"Furthermore, what we call "state" is the name of the system created by people who come together to protect their fundamental rights and freedoms and to ensure justice and peace. The state is not an end in itself, but a tool that helps people achieve happiness in both worlds. The extent to which the people who constitute that system embrace certain fundamental beliefs and values ​​is proportionate to the state's adherence to those beliefs and values. Therefore, the term "Islamic state" is inherently contradictory. Since there is no clergy in Islam, theocracy is alien to the spirit of Islam. The state, the result of a social contract between people, is ultimately composed of people; it cannot be "Islamic" or "holy.""
Fethullah Gülen

January 1, 1970

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