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The Eleventh Ray

The Eleventh Ray A Fruit of Denizli Prison [This is a defence of the Risale-i Nur against atheism and absolute disbelief. It is our true defence in this imprisonment of ours, for it is only this we are working at. This treatise is a fruit and souve

The Fifteenth Ray

The Shining Proof This consists of two ‘Stations’ [This lesson is a treatise which is apparently unimportant, but in reality is of the greatest importance, and is extremely powerful and comprehensive. It is a Qur’anic fruit of Para

The Fifth Ray

Thirteen years ago,1 as an addendum to the discussion in Muhakemat-i Bedi‘iye, which was published thirty years ago, the draft of twenty ‘Matters’ was written about the Barrier of Dhu’l-Qarnayn, Gog and Magog, and the signs of the

The Fourteenth Ray

I say this to Afyon Court: As is said in my statement, which has been presented to you and been put before the law and its justice: to raid my house three times illegally, summon me for questioning, and arrest me has violated the dignity of three high

The Fourth Ray

While being the Fifth Flash in meaning and degree, in form and ‘station’ this forms the valuable Fourth Ray of the Thirty-First Letter’s Thirty-First Flash and is an important and subtle point concerning the verse, For us God suffices

The Ninth Ray

Two Points comprising a concise explanation of one comprehensive result of the numerous spiritual benefits of belief in resurrection and of its vital consequences; a demonstration of how essential it is for human life and especially for the life of societ

The Seventh Ray

Not everyone will be able to understand all the matters discussed in this most significant treatise, but equally nobody will remain portionless. If somebody enters a garden, he will find that his hands cannot reach all the fruit it contains, but the amoun

The Sixth Ray

This Sixth Ray consists of two answers to two questions about two points concerning the formulas in the ‘tashahhud’ section of the ritual prayers (salat) which begin “Salutations, blessings, benedictions and supplications, and good words

The Third Ray

This Eighth Proof of the Fundamentals of Belief1 offers evidence for the necessary existence and unity of God, and certain proofs of the comprehensiveness of dominicality and the immensity of Divine power. It proves too both the comprehensiveness of Divin

The Thirteenth Ray

The light-scattering, highly valuable letters Ustad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi sent his students while in Denizli Prison, which illustrate in brilliant fashion the great exertions of the Risale-i Nur.

The Twelfth Ray

[Part of the Defence Speeches Given in Denizli Court]1 Yes, we are a society and we are a society which every century has had three hundred and fifty million [now one and a half thousand million] members. Every day through the five obligatory prayers,

INTRODUCTION FIRST PART: WHAT IS THE QUR'AN? How is it defined? SECOND PART and complement to the de

The Introduction consists of Three Parts.

My life-story before and after the Risale-i Nur

Can you give your life-story before you started reading the Risale-i Nur and then explain how it changed your life? When I look at my childhood and early youth and compare it to that of my brothers and sisters and indeed thousands of others, there is not

The Eight Letter

In accordance with the verse, God is the Best of Protectors and He is the Most Merciful of the. Merciful, this shows that what the Prophet Jacob (Upon whom be peace} felt for Joseph (Upon whom be peace), was not love of a passionate kind, but compassion -

The Eighteenth Flash

This has been published in Sikke-i Tasdik-i Gaybî (The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen) and in hand-duplicated editions of Lem'alar (The Flashes Collection).

The Eighteenth Letter

This consists of Three Important Matters. The First explains and illustrates by means of a comparison how sometimes the things the saints witness and have unfolded to them through illumination in other worlds and levels of existence appear contrary to

The Eighteenth Word

Think not that those who exult in what they have thus contrived, and who love to be praised for what they have not done - think not that they will escape suffering: for grievous suffering does await them.1 This Point elucidates one meaning of the verse

The Eighth Flash

This has been published in printed editions of Sikke-i Tasdik-i Gaybî (The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen), and in hand-duplicated copies of The Flashes Collection.

The Eighth Word

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. God, there is no god but He, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsistent.1 Verily, the religion before God is Islam.2 If you want to understand this world, and man's spirit within the world, and the n

The Eleventh Flash

The Stairway of the Practices of the Prophet and Antidote for the Sickness of Innovations In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Now has come to you a Prophet from among yourselves; it grieves him that you should perish; ardently anxiou

The Eleventh Letter

Four Topics. Expounding the verse, Indeed the wiles of Satan are weak, the First is a cure for those who suffer from scruples. The Second is included in the Seventeenth Word, and not repeated here. The Third and Fourth are two examples demonstrating the i

The Eleventh Word

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. By the sun and its glorious splendour; * By the moon as it follows it; * By the day as it shows [the sun's] glory; * By the night as it conceals it; * By the firmament and its wonderful structure;* B

The Fifteenth Flash

This consists of the Indexes of Sözler (The Words), Mektûbat (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi—Letters 1928-1932), and Lem’alar (The Flashes Collection), from the First to the Fourteenth Flash. Since they have been included in the relevant vol

The Fifteenth Letter

Six important answers to six important questions: The First: The answer in 'Two Stations' to the questions why the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) did not perceive the troublemakers with the eye of sainthood, so that it resulted in three of the Four R

The Fifteenth Word

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. And We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps, and We have made them missiles to drive away the evil ones.1 Oh, modern-educated Sir whose brain has shrunk through studying the soulless matters

The Fifth Flash

A treatise was intended to explain in fifteen degrees a most important truth of the verse, For us God suffices, and He is the Best Disposer of Affairs, but since it would have been concerned more with reflective thought and remembrance of God than with r

The Fifth Letter

Written in the face of the tendency of some people to attach too much importance to Sufism at the expense of serving the cause of spreading the truths of belief, this letter points out the three sorts of sainthood and that the way of 'greater sainthood' i

The Fifth Part of an Important Supplement

Fifth Part of the Addendum The hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets, who are according to explicit prophetic tradition the choice part of humanity, have unanimously and with one accord reported, partly on the basis of direct vision and partly o

The Fifth Word

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Indeed, God is with those who fear Him and those who do good. If you want to see what a truly human duty and what a natural, appropriate result of man's creation it is to perform the prescribed pr

The First Flash

IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MERCIFUL, THE COMPASSIONATE But he cried through the depths of darkness, "There is no god but You; Glory be unto You! I was indeed among the wrongdoers!" * When he called upon his Sustainer saying: "Verily

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