Sultan Reşad

A short translation of the preface of the Arabic version of the "Hutbe-i Şâmiye" (Identification of the Causes) In the Arabic preface of the "Hutbe-i Şâmiye," a very graceful representation is given of the spiritual and unbreakable heroism that arises from faith. In relation to this matter, we state the following conclusion: At the beginning of our freedom, on the occasion of Sultan Reşad's journey to Rumelia, I also accompanied him under the name of the eastern province. In our current school, a debate took place between two friends from different schools of thought. They asked me: "Which is stronger and more necessary, religious heroism or national heroism?" At that time, I said: We Muslims, in our time and in our surroundings, have religion and nationality as one and the same. There is only an apparent, superficial, and temporary separation. Perhaps religion is the life and soul of nationality. When the two are viewed as separate and different, religious heroism encompasses the common people and the elite. National heroism, on the other hand, is reserved for one in a hundred (that is, for those who sacrifice their personal interests for the nation). Therefore, within the framework of public law, religious heroism should be the foundation. National heroism should be its servant, its strength and fortress. Especially we of the East are not like those of the West. Within us, it is the religious feeling that dominates the heart. The fact that most of the prophets were sent to the East in eternal destiny indicates that only the religious feeling awakens the East and leads it to progress. The era of Bliss and the Tabi'in are an absolute proof of this. O my fellow students in this so-called mobile school who ask which of these two, religious or national heroism, should be given more importance! And now, all the students of every school who accompany us toward the future in this current era!

Hutbe-i Şâmiye ·Mektup 29 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Yes, my esteemed Master, nowadays we are witnessing many of the extraordinary activities and miracles of Risaletü'n-Nur. Indeed, I can say that each of your students, individually, perhaps even uniquely, is being honored and favored with such grace and service. Mehmed Efendi from Milâslı said: "I heard that the activities of our brothers who have embraced Nur with a thousand pens in a village were somewhat exaggerated. I came here to verify it myself." It was a miracle of Risaletü'n-Nur that the valuable and active student of that village, Marangoz Ahmed, was with me. I said, "Indeed, I did not come to this village myself, but I asked my brothers, and they said: 'Men and women, young and old, there are a thousand pens writing Risaletü'n-Nur.'" Then Marangoz Ahmed said, "Our village has 350 households. Except for two scholars, one pilgrim, and three men, Nur has entered every home. They are writing it for women and even young girls. In fact, among the illiterate, there are about ten of our brothers over forty who can write." Upon hearing this, Mehmed Efendi from Milâslı was amazed by this activity. Your student, Hüsrev • • • This is a story about five students of Risale-i Nur. It is about a person from the pure intellectual circles of Isparta, who is a leader of the high Nakshiyya Sufi order and visited the eternal abode in the years 1292 or 1293 of the Hijri calendar. This person, Beşkazalızade Osman Hâlidî, left behind a solid evidence of his knowledge and practices for his descendants, and passed on his books and writings in this way. Indeed, exactly coinciding with the birth of our esteemed Master, on that date he said, "A renewer who saves faith will emerge; and he will be born this year." Moreover, he added that one of his four children would meet and have a conversation with that person. This true statement unfolded as follows: In the year 1327 of the Rum calendar, in one of the societies of circumcision and protection in Atabey, from the children of the late Osman Hâlidî, the youngest, Ahmed Efendi, asked, "You say renewer, renewer. Where is he and who is he?"

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

A short translation of the preface of the Arabic version of the "Hutbe-i Şâmiye" (Identification of the Causes) In the Arabic preface of the "Hutbe-i Şâmiye," a very graceful representation is given of the spiritual and unbreakable heroism that arises from faith. In relation to this matter, we state the following conclusion: At the beginning of our freedom, on the occasion of Sultan Reşad's journey to Rumelia, I also accompanied him under the name of the eastern province. In our current school, a debate took place between two friends from different schools of thought. They asked me: "Which is stronger and more necessary, religious heroism or national heroism?" At that time, I said: We Muslims, in our time and in our surroundings, have religion and nationality as one and the same. There is only an apparent, superficial, and temporary separation. Perhaps religion is the life and soul of nationality. When the two are viewed as separate and different, religious heroism encompasses the common people and the elite. National heroism, on the other hand, is reserved for one in a hundred (that is, for those who sacrifice their personal interests for the nation). Therefore, within the framework of public law, religious heroism should be the foundation. National heroism should be its servant, its strength and fortress. Especially we of the East are not like those of the West. Within us, it is the religious feeling that dominates the heart. The fact that most of the prophets were sent to the East in eternal destiny indicates that only the religious feeling awakens the East and leads it to progress. The era of Bliss and the Tabi'in are an absolute proof of this. O my fellow students in this so-called mobile school who ask which of these two, religious or national heroism, should be given more importance! And now, all the students of every school who accompany us toward the future in this current era!

Hutbe-i Şâmiye ·Teshisul Illet ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Then he goes from Van to Damascus. Because of the insistence and request of the scholars of Damascus, he delivers a sermon in the Umayyad Mosque to a congregation of about ten thousand, including approximately one hundred learned men. This sermon is received with extraordinary appreciation and praise. Later, this sermon is recorded under the name "Hutbe-i Şâmiye." This "Hutbe-i Şâmiye" is a very precious sermon and lesson for all Muslims, even for humanity, which informs about the material and spiritual diseases afflicting the Islamic world, the reasons for the calamities and enslavement they face, and provides a solution to overcome these, and with logical proofs, predicts that Islam will achieve the highest material and spiritual progress on the earth's surface, that Islamic civilization will emerge with its full glory, and that the earth will be cleansed of impurities. He did not stay in Damascus for long. He went to Istanbul to work on the foundation of the university he intended to establish in Eastern Anatolia under the name "Medresetü'z-Zehra." He accompanied the sultan on his journey to Rumelia. On the way, in Shimendifer, a debate arises between him and two school teachers. The conclusion of this debate in Shimendifer is written in the appendix of the work "Hutbe-i Şâmiye."

Tarihçe-i Hayat ·Ilk Hayati ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Saniyen: From the village of Yenice in Isparta and from our brother Nuri, the following question was asked to the late Ahmed Efendi: "Your father said, 'One of my descendants will have a conversation and handshake with that renewer.' How is that?" In response, the late Ahmed Efendi stated, "Yes, it is true. I spoke with him," which is the basis of this investigation and testimony. One of the exceptional praises and glorifications of the blessed Osman Halidi, seeking refuge in the noble verse 1 "And indeed, man will have nothing but what he strives for," he established forty days of spiritual retreat in the mountainous area of Sidre, south of Isparta, intending to dedicate forty days of worship and glorification. Each day, they are assigned forty loaves of bread, each weighing fifty dirhams, and they consume one or two of them per day. For forty days, they remain in that special location without eating anything else, continuing their worship and glorification. Upon completion, when returning, their blessed lips stick together and they cut them open with a knife. A little further ahead, despite the ignorance and heedlessness that characterize this current era, he defined the principles of his beliefs and only forgot or neglected the surgery of the elements, and without doing so, he affirmed his absolute testimony and signed the pages of his life in the year 1292. The establishment of the Zehra Medrese in Van, based on the concept that "A doctor is necessary for the patient," was allocated 19,000 gold, and behind it was Sultan Reshad, who accepted 150,000 banknotes, although behind it were 200 subjects, 160 of whom were accepted. However, the matter was not actually implemented in the field.

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

Bediüzzaman did not at all retreat from his utmost effort, which was to work for the establishment of the Eastern University, as long as he was in Ankara. One day, he said to the committee of deputies: "I have been following this university throughout my life. Sultan Reshad and the Unionists contributed twenty thousand gold liras. You should also add the same amount." At that time, they decided to give one hundred and fifty thousand banknotes. Upon this, he said, "These must be signed by the deputies." Some deputies said: "However, you are proceeding only with the medrese system, purely from the perspective of Islam. But now, it is necessary to resemble the West." Bediüzzaman said: "Those eastern provinces are, in a way, the center of the Islamic world; modern sciences as well as religious sciences are necessary and essential. Because the fact that most of the prophets and most of the rulers emerged in the East shows that the progress of the East is based on religion. Even if you teach only modern sciences in other provinces, in the East, the people must, for the sake of the nation and the country's interest, take religious sciences as a basis. Otherwise, non-Turkish Muslims will not feel the true brotherhood with the Turks. Now, you are in need of unity and solidarity against so many enemies. Indeed, I can give you a true example in this matter: "In the past, I had a student who was not Turkish. In my old medrese, that very capable and intelligent student used to say every time, after receiving lessons in the spirit of religious sciences: 'A pious Turk is certainly more of a brother and relative to me than my wayward brother or my father.' Later, the same student, unfortunately, studied only modern material sciences. Then, after four years of returning from imprisonment, I spoke with him. The topic of national spirit came up. He said: 'Now, I would prefer a pious Kurdish Rafizi over a pious Turkish teacher.' I said, 'Alas! How much have you deteriorated!' I worked for a week and saved him, turning him back to the true national spirit. "Indeed, O deputies, the first condition of that student is how much the Turkish nation needs! I leave it to your judgment how much the second condition is contrary to the interests of the homeland. Therefore—if hypothetically—you choose the world over religion in other places, and politically neglect religion,

Tarihçe-i Hayat ·Ilk Hayati ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Since Sheikh Sinasî did not know the Kurdish language, they placed me in his place with a salary of three hundred liras as a general preacher in the southern provinces, and I was both a member of the Grand National Assembly and in the office of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, working alongside the members of the House of Wisdom, fulfilling my old duties and being satisfied with them. The foundation of the Medresetü'z-Zehrâ, which I laid in Van, and the Dârülfünun of the East, received from Sultan Reşad nineteen thousand gold liras, and was accepted with one hundred and fifty thousand banknotes, signed by one hundred and sixty-three of the two hundred members. But I saw part of the news given by the original of the Fifth Letter in that place, in a man. I was forced to leave those very important duties. And saying, "This man cannot be dealt with, he cannot be opposed," I gave up the world, politics, and social life, and spent my time trying to save my faith alone. But some cruel and unjust officials forced me to write two or three essays to look at the world. Later, some people, in connection with questioning similar hadiths that announce the events of the Last Days, I revised the original of that old essay. It took the name of the Fifth Letter of the Risale-i Nur. The numbering of the Risale-i Nur is not according to the order of composition. For example, the Thirty-Third Letter was composed before the First Letter, and the original of this Fifth Letter and some parts of the Risale-i Nur were composed before the Risale-i Nur itself. Whatever the case, in this position, the general loyalty of a certain person to Mustafa Kemal, with his fanatical friendship, forced me to make these unnecessary, illegal, and incorrect objections and questions to me, and to explain this simple explanation. I am giving as an example his completely personal and illegal statement under the name of the law of the judiciary. He said: "Have you never felt any regret in your heart for calling the Fifth Letter a water pump like rakı and wine, and thus mocking it?" I say to him, in its entirety, senseless and wrong, and in response to his fanatical friendship: The victory and honor of the heroic army cannot be given to him alone, only a share of it can be given to him. Just as it would be an injustice, a terrible injustice, to give the spoils, goods, and supplies of the army to a single commander.

Şualar ·On Dorduncu Sua ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

At that time, an attempt was made to establish a great Islamic university in Kosovo. There, both the Unionists and Sultan Reşad were told: "The East is in greater need of such a university and it would serve as the center of the Islamic world." As a result, they promised to open a university in the East. However, with the outbreak of the Balkan War, the location of that madrasa, that is, Kosovo, was occupied. Consequently, an appeal was made to transfer the nineteen thousand gold liras allocated for the Kosovo university to the Eastern university instead, and this request was accepted. Bediüzzaman then set out once again for Van. The foundation of that university was laid in Artemit (Edremit) on the shores of Lake Van. But alas, with the outbreak of World War, the effort was left incomplete. Indeed, that winter, Molla Said had already warned his students, saying, "Be prepared, a great calamity and disaster is approaching us." • • •

Tarihçe-i Hayat ·Ilk Hayati ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

A short translation of the preface of the Arabic version of the "Hutbe-i Şâmiye" (Identification of the Causes) In the Arabic preface of the "Hutbe-i Şâmiye," a very graceful representation is given of the spiritual and unbreakable heroism that arises from faith. In relation to this matter, we state the following conclusion: At the beginning of our freedom, on the occasion of Sultan Reşad's journey to Rumelia, I also accompanied him under the name of the eastern province. In our current school, a discussion arose between two friends from different schools of thought. They asked me: "Which is stronger and more necessary, religious heroism or national heroism?" At that time, I said: We Muslims, in our time and in our surroundings, have religion and nationality as one and the same. There is only an apparent, superficial, and temporary separation. Perhaps religion is the life and soul of nationality. When the two are viewed as separate and different, religious heroism encompasses the common and the particular. National heroism remains exclusive to one in a hundred (that is, to one who sacrifices personal interests for the nation). Therefore, within the framework of public law, religious heroism should be the foundation. National heroism should be its servant, its strength and fortress. Especially we of the East are not like those of the West. Within us, it is the religious feeling that dominates the heart. The fact that most of the prophets were sent to the East in eternal destiny indicates that only the religious feeling awakens the East and leads it to progress. The era of Bliss and the Tabi'in are an absolute proof of this. O my fellow students in this so-called mobile school who ask which of these, religious or national heroism, should be given more importance! And now, all the students of all schools who accompany us toward the future in this current era!

Hutbe-i Şâmiye ·Hutbe I Samiye ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

We present to the Council of Ministers and Tevfik İleri: We told our Master about your precious service regarding the Shargh University. He said: "If I were not ill, I would have gone to the eastern vilayet for that matter myself." With all my soul and spirit, I congratulate the Minister of Education. Fifty-five years ago, I came to Istanbul before the Republic, in order to work for the establishment of a university named Medresetü'z-Zehra (University of Light), and to establish that university in at least one place, preferably three places—Van, Diyarbakır, and Bitlis. But when the Republic was established, that matter was left behind. Later, during the time of the Unionists, I went to Kosovo on the occasion of Sultan Mehmed Reşad's journey to Rumelia. At that time, there was an attempt to establish a great Islamic university in Kosovo. I told both the Unionists and Sultan Reşad: "The East is in greater need of such a university and it is the center of the Islamic world." At that time, they promised me. Then the Balkan War broke out, and that site was occupied. I said: "Then give me that twenty thousand gold liras for the Shargh University." They accepted. I went to Van and laid the foundation in Artemit on the shores of Lake Van with one thousand liras, but then the World War broke out and the project was again left behind. After being released from captivity, I came to Istanbul. Because of my service to the National Movement, I was invited to Ankara and I went there. Then I said: "Throughout my life I have pursued this university. Sultan Reşad and the Unionists gave twenty thousand gold liras. You should add the same amount." They decided to give one hundred and fifty thousand banknotes. I said: "These should be signed by the deputies." Some deputies said: "You are going only in the direction of Islamic education, following the model of a madrasa. But now we must resemble the West." I said: "That eastern vilayet is a kind of center of the Islamic world. Alongside modern sciences, religious knowledge is also necessary and essential. Because the fact that most of the prophets were from the East and most of the scholars from the West shows that the progress of the East is based on religion." FOOTNOTE: In other provinces, only modern sciences should be taught.

Emirdağ Lâhikası - II ·Mektup 109 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings forever and ever 1 An important news for the Nur followers: First of all: For forty years I have been following and Sultan Reshad, with the signatures of 163 deputies in the National Assembly, allocated 150 thousand banknotes for the construction of a grand Islamic university and a great university called Medresetü'z-Zehra, which is as important for the Islamic world, the East, and this nation as the Al-Azhar Mosque. The leader of the new government has also understood the necessity of this important matter in the great affairs of the country, and has sent the following news to you as a piece of good news. Even if it is not implemented, understanding this meaning is a great good deed. Indeed, during the important matters in the Assembly, the President of the Republic, in his important speech, mentioned this coming idea. Celal Bayar, who stated that the Ministry of Education has started an investigation for the establishment of the Eastern University in the vicinity of Van, said: "All the difficulties should be addressed for the establishment of such an intellectual institution in Van, which is one of our eastern provinces, and the work should begin in the coming budget year." Thus, the young university students who presented the "History of Life" have, to some extent, impressed the President with the value of the Risale-i Nur. Secondly: This very important statement by the President of the Republic is a proof that the important services of the Risale-i Nur in this country and among its people are understood. And all the hardships endured by the Nur followers and the suppression of Nur should be grateful, not mournful, as they have led to this great result. • • •

Emirdağ Lâhikası - II ·Mektup 29 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)

This is a response to a biased newspaper regarding Eastern University. We state the truth about that university in response to the article written about Atatürk University in the issue of Ulus dated April 1, 1954, by a member of an opposing party who is strongly critical. Here is the truth: For more than fifty years, our master Said Nursi has worked with great effort for the foundation of this university, now called Atatürk University. Although our master was opposed to the Unionists, they and Sultan Mehmed Reşad had allocated nineteen thousand gold coins for the construction of this university, and our master had laid its foundations in Van. However, the outbreak of World War I caused the project to be delayed. Then, at the beginning of the Republic era, when our master Said Nursi was requested to attend the Grand National Assembly in Ankara, he once again made efforts. At that time, our master was completely opposed to the ruling administration and had completely abandoned politics, even declaring, "I will not get involved in your world." In fact, he even called Mustafa Kemal a "treacherous sinner who does not pray" and refused major offers from him, such as great wealth, a salary, and the position of chief preacher. Despite this, it was decided that 150,000 banknotes would be allocated for the establishment of the Eastern University, with the signatures of 163 out of 200 deputies and Mustafa Kemal's approval. Thus, it is clear that at that time, the establishment of this university was the most important issue in the East. Now, there is an even greater need for it. Finally, it was decided during the Islamic government era to proceed with its construction as a result of our master's material and spiritual efforts and encouragement. We present the great value and importance of this Eastern University in a few points, like offering a single drop from a vast ocean: First: This university is the central heart of Iran, Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkistan, and Anatolia. It is both a House of Knowledge (Camiü'l-Ezher) and a House of Wisdom (Medresetü'z-Zehra). Second: Today, efforts are being made and pacts are being formed around the world to achieve general peace and prevent the corruption of humanity. And since this Islamic government...

Emirdağ Lâhikası - II ·Mektup 110 ·machine translation (qwen3-32b-sre)