Don't participants have to give up many things and devote their lives to the Gülen Movement?

Fethullah Gülen

There is no such obligation on participants. Individual commitment to a specific project or a specific service-network does not demand a life-term involvement. Individuals pass from one service-network to another, and involvement may be temporary.

Participants in the Gülen Movement belong to many social networks and enjoy the full complexity of human relationships. This permits individuals to look for and take up practical opportunities for the self-planned integration of personal experience in everyday life. Self-fulfillment is through self-willed formation of meaning, and self-planned integration and experience.