Different names, same surnames: The brotherhood of funds

If you claim to be committed to a religion, yet your name is associated with the idols of money, power, authority, and wealth, your qibla is not places of worship, but funds, shady financial dealings, and modern criminal organizations—whether in suits or robes. The direction you turn determines the religion you live, and the religion you live determines the morality you possess. As such, we cannot see any morality in the name of the religion you claim to follow. Or rather, we do not even know what this morality is. 

At this point, it does not matter which religion a person identifies with, because there is no moral backbone that sets them apart from others, distinguishing them through principles, values, and an attitude toward life. On such a foundation, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, and others have all become the same. Their names are different, but their lives are the same. Moreover, there is a brotherhood of surnames among them. 

Their names are certainly not the same, but their surnames have become identical in the qibla they turn toward. We have already stated what that qibla is. 

It is no longer faith, belief, or prayer that calls out from the heavens; it is financial companies and stockbrokers—who drown them in wealth within months, invite them into the ranks of the powerful, and prepare mansions and villas for them—that are calling. Even if their tongues do not say it, the only sacred thing now is money, and religion has turned into a nostalgic discourse that can only find a place for itself in words, as a matter of tradition.

This structure we are talking about has existed throughout history under different names. Sometimes it was a priest in a church, sometimes a cleric signing off on bloody fatwas, or a mullah inciting soldiers before a war. Even if the holy book was what he read before the masses, his true agenda was the inns, baths, lands, and the share of the spoils that would fall to him. 

This mentality also created its own tradition. This tradition told them: If you do not speak against the order of the powerful and do not question the decisions of the rulers, the values written in religious texts—such as justice, rights, law, and sharing—can just stay there. Even if religion advocates for a righteous life, fair distribution, and equality, you can be as rich as a king and live like a feudal lord.

But how will this jar be filled? 

Filling the jar is now left to them. Once the boundaries of a communal, egalitarian, and fair life are violated, the rest is easy. The issue is already the protection of those boundaries, and the consciousness we speak of is what maintains that boundary. Once this is crossed, all sorts of criminal networks can be established, such as companies built on exorbitant profits, political racketeering, and the mastery of modern slave markets.

The fund system we have witnessed in the reality of Turkey has emerged as an example of this network. Because in this fund system, most of the names reflected on screens and appearing in the news were familiar. They were people who had somehow found a place for themselves in the "religious power" quota, attained positions of authority, and established strong ties from there. 

These individuals quickly established funds that would add them to the list of the wealthy. Then they grew these funds with a spiral of brotherhood; balance sheets grew, figures became gigantic; naturally, our esteemed public also flocked to the spiral in droves. In fact, non-existent companies and void funds rose from one to thousands, from millions to billions, through a chain reaction of money. The order established by those with different names but the same surnames left behind neither the sacred nor the forbidden. Where we have arrived, it was not just money that was lost.

This mentality also killed the sacred.

It overturned trust, belief, and spirituality. It broke, bruised, and wounded them.

It razed the moral bridges that humans try to build through the sacred.

It was not only the "other side" that it poisoned. Because it has trampled on all human and moral values in the name of religion from yesterday to today, most of the masses have also taken their share of this poison.

When religion is mentioned, what is talked about is no longer being a good person, not violating anyone's rights, not taking bribes, protecting public property like the apple of one's eye, or approaching the other with compassion; it has become only rituals.

These were the reasons for the death of the sacred. 

The murder stands in the middle, and the perpetrators do not want it to be removed. The moment it is buried, an order will come to an end, and the order of spiritual exploitation will have run its course. 

History is a witness to this, as is the day we are witnessing today.