Münâzarat

Question: What is tyranny; what is constitutionalism? Answer: Tyranny is oppression, arbitrary treatment, coercion based on force, a single opinion, a fertile ground for corruption, the foundation of injustice, the nature of humanity. It is the force that rolls people down the depths of degradation, causes the Islamic world to fall into disgrace and degradation, awakens enmity and hatred, poisons Islam, and even spreads its poison to everything, causing such conflicts between the Islamic nations that it has given birth to deviant sects like the Mu'tazilites, Jabrites, and Murjites, and that is tyranny. Yes, it is the father of blind imitation and the son of political tyranny, the scientific tyranny that has given birth to sects like the Jabrites, Rafidites, and Mu'tazilites, which have corrupted Islam. Question: "We did not know that tyranny was such a deadly poison. Praise be to God, it has been shattered. Please explain to us the constitutionalism that will cure it at its root." Answer: I will not explain the constitutionalism that you have misunderstood due to the actions of some officials and the corrupted understanding that has arisen from force. Perhaps I will explain the constitutionalism that is the goal of the government: Indeed, constitutionalism is the manifestation of the noble verses "2 And consult them in the matter" and "1 And their affair is consultation among them," it is the divine consultation. It is the luminous body for which power is replaced by life, knowledge is the heart, love is the tongue, law is the mind, and it is not an individual.

Münâzarat ·Mektup 7 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Question: How can the conscription of non-Muslims be permissible? Answer: In four ways: First: Military service is for fighting. When you fought that terrible bear yesterday, did it seem improper that your wives, gypsies, children, and dogs helped you? Second: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had allies and successors among the Arab polytheists. They used to go to battle together. These people are the People of the Book. Since they are not gathered in the army but scattered, the majority and the strength of our emotional attachment form a barrier against imagined dangers. Third: In Islamic countries, although rarely, non-Muslims have been employed in military service. The Janissary corps is a witness to this. Fourth: The reason for our decline and the progress of non-Muslims is the fact that military service was exclusive to us. For example, centuries ago, the Muslim population of this state was over forty million. Today, the non-Muslims among us were only five or six million at that time. Wealth and trade were in our hands. However, we have now dropped to twenty million and fallen into poverty; they have risen from the depths of poverty to the peak of wealth and have reached ten million. The most important reason for this is that, for example, if you have four sons, they will not marry due to the military service consideration. If they do marry, they will be sent to various places like stray kittens, and their productivity and life will be wasted. If you want proof, go to Van; open an Armenian house and an Islamic lodge, and look. You will see that an Armenian house will show ten solid proofs, while a Muslim house will display only two weak arguments for inspection. Question: In the past, Muslims were rich and they were poor. Now, everywhere, they are judges and we are not. What is the wisdom in this? Answer: I know two reasons: First: Derived from the divine command, 1 "There is nothing for man except what he strives for," and from the prophetic command, 2 "The one who earns is beloved to Allah," the inclination toward effort and the motivation to earn were broken and extinguished by some suggestions. Because the word of God, in this age, is not known to be the foundation of progress; and the world, 3 "which is the field of the hereafter,"

Münâzarat ·Munazarat ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Question: What is tyranny; what is constitutionalism? Answer: Tyranny is oppression, arbitrary treatment, coercion based on force, a single opinion, a fertile ground for corruption, the foundation of injustice, the nature of humanity. It is the force that rolls people down the depths of degradation, causes the Islamic world to fall into disgrace and degradation, awakens enmity and arrogance, poisons Islam, and even spreads its poison to everything, causing such conflicts between the Islamic nations that it has given birth to deviant sects like the Mu'tazilites, Jabrites, and Murjites, and that is tyranny. Yes, it is the father of blind imitation and the son of political tyranny, the scientific tyranny that has given birth to sects like the Jabrites, Rafidites, and Mu'tazilites, which have corrupted Islam. Question: "We did not know that tyranny was such a deadly poison. Praise be to God, it has been shattered. Please explain to us the constitutionalism that will cure it at its root." Answer: I will not explain the constitutionalism that you have misunderstood due to the actions of some officials and the corrupted understanding that has arisen from force, nor the constitutionalism that you have inferred from the current situation due to the lack of familiarity. Perhaps I will explain the constitutionalism that is the goal of the government: Indeed, constitutionalism is the manifestation of the noble verses: "And consult them in the matter," and "Their affair is consultation among them." It is the divine consultation. That luminous body replaces force with life, knowledge with the heart, love with the tongue, law with reason, and is not an individual.

Münâzarat ·Munazarat ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Question: How? Answer: For livelihood, the natural, legitimate, and life-sustaining ways are craftsmanship, agriculture, and trade. The unnatural ones are bureaucracy and all forms of governance. In my opinion, those who engage in governance, regardless of the name it is given, are a kind of craftsman, servant, and laborer—but they are part of the cunning. In my opinion, one should enter into bureaucracy or governance solely for the sake of honor and service. Otherwise, if one enters solely for livelihood and profit, it is a kind of gypsy-like behavior. FOOTNOTE: Indeed, because we have bureaucracy and military service in full, we have squandered our wealth and scattered our generations, losing them. If it had gone that way, we would have perished. Thus, their being soldiers is a kind of necessary benefit, and we are compelled to accept it. These necessary benefits can be considered a legal justification in the Hanbali school of thought. Question: Now, Armenians are becoming sub-governors and governors. How is that possible? Answer: Just as there are watchmakers, machinists, and broom-makers... Because constitutionalism is the sovereignty of the nation. The government is a servant. If constitutionalism is correct, then sub-governors and governors are not leaders, but perhaps paid servants. Non-Muslims cannot be leaders, but they can be servants. Suppose that bureaucracy is a kind of leadership and a form of chieftainship. When we allow three thousand non-Muslims to share in our chieftainship and leadership, it leads to the leadership of three hundred thousand people from the Islamic world and beyond. The one who loses one and gains a hundred does not suffer a loss. Question: Some rulings of the Sharia, for example, relate to the duties of governors. Answer: From now on, the Islamic Caliphate represented by the Islamic Constitutional Authority and the Religious Affairs Office will be both high, sacred, separate, and supervisory. Now, the judge is not an individual but a collective opinion, so he needs a spiritual individual as a legal authority. This legal authority of the judge will be formed by a council of forty to fifty verified scholars from the four Islamic schools of thought in the Islamic Constitutional Authority, who will serve as legal authorities for other spiritual individuals. Otherwise, if the judge and the mufti are not of the same kind, they cannot understand each other's language. Because the individual self cannot deceive the spiritual self.

Münâzarat ·Mektup 34 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

1 And the prayer upon the Lord of the Worlds. In conclusion, I present to the people of sincerity: When the Constitutional Era was two years old, I traveled from Istanbul, which represented the century, with a historical gaze, descending to the ancient centuries, and made a spring journey among the tribes of the Kurds and an autumn journey from the lands of Arabia. I took the mountains and deserts as a school and taught the Constitution. Suddenly, it became clear to me that they had understood the Constitution in a very strange way. I saw that the doubts and questions from all sides came like water from a single source. Therefore, to diagnose the illness, I gave them the key of speech. I said: "You ask questions, and I will answer accordingly." They were pleased. Because, according to the nature of the Kurds who love the Constitution, they study the lesson in the form of debate and discussion. That is why their schools resemble small scientific councils of deputies. Thus, for the sake of clarification, I wrote this book by answering their questions, so that they may benefit from each other. Also, this book will surely speak to the Kurds and their like, whom I have not seen, and answer for them; and also, for those whose language cannot translate into their hearts, it will ask questions on their behalf. In short: This book is entrusted with the duty of answering from my side and asking questions from their side. Also, it is obligated to serve the political doctors in diagnosing the cause. O people of sincerity, understand! The Kurds and their like have become and are becoming mentally constitutionalists. However, it is difficult for some officials to be practically constitutionalists. Indeed, practical teaching is for the common people who have eyes in their minds.

Münâzarat ·Munazarat ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Some of them went so far that the people of the law would have declared them as outside the religion. They cited the Basic Law and the declaration of liberty thirty years ago as proof of disbelief, 1 وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا اَنْزَلَ اللّٰهُ as evidence of disbelief until the end of the proofs. Poorly aware that: 2 وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ is 3 مَنْ لَمْ يُصَدِّقْ . How can I not object to those who thought the previous tyranny was liberty and objected to the Basic Law? They would object to the government. However, they wanted an even more terrifying tyranny. Therefore, I would reject them. Indeed, those who now belittle the people of liberty are from this group. I saw the second group, the people of separation; they do not know religion, they make unfair objections to the people of Islam, and they cite fanaticism as evidence. Indeed, those who now distance themselves from Ottomanism and want to completely resemble Europe are from this group. At the same time, tyranny, in order to preserve itself, tempted everyone, and it deceived me ten years before the revolution, saying that most of the revolutionaries were Masons. Praise be to God, that temptation disappeared within a couple of years. At that time, I realized that most of our liberals are Muslim fundamentalists. In conclusion: Some of those who attacked the government would say "Haydo, Haydo," while others would say "Haydar Ağa, Haydar Ağa"; I would say "Haydar." Now I say "Haydar," and peace be upon you... O people! Now we have turned to God, you stay put; I have an important matter to discuss with you, a matter of the spirit. I have an important issue with the government, the elite, and the non-Masonic part of the Union and Progress.

Münâzarat ·Mektup 61 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Mattaessuf, just as good things have passed into the hands of non-Muslims, our good moral values have also been stolen by non-Muslims. It seems that some of our high social morals, not finding favor among us, have gone to them. And some of their vices, not finding much favor among themselves, have been brought to the market of our ignorance. Do you not see with great concern that non-Muslims have stolen such noble words and virtues, which may be the foundation of the prepared progress and perhaps the essence of true religion, such as the white word and noble virtue of "If I die, my country, my nation, and my friends will remain alive"? Because one of their martyrs says: "If I die, may my nation live; there is a spiritual life within me." And the noble saying and sacred phrase, "No matter what happens to the world after I die, let it be a storm," or "Even if I die of thirst, no rain will fall," has taken hold of our determination and is guiding us. Indeed, the best virtue, which is the essence of our religion, is that we must say with our soul, our life, our conscience, our thoughts, and all our strength: "If we die, our nation, Islam, will live on forever. May our nation live. The spiritual reward is enough for me. The spiritual life in the nation's life will keep me alive; it will honor me in the higher world. Let us take the light and the noble guides of light and courage as our guides."

Münâzarat ·Munazarat ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Third: With the sermons it will deliver, the wisdom it will complete, and the service it will render to Islam, it will represent the finest school alongside the intellects, the most perfect medrese alongside the hearts, and the most sacred zaviye in the eyes of the consciences. Since it is a medrese, a school, and also a tekke; the manifestation of the national spirit of Islam, namely presence and sincerity, will partially be directed towards it. Fourth: Since it has taken precedence over the darü'l-muallimîn, the revenues of the darü'l-muallimîn will be temporarily and occasionally given to it to some extent, and after a while it will be independent and return that occasional support. Question: What is the result of this, that you have been shouting about it for perhaps fifty to sixty years? Answer: In summary: To secure the future of Kurdish and Turkish ulema. And to introduce the knowledge of the medrese to Kurdistan. And to demonstrate the benefits of constitutionalism and freedom and to make use of them. Question: It would not be bad to explain. Answer: First: The unification and reform of the medâris... Second: To free Islam from the stories and Isrâiliyyât and the prejudices that have tarnished it. Yes, the excellence of Islam is its moral strength, perseverance, and commitment to truth. It is not the superstition that arises from ignorance and the lack of critical thinking.

Münâzarat ·Mektup 65 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Question: How can the conscription of non-Muslims be permissible? Answer: In four ways: First: Military service is for fighting. When you fought that terrible bear yesterday, did it seem improper that your wives, gypsies, children, and dogs helped you? Second: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had allies and successors among the Arab polytheists. They used to go to battle together. These people are the People of the Book. Since they are not gathered in the army but scattered, the majority and the strength of our emotional attachment form a barrier against imagined dangers. Third: In Islamic countries, although rarely, non-Muslims have been employed in military service. The Janissary corps is a witness to this. Fourth: The reason for our decline and the progress of non-Muslims is the fact that military service was exclusive to us. For example, centuries ago, the Muslim population of this state was over forty million. Today, the non-Muslims among us were only five or six million at that time. Wealth and trade were in our hands. However, we have now dropped to twenty million and fallen into the pit of poverty; they have risen from the bottom of poverty to the peak of wealth and have grown to ten million. The most important reason for this is that, for example, if you have four sons, they will not marry from the perspective of military service. If they do marry, due to the nature of government service, they will be moved around like kittens, wasting their harvest and their lives. If you want proof, go to Van; open the door of an Armenian house and an Islamic lodge and look. You will see that an Armenian house will show ten solid proofs, while a Muslim house will display only two weak arguments for contemplation. Question: In the past, Muslims were rich and they were poor. Now, everywhere, they are judges and we are not. What is the wisdom in this? Answer: I know two reasons: First: Derived from the divine command, 1 "There is for man nothing but what he strives for," and from the prophetic command, 2 "The one who earns is beloved to Allah," the inclination toward effort and the motivation to earn were broken and extinguished by some suggestions. Because the word of God, in this age, is not known to be the foundation of material progress; and the world, 3 "which is the garden of the hereafter,"

Münâzarat ·Mektup 33 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Question: For one or two years now, a desire for religion and a tendency toward the truth have awakened in everyone. Even our thieves from Gvedan and Mamhuran have become dervishes due to a piece of advice from Sheikh Ahmed. And this tendency has blocked the path to misfortune. Answer: This is due to the constitutional monarchy and the Sheikh of the Risale-i Nur. Because the religious constitutional monarchy came to the people, it brought the nation's comprehensive text to the forefront, and the luminous Islamic faith came to the forefront. Every Muslim realized that he is not alone, but connected to others through common interests and shared feelings. The entire Islamic world is connected like a tribe. Just as when a person from a tribe does a good deed, the whole tribe feels proud of that honor and shares in it. That honor does not remain singular, but becomes thousands, like a candle reflected in a thousand mirrors. It brings light and strength to the tribe's vital connection. If someone commits a crime, all the tribe's members are considered to some degree suspected. For example, if the people in this assembly are connected to each other, and one of them throws himself into mud, he will either drag his friends down with him or provoke and taunt them. Therefore, now a single sin does not remain singular, but becomes a thousand. A single good deed becomes like a grain that produces seven ears, each ear containing a hundred grains. This is the point at which those who have awakened intellectually or spiritually have been given the opportunity to weep. They weep for an excuse and become penitents. However, the mind on the minaret cannot clearly see the cause at the bottom of the heart. In short: Islam has awakened and is awakening. They have recognized evil as evil and good as good. Yes, these rivers of tribes have made penitents, and this is the secret. Also, the entire Islam is slowly acquiring and gaining this ability. However, because you are still nomadic and your original nature is not yet corrupted, you are closer to the sacred Islamic nation.

Münâzarat ·Mektup 49 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

In the secret of "Inna a'tayna," my deduction with cipher was exactly as in the treatise Münâzarat, "A light will emerge, shall we see?" just like the prophetic announcements in the hidden glad tidings, there was a flaw in my application of the inspired and true reality. That flaw used to make me think for a while. The light prophecy in treatises like Münâzarat and Sünuhat was resolved by the Risale-i Nur. Instead of a political circle, it eliminated that flaw with a high circle of light. In the hidden secret of "Inna a'tayna," twelve to thirteen years later, the cipher deduction of "Such a tremendous explosion will happen to the heads of those who strike at Islam that it will not be forgotten until the Day of Judgment" was applied in a very broad circle, but unlike the light secret, it was applied in a narrow circle and a specific government. My idea could not encompass that broad circle, thus changing the form of that reality. However, on the very date indicated by that deduction, the founder and head of that regime fled from the world and was struck. And in the same year, the man who was the knot, button, and metaphorical head of a tremendous current that had secretly oppressed the majority of the earth and the human race, who had struck, was struck with a slap at the same time. Before the year was over, all the leaders and supporters of that tremendous current began to be subjected to such heavenly and tremendous slaps and severe stormy calamities that they will suffer and are suffering the punishment until the Day of Judgment. And they have seen and are seeing the punishment for the crimes they committed against the heavenly religions and Islam in a very broad circle. Because of the collapse and failure of the civilization of mindless modernity, which has polluted the world, on the date indicated by the same deduction, such a heavenly slap fell upon the head of that civilization that it descended below the darkest savagery. In short: The secret of "Inna a'tayna" was applied in a narrow circle, while it was a very broad one. The prophecy of light, however, depicted a narrow and spiritual, but high circle as a broad and material one. I thank Allah ten thousand times for these two flaws of mine, the secret of "Yubaddilullah sayi'atihim hasanat."

Sikke-i Tasdik-i Gaybi ·Yirmi Yedinci Mektuptan Muhim Parcalar ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Important, but to some extent confidential. Beloved brothers; In the secret of "Indeed, We have given," my interpretation with ciphered deduction was exactly like in the treatise "Münâzarat," where it says, "A light will emerge and we will see?" similar to hidden announcements, there was a flaw in my inspired and true understanding. That flaw made me think. The treatises "Münâzarat" and "Sünuhat" fully resolved it with the light announcement of the Risale-i Nur. Instead of a broad political circle, it removed that flaw with a high circle of light. In the secret of the confidential "Indeed, We have given," twelve to thirteen years later, the ciphered deduction of "A tremendous explosion will occur at the heads of those who strike Islam, which will never be forgotten until the Day of Judgment" was applied in a narrow circle and a specific government, while the announcement of light was applied in a broad circle. My idea could not encompass that broad circle, thus changing the form of that truth. However, on the same date indicated by that deduction, the founder and head of that regime fled from the world and suffered a blow. In the same year, the man who was the symbolic head of a tremendous current that had oppressed the majority of the earth and most of humanity, and who was the most terrible of them, was struck in the same moment he fled. Before the year was over, all the leaders and supporters of that tremendous current began to suffer heavenly blows and severe stormy calamities; they will suffer and are suffering the punishment until the Day of Judgment. They saw and are seeing the punishment for the crimes they committed against the heavenly religions and Islam. Because they polluted the world with the filth of a mindless civilization, on the date indicated by the same deduction, such a heavenly blow fell upon that mindless civilization that it descended even below the darkest savagery. In conclusion: The secret of "Indeed, We have given" was applied in a broad circle within a narrow circle. The announcement of light, however, was described as a narrow and spiritual, yet high circle, in the form of a broad and material circle. To the Lord of Majesty,

Kastamonu Lâhikası ·Mektup 55 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)