Message for Sick (Translated) (Risale-i Nur Collection Book 2)

It is, as though, while making giant advancement in the worlds of science and technology, humanity has forgotten the fundamental principles underlying existence and has neglected essential human values. People are continuously motivated to live to earn and consume more. In the pace of life the spiritual and moral sides of human nature seem to have been neglected and forgotten.

Homes have grown larger, but families have grown smaller, and are dispersed. Human beings have journeyed to the depths of space, but have strayed from the paths leading inward to their own hearts. As mass communications grows all-encompassing, relations within family and among neighbors are getting more minimal. News channels have multiplied, but truth and reliability have diminished and disappeared. Information technology has been developed to an astonishing degree, but psychological problems, social injustices, global crises, and ecological disasters have also increased.

As the world grows smaller, problems grow larger so that they now clearly threaten the material and spiritual future of humanity. How has all this happened? Science should have brought greater understanding of the human being, nature, and the purpose of creation, and assisted in their fulfillment. Was it that science was misunderstood or misused? Was it utilized solely in serving particular interests and material needs?

Could it be that the source of these problems was the absence of faith and spirituality, which keep humanity from excess and turn them towards doing good? Was it the loss of spirituality that has been the cause of people suffering loneliness and unhappiness and their becoming insensitive and belligerent? These questions need close study, for only then may the answers to be found and human beings live with the dignity they deserve. In short the following problems lay in front of us to be dealt with: This bulletin covers the summary of this two days conference organized by JNU on Feb We hope and believe that the papers presented at this conference and the related discussions were a small but an important step towards building a better world to live in peace and harmony.

Chairman, distinguished academics from abroad, ladies and gentlemen, First, I must express my gratitude to Dr. Mujeebur for inviting me and giving this opportunity to speak to this distinguished audience. And I am not simply using these words to praise this institution. This institution has produced brilliant examples.

There is absolutely no doubt that today not in just one or two countries, the entire humanity is facing this crisis. As it was in the earlier times, today there is hardly any country in the world which does not have people, inhabitants who practice different religions, who believe in different religions, who practice different cultural values, who speak different languages, and even countries which have a legal system which does not give equal and similar rights to so-called others even they cannot do without those others.

So this subject you are discussing today particularly with Risale-i Nur perspective, I must confess that I was not really familiar with this monumental work, Risale-i Nur. It was only after …. It was not possible to make a comprehensive study on this monumental work. He was reflecting as Quran itself directs.

And I was instructed that somebody who is writing this remark which by all definitions is an exclusive one. How are we going to reconcile his writings with the requirement of living in peace and harmony in a multi-cultural world? But then suddenly I realized that he was not an ordinary writer. He was a man totally dedicated to the study of Quran.

And the meaning of Islam and Muslim as it has been used by Quran is totally different from the meaning that we have in our minds. In 38 verses of the Holy Quran this term has been used 39 times.

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And it has not really been used in the sense as we generally use it. My reaction was to the usage which we have generally accepted, which denotes that, one of the religions is distinct from others. If we study all those 38 verses, the meaning that Quran uses it for is totally different. So I often wonder that if I believe in the unity of God, if I believe, and my belief is rooted in the verses of Quran, that not a leaf falls without the permission of God. Then all of us, me, you, even those whom we consider as those who have strayed from the path, even those whom we consider oppressors.

Each one of them, they are all in the divine dispensation. They are all working according to a greater divine will. It will be an evil to impose my views or my thinking on the others. I think the whole problem, all this problem, the real obstacle in the way of living in peace and harmony in a multi-cultural setting is a fact. Quran describes this diversity, this pluralism as the signs of Allah. The colors of your skin, the various languages which we speak, they are all signs of Allah. Then am I going to fight against these signs of Allah?

The differences on the matter of faith, the differences on the matter of consensus, I am not talking of social matters, I am talking of faith, I am talking of belief. Now, Quran repeatedly says that this judgment belongs to God. And this shall not be decided during this worldy life, this shall be decided when you shall return to us. Then we shall inform you of the different matters in which you have differed.

The problem comes when, you know, the problem with human nature is such. It is part of our psychology; it is a part of our nature that we wish to dominate over others. And we wish to dominate over others, sometimes we will say… I mean you have seen in our country. People from across seven seas came. Not to this country, even other counties. And they claimed that they have come to civilize the eastern people.

Likewise some people have this, I will say … they have arrogated to themselves the role that they can give good belief and good faith to others. And they can sit in judgment over the faith of others. Whereas the dictum of the Quran is absolutely clear but we everyday see the fatwas flowing. We are those who claim to be believers are being declared to be infidels; are being declared that, judgments are being given that they deserved to be killed. I feel this is nothing but shirk. Because this power, the power of punishment belongs to God.

In fact, even after the battle of Uhud … how people who injured their own prophet There was a revelation. But we shall decide whether we punish them, or bless them with our mercy. We can see many examples in the world. In fact India has known pluralism, has practiced and cherished pluralism since time immemorial, undated times. India has received the Parsi, Jews, India has received the Christians in the first century, India has received, I will say, India has received….

Today, I think there is hardly any Arab country which can claim to have so many of people who claim to be progeny of the holy prophet s a l l a l l a h u alayhi wasallam as India has. In India, almost in every city, every town we have a sayyid. We have populations which were known and identified to be the progeny of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Who are these people? So India, I think, has been chosen as the right place, right country for organizing the seminar and this message for no reason, I mean I read his name from the books, the name was Said Nursi.

So this great, wonderful message, wonderful teaching that we try to live in peace and harmony with people in different background, who have different beliefs, who have different faiths, who practice different cultural values, who speak different languages, this message of Bediuzzaman when it will go from this land which is known for its diversity, which is known for its pluralism, in fact we have this great tradition, as one of our sayids has said that we do not believe in tolerance.

I mean that when somebody mentions tolerance, I feel insulted as if the other person is trying to tell me that my faith can survive because he is liberal and he is nice to me. I will just quote a few lines from his book and then I will take your leave. He says, beautiful things, so illuminating. He finds the manifestation of the divine in human cooperation. He finds the manifestation of the divine in mutual love. He finds the manifestation of the divine in coming together of human beings, beautiful and brilliant thought.

Who is the other on this planet of more than 7 billion-population. Except me, all others are others, because even the thumb impressions of two persons are not similar. But despite this otherness there is something which unites us, there is something which creates love, religion should be used for man making and not for empire making.

When religlion is used for empire making, the problem starts. I wish you all success for the conference.

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In the prsence of you I feel rather intiamted by the sheer intellect and knowledge that exists here. Of course it is a pleasure for me as well to be here today. Indeed Turkey and India are experiencing a period of revitalization of their relations. I am much honoured to be serving in India in this particualr point of time where the work of the ambassadors do count and can make a difference in fulfilling the enormous potential that is already out there in all spheres including economy and science.

But this potential is equally strong in the social and educational as well as spiritual spheres. Turkey has lived in a geography where Islam and bulk of Christianity and Judaism have been living in close contact. Similarly, India lives in a geography where Islam and Hinduism are in close contact with each other. Both nations are fully aware of the role of religion in the society and the world. I should like to hazard a few thoughts without taking too much of your time. In this regard, I am of course ultimately grateful in advance for your generous tolerance that I will take for granted visa vis my opinions which come from a student of politics and not of theology.

One approach sees religion as an inventory of the past era. Accordingly, to the believers of this approach, religion would sooner or later become obsolete and all together lose its prestige it has somehow achieved in the daily life. For those who believe in this, this is a kind of view popularized by nineteenth century positivism which continues even today as some form of an ideology. It is true that some religions have been transformed into historical myths such as Roman and Athenian religions, but this approach fails to explain the strength and resilience and growing popularity of religious expressions present at global scale including the growing interest in Islam.

Another clearly problematic approach does recognize that religiosity, whatever its name or nature, is the common basis of humanity, but it fails to take account of the daily worldly realities. Common shortcoming of these two approaches is that one becomes fixated on daily reality while dismissing religion and its communal value and other dismissing worldly reality while trying to glorify religion. The wonder of age, venerable Said Nursi has spread message of holy Quran itself and endorsed modern science and logic.

He advocated teaching of religious sciences in secular schools. Whether we like it or not this educational gap is one of the main, if not the main factors that cause dismay to the Muslims around the world and inhibit developing their full potential. I believe of course that globalization is a word that is much abused.

These two countries, India and Turkey are living museums of the global interaction that has always existed. Ideas, ideologies, peoples, goods move around crosspollinating cultures around the world. But that of course globalization is a defining character of the world and one cannot do without taking into acount the rest of the world. In interpreting global events, explanations that disregard the influence of religion are likely to come short. This can be seen in all cultural contexts within Europe, Asia or elsewhere. The mitigation of these differences would be required both at national and international levels.

Indeed, all true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them. One who knows and loves God Almighty is potentially able to receive endless bounties, happiness, lights, and mysteries. While one who does not truly know and love him is afflicted spiritually and materially by endless misery, pain, and fears. Even if such an impotent and miserable person owned the whole world, it would be worth nothing for him, for it would seem to him that he was living a fruitless life among the vagrant human race in a wretched world without owner or protector.

Everyone may understand just how wretched and bewildered is man among the vagrant human race in this bewildering fleeting world if he does not know his Owner , if he does not discover his Master. But if he does discover and know Him , he will seek refuge in His mercy and will rely on His power. The desolate world will turn into a place of recreation and pleasure, it will become a place of trade for the hereafter.

The details teach us through belief about true happiness, dispelling the dark, the sorrow, and all sources of misery. Today, I wish to discuss the great service of the Risale-i Nur. Gratefully, many students around the world have joined in this most honorable service over the years. We must remind ourselves and put under the light the most fundamental and most crucial aspects which are absolutely required without exception, they are:. It is no wonder that Bediuzzaman does instruct: A lack of genuine sincerity in the service of the Risale-i Nur is clearly harmful to all and is thus unacceptable.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi discusses four rules of sincerity:. You should seek Divine pleasure in your actions. If Almighty God is pleased, it is of no importance even should the whole world be displeased. If He accepts an action and everyone else rejects it, it has no effect. Once His pleasure has been gained and He has accepted an action, even if you do not ask it of Him, should He wish it and His wisdom requires it, He will make others accept it. He will make them consent to it too. Each of his members completes the deficiencies of the others, veils their faults, assists their needs, and helps them out in their duties.

You should know that all your strength lies in sincerity and truth. Yes, strength lies in truth and sincerity. In any event, the basis of our way is brotherhood. It is not the means which is between father and son, or shaykh and follower. It is the means of true brotherhood. At the very most a Master [Ustad] intervenes. Our way is the closest friendship. This friendship necessitates being the closest friend, the most sacrificing companion, the most appreciative comrade, the noblest brother.

The essence of this friendship is true sincerity. Simply put, brotherhood between all students of the Risale-i Nur, regardless of gender, is our strength, our joy, and our support. Brotherhood is very important to maintain at all times. They are in short, poison for the life of man. We will set forth six of the extremely numerous aspects of this truth. They are also sinful in the view of wisdom, for it is obvious that enmity and love are opposites, just like light and darkness; while maintaining their respective essences, they cannot be combined. No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another, [Quran, 6: Spiritual life and correctness of worship will suffer as a result of enmity and rancor, since the purity of intention that is the means of salvation will be damaged.

For a biased person will desire superiority over his enemy in the good deeds that he performs and will be unable to act purely for the sake of God. He will also prefer, in his judgment and dealings, the one who takes his side; he will be unable to be just. Thus the purity of intention and the justice that are the bases of all good acts and deeds will be lost on account of enmity and hostility.

O people of belief! You will have understood by now how harmful is enmity. Understand too that greed is another awesome disease, as harmful for the life of Islam as enmity. Greed brings about disappointment, deficiency, and humiliation; it is the cause of deprivation and abjection. Thus far, we have understood the necessity for truth, sincerity, and brotherhood. All Risale-i Nur students are expected to maintain high standards of respect to each other and towards themselves. We may then continue to follow the chain of respect in the Risale-i Nur as described below:.

It is crucially important that we all follow the laws of the country we reside in and honor the rights of other beings with fairness and responsibility, we may not breach any of these under any circumstances. Bediuzzaman was extremely careful and respectful of law and human rights, particularly in preserving public safety and security.

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As Risale-i Nur students we are each expected to uphold these timeless standards equally as much. The responsibility required of every single Risale-i Nur student is to uphold, defend, and thus preserve this great service of the Risale-i Nur. The attitude we observe throughout society today often depicts a terribly misguided way to treat our parents and other elderly.

Indeed, our elderly deserve the greatest respect and the best treatment possible from us. Bestow on them Your mercy even as they cherished me in childhood.

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O heedless one in whose house is an elderly parent or an invalid or someone no longer able to work from among his relations or brothers in religion! Study the above verses carefully and see how on five levels in different ways it summons children to be kindly towards their elderly parents. Yes, the highest truth in this world is the compassion of parents towards their children, and the most elevated rights, their rights of respect in return for their compassion.

In which case, every child who has not lost his humanity and been transformed into a monster honors those respected, loyal, self-sacrificing friends, serves them sincerely, and tries to please them and make them happy. Uncles and aunts, maternal and paternal, are like fathers and mothers. We must heed these glorious words whenever we encounter our elderly.

Furthermore, we need to develop our empathy and be proactive in visiting and assisting our elderly as part of our daily lives. Our elderly are treasured blessings for our families and ourselves. Our mothers are the most elevated of all as the Most Noble Messenger Muhammad reminds us: Mankind is no exception to this interdependence in the worldwide web of life which shows an exquisite harmony. Such harmony points to an unquestionable wisdom in the order of the universe, which in turn points to a conscious purposefulness in the existence of all things.

We need to understand the duties of the beings, both animate and inanimate, around us to develop proper respect and care for our world while we are here on Earth to fulfill our good stewardship. The great scholar of our time, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi , gives us his words to review how we need to understand the purpose of the environment:. These are not restricted to this world and to the souls of men, as the people of misguidance imagine, being thus lost in vanity and purposelessness.

On the contrary, the purposes for the existence and the results of the being of all things relate to the following three categories. You will understand, further, that the adornments of this world are not simply for the sake of enjoyment or admiration. For if they yield pleasure for a time, they cause pain for a longer time with their cessation.

They give you a taste and whet your appetite, but never satiate you. For either the life of the pleasure is short, or your life is short, too brief for you to become satiated. These adornments of high value and brief duration must, then, be for the sake of instruction in wisdom, for arousing gratitude, and for encouraging men to seek out the perpetual originals of which they are copies. They are, then, for other exalted goals beyond themselves. We all love to gaze at the night sky to look at the stars.

This great artwork displayed across the heavens should open up our eyes and our hearts to appreciate our Creator. For millions of years mankind has been unceasingly amazed and enchanted with the heavenly bodies. The same still holds true today if not moreso. New breakthrough discoveries are happening on a regular basis. Simply said, we are in love with the heavens. Now is the time to love the Maker. Then listen to the stars, listen to their harmonious address! We are each of us light-scattering proofs of the existence of our Maker,. We are subtle miracles gilding the face of the skies for the angels to gaze upon.

We are the innumerable attentive eyes of the heavens which watch the earth, which study Paradise. We are the innumerable exquisite fruits which the hand of wisdom of the All-Glorious and Beauteous One has fastened. To the celestial portion of the tree of creation, to all the branches of the Milky Way. We are each of us a travelling mosque, a spinning house, a lofty home;. We are each of us a miracle of power, a wonder of creative art.

A rarity of His wisdom, a marvel of His creation, a world of light. But their accursed unseeing, unbelieving eyes did not see our faces,. We may see other people, animals, plants, rocks, rivers, mountains, buildings, etc. Upon closer inspection, we start to notice the various properties and qualities of the different things and we begin to see unity and continuity between the things. I discern compassion in a mother duck gathering her little ones upon leaving the nest to go for a swim in a nearby pond.

Additionally, I see beauty in her specific form and color, and I also perceive wisdom in the manner in which she communicates with her babies. This sameness, this continuity of qualities of the things is unity. Such unity can only mean that it comes from one, single source. The beauty which I see in the mother duck is the same beauty I see in the flowers, the trees, the pond, etc.

Thus, there is unity with respect to the things manifesting beauty, and thus the source of beauty must necessarily be one, must necessarily be the same. The same is true for compassion and wisdom given in this example. All are signs which point to a single Maker. Ustad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi further elaborates on this matter in the following words:.

There is a unity in everything, and unity points to one. Yes, a work that has unity self-evidently proceeded from one maker. One proceeds from one. The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being.



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The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works. Or it is a Tuba-tree of creation on the branches of which are hung unities to the number of realms of creatures. Yes, the administration of the universe is one and the same; and its regulation is one and the same; its sovereignty is one and the same; its stamp is one and the same; a thousand and one things are all one and the same.

Also, although the Names and acts which make the universe turn are one and the same, they each encompass the universe, or most of it. All these instances of unity in the world are proofs indicating the Single One of Unity, as clear and brilliant as the sun. Moreover, the elements and realms of beings of the universe each encompassing the face of the earth, as well as being one and the same, and their interpenetration and their uniting through their mutual relations and even mutual assistance, are clear signs that their Owner, Maker, and Master is one and the same.

We begin a new year, a fresh new start. Opening a new year energizes us to do good deeds for ourselves, our families, our friends and our communities. We may make resolutions to take better care of ourselves or to become more educated about God, the Merciful Creator of All Things. The important thing for me is thinking about God. Too often we forget to nurture our souls which is the source of all things. Thinking about God involves being grateful for all that He provides us, it is about remembering and thanking God.

What does it really mean to thank God? It means having the proper awareness for the source of what we are thanking God for in order to understand our world. It means being awake. God creates the order of this universe in harmony, He places connections between all things. This is the unity inherent in the nature of the created order of all the worlds. But are we finished? Is that all there is in being aware in thanking God for the orange we are going to eat?

No, there is more. There is also the relationship between the fruit and the person reflecting upon it. Not only is God the Source of all the qualities of the orange, this external piece of fruit, but He is also the Source for everything that connects us to the orange. He is the Source of our ability to reflect upon this orange, to taste the orange, to chew and swallow it, and to digest it. God gives our bodies the ability to extract the nutrients from the orange, to distribute these nutrients in our blood throughout our bodies, and to process these nutrients to keep our bodies functioning.

There are multiple processes, from macroscopic to microscopic, we can become aware of in thanking God for just this one orange we are about to eat. It is not simply a separate, external orange. In this created order, everything is attributed to God. We become fully aware that the inter-relatedness of all things connects us to the unity, and thus to God-consciousness. Is there anything else we can gain from this? Yes, indeed there is. Most importantly, we realize our awareness in this act of worship immediately brings us into the presence of God. In that moment of our awareness of the power of Almighty God, we are awakened.

We, at the Risale-i Nur Institute of America , extend a warm and happy new year for to everyone; may it be a year full of peace and prosperity for all. I would like to close with the following hadith: Prophet Muhammed ASM said: Our hearts reach out to all who are affected by typhoon Washi which struck the southern Philippines last Friday night. The typhoon has overwhelmed the region, changing the lives of over , people.

There have been reported dead, many of them children. Hundreds are still missing and scores are injured, and many have been displaced. Help is urgently needed. Illness, suffering, and disaster are facts of life from which no one is exempt. Mostly they are seen to be the inescapable evils of life, despite the advances in medicine, science, and technology in modern times.

This is surely true for all facets of modern civilization. Although its material progress has greatly improved the material lives of some sections of humanity, it has clearly not brought with it happiness and fulfillment for all. For it is only from these that man can learn the true purpose and meaning of both his own existence and that of the universe, and that of such questions as life and death, illness, suffering and disaster. The same may be said regarding any disaster and source of suffering. But one should be aware that the effects of medicines are from Almighty God, just as He provides them.

His advice is applicable in all situations of hardship, suffering, and disaster. In a special section of Message for the Sick , Bediuzzaman gives several points in his letter of condolence on the death of a child. Below is an excerpt:. When we think about life, our families, each other, and this glorious temporary home of Earth, we realize we are given all these miraculous gifts for a purpose, namely, to know and worship our Creator. Knowing our Creator requires understanding that the words in our Holy Book are God speaking to us.

We read and study His words, and then, utilizing our human qualities and properties to investigate and reflect on the creation, we confirm our beliefs in His words. Our Creator tells us to treat each other with kindness and respect, to form and keep strong bonds with members of our communities and to cooperate with them, and that unity and brotherhood are most important.

Examples of this collective mentality can be read in the following verses:. The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two contending brothers; Quran Work together for the sake of virtue and piety. We also read about the collective mentality of community, solidarity, unity, and brotherhood in the ahadiths, the following examples illustrate this:. Indeed, My Love shall be bestowed upon the ones who love one another for My Sake. Indeed, My Love shall be bestowed upon the ones who approach one another in humility for My Sake.

And, indeed, My Love shall be bestowed upon the ones that rush to help one another for My Sake. We have a responsibility to ourselves, each other and to the entire planet to be caretakers and live in alliance with all beings as brothers. So we are surely in need of solidarity and true union, obtained through gaining sincerity—for the mystery of sincerity secures through four individuals the moral strength of one thousand one hundred and eleven—indeed, we are compelled to obtain it. Yes, if three alifs do not unite, they have the value of three.

Whereas if they do unite, through the mystery of numbers they acquire the value of one hundred and eleven. If four times four remain apart, they have a value of sixteen. But if, through the mystery of brotherhood and having a common goal and joint duty, they unite coming together shoulder to shoulder on a line, they have the strength and value of four thousand four hundred and forty-four.

Just as numerous historical events testify that the moral strength and value of sixteen self-sacrificing brothers have been greater than that of four thousand. The underlying reason for this mystery is this: As if each person of a true union of ten has the value and strength of seeing with twenty eyes, thinking with ten minds, hearing with twenty ears, and working with twenty hands. Yet it is also we humans who have much to learn about finding God, understanding the meaning of the created world around us, and maintaining firm belief in He who creates everything.

We are weak, needy and powerless, we can never create or sustain ourselves or anything else. We exist in a realm of physicality where all things are transient. We must cultivate proper knowledge and understanding of our Creator because we are indeed created and all creation is constantly unfolding, and thus we must direct our awareness and attention to Him in worship. Without this understand and knowledge, we will face the epitome of anxiety, loss, pain, and suffering.

Ustad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi provides an eloquent explanation to help us grasp this better:. As we have stated repeatedly, since man is the fruit of the tree of creation, he is a creature which, like a fruit, is the furthest and most comprehensive and looks to everything, and bears the seed of a heart which holds within it the aspects of unity of everything, and whose face looks to multiplicity, transience, and the world. As for worship, it is a line of union which turns his face from transience to permanence, from creation to Creator, from multiplicity to unity, and from the extremity to the source , or it is a point of union between the source and the extremity.

If a valuable, conscious fruit which will form a seed looks to the living creatures beneath the tree, and relying on its beauty throws itself into their hands; if being heedless, it falls; it will fall to their hands and be smashed, and will go for nothing like a common fruit. He falls into both transitoriness, and ephemerality, and non-existence.

In effect he sentences himself to death. He may become an eternal man. Since the reality is thus, and since you are a member of the nation of Abraham Peace be upon him , like Abraham, say: I do not love those that set [disappear]. The Persian verses to be included here have been included in the Second Station of the Seventeenth Word, and have not been repeated here. Worship and the Prayers or The Words.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the United States. People celebrate this holiday with a large feast among family and good friends. Unfortunately, due to financial shortage, we ceased its publication some time ago. We have good news! We are now very excited and pleased to formally announce our plans to once again offer this extremely popular magazine. We give very much thanks to God for this. Let us all remember throughout this Thanksgiving Holiday to be grateful to God for the immense service of all His Messengers , , to be exact.

When we reflect deeply on human nature, we realize a fundamental principle of wanting immortality resides within the core of our existence. This principal can neither be denied nor ignored, in truth. Even, because of his power of imagination, man fancies a sort of immortality in everything he loves. He cries out from the depths of his being whenever he thinks of or sees their passing.

All lamentations at separation are expressions of the weeping caused by love of immortality. If there were no imagined immortality, there would be no love. Is it at all possible that the Munificent and Compassionate Creator would accept the insignificant wish of a tiny stomach and its supplication through the tongue of disposition for a temporary immortality by creating innumerable delicious foods, and not accept the intense desire of all humankind, which arises from an overpowering innate need, and its universal, constant, rightful, just prayer for immortality, offered through word and state?

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God forbid, a hundred thousand times! It is impossible that He would not accept it. Not to accept it would be in keeping with neither his wisdom, nor His justice, nor His mercy, nor His power. Since man is most desirous of immortality , all his perfections and pleasures are dependent upon it. For everything expended on the way of the Eternal One receives a sort of immortality. Today, we will address a crucial issue from the perspective of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and the Risale-i Nur Collection. Our obligation, our moral duty and our fundamental responsibility is to correct the utterly false, but ongoing trend especially seen in the media that Islam condones violence, which Islam certainly does not and, indeed, cannot do based on the very Divine Principles which constitute the true essence of Islam.

Immense and grave misunderstanding exists worldwide about Islam, especially in the West, but also in Muslim countries. Many people of all faiths such as fundamentalists, extremists, and those who promote terrorism have failed to understand the decisive definition that Islam means peace. To eradicate these false claims, we will first reflect on what Ustad Bediuzzaman explains regarding two extremely important verses in the Quran that are most relevant to the misunderstandings:.

God is the protector of those who have faith; from the depths of darkness He will lead them forth into the light. While those who do not believe, their patrons are the evil ones; from the light they will lead them forth into the depths of darkness. They will be companions of Fire, to dwell therein forever. For its immaterial sword has solved hundreds of the mysteries of religion, leaving no need for physical swords. Now victory is not with the sword. There is a place for the sword, but it is the hand of the mind.

That is to say, it must be demonstrated that God Almighty did not create man with an intellect in order not to use it to increase his belief. He will see that, as was demonstrated above, Islam does not accept aggression on any level. In the same way that it sees the cosmos as it is, functioning according to a universal system of mutual help and cooperation, so does it also preclude aggression in any form in the actions of human beings. We simply must take an active role in helping to dispel the false ideologies of Islam. There is only One Truth which belongs to God. We cannot ignore the Islamophobia and the harm it results in worldwide.

The Risale-i Nur contains light-scattering wisdom from which all mankind can benefit and come together in unity and peace. We offer our heartfelt congratulations to all our readers and friends for Eid-ul Adha which will begin Sunday, November 6th. Please remember two important points: Inshallah, this will bring us abundant rewards.

The importance of Tekbirat: This practice starts with the morning Fajr prayer on Saturday, the day of Arefe, and it ends after afternoon Asr prayer on the fourth last day of Eid-ul Adha, a total of 23 times. And so, O my lazy soul! Like the soldier in the previous comparison was received into the royal presence as a pure favour, the reality of the five daily prayers, which are like a sort of Ascension, are a being received into the presence of the All-Glorious One of Beauty, the Beauteous One of Glory, Who is the True Object of Worship, as an instance of pure mercy. Declaring, God is Most Great!

Through repeating, God is Most Great! God is Most Great! It is as if each God is Most Great is an indication to traversing a step in the Ascension. To attain to a shadow or a ray of this reality of the prayers either in fact, or by intention, or with the imagination, is a great happiness. The frequent declaring of God is Most Great! For the blessed Hajj is worship at a universal level for everyone. It is rather a thematic tafsir which deals with the doubts surrounding the basic doctrines and principles of Islam. The collection includes fourteen books.

The primary purpose of the Risale-i Nur is to bring about a religious revival in Turkey. The collection includes an analysis of Islamic sources and a reinterpretation of the text for the "mentality" of Said Nursi's age. However, it isn't solely an exegesis, as it includes reflections and details about Said Nursi's own life and interpretations. These reflections and details help the reader to learn how to practice everyday activities on Qur'an norms, and "install" Qur'an to a person's alternating life situations and emotions.

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With these writings, Bediuzzaman opened up a new, direct way to reality haqiqat and knowledge of God which he described as the highway of the Qur'an and way of the companions of Prophet Muhammad through the "legacy of prophethood", which gains for those who follow it "true and certain belief". Said Nursi did not ascribe the writings to himself, but claimed that they "proceeded from the Qur'an itself" like "rays shining out of from [its] truths".

For there are various sorts of commentaries. The verses mostly expounded in the Risale-i Nur are those concerned with the truths of belief, such as the Divine Names and attributes and the Divine activity in the universe, the Divine existence and Oneness, resurrection, prophethood, Divine Determining or destiny, and man's duties of worship. Bediuzzaman explains how the Qur'an addresses all men in every age in accordance with the degree of their understanding and development; it has a face that looks to each age.

The Risale-i Nur, then, explains that face of the Qur'an which looks to this age. We shall now look at further aspects of the Risale-i Nur related to this point. In numerous of its verses, the Holy Qur'an invites man to observe the universe and reflect on the Divine activity within it; following just this method, Bediuzzaman provides proofs and explanations for the truths of belief. He likens the universe to a book, and looking at it in the way shown by the Qur'an, that is, 'reading' it for its meaning, learns of the Divine Names and attributes and other truths of belief.

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The book's purpose is to describe its Author and Maker; beings become evidences and signs to their Creator. Bediuzzaman demonstrates the fundamentals of Islam, such as Divine Oneness, arrived at in this way are the only rational and logical explanation of the universe, and making comparisons with Naturalist and Materialist philosophy which have used science's findings about the universe to deny those truths, show the concepts on which they are based, such as causality and Nature, to be irrational and logically absurd.

Indeed, far from contradicting them, in uncovering the order and working of the universe, science broadens and deepens knowledge of the truths of belief. In the Risale-i Nur many descriptions of the Divine activity in the universe are looked at through the eyes of science, and reflect Bediuzzaman's knowledge of it. The Risale-i Nur shows that there is no contradiction or conflict between religion and science. In addition, all these matters discussed in the Risale-i Nur are set out as reasoned arguments and proved according to logic.

All the most important of the truths of belief are proved so that even unbelievers can see their necessity. And so too, inspired by the Qur'an, even the most profound and inaccessible truths are made accessible by means of comparisons, which bring them close to the understanding like telescopes, so that they are readily understandable by ordinary people and those with no previous knowledge of these questions.

Another aspect of the Risale-i Nur related to the face of the Qur'an which looks to this age, is that it explains everything from the point of view of wisdom; that is, as is mentioned again below, it explains the purpose of everything.