Awaited Generation

Humankind has never been so wretched as they are today. They have lost all their values: the ‘table of art and literature is vandalized’ by drunks; thought is capital wasted in the hands of people suffering from intellectual poverty; science is a plaything of materialism; and the products of science are tools used in the name of unbelief.

Fethullah Gulen sees  as our young people are living in and through a most distressing period. The neglect of past centuries has brought to fruit the successive calamities we are experiencing now. The young have been buried under a heavy burden of anxiety with nothing of use coming to them from their fathers and mothers, from the home or the school, nothing whatever of any spiritual value.

And, Fethullah Gulen seeks  ways  to uplift a generation who have been turned from their origins.  Fethullah Gulen ask related questions  like “ how should we inject new life into them? Who will assume the heavy responsibility of returning to Our young what they have lost? The home? The society or its educational institutions? “ . And,  Mr. Gulen  provides to answer “ under present circumstances none of these are up to the task,”
Fethullah Gulen describes the  need for awaited generation. The awaited generation is successors to the mission of the master of the Prophets, and therefore has inherited the loyalty and faithfulness of Adam, the resolve and steadfastness of Noah, the devotion and gentleness of Abraham, the valor and dynamism of Moses, the forbearance and compassion of Jesus. We have long been awaiting a generation, with hearts as pure and kind as angels, with will-power strong enough to overcome the most formidable obstacles, and minds keen enough to solve all the problems of the age. The new generation must be guided by a unity of mind, and take the true path in life, and they must regain their original, true identity. The world is to be saved by that awaited generation who represent the Divine Mercy, from all the disasters, intellectual, spiritual, social and political, with which it has long been afflicted.