Thus, in this universe, which is directed along a wise and purposeful path, and in the shortest and easiest way from everything, certainly the truths of shirk (polytheism) and kufr (disbelief) cannot exist. And the truths of belief and tawhid (monotheism) are necessary and essential for this universe, just as the sun is necessary and essential.
Moreover, in human morality, the most comfortable, most beneficial, shortest, and safest path is found in the straight path, the direction. For example, if the intellectual power loses the balanced wisdom and the easy, beneficial direction, it falls into a chaotic and harmful situation of excess or deficiency, and it suffers the dangers of long and winding roads.
And if the emotional power does not follow the balanced direction of courage, it falls into harmful and oppressive actions and behaviors due to excess, or into very shameful and painful cowardice and fear due to deficiency, and it suffers a constant, inner torment as a punishment for losing its direction and making a mistake.
And if the human's sexual power loses the safe direction and the virtue of chastity, it falls into harmful and disgraceful acts of excess, such as fornication and adultery, or into pride and arrogance due to deficiency, and thus loses the enjoyment and pleasure of the blessings, and suffers the punishment of that spiritual illness.
Indeed, in comparison to these, in personal and social life, all paths that follow the direction are the most beneficial, easiest, and shortest. And if the straight path is lost, those paths become very harmful, long, and dangerous.
Thus, the prayer "1 اِهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ (Guide us to the straight path)" is not only a comprehensive and broad prayer, an act of worship, but also points to a proof of tawhid, a lesson of wisdom, and a training in morality.
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Notice
Since other treatises of Risaletü'n-Nur do not exist in the environment of this country, where this treatise was composed without any choice, and in treatises such as Âyetü'l-Kübrâ, some important issues of other Sayings and Lem'as have been mentioned in the form of repetition, and each of these has been written in such a way that for the students in those places, each one has the status of a small Risaletü'n-Nur.
The first proofreading of this manuscript was done by a blessed person. When that person wrote the copy without knowing about the coincidence, we found a beautiful and meaningful coincidence worth noting: in that copy, the number of the letter "Alif (ا)" at the beginning of the lines was written as six hundred and sixty-six (666). This situation exactly corresponds to the numerical and alphabetical value of the name "Âyetü'l-Kübrâ," which was given to this special treatise by the Noble Imam Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and this shows the suitability of this treatise for this name. Also, the fact that the number of the verses of the Qur'an, which is six thousand six hundred and sixty-six (6666), coincides with three of its four levels, we believe this is an indication that this treatise is a Lem'a of the verses.
Said Nursi
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And when its task is completed, it discards the outward body as a garment, perhaps sending it to the spiritual body in the circle of knowledge. Thus, if things were entrusted to the Absolute Power of God, the resurrection of all people in the Day of Judgment would be as easy as the blooming of a single flower. But if they are attributed to causes, then a flower would be as difficult as a spring, and a fly as difficult as all of creation.
Similarly, just as the secret of organization makes it easy and effortless to set a large ship or airplane in motion by merely pressing a button with a finger, or to make the gears of a clock move by simply touching them with a key, so too, by the formulas of eternal knowledge, the laws of hidden wisdom, the universal and specific methods of the Divine Will, every thing—whether universal or particular, great or small, few or many—has been given a spiritual mold, a specific measure, and a clear boundary. Therefore, they are entirely within the realm of scientific and volitional laws. Indeed, the Absolute Power, with its boundless might, easily and effortlessly turns the solar system and moves the Earth's ship along its annual orbit, just as it effortlessly and easily regulates the blood in a body, the red and white corpuscles in the blood, and the tiny particles within them. Thus, with such infinite and boundless power, one could effortlessly create a human being from a single drop of water, using the amazing mechanisms of the universe. Therefore, if the creation of the universe is attributed to that eternal and boundless power, it would be as easy as the creation of a human being. But if it is not attributed to it, then the creation of a single human being, with its amazing mechanisms and sensations, would be as difficult as the creation of the entire universe.
Similarly, just as a commander, by obeying and following orders, can send a single soldier into battle with a single command, the same command can easily send an entire army into battle.
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The White Proof
It consists of two stages.
This lesson is apparently small, but in reality it is a very great, powerful, and extensive treatise. It is a spiritual fruit and a paradisiacal branch of the Qur'an, born from the union of my intellectual life and the spiritual life of Nur with certainty of knowledge and certainty of vision.
Said Nursi
First Stage
It consists of three parts.
The essence of the twentieth letter is the first part of the lesson given in the third medrese of the Yusufiye.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And we seek help from Him. 1
While I was in Afyon prison, I was kept in strict solitary confinement for eleven months. Because of this, I wrote a petition to the Court of Cassation. For thirty-five years, I have been in seclusion, especially forgetting the world at night, and for twenty-three years, I have suffered from various hardships and anxieties. I have become so isolated from people that I have been very distressed by being alone for even an hour with anyone other than my servant or someone who eagerly desires to attend the Nur lectures. They forcibly transferred me to the fifth cell and forbade my brothers from coming to me. While I was very anxious about not being able to live in that crowded environment, suddenly a sign of anger and punishment appeared, and the cold became so intense that if I had remained in my old place, I would not have been able to endure it.
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I witnessed with amazement both the sacred mystery of the congregation in prayer and the beautiful miracle of the letter "Nun," and as I had entered through the door of "Nun," I exited saying, "Alhamdulillah." I have also become accustomed to reciting the phrase "Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta'een," not only for my own sake but also for the account of those three congregations and my great and small companions.
Now the introduction is over, and we come to the point: "Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta'een" is a very brief reference to the proof it indicates:
First: We see with our eyes: In the universe, especially on the earth's surface, there is an orderly and continuous activity and creation, showing an absolutely merciful and wise lordship. This lordship, with infinite wisdom and care, responds to the prayers, requests, and supplications of countless living beings, both in action and in essence, and in reality. This is the manifestation of an absolute divinity and universal worship, which the rational mind and the eye of faith recognize, and which all the heavenly commands and the prophets have announced.
Second: The letter "Nun," symbolizing "na'budu," indicates that each of the three congregations mentioned in the introduction, as well as the whole, are engaged in various kinds of natural and voluntary acts of worship. This is an undeniable and obvious testimony to a grateful response to an absolute worship and to the existence of a Holy God. And the letter "Nun," symbolizing "nasta'een," indicates that each group and individual within the three congregations—meaning from the entire creation down to the smallest particles in a body—has actual and present prayers and supplications.
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With its order, its beauty and utility, especially since minerals such as salt, lemon salt, sulfate, and gypsum resemble each other, yet differ in taste and especially since plants, from simple soil, produce various forms, different flowers, and fruits, they clearly testify to the necessity of the existence of an infinite, all-wise, all-merciful, and generous Creator. Likewise, the unity of management and planning, origin and destination, nature and artistry, similarity and unity, cheapness and ease, abundance and speed of creation in the overall structure of the universe, all testify to the oneness and uniqueness of the Creator.
Similarly, as the various minerals on and within the mountains, spread across the entire surface of the earth, each kind created at the same time, in the same way, without error, perfectly and quickly, without one interfering with another, and created in a mixed state without confusion, they clearly point to the majesty of your lordship and the supreme power that nothing is difficult for it. Likewise, the boundless needs of all living creatures on the surface of the earth, even their various diseases, different tastes, and individual desires are all satisfied by filling the surfaces and interiors of the mountains with systematically arranged trees, plants, and minerals and making them available to those in need. This clearly indicates the boundless breadth of your mercy and the infinite extent of your sovereignty. Even though these things are hidden, dark, and mixed within the layers of the earth, they are summoned with knowledge, sight, without error, and in an orderly manner according to needs. This clearly indicates the comprehensiveness of your knowledge that relates to everything and the wisdom that organizes everything. The preparation of medicines and the extraction of mineral substances clearly indicate the compassionate and generous arrangements and the careful details of your lordship.
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Even the slightest mention of this glad tidings of the Qur'an is more precious to us than a thousand treasures. This glad tidings was announced by a true dream seen a year earlier. For example: A month before the incident that happened to us in Isparta, in a dream to a certain person, it was said: "The disciples of Resâili'n-Nur will enter the grave with faith, they will not die without faith." At that time, we were very happy with that dream. Thus, that glad tidings was a herald of this glad tidings of the Qur'an. HAŞİYE
TWENTY-SEVENTH VERSE: In Surah Saf
1 They try to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah completes His light, even though the disbelievers dislike it. The cipher value of the phrase 2 the light of Allah with their mouths, and Allah completes His light in this verse is one thousand three hundred sixteen (1316) or seven (7). And this date is the same as the intellectual revolution mentioned in the footnote of the twenty-first verse, the date when a European colonial official tried to extinguish the light of the Qur'an, and the Author of Resâili'n-Nur also tried to illuminate that light against that intellectual revolution on the same date, as well as the same date when the phrase 3 These are verses of the Book appears seven times in seven chapters, and the phrase 4 Ta, these are verses of the Qur'an also appears on the same date, and the phrase 5 My Lord has guided me to a straight path also appears on the same date, and the phrase 6 Indeed, My Lord is on a straight path also appears on the same date, considering the strong N, counting one N and not counting the tashdeed, and the command 7 So turn away from them also appears on the same date, as well as the phrase the light of Allah with their mouths, and Allah completes His light also appears on the same date...
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Ninth, Tenth Evidence: And the exquisite craftsmanship and the adorned attentions. That is, in every state, especially in the spring season, all beautiful creatures, especially flowers, fruits, little birds, and insects, display such miraculous skill, attention, and amazing art, perfection, and the extraordinary talents of the artisans, in various forms, patterns, and machines, with such meticulousness and scientific knowledge, and with a very skilled and artistic scientific ability, that it is absolutely impossible for chance or unconscious and confused causes to interfere. As the expression "the adorned attentions" indicates, in those beautiful states, there is such a sweet decoration and a pleasant adornment and an attractive artistic beauty that it works with infinite knowledge, knows the best way of everything, and wants to show the beauty of artistry and the perfection of beauty to those who have insight, by carefully, skillfully, and artistically depicting and creating even the smallest flower and the tiniest insect. This careful decoration and improvement, with precision, boundless and all-encompassing knowledge, and as many as the number of these beauties, testifies to the necessity of the existence of an All-Knowing, the Artisan of Beauty.
Eleventh Evidence, containing five general proofs and arguments:
And the ultimate perfection of order, balance, distinction, and the absolute in absolute ease. And the creation of things in absolute abundance with absolute craftsmanship. And in absolute speed with absolute balance. And in absolute spaciousness with the perfection of fine craftsmanship. And in absolute depth with absolute agreement. And in absolute mixture with absolute distinction.
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Error 88: The accuser says: Nur is not tafsir. Moreover, it sometimes contradicts the creed.
Answer: Tafsir consists of two parts. One explains the words, the other proves the truths. There are hundreds of thousands of witnesses among the people of caution and attention that the Nurlar (Lights) are the most powerful and most valuable of the second type of tafsir. Also, the learned scholars of Egypt, Damascus, and the two Holy Cities, as well as the meticulous teachers of Istanbul and other places, have affirmed and not rejected the Nurlar. And Said's scientific struggle, which lasted for the duration of his life, logically and generally refutes and rejects this accusation and charge of the accuser.
Error-Answer 89: The accuser's attempt to compare Said to figures like Hasan Sabbah, who in the past emerged against the Ahl al-Sunna with the Batiniyya sect and the Shia path of Sheikh al-Jabal, causing political unrest, and to accuse and charge him with them, is a very strange mistake. Indeed, to liken poor Said, who endured twenty-three years of torturous imprisonment and betrayals to avoid acting against the Sunna and to stay out of politics, and who turned his back on all worldly ranks to avoid politics, to them is such a cold mistake that this accusation, which breaks our warm hopes today, is even colder than the snow and cold that come with it.
Also, the accuser, as if believing that people work in every way for worldly goals and that the world will last forever, says: "Said is against revolution and uses sacred things as tools to incite the people to corruption," which is such a wrong accusation that all the sacred truths of Nur and the spiritual relationships of his students reject it. Let that accuser know that we will not exchange the sole religious truth for worldly rule. And a single point of the Qur'an has more importance for us than a pashalik rank.
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In His Name, the Sublime, 1
Beloved, sincere brothers; 2 (For every calamity: (Indeed, to Allah we belong, and indeed, to Him we will return. Truly, the deaths of Hafiz Ali, Hafiz Mehmed, and Mehmed Zühtü are not only a great loss to us and Isparta, but perhaps to this country and the Islamic world. However, as a special act of divine favor, whenever a student of the Risale-i Nur has died, two or three others have emerged in that system, so we strongly hope that in another way, the duties of those brave individuals will be carried out by serious and devoted students, who will carry them out. Indeed, those three blessed deceased individuals accomplished in a short time the spiritual duties of a hundred years. May the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, bestow His mercy upon them in accordance with the number of the luminous letters they wrote, published, and read. Ameen.
Convey my condolences to the relatives of Hafiz Mehmed and to his blessed village. I have also made Hafiz Mehmed a companion of Hafiz Ali and Mehmed Zühtü, included the names of these three in the list of my teachers, and also made Hafiz Akif a companion of Asım and Lütfi.
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In His Name, the Sublime, 1
Beloved, sincere brothers; 3 The good is in what Allah has chosen. The resolution of this matter is good. Because in all the schools, institutions, and among the people, the affection for that deceased wicked man is being instilled. This situation would have had a very harmful and painful effect on the Islamic world and the future.
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