On the first day of 2025, witnessing the circulation of the days of God

Praise be to God, who created the years, months, weeks and days so that we may find our direction. The days and years that He circulates among people flow past over us.

People who suppose these days to be permanent become aware of this flow only in its jolting, whirling, stormy moments, but what an awareness it is. The person's world reels. For those who have passed these days with difficulty because of the oppression, pressure and pain they have lived through, these extraordinary conditions are perceived as the revival of a hope, in God's days that flow, change and pass from hand to hand. As for the tyrants, who, with their arrogant personalities pampered by the sultanate they have run, with the oppression they have inflicted on people and the lives they have burned, suppose that the artificial light they created for themselves will never pass, they see by what upheaval they are overthrown, and their world reels.

We enter the year 2025 in an atmosphere in which we are witnessing the circulation of these days, between people who have grown arrogant and overweening in the belief that the days are permanent and people whose hopes these days have dulled.

On 7 October 2023, at a moment when a Zionist regime, the disgrace of humanity, was making the whole world accept its own norms and presenting darkness as light, a group of people among humankind, by burning themselves, showed all people what darkness truly is and what light is. The emergence of the Gazans appeared as an unprecedented move in which the masks on the face of the modern, enlightened, democratic Western or Westernized world fell. The Mujahideen of Gaza showed, in the distance between life and death, how many times humanity can die, how many times it can sink to the bottom of the earth, be exhausted, be trampled underfoot. With their deaths they explained life to people, and with the torn bodies of their children they showed people, live, the depths of their own wretchedness.

In the process that began after 7 October, the world could no longer be the old world, and it was not. The myths of collapsing Zionist Israel and the makeup of the world that protects it, of the civilized world, were poured over its face in such a way as to reveal the ugliest faces. In a short time, all the moral, ethical and legitimacy grounds of the established international order, or of its extensions valid in the Islamic world, vanished. No moral claim remained that anyone could put forward while looking another in the face. Like a black hole, Israel consumed all the capital of moral superiority of the Western world. The fact that the Islamic world, indeed the whole world, is under occupation was exposed in all its artificiality. In the course of the process it became visible that the whole world is under occupation, that only Gaza is free by resisting, and that attempts are being made to destroy it.

Even so, the 7 October breakout burned like a torch of freedom, declaring that hope cannot be destroyed against the Pharaonic-Zionist world order to which everyone had surrendered. We witnessed a will to resist that could not be subdued despite the Zionist genocidal savagery that filled 450 days over the whole of 2024. In my view, the fact that the resistance could not be subdued despite savage and frantic efforts at destruction and genocide, and the hopes it somehow kept alive, is the most important event of the year 2024.

Precisely for this reason, it has become a truth that everyone voices that after the Al-Aqsa Flood the world can no longer be the old world. The curse that befalls a world that regards Zionism as normal makes itself felt more at every stage. That Israel is being tried at the International Criminal Court on the charge of genocide, and that arrest warrants have been issued for Netanyahu and the Chief of the General Staff, is no small event. This was the picture of the complete inversion of the Holocaust narrative, which had been kept up as if pounding on humanity's neck and which Israel exploited to the hilt, of the Western narrative of democracy and human rights, and of the Islamophobic narratives directed at Muslims.

The revolution that began as we entered the last month of 2024 and ended in 11 days the bloody and despotic Assad regime, which had lasted 54 years, and the genocide Bashar al-Assad had carried out against his own people for 14 years, should also be seen as an aftershock of the Al-Aqsa Flood. Among the stones it set in motion, it prepared a strong ground for the Syrian people's setting out to determine their own destiny. The revolution of course did not happen in 11 days; behind it, in the words of the revolution's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, there was a 14-year "preparation" and "an exploitation of the opportunity" that arose as a result of the Al-Aqsa Flood.

That this revolution came at a moment when hopes had almost run out and everyone was making their calculations and plans according to the existing situation points to many things, of course. First of all, it shows that all the powers said to be behind it were engaged in other calculations during this revolution. The US, Iran, Russia, Israel, the Gulf countries and the Arab League were, right before this revolution, involved in other plans and other calculations concerning Syria. In all of these calculations and plans there was a place for Assad, but there was no place for the Syrian people. Therefore there is no situation in which anyone is owed gratitude by the Syrian people. Because of this revolution that has emerged, which is a gain first of all for the whole Syrian people but in fact for all of humanity, the Syrian people owe a debt of gratitude to no one. Moreover, everyone should feel a little embarrassed. The revolutionaries, in all their humility, believe that this was accomplished entirely by Divine providence. But surely it would not fit the measures of fairness to refrain from appreciating their own determination and will.

This tremendous revolution, which took place in the last month, is not the only hopeful event of 2024. Undoubtedly, a people's revolution took place in Bangladesh that ended the Hasina dictatorship, which lasted 15 years like a kind of 28 February regime. The student protests and broad popular marches that ended with Sheikh Hasina fleeing Bangladesh on 5 August, after she had built a regime of complete fear especially over Muslims for 15 years, brought about some of the most hopeful developments of recent years.

One of the hopeful developments of 2024 was that, in Sudan, a coup attempt, in which there was an Israeli intervention, if indirect, was gradually pushed back considerably. In this coup, in which the nomadic-Bedouin Janjaweed forces are used as proxies, the Sudanese people have been subjected for two years to the most savage and merciless attacks. The alliance formed around the legitimate government, achieved through the latest developments, has come quite close to establishing control in the country in a kind of Kuva-yi Milliye spirit.

Good news continued to come throughout 2024 from the Afghan revolution that began in August 2021. After the independence revolution of 2021, a degree of peace and stability unseen in its history has been achieved in the country. In this atmosphere, for the first time, the country's fundamental priority has become the country's development.

All these developments in the Islamic geography are undoubtedly events in which Turkey either played a first-degree role or was affected in the first degree in a positive way, and, God willing, will be. We have discussed them quite a lot, and we will continue to discuss them more.

May the new year, in which these developments that began in 2023 and continued in 2024 will continue, be a better year for Turkey, for the Islamic world and for the whole world, God willing.

May the new year, in which these developments that began in 2023 and continued in 2024 will continue, be a better year for Turkey, for the Islamic world and for the whole world. With the prayer that we may reach the blessed three months that begin today as well.