...a Life dedicated to peace and human happiness An intellectual with a distinctive spiritual charisma, a prolific writer and poet, M. Fethullah Gülen has been an extremely effective and popular scholar of Islam in our modern age. His message of tolerance and compassion spans the globe and includes people from many different walks of life. Gülen has spent his career impressing on people that true religion preaches love, tolerance, compassion, hardwork, peace and many other values that lead a person to virtue and perfection.