WEBVTT 00:00.960 --> 00:03.840 The Middle East needs love and unity more than ever. 00:06.720 --> 00:11.760 Political developments, tragedies, fighting and suffering going on in the Middle East prey 00:11.760 --> 00:21.520 upon the conscience. Ruthlessness, injustice, hatred and anger literally paralyze communities. 00:21.520 --> 00:30.880 People are hungry for love. The longing for peace, compassion, love and affection is greater 00:30.880 --> 00:38.800 than ever before. Bringing policies of peace and love to prevail across the world is easy. 00:40.160 --> 00:46.400 The difficult thing is to live in hatred, cruelty, suffering, pain and war. 00:46.400 --> 00:53.680 The last 100 years in the Middle East have been full of war, occupation, terror and violence. 00:54.480 --> 01:00.800 In 1916, under the secret Sykes-Picot Treaty, the imperialist mentality divided the Middle East 01:00.800 --> 01:06.720 artificially with lines drawn with a ruler. Brothers, relatives and communities that had 01:06.720 --> 01:13.280 lived together for hundreds of years were forcibly torn apart and divided. As if that were not enough, 01:13.280 --> 01:19.440 the region's underground resources and material wealth were also heavily exploited. The dictators 01:19.440 --> 01:24.880 who followed made people's lives a misery and deprived them of their liberties. The pride of 01:24.880 --> 01:31.040 the Middle Eastern people was thus broken. This fine region, the richest part of the world in 01:31.040 --> 01:37.200 material and spiritual terms, the holy lands where the prophets lived, literally turned into a hell on 01:37.200 --> 01:44.080 earth. Self-interest, egoism and lovelessness literally paralyzed the warm people of the region, 01:44.080 --> 01:50.640 deprived them of their joy and ruined their peace. The language of violence and hatred resulted in 01:50.640 --> 01:58.000 communities tasting suffering rather than joy. For the sake of their own interests, certain tribes, 01:58.000 --> 02:04.400 organizations and parties violated people's most basic human rights in the areas where they were most 02:04.400 --> 02:10.320 powerful. Regimes began to think of their power rather than their people. Investment was made in 02:10.320 --> 02:17.680 material things instead of people. Money was spent on arms and not on education, health, social life and 02:17.680 --> 02:25.360 art. Imperialism, savage capitalism and other political trends that emphasized hatred brought neither 02:25.360 --> 02:33.520 peace nor happiness to the region. Countries that entered the region always embraced loveless policies. 02:34.160 --> 02:40.640 The solution to problems was sought in violence rather than love, tolerance and mutual understanding. 02:41.600 --> 02:47.520 Yet the only thing the region needs is love. Policies of love must predominate in the Middle East, 02:47.520 --> 02:55.200 not contemptuous language, threats, harsh policies, sudden violence or policies of hatred. The world needs love. 02:55.840 --> 03:04.000 The Middle East needs love. The greatest power in the world is the existence of a high-quality community 03:04.000 --> 03:11.280 that insists on policies of love. The secret to being strong is to be united and able to react as one 03:11.280 --> 03:17.600 against difficulties and aggression. Our greatest weapons are quality, art, talent and unity. 03:19.120 --> 03:24.880 Love is our greatest weapon and our wealth. Countries in the Middle East are constantly heading 03:24.880 --> 03:31.120 towards breaking up. That must be stopped at once. That way of thinking must be replaced 03:31.120 --> 03:37.600 by a spirit of unity that predominates in the region. New impassable borders and new insurmountable 03:37.600 --> 03:44.960 walls are erected in the wake of every breakup. Mines are laid, barbed wire goes up, walls are raised and ditches are dug. 03:48.560 --> 03:53.200 Yet all the Middle East needs is love, the replacement of borders with bonds of love, 03:53.200 --> 03:57.840 and the maximum freedom possible. Unity will bring about many delights. 03:59.440 --> 04:04.160 There will be a climate of freedom where borders are abolished and there is free movement, 04:04.160 --> 04:08.960 in which people can travel freely from Cairo to Damascus, Istanbul or Baku. 04:09.760 --> 04:14.960 We must have a Middle East in which someone who had breakfast in Beirut can have dinner in Gaza, 04:14.960 --> 04:19.440 then visit Jerusalem and finally move on to Yemen in complete safety. 04:20.480 --> 04:24.960 There is only one way of establishing that union, to embrace the Quran. 04:26.400 --> 04:33.200 To live by the moral values God desires of us, and to desire the immediate appearance of the Mati, 04:33.200 --> 04:40.800 foretold by our Prophet ﷺ, let us not forget that a fragmented Islamic world with no leader 04:41.520 --> 04:43.520 can never know peace.