Your mind cannot grasp it; this is a different account

In the massacres that genocidal Israel has been carrying out in Gaza for 166 days with great rancor, fury and hatred, nearly 50 thousand Palestinians have lost their lives so far, including those still under the rubble or missing. Nearly 80 thousand people have also been wounded, and 85 percent of the houses have been completely destroyed or rendered uninhabitable.

In these days when we try to observe Ramazan with its acts of worship and its wisdom, there is no doubt that Israeli aggression is an aggression directed at all Muslims. The leaders of Muslim countries, who in the face of all this aggression go on with their routine lives without moving a hair, show by this state of theirs what the offices they occupy are the price of. Let us pass over that.

In the face of all this, let us repeat, now and always, frequently, something we have said before. For those who tie all that is happening, the Israeli attacks and unparalleled massacres, to the Al-Aqsa Flood operation and accuse Hamas of imprudence, and, as if that were not enough, load the responsibility for what is happening on it, there is a calculation that their minds cannot grasp.

From where Hamas looks, on the road it has set out on, hardship, martyrdom and the hereafter are all included in the calculation, and as the most fundamental factor at that. Let us leave others aside; seeing that even some conservative, even Islamic circles sometimes confuse this calculation, I think, requires recalling the mathematics of this calculation again and again.

Really, what kind of world, what kind of future do Muslims imagine? It is as if they are after making people love Islam by constantly showing all people Islam's so-called peaceful, aesthetic, civilized visions. The desire to present to the whole world a Turkey model of unparalleled beauty through a trouble-free and eternally stable development process. As if there will be no enemy anywhere on this road, no forces that will try to divert Turkey or the Islamic world from this road. With its position as a bridge between eastern and western values, and moreover, mashallah, in its most rational, most civilized form with the deepest historical roots, Turkey will present to the world the contemporaneity of Islam, even the version compatible with secularism and democracy, and the civilized world will welcome it with open arms as if it had been waiting for it for centuries. I am sure that in the eyes of many Muslims, when the "Turkish-Islamic model" is mentioned, they have in mind such a rosy dream of success. In this dream, I think, there is not even a foresight that others too are having dreams, indeed, let alone dreams, that some have plans of their own, and that these long-term strategic plans of theirs are trying to undermine the reality of Turkey itself.

In the "normalization" process we had entered with Israel until the day of 7 October, for example, can we say we had such a foresight? Or was the desire to share in Israel's gains regarding the gas fields in the Mediterranean dominant? Or the search to fix some relations with the USA and Europe that were not going well by way of normalizing relations with Israel? Or was it simply increasing the trade volume? And then, while we were developing all these relations from our side, was there any precaution in our security concept against Israel's plans toward Turkey that are in fact being carried out? Israel openly pronounces everywhere its plans of expansion between the Nile and the Euphrates. Is it not seen that even the unlimited and immoderate support given to the PKK by the USA is itself part of this plan?

That is, while Turkey assumes its future plans to be advancing on a highway where there will be no problems and everything will go in its normal course, it has to calculate that someone has laid every kind of trap on Turkey's path.

As for Hamas, the matter is in fact far clearer than supposed. Instead of blaming it for an initiative of this scale, taken perhaps for the first time in its history, who could have proposed to it, against an occupation policy that was already dragging it step by step toward extinction, a more effective and rosier road, and how? Which road that could be proposed could have kept Israel from its strategy of completing the occupation step by step?

Hamas looked from the standpoint of the reality it lives. It could not look from where the Islamic countries, which read history as mere secularization without politics, look. Anyway, when it looked from there, the only thing it saw was genocidal Israel and being abandoned to its own fate. Instead of a somewhat longer-lasting extinction, it preferred to warn and awaken all humanity against an oppression that has become taken for granted and been emboldened through heedlessness and indifference.

What they very clearly see from the Qur'an, from which they take inspiration to read their own reality, is that life is faith and jihad. What is promised in the Qur'an is not a paradise-like worldly life in which there is no trial, no war with the enemy, no resistance and thus no martyrdom. On the contrary, in order to be servants worthy of God in this world, the struggle we must put up against oppression, against servitude to human beings, against transgression is carried out with property and life. This is the price of what God and His Messenger invite us to in order to give us life. Of course this is an entirely different calculation, a calculation that only the minds of those who look as Muslims can grasp.