In the Name of Him, the Exalted, 1
The five issues in the Youth Guide and the Fruit Epistle of Risale-i Nur, which were nine slaps for the mischievous youths, are acknowledged even by those youths as a graceful miracle of Risale-i Nur.
First: Feyzi, who served me. I told him at the beginning: "You attended a lesson in the Fruit Epistle, don't misbehave." He did misbehave, and suddenly got a slap, and his hand was bandaged for a week.
Yes, it is true. Feyzi
Second: Ali Riza, who served me and wrote the Fruit Epistle. One day, I was going to give him a lesson on what he had written. Because of his misbehavior, he used the excuse of cooking and didn't come. Suddenly, he got a slap. At that time, while his pot was intact, the bottom of it fell down along with the food.
Yes, it is true. Ali Riza
Third: Ziya, who wrote for himself the issues of the Fruit Epistle regarding youth and prayer, and started to pray. However, he misbehaved, stopped praying and stopped writing. Suddenly, at that time, he got a slap. Unusually and without cause, the basket and clothes on his head caught fire. The fact that no one was aware of it even though there were so many people around, and that he burned to death, showed that it was a compassionate slap.
Yes, it is true. Ziya
Fourth: Mahmud. I read to him the issues of youth and prayer from the Fruit Epistle and said: "Don't play cards, pray." He agreed. However, misbehavior prevailed, he didn't pray and played cards. Suddenly, he received a slap of anger. In three or four instances, he was always defeated and, in his poor condition, he lost forty liras, his hat, and his pants to gambling, and he never came to his senses.
Yes, it is true. Mahmud
Şualar
·On Ucuncu Sua
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With authentic and categorical narration, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, one of the ten promised paradise, informs us: "In the Battle of Uhud, we saw two white-robed figures on both sides of the Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, as if they were guards. We understood that both were angels, and we recognized them as Jibril and Mikail."1 Could such a Muslim hero say "We saw," and yet it be possible that he did not see?
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Abdulmuttalib (the cousin of the Prophet), with authentic narration, reports: "In the Battle of Badr, we saw white-robed, horse-riding figures between the sky and the earth."2
Hazrat Hamza requested from the Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, saying, "I want to see Jibril." The angel was shown to him. He could not bear it, lost consciousness, and fell to the ground.3
There are many such incidents of seeing angels. All these sightings indicate and prove that the angels are like moths to the lamp of the Prophethood of the Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.
As for jinn, meeting and seeing them is not only common among the Companions, but even among the common people of the community. Most authentically and reliably, the hadith scholars tell us that Ibn Mas'ud said: "In the valley of Nahl, during the night when the jinn gathered, I saw jinn and compared them to the tall tribe of Sudan called Zut. They resembled them."4
It is well known and the hadith scholars have recorded and accepted the incident of Hazrat Khalid ibn al-Walid, who, when destroying the idol Uzza, saw a jinn come out of the idol in the form of a black woman. Hazrat Khalid cut her into two pieces with a sword. The Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, decreed regarding this incident: "The people used to worship this idol Uzza. They will no longer worship it."5
Mektubat
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O unjust ones! How have you found Islam, which has the power to swallow the entire world, unite it, nourish it, and elevate it, so narrow that you want to assign it to the poor and a few wandering scholars, and exclude half of Islam's people? Moreover, how dare you imagine that this luminous Islamic edifice, which contains all perfections and nourishes the noble feelings of all kinds of humanity, is like a black tent that belongs only to a group of poor people, Bedouins, and apostates? Indeed, everyone is subject to the observation of their own rites. So, your black and false rite has shown you this.
Question: You are exaggerating, you are showing us a false reality, and you are insulting us with your mockery. The time is the last time, and it will get worse and worse. FOOTNOTE 1
Answer: Why should the world be a world of progress for everyone, but a world of retreat only for us? Is that so? Well, I will not speak to you either. I am turning to this side; I will speak to the people of the future:
O Said, Hamza, Omar, Osman, Tahir, Yusuf, Ahmed, and others who are hidden behind the high age of three hundred years, who silently listen to the words of Light, and who observe us with a subtle glance of the unseen! I address you. Raise your heads, say "Sadakat" (sincerity). And let this be your duty. Let my contemporaries ignore me if they wish. I am speaking to you through telegraph wires stretching from the past rivers of history to your lofty future. What can I do? I came in haste, I arrived in winter; you will come in a paradisiacal spring. The seeds of light sown now will bloom into flowers in your soil!
Münâzarat
·Mektup 38
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Fifth: A boy named Sulayman, who was fourteen years old, was making excessive mischief and provoking others' desires. I told him: "Be quiet. Pray your prayers. This state of yours among the great mischief-makers will bring danger to you." He began to pray, but again he abandoned prayer and returned to mischief. Suddenly, he was slapped. He became afflicted with scabies and was forced to lie in bed for twenty days.
Yes, it is true. Sulayman.
Sixth: Omar, who served me in the bidayt, began to pray and abandoned songs. But one evening, a song near the door reached my ears and harmed my preoccupation with the affairs of the community. I became angry and went out. I saw that, contrary to custom, it was Omar. I also slapped him contrary to custom. Suddenly, in the morning, Omar was sent to another prison contrary to custom.
Seventh: A boy named Hamza, sixteen years old, had a beautiful voice and was singing songs, provoking others' desires, and making mischief. I told him: "Do not do this, you will be slapped." Suddenly, the next day, one of his hands fell off, and he suffered for two weeks.
Yes, it is true. Hamza.
There are such slaps; but the paper has run out, and the meaning has also ended.
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Beloved, sincere brothers; A Director of Knowledge, lifted the veil from his face and displayed absolute blasphemy on another cloth. He wrote that declaration with another reason before receiving our last defense. Although I was not planning to send it to that office; however, this situation showed that due to the insistence of my brothers, it was both appropriate and necessary to send it to them as well. Because, certainly, a director who carries such a level of heresy would not remain indifferent to the documents and secret writings sent to Ankara. Suddenly, direct refutations hit the head of the attack, which was very good. Insha'Allah, a strong current in favor of the Risale-i Nur will also arise in that office.
Şualar
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Just as two men enter a beautiful palace like paradise in a dream. One knows he is dreaming; the pleasure and taste he receives are very limited. He thinks, "If I wake up, this taste will vanish." The other does not know he is dreaming; he experiences true taste and true happiness.
Indeed, the way the people and witnesses of the world of barzakh benefit from the life of barzakh is so different. Numerous events and narrations confirm the presence of the witnesses in this kind of life and their awareness of themselves, and this is certain and definite.
Even Sayyidü'sh-Shuhada, Hazrat Hamza (Radiallahu Anhu), through repeated events, has been proven to protect those who seek refuge with him, to manage and oversee their worldly affairs, and this level of life has been clearly demonstrated and confirmed through many incidents.
Even I myself had a nephew and a student named Ubayd. After he was martyred in my place and I was imprisoned for three months, I entered his grave in a true dream, as if it were a distance beneath the earth, without knowing the location of his burial. I saw him in the life of the witnesses.
He thought I was dead; he said he had cried a lot for me. He knew I was alive. But because he feared the Russian invasion, he had built himself a beautiful place underground. This personal dream, with certain signs and appearances, gave me a conviction at the level of witnessing the truth.
Fifth level of life: the spiritual life of the people of the graves. Yes, death is a change of place, a departure of the soul, a release from duty; it is not annihilation or non-existence. Numerous events confirm the manifestations of the souls of the pious, the appearances of those with spiritual knowledge, and the connections—both physical and spiritual—of the people of the graves with us, as well as their notifications to us in accordance with events. These are many signs that clearly demonstrate and confirm this level of life. Indeed, the Twenty-Ninth Word, regarding the eternal nature of the soul, has proven this level of life with certain evidence.
Mektubat
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O unjust ones! How have you found Islam, which has the power to swallow the entire world, unite it, nourish it, and elevate it, so narrow that you want to assign it to the poor and a few wandering scholars, and exclude half of Islam's people? Moreover, how dare you imagine that this luminous Islamic structure, which contains all perfections and nourishes the noble feelings of all kinds of humanity, is like a black tent that belongs only to a group of poor people, Bedouins, and apostates? Indeed, everyone is subject to the observation of their own rites. So, your black and false rite has shown you this.
Question: You are exaggerating, you are showing a false reality, and you are insulting us with mockery. The time is the last time, and it will get worse and worse. FOOTNOTE 1
Answer: Why should the world be a world of progress for everyone, but a world of retreat only for us? Is that right? Well, I will not speak with you either. I am turning to this side; I will speak with the people of the future:
O Said, Hamza, Omar, Osman, Tahir, Yusuf, Ahmed, and others who are hidden behind the high age of three hundred years, who silently listen to the words of Light, and who observe us with a subtle glance of the unseen! I address you. Raise your heads, say "Sadakat" (sincerity). And let this be your duty. Let my contemporaries ignore me if they wish. I am speaking to you through the telegraph wires stretching from the past rivers of history to your lofty future. What can I do? I came in haste, I arrived in winter; you will come in a paradisiacal spring. The seeds of light sown now will bloom into flowers in your soil!
Münâzarat
·Ifrat Ediyorsun Hayali Hakikat Gosteriyorsun
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Fifth incident: It is reported with authentic news that Amir ibn Tufayl and Erbad ibn Kay, having conspired together, went to the presence of the Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Amir said, "I will distract him, and you will strike him." Then he looked and saw that he had done nothing. After they had left, he said to his companion, "Why didn't you strike him?" He replied, "How could I strike him? No matter how much I intended; I saw that you were always between us. How could I strike you?"
Sixth incident: It is reported with authentic narration that during the Battle of Uhud or Hunayn, Shayba ibn Uthman al-Hajbiyyah—whose uncle and father had been killed by the noble Hamza—came secretly to take revenge. He raised a sword behind the back of the Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Suddenly, the sword fell from his hand. The Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, looked at him and placed his hand on his chest. Shayba said, "At that moment, there was no one in the world more beloved to me than him." He embraced faith. The Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded, "Go, fight." Shayba said, "I went and fought before the Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. If my father had been there at that time, I would have struck him."
On the day of the conquest of Mecca, a man named Fedâl came to the Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, with the intention of killing him. The Noble Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, looked at him and smiled. "What did you speak to your soul?" he asked and requested forgiveness for Fedâl. Fedâl embraced faith and said, "At that time, there was no one in the world more beloved to me than him."
Mektubat
·On Dokuzuncu Mektup
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O unjust ones! How have you found Islam, which has the power to swallow the entire world, unite it, nourish it, and elevate it, so narrow that you want to assign it to the poor and a few wandering scholars, and exclude half of Islam's people? Moreover, how dare you imagine that this luminous Islamic castle, which contains all perfections and nourishes the noble feelings of all kinds of humanity, is something that belongs exclusively to a group of poor, wandering, and apostate people, like a black tent? Indeed, everyone is subject to the observation of their own rites. So, your black and false rite has shown you this.
Question: You are exaggerating, you are showing a false reality, and you are insulting us with mockery. The time is the last time, and it will get worse and worse. FOOTNOTE 1
Answer: Why should the world be a world of progress for everyone, but a world of retreat only for us? Is that so? Well, I will not speak with you either. I am turning to this side; I will speak with the people of the future:
O Said, Hamza, Omar, Osman, Tahir, Yusuf, Ahmed, and others who are hidden behind the high age of three hundred years, who silently listen to the words of Light, and who observe us with a subtle glance of the unseen! I address you. Raise your heads, say "Sadakat" (sincerity). And let this be your duty. Let my contemporaries ignore me if they wish. I am speaking to you through the telegraph wires stretching from the past rivers of history to your lofty future. What can I do? I came in haste, I arrived in winter; you will come in a paradisiacal spring. The seeds of light sown now will bloom into flowers in your soil!
Münâzarat
·Ifrat Ediyorsun Hayali Hakikat Gosteriyorsun
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Just as the Democrats gained strength tenfold with the announcement of the Adhan-i Muhammediyeh (a.s.m.), so too should they officially declare the freedom of the Risale-i Nur, which for twenty years the courts could not find any ground for objection and five courts decided on its acquittal. This is a matter that has had a very positive effect in the Islamic world and has brought the goodwill of the Islamic world to the people of this country. I believe that at that time, just as they would gain the goodwill of the Islamic world, the blame of others' unjust actions would not be placed upon them.
Religious Democrats, for the sake of remembering people like Adnan Menderes, for thirty-five years I have abandoned politics, but I looked at it for a couple of days and wrote this.
Said Nursî
And the students of Risale-i Nur who have witnessed and affirmed this truth:
Mehmed Çalışkan, Mustafa Acet, Hamza,
Sadık, Halim, Raşid, Ahmed Hüsrev,
Sungur, Tahirî, Nuri and others
Note: The master says: This social and political issue is mentioned in summary. And in the wording, you can change unnecessary and harmful words as you see fit. You can send it to the places you deem appropriate from the centers, provided it does not cause negative influence.
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Emirdağ Lâhikası - II
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