Tomorrow is February 27. The 8th anniversary of Erbakan’s death. His struggle for this nation is better understood by all segments of society today. We are witnessing that those who judged him are now expressing their regrets with sadness. In this direction, we wanted to present to you our article about Erbakan, which we wrote two years ago and still keep us up to date, with the small touches.
What Turkey did learn from Erbakan?
It learned how to use the knowledge for the benefit of humanity.
He never thought that the researches and books waiting to be opened on dusty shelves are adequate. He seeks answers from every work that what can be done for the benefit of humanity.
He emphasized that in every job done the human must be taken to the center. Throughout his life he acted with the motto of “the best among you is the one most beneficial to people”.
It learned that it should not be enslaved to the negative conditions.
When he departs, the Anatolian people was captured by the logic that “it came like that and it will go like that”. The one has a beadle friend in court considers himself as lucky. He, in spite of these conditions, put the self-confidence of the nation with the mission and vision that was loaded on him by his faith. He said that we can. He gave the message that believe it, you can. He lifted a bored and reticent nation.
It learned the kindness, compassion, respect, love and altruism.
He was a complete gentleman with his courtesy and compassionate approach to his interlocutor, his revent stand and his love-embraced inclusiveness. He was from an aristocratic family. But the peasant and the businessman could meet in the same place in his cause. Telling even the most complicated issues to his interlocutors with in a simple and straightforward language, he dragged a nation like a locomotive.
It learned to compromise with everyone by preserving its own color and to travel together if it is necessary.
Yes, he had a faith and a responsibility lifted by his cause on his shoulders. He must be able to explain his case to people and make them have the same cause. He had been the interlocutor of all kinds of dirty games. All kinds of counter inside and outside were planned against him. He managed to keep his color despite all these. He didn’t satisfy with those too. He showed that when the country and the nation is in question, you can walk shoulder to shoulder with everyone without thinking one minute.
It learned how to fight against Zionism that is the enemy of all humankind.
Everyone was willing to what was given them. There was such a surrender as the salvation of established exploitation wheels was not possible. He persistenly and stubbornly demonstrated to all humankind the traps of Zionism. He became the frightening dream of those streghtening their pavilions over blood and tears. He ruined the comfort of those who see themselve as the lord of mankind and the others as slaves. He was awake. And he woke everyone up.
It learned that the Islamic Union ideal is possible.
He struggled for the peace and concord of 7 billion people. He showed that the existing world order cannot save humanity from persecution with instances. He did not only declare it. He produced alternatives. He managed to establish a big organization like D-8 in a very short period of 11 months. He introduced it as a core. He tried to protect the rights and the law of all victim and oppressed people regardless of religion, language, race or sect. He reminded the importance of being ummah by saying that you have siblings in places that are difficult to show on the map. He felt and made us feel the pain of the thorn which sank into the feet of an oppressed in places where the name was not heard. His longing for Palestine and Jerusalem was enough to make everyone’s heart shake.
It learned the statesmanship.
He always acted like an egg bagel on his back. He embraced the all children of the nation. He managed to talk to both those who have one percent common denominator and those who have ninety-nine percent common denominator. He considered the law of the general not his own personality. His parties were shot down but he didn’t choose the way to set the nation against each other. The attitude of 28 February following the 9-hour NSC meeting was full of the answers to the question of who the statesman is. He had been subjected to dozens of repressions by soldiers, but never used a negative sentence against the armed forces. He said that it is our army and he stood behind this.
It learned being a man of cause.
His cause was only to reach the sake of God. He always leant on God. He always wanted from him. He did not bow to any power other than this. He said that consenting to cruelty is persecution. He resisted. He was never backward in sacrificing for a moment. He made a jihad against oppression, injustice and cruelty. Not only did he say so, he did. He gave the answers to the question of how a case man would be with body language. As a leader that the adjective of mujahid were most suitable to him he passed away from this world to the eternal world.
May Allah have mercy on him. May Allah grant this nation to understand him as it should be.