Here are the poor souls who are addicted to the pleasures of worldly life and who struggle to secure their future and their lives out of anxiety for the future. If you desire the pleasures, joys, happiness, and comfort of this world, be content with the legitimate pleasures within the proper bounds. That will be sufficient for your pleasure. You certainly understood from the previous explanation that within a single taste of pleasure outside these bounds and beyond the legitimate circle, there are a thousand sorrows. If the present circumstances of the past, that is, the past events, are shown to us in the present, as they are shown in the cinema, then the future conditions, for example, the conditions fifty years from now, were shown to us in the cinema, the people of ignorance would certainly regret their present laughter and would weep and curse a thousand times over.
Whoever desires eternal and perpetual joy in this world and the hereafter must take the Islamic education of Muhammad (peace be upon him) as their guide.
A warning, a lesson, and a reminder given to a few unfortunate youths
One day, some bright young people came to me. To these young people who wanted to receive a powerful warning to avoid the dangers coming from the aspects of life, youth, and desires, I said, as I used to say to the young people who used to seek help from the Risale-i Nur:
Your youth will certainly pass. If you do not remain within the legitimate circle, that youth will be lost and will bring you troubles and sorrows, not only in this world, but also in the grave and the hereafter, far more than the pleasures it brings. If you spend that youth in chastity, honor, and steadfastness as an expression of gratitude to the Islamic education, then that youth will remain in spirit and will cause you to gain eternal youth.
Life, on the other hand, if there is no faith or if that faith is not effective due to rebellion, brings with its brief and outwardly pleasure and taste, sorrows, grief, and sadness a thousand times greater than that pleasure and taste. Because, due to the presence of reason and thought in humans, unlike animals, they are naturally connected with the past and future times as well as the present. From those times, they can also receive both sorrow and pleasure.
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In the name of Allah, the Most High - Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Dear new brothers and old prisoners,
I have come to the firm conviction that the reason for our coming here, from the perspective of Divine providence, is you. That is, with the consolations of the Lights and the truths of faith, we want to give you complete comfort, freeing you from the hardships of this prison calamity, from the many worldly harms, from the useless sorrow and grief that your lives have been going through in vain, from the loss of time like the wind, and from weeping for the hereafter as you weep for this world.
Since this is the truth, you must also become brothers to one another, just like the prisoners in Denizli and the seekers of the Lights. You see, to prevent a knife from entering your hearts and to prevent one another from harming each other, they are mixing all your belongings from outside, your food, bread, and soup. The guards who serve you with sincerity are enduring great hardship. Moreover, you are not going out for exercise together, as if you are beasts and savages ready to attack each other.
Now, you new companions who carry the natural veins of heroism, with a great spiritual heroism, tell the group: "Even if a knife were given to our hands, or perhaps a machine gun and revolver, and even if an order were given, we would not touch our poor and suffering brothers who are in the same misfortune as ourselves. Even if we had previously had a hundred enmities and hatreds, we have decided, by the command and guidance of the Qur'an, faith, Islamic brotherhood, and our own interests, to forgive them and strive not to remember them." Thus, turn this imprisonment into a blessed school.
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Since old age, illness, calamity, and deaths everywhere are tearing and warning of that terrible grief, certainly those people of deviation and ignorance, although they may have enjoyed ten thousand pleasures and delights, still live and burn in a spiritual hell within their hearts. However, the thick veil of heedlessness temporarily prevents them from feeling it.
Since the people of faith and obedience see the grave as an eternal treasure, a happiness that never ends, and realize that it is a door to them and that they have already won a ticket through the faith voucher that will bring them billions of gold and diamonds from that eternal lottery of destiny, and since they are always waiting for the words "Come, take your ticket," the deep, fundamental, and true spiritual pleasure and delight is such a pleasure that if it were embodied and that core were a tree, it would be a special paradise for that person. Yet, abandoning that immense pleasure and delight, and choosing a temporary, impermissible pleasure that resembles poisoned honey, full of boundless sorrows, and being foolish and impetuous for the sake of youth, such a person falls a hundred degrees below an animal. They cannot even be like the foreigners who are not Muslim. Because those foreigners, even if they deny the Prophet, can recognize others. Even if they do not know the Prophets, they can recognize Allah. And even if they do not know Allah, they may possess some beautiful virtues that relate to perfection.
But a Muslim knows the Prophets, his Lord, and all the perfections through the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. One who abandons the upbringing of the Prophet and breaks free from his chain does not know any of the Prophets and does not know Allah, and does not know any principles that preserve the perfections in his soul. Because the last and greatest of the Prophets, whose religion and call is directed to all humanity, and who has, by miracles and religion, been a teacher to all of humanity in all truths and has brilliantly proven this over fourteen centuries as a source of honor for all humanity, the one who abandons the fundamental upbringing and principles of religion and faith of such a noble and luminous figure certainly cannot find any light or perfection in any aspect. Absolute silence is condemned.
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