Abdullah Özdoğan Interview, March 2 - 2008
 
Adnan Oktar:  Ideas, love, affection, compassion, democracy, freedom of thought, excitement will bring this goodness forward. Therefore there will be total freedom, and entirely an environment of love. There will be an incredible cultural progress and prosperity in fields of science and arts. As evident to all, in the earlier years of Islam there was such advancement in culture, science and arts. This time around, there will be tremendous global progression. A splendid civilization will arise. Since you are so young, we will all witness this together insha’Allah. 

American Public TV, December 19 - 2008
 
Adnan Oktar: Muslims around the world have just begun to understand the Qur’an. And only recently have they started observing Islam. For instance, communist parties or in other words Stalinist ideologies were prevailing in Iraq, Syria or Palestine. Communists were dominant in the Turkish world. The Islamic world is only recently liberating itself from communist, Darwinist or materialist way of thinking. That is to say, the Islamic world has just recovered from this illness, and is recuperating afresh, so it has just to come to life.Therefore, they will achieve great 
advancement in culture, science, and in the fields of modernity, progressivism, arts, and beauty. This is going to happen at the time of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) and the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). Such a period of anguish, and a period of fall down was actually foretold by our Prophet (pbuh) in the hadiths. This age of corruption (fitna) is over. Now the age of brightness and beauty has started. The other age mentioned is ceased. From now on, this will be an age of continual enlightenment, progress and prosperity

I could not go without thinking how Muslims in our day are distant from building pieces of art or magnificent cities that receive people’s appreciation. I pondered why the Islamic geography which witnessed its golden agein the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th centuries does not carry forward this dynamism in the 20th and 21st centuries.  I thought why the Islamic world, which paved the way in almost every branch of science from medicine to astronomy, algebra to geometry, and physics to geography and put forward ideas and innovations beyond its age, failed to put signature to history or concepts and discoveries that will shape the future. Definitely, every day has its night, and every night has its day. I also know very well that civilizations, countries and people have their nights and days, too. This profound civilization, which has made paramount contribution to the history of humanity and to its common background of culture and science, will definitely regain its essence and true nature, and will repossess its rightful status in the world.