"I Cannot Hold My Tears as I Watch the Volunteers of Education"
In an interview with Samanyolu TV, M. Fethullah Gülen, who is currently in the US for medical treatment, said he could not hold his tears when he watched the volunteers of education working at schools opened in various parts of the world.
Gülen said , "Whenever I see those images in your programs, my eyes fill with tears. I try to stop my tears, but can not hold myself" as he remarked that he was very happy about the efforts that were made for the future of humanity.
Gülen said the volunteers of education, who work in the schools filled with love throughout the world, make a lot of sacrifices. "One of the volunteers says, 'I have not gone to my country for four years', and these remarks fill my heart with pain. Both his self-sacrifice and his Hegira (ie. emigration from native country to another one) strike me. I witnessed some as they were randomly being chosen to serve abroad. They did not know where they were going. They serve in places where the temperature is 60-70 centigrade degrees below and above zero. While going to such places, they did not ask what kind of a place they were going to. I asked my friends at that time. None of them returned back."
Indicating that these people never get discouraged despite all the challenges they face, Gülen told, "Despite all the problems, the fact that these people open schools and become successful in these schools with the favor of Allah will make anybody with a conscious cry, I suppose." Gülen makes flattering remarks about the self-sacrificing people who take service, humanity and love to various parts of the world. "I see them as people who are thirsty of such works. I like to perceive them in such way because they mean a lot to me. It can even be said that they strengthen my faith. They strengthen my hopes about the future." Underlining that he never forgets the parents who raised these heroes, Gülen says that it is an example of great heroism and self-sacrifice for these people who want their children to go to these schools although they know that they will not be able to return for three or four years. Gülen reminds that when he was assigned to work in Manisa, his father who had cancer told him, "Go my son, there is a pair of eyes waiting for you here, but there are hundreds of eyes waiting for you there." Today's parents also tell the same thing to their children, "Go my son, there is an eye waiting for you there, Turkey's future, the world's future waits for you there. Everybody wants to create a storm in the world. If you do not form those islands of peace, the world will experience a deep crisis in the future. These are great sacrifices for a mother, father and spouse and Allah will never leave them unrewarded. They put great projects into practice and continue with them. Bulent Ecevit said a few times that, "There has not been such an opening with such a logic and idea even during the strong period of the Ottoman Empire." This is the confession of reality and he will get his reward for this because telling the truth during that time took courage."
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