number of people to be lazy and indulge in vice, and have given them the wish to heed their desires in ease and comfort; they have destroyed these people’s eagerness for effort and endeavour. And by way of dis-satisfaction and extravagance, they have driven them to dissipation, wastefulness, tyranny, and what is unlawful.

For example, as it says in A Key to the World of the Risale-i Nur, although the radio is a great bounty and demands thanks in the form of being used for the good of mankind, since four fifths of it are used on un-necessary, meaningless trivia, it has encouraged idleness and depravity, and destroyed the eagerness for work. I myself even have seen that of a number of most benefi-cial marvels, which should be used for endeavour and work and man’s true benefits and needs, eight out of ten are urging man to indulge in pleasure and amusement, to satisfy his desires, and to be lazy, and only one of two of them being spent on essential needs. There are thou-sands of examples like these two small ones.

I n S h o r t : Since modern Western civilization has not truly heeded the revealed religions, it has both impoverished man and increased his needs. It has de-stroyed the principle of frugality and contentment, and increased wastefulness, greed, and covetousness. It has opened up the way to tyranny and what is unlawful. Through encouraging people to take advantage of the means of dissipation, it has also cast those needy unfor-tunates into total laziness. It has destroyed the desire for effort and work. It has encouraged depravity and dissi-pation, and wasted their lives on useless things. Fur-thermore, it has made those needy and lazy people ill.