Dr. Rahat Achilova, a Kyrgyz scholar, who passed away shortly after this interview was done shares in this video her remarks on Fethullah Gulen, his philosophy of dialogue and…
[Hizmet] Schools represent education not just about spirituality but about mathematics, about sociology, about anthropology, about world religions, about political science, about biology, chemistry and physics... These schools are the foundation not just of individual children but of society.…
Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet Movement promote values such as openness, tolerance, and community. These are the messages that resonate beyond religious orientation and really find the home among people who are humanist, secular, Buddhist...and in all of the major religions. And, this is huge accomplishment.…
I see that Gulen has effectively managed to communicate the people a desire to serve, without seeking power. And now I think it is the most authentic religious thing you can do. I think it is God’s message you know, to seek to serve without power or without violence. Anyone who does that is a real servant of God. …
I never witnessed Gulen went astray. As God is my witness, we’ve read his books, examined his ideas and investigated his friends’ and students’ attitudes and manners within the scope of his Hizmet method. In them, we’ve just seen beneficence and goodness. We have never seen lies, immoderacy and extremism. We’ve never witnessed they strayed from this straight Islamic moderation way.…
I think that what Hizmet Movement has done and continuously do is to try to help abroad, in places like United States, it tries to help people understand what Islam is and what it means to be Muslim. And I think that is a really significant contribution that it makes.…
The Hizmet Movement has Islamic roots, and is guided by Islamic values and principles. But its social actions and its social activities, of service and teaching and so on, are open to all faiths and to all people of all walks of life. This is what makes it a wonderful enterprise from the social perspective.…
Terror incidents in Pakistan, Brussels, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Bangladesh and elsewhere.. this shamefulness and cowardice are committed on the account of being a Muslim, yet there is no place for terrorism in Islam; these are devilish acts. This savagery and murder cannot be tolerated by any religion nor anyone whose conscience has yet to die.…
Professor Leo Lefebure of Georgetown University shared his remarks on Fethullah Gulen and the Gulen Movement, in the light of his experiences with the movement's participants in multiple countries, namely Australia, India and Turkey.…