====== Tolerance ======

  * “Being open-minded and empathetical.”((TDK Güncel Türkçe Sözlük.))

  * “Not being inconsiderate and hardhearted.”(([[http://www.lugatim.com/s/ho%C5%9Fg%C3%B6r%C3%BC|“Hoşgörü”, Kubbealtı Lugatı]].))
     
  * “If there is an issue that may cause a dispute, make consultation. Do not control too firmly; people have different characters. It is now essential to look at each other with **tolerance**.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursî, //Kastamonu Lâhikası//, İstanbul: Şahdamar Yayınları, 2010, p. 201.))

  * “Be so **tolerant** that your heart becomes wide like the ocean. Become inspired with [[belief|faith]] and [[love|love]] for others. Offer a hand to those in trouble, and be concerned about everyone.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Pearls of Wisdom//, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2013, p. 77.))

  * “The most distinctive feature of a soul overflowing with faith is to [[love|love]] all types of [[love|love]] that are expressed in deeds, and to feel enmity for all deeds in which enmity is expressed. To hate everything is a sign of insanity or of infatuation with Satan. You [[love|love]] human beings and feel admiration for humanity.”((Ibid.))

  * “**Tolerance** is the roses on the hills of our world. We have represented this virtue for centuries, hand in hand, keeping our hearts together. God willing, this tree, which has such **tolerance** at its root, will come to [[life|life]] again as a result of its rebirth, and it will once again represent **tolerance** fully.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Fasıldan Fasıla-3//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, s. 98.))

  * “... our religion is the source of our understanding of **tolerance**, or **tolerance** is a necessity of the nature of our religion and a depth of it. We have represented this **tolerance** throughout the world during the centuries when we made religion the spirit of our lives... Despite all the negative conditions, our duty today is to first cultivate the understanding of **tolerance** within ourselves, and then to maintain our relations in this way.”((Ibid., pp. 99–100.))

  * “It is imperative that people be accepted in their own positions by respecting their feelings and thoughts, and considering the least common denominator of ‘being human.’” This is also an Islamic understanding... It is very important for the [[peace|peace]] and happiness of humanity that concepts such as ‘social [[peace|peace]]’ and ‘**tolerance**’ become widespread all over the world.”((Ibid., p. 193.))

  * “... the devoted souls, who are the cultural envoys in our time, should take their values to different parts of the world not with weapons and brutal force but with knowledge, [[wisdom|wisdom]], [[love|love]], **tolerance**, and goodness; because the way of [[peace|peace]] and [[love|love]] opens the way that leads to hearts, whereas brutal force causes grudge and hatred to rise from the dead.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Yolun Kaderi (Kırık Testi-15)//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2016, p. 129.))

  * “... this old world has no **tolerance** anymore for such animosity fixed on grudge and hatred, and for the weapons of extermination, which are natural consequences of this animosity. If these waves of hatred are not stopped with bridges of [[love|love]], **tolerance**, and [[dialogue|dialogue]], facing horrible events to concern the entire humanity and the coming of the apocalypse will be inevitable.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Dert Musikisi (Kırık Testi-16)//, New Jersey: Süreyya Yayınları, 2019, p. 34.))

  * “Mankind has used grudge and hatred many times to solve the problems they face. I wish we could use [[love|love]] and **tolerance** once from now on. If only we could open our hearts to everyone, and no one who enters there should worry that he or she will find no place to seat. If only we could treat everyone with a deep sense of [[respect|reverence]]. If only we could read the feelings of people and the cultural environments in which they grew up with a serious sense of empathy and treat everyone accordingly. For, what we expect from others is what they expect from us. If we expect [[respect|respect]], we must show [[respect|respect]]. If we want our rights to be respected, we must respect everyone’s rights.”((Ibid., p. 177)).

  * “The dedicated Hizmet volunteers need to keep walking on the path they have taken. They should do their best and use all legitimate means in order to make human and universal values such as [[peace|peace]], **tolerance**, reconciliation and [[dialogue|dialogue]] dominant in society and even in the whole world.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //İstikamet Çizgisi (Kırık Testi-17)//, New Jersey: Süreyya Yayınları, 2020, p. 50.))

===== See Also =====

  * [[compassion|Compassion]]
  * [[dialogue|Dialogue]]
  * [[love|Love]]
  * [[peace|Peace]]
  * [[respect|Respect]]

===== Further Reading =====

  * Klas Grinell, //[[https://www.antstores.com/products/reflections-on-reason-religion-and-tolerance|Reflections on Reason, Religion, and Tolerance]]//
  * M. Fethullah Gülen, //[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/520499.Toward_a_Global_Civilization_of_Love_and_Tolerance|Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance]]//

===== Other Languages =====

  * [[https://nl.hizmetpedia.org/doku.php?id=tolerantie|Nederlands]]
  * [[https://tr.hizmetpedia.org/doku.php?id=hosgoru|Türkçe]]

===== Footnotes =====