about evolution and we had a talk and a discussion. Thanks be to Allah, years later there had been a great change in him. Our teacher Hilmi Yavuz is today someone who believes in Allah and espouses religion. He is also opposed to Darwinism. We had another teacher by the name of Ercüment Tarcan. I don’t know if he is still alive. May Allah grant him a long life if he is. He also held materialist, Darwinist views at that time. He said, “If they make a single cell I will throw myself out of the school window.” The school window was some 3 meters high, but I did not want him to throw himself out, of course. But I saw that he had been strongly affected. I was gathering pictures up from everywhere at that time. I found evidence in support of Creation from Bilim Teknik magazine, for instance. I found a great deal and filed it all away. I did good work in that way. But the way that Allah has provided such evidence in recent times, that is a real miracle, of course, I mean we have really stunned the world and have achieved great results, for example in Russia, too.

PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONVERTED OR HAVE HAD

THEIR FAITH DEEPENED THROUGH

THE WORKS OF HARUN YAHYA

One of the most significant elements that reveal the global effect of Harun Yahya’s work is the large number of people who have converted or have had their faith deepened. Many readers send letters and messages on this subject. The small sample quoted here represents just a few examples of this great influence.

I read all your books in Russian. I live in Siberia. My wife is Russian. With the help of your books and of the Qur’an she selected Islam as her faith. I am very happy at the existence of such a worthy person, who explains our faith in the light of verses from the Qur’an and shows us the true path. May Allah multiply your endeavors and further enhance your impact on mankind. Mohammad Arif – Riyadh As a Muslim, my faith in the religion has been greatly strengthened by your books. May Allah reward you. What I learnt, I want to share with my million moslem brothers who cannot read English. I therefore ask for your permission to translate some of your work into Hausa language, my mother tongue and one of the most populous language in Africa. As a lawyer, I know that I need your permission. Ma'assalam. Nuraddeen Ayagi - Nigeria Greetings. I am a Muslim from Kosovo. What my life was like before is unimportant. But thanks to Harun Yahya’s books I feel “even more” of a Muslim. In this way I have begun to regularly perform the prayer. I did not perform it on a regular basis previously. From heading towards the darkness I see myself heading more towards the truth. Thanks to Harun Yahya’s books I see the world very differently. With Allah’s help I am translating a book from English into Albanian. I will send it to you, and readers from Albania can thus benefit from it. I wish you the best of everything. Ali Avdiu - Kosovo After personally completing the translation of some of Harun Yahya’s books I felt that my faith had grown stronger and I vowed, like Harun Yahya, to dedicate my life to Allah. Allah willing, the works of Harun Yahya will create a change in Thailand in the same way that changes have taken place in Turkish society in recent years. Zaki - Thailand Hello, I have recently converted to Islam. Thanks be to Allah. Mr. Yahya’s work played a major role in this. That is why I wish to send him my thanks… I am astonished by the clarity I have acquired by means of the subjects articulated by Harun Yahya, and millions of other people are still confused by these matters… Thank you for your time. Tom Malies I have just read The Collapse of the Theory of Evolution, and it is marvelous. Every question I have ever thought of (regarding subjects I studied in biology classes at high school) and which I could never find an answer to have now been answered. The most evident of these was bacteria building immunity to antibiotics. Thank you for making your book so clear and free of charge. Thanks to this, my faith in God has grown even stronger. Christopher Masha Allah, this is a beautiful website. Your work has been very beneficial to me. In particular, the book "The Truth of the Life of this World" really inspired me to connect with Allah. I think it is very noble that you are making videos, audios and full text available to people free of charge. Many are interested in getting to know Allah but not all can afford to pay to access this information. Jazakhallu khair, may Allah reward you abundantly for all your efforts and continue to give you the strength and the ability to spread Islam to all corners of the earth. Sr. Rahmah - Nigeria I have read and witnessed a lot of your work... I have been searching for truth for ages but couldn't find it anywhere... people said things but it didn't make any sense. ... your books and articles make a lot of sense... Thanks a lot for all you are doing for my Religion... May Allah Bless You with all His blessings and keep you and all of us steadfast... May we all bath in the sunshine of the Holy Qu'ran and may Islam rule the World. Sardar Umair Ali Khan Saddozai - Pakistan I have the pleasure of writing you and wish to inform you that it is more than a moral duty for me to be of help to you. I, personally, benefited tremendously from those works of Harun Yahya. Presently I downloaded more than thirty of those books from which I am much interested, and I am enjoying reading them always. These write-ups made a great impact in my belief in Allah because there was a time when, despite the fact that I have a good knowledge of Kitab Was-Sunnah, and thought in many Islamic Schools and engaged in a lot of Islamic public lectures, I was just saying my five daily prayers not because I believed in what I was doing, but just in the hope that there will be a time when Allah Ta’ala will reveal the truth to me. This is because I was put into great confusion by those Darwinist assertions, which made me in dilemma in contrasting them with religious proclamations. But now, by Allah’s mercy, through the works of Harun Yahya I am able to regain my full and sound belief in Allah Subhanahu Wata’alah and thrown those futile, absurd and incongruous claims behind my back. Hence, it is my moral duty to ensure that others too benefited from it and establish cordial relationship with their Creator. I will like to tell you that I will make my first attempt by contacting the Ameer of Muslim Students Society of Nigeria, Kaduna Polytechnic Chapter and see how he can assist me in announcing these works and making them known to all the students in the high schools nationwide through the National Body. I think this will make a good start. Further, I wish to tell you that I have a lot of friends who can make translations into so many languages available in Nigeria. So, there is no problem in that. Musa Dayyib Harun - Nigeria Salam, your website has helped me establish a relationship with the Creator of the universe, confirm my faith, and realize the true reality of life. Praise be to Allah and may Allah shower His blessing upon you for your noble efforts. Adam Elder - USA Until 2 months ago my friends and I were terrible sinners. We were always defeated by our lower selves. But one day I came across with the Harun Yahya web site and looked into it. I ordered his VCD films and watched them together with my friends. We all realized we had been in the wrong. As a result, the light of Almighty Allah entered our hearts. We repented and decided to thenceforth live solely to be able to serve Allah. Switzerland I really appreciate your works and studies and I love seeing the movies which you offer for free download! May Allah give you much reward for all efforts and grant you Paradise. I pray that not only for you, but for all the people that help you publishing your works. As you may have noticed I am already a Muslim. Anyway, your works have much influence over me, they strengthened my Iman in Allah’s Almightiness and faultless Creation of the World. Your works are full of compact and highly understandable information, mashaAllah. Bilal Chbib - Germany May the mercy of Allah be upon you. I live in Albania. I came across with your works thanks to the internet. These works change my world. They are most interesting and realistic. What most affected me is your attitude towards different aspects of life inspired in you by the light of the Qur’an. You have taught us a lot that we did not know before and enabled us to acquire a better understanding of true faith. You have helped us implement the Qur’an. Your work is most splendid and I wish to encourage you in that field. May Allah bestow all His blessings on you and guide you to His true path. Your works are the greatest reference sources of all those I have so far encountered and of the greatest assistance in helping me and everyone in Albania come to know Allah and comprehend His greatness. You may know that the media and the television provide the most corrupt education in Albania, and this mostly affects children. I think your materials are the most appropriate solution in this area. I am going to read your works for children which I downloaded from the internet the other day. I want to translate them. Altin - Albania Salam Alaykum! On reading some of Harun Yahya’s works and watching a few of his videos I realized I had found the truth I had been seeking for some time, and came to believe. Until then I had a number of prejudiced ideas about the Turks and believed them not to be the best representatives of Islam. That was until I knew Harun Yahya… Harun Yahya is a devout Turk. I hope Allah will guide many people onto your path. May Allah give strength to Harun Yahya and his assistants. May Allah protect believers. May the greetings of Allah be upon you. Redouan - Germany  I am greatly inspired by your works. They have significantly increased my faith in Allah. I want to buy all your English-language works. Can you tell me how to do this? Shamil Khan - United Kingdom  Greetings to all my Muslim brothers. This is an astonishing page that has changed my way of thinking and enabled me to see the truth. My thanks to the author for setting up such a web site and changing people’s lives. Insha’Allah, many more people will come to grasp the truth. There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad (saas) is His messenger. Noor-nahar Hoque - United Kingdom I cannot tell you how delighted I am to have made the acquaintance of brother Harun Yahya. I came from a Catholic family and, Alhamdulillah, converted to Islam 7 years ago. Harun Yahya’s articles were of great help in my finding the truth. Jalil Al Biruani - Peru My name is Amir Afridi and I am from Pakistan. I have seen your work and believe me I don’t believe my eyes to see this kind of work first time in my life. It was my luck that I come across your program playing on a channel Indus Vision by just surfing my TV. I can’t even imagine that this kind of work I have seen in my life for just Islam. Because what we are looking today we see some boring program on TV and some books that we don’t even read. I am 22 year old and I had two problems because of reading and having some knowledge I started to believe in that Jesus the Isa will not come to the earth again. And that every living being is made by the process of evolution and I have worked very hard to prove it as well. But what totally surprised me is this that I noted your web site from the channel and I surf it and I downloaded some books concerning my matters. But I don’t know how can I be thankful to Mr. Harun Yahya. I read his books about Jesus and about Darwinism. It made me but I would say just change me. His work is marvelous. First of all I thank you and the team working behind. Please tell me that what I can do for Islam. How you people will help me. And in the last inform Mr. Harun Yahya about me that you have made a person muslim by your work. And anyone cannot give you some thing for what you are doing but only one the God Allah. Your fan and slave. Amir Afridi - Pakistan Dear brothers in Islam, I send you my heartfelt greetings on behalf of our Muslim brothers living in Russia. After being freed from 70 years of communist oppression, the Russian Muslims rediscovered their own identity. They discovered what Islam and living as a Muslim mean. Yet since they lacked sufficient information and people of knowledge to strengthen their faith, Russian Muslims again experienced difficult times. Praise be to Allah; after your books had been translated into Russian, people’s faith began growing stronger in the light of the scientific evidence. Non-Muslims are adopting Islam after reading your books and (ethnic) Muslims with prejudiced ideas about Islam realize how false those preconceptions are… Allah (swt) has sent you as a guide to the true path for these people, and the translation of your books into Russian has enlightened people and been a means for right guidance. The sincerity and purity in your works illuminate people’s hearts, shed great light and cast away the dust that has collected over many years. The number of people in Russia adopting Islam as a way of life is growing by the day, though there are many who use Islam for their own interests and advantage. Our intention is not to complain but solely to enlighten the community of Islam. As Muslims living in Russia we perhaps have a greater need for Islamic literature than other countries. The Russian-language literature we have contains very little information, or else is full of translation errors. Colleagues of ours who have been educated in Arab countries are migrating to the big cities because of economic difficulties, and are teaching in mosques and madrassas there. Bashkortostan is a republic that is rich in terms of nature but economically poor. Muslim congregations are unable to provide Islamic education due to economic difficulties, or else are forced to close under the weight of heavy taxes. We try to enlighten people by using the literature we have. But we would ask for your help in making this service a more lively one and in spreading it to a larger audience. We would ask you, if possible, to send us your Russian-language books, videos and audio cassettes. There is an Azeri brother of ours here who was educated in Turkey, and thanks to him we are able to read and understand some Turkish works. We would be pleased to receive copies of your Turkish-language works that have not been translated into Russian. One last request is that you not misunderstand these requests, but treat them with understanding. Our deepest thanks and respects for all you are doing. May the mercy and abundance of Allah be upon you. Biktashev Ilgiz (Abdulhakk) - Russia I am sending you this message from Burnley, England. Harun Yahya’s works inspire me. A while ago I departed from the true path. Thanks to brother Harun’s web site I turned back towards the true path. I would like to meet and thank him in person. May Allah reward you. Sami - United Kingdom  As a recent convert (revert) to Islam I was recommended this site. This is truly fantastic and is full of fantastic information. Harun Yahya has certainly helped make the transition to Islam a lot easier. Joshua Wilson - United Kingdom

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