History has carried us to the threshold of a new age open to the manifestations of Divine favor. Despite (or in parallel with) advances in science and technology, the last 2 or 3 centuries have witnessed a global break with traditional values and, in the name of renewal, an attachment to different values and speculative fantasies. It is our hope, strengthened by promising developments, that the next century will be the age of belief and moral values, an age that will witness a renaissance and revival for the believers.

Among wavering crowds lacking in sound thinking and reasoning, a new type of people will appear. They will rely equally on reason and experience, and give as much importance to conscience and inspiration as to reason and experience. They unfailingly pursue the perfect in everything, establish the balance between this world and the next, and wed the heart to the intellect.

The coming-to-be of such people will not be easy. All births are painful, but these blessed births will take place and provide the world with a new, brilliant generation. Just as rain pours out of long gathering clouds, and water wells up from underground, so will the "flowers" of this new generation one day appear among us.

These new people are individuals of integrity who, free from external influences, can manage independently of others. No worldly force can bind them, and no fashionable -isms cause them to deviate from their path. Truly independent of any worldly power, they think and acts freely, for their freedom is in proportion to their servanthood to God. Rather than imitating others, they rely on their original dynamics, rooted in the depths of history, and try to equip their faculties of judgment with authentic values that are their own.

They think, investigate, believe, and overflow with spiritual pleasures. While making the fullest use of modern facilities, they do not neglect their traditional and spiritual values in building their own world.

If changes and reforms are linked to and dependent on unchanging universal values, they may be eagerly welcomed. Otherwise, there will be a plethora of speculative fantasies that are appealing because of their novelty and modernity. Standing on the firm ground of those unchanging values, the new man and woman always looks to the future to illuminate the darkness enveloping the world. They are completely truth-loving and trustworthy and, in support of truth everywhere, always are ready to leave their families and homes when necessary. Having no attachment to worldly things, comforts, and luxuries, they will use their God-given talents to benefit humanity and plant the seeds of a happy future. Then, seeking help from God and constantly seeking success from Him, they will do their best to protect those seeds from harm, just as a hen protects its eggs. Their entire lives will be dedicated to this way of truth.

To stay in touch and communicate with people's minds, hearts, and feelings, these new men and women will use the mass media and try to establish a new power balance on justice, love, respect, and equality among human beings. They will make might subservient to right, and never discriminate on grounds of color or race.

These new people will unite profound spirituality, wide knowledge, sound thinking, a scientific temperament, and wise activism. Never content with what they knew, they will increase continuously in knowledge – knowledge of the self, of nature, and of God.

Equipped with the good morals and virtues that make one truly human, these new men and women are altruists who embraces humanity with love and are ready to sacrifice themselves for the good of others when necessary. As they shape themselves in the mold of universal virtue, they simultaneously strive to illuminate the way of others. They always defend and support what is good, and recommend it to others, while seeking to challenge, combat, and eradicate all evils.

These new people believe that the One who gave them life here did so that they could know and worship Him. Without discriminating between the Book of the Universe (where the Divine Names are manifested and therefore full of signs to Him and a "stairway" leading to Him) and the Divine Scripture (the translation of the Book of the Universe), they see religion and science as two manifestation of the same truth.

They are never reactionary. They do not go after events, for they are the motors of history that initiate and shape events. With due perception of their age and the surrounding conditions, and in devotion to their essential values and utmost reliance on God, they are in a state of continuous self-renewal.

These new people are conquerors and discoverers: conquerors of themselves, of thoughts, and of hearts, and discoverers of what is unknown. They regard any time spent not taking a new step into the depths of the self and the universe as wasted. As they remove, through faith and knowledge, the veils covering the face of reality, they become even more eager to advance further. With the messages and answers received from the Heavens, the Earth, and the seas, they continue to journey until they return to their Creator. Zamanin Altin Dilimi, Izmir 1997, pp. 157-160

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