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Transforming Transience into Immortality

Cum, 11 Oca 2008 18:39:57 GMT

The Third Flash Transforming Transience into Immortality   [Emotion and spiritual insight {zevk) have become mixed in this Flash to an extent, and since their exuberance does not much heed the principles of the intellect and the scales of thought nor conform to them, it shoul ... read all article

About Compassion

Çar, 09 Oca 2008 21:54:10 GMT

About Compassion In His Name! And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise. There are numerous instances of wisdom in the Names of Most Merciful and Compassionate being included in "In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate" and at the start of al ... read all article

The image Europeans have of Islam

Çar, 09 Oca 2008 21:44:40 GMT

The author of the Risale-i Nur, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi   Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was born in 1877 in Nurs, a village near Bitlis in eastern Anatolia. He received his early education from the best-known scholars in the region, displaying an extraordinary intelligence and ability to lear ... read all article

Women in the West and in Qur'anic civilization

Çar, 09 Oca 2008 21:39:18 GMT

Women in the West and in Qur'anic civilization   Women's liberation is a much discussed subject, can you compare the attitudes of materialist Western civilization and Qur'anic civilization towards women and demonstrate where true freedom for women lies? It may clear from the descrip ... read all article

The image Europeans have of Islam

Çar, 09 Oca 2008 21:36:49 GMT

The image Europeans have of Islam   What image do Europeans have of Islam and what are the reasons for it? How then should Islam be presented to Europeans? It is a sad fact but the prevailing image that Europeans have of Islam is as 'the religion of the sword.' It is an image that ... read all article

Western civilization, Christianity, and Islam

Çar, 09 Oca 2008 21:32:05 GMT

Western civilization, Christianity, and Islam What is the nature of Western civilization and what is the position of Christianity within that civilization? What conclusions can be drawn from an analysis of them; is there any way that Christianity might draw closer to Is ... read all article

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

Çar, 09 Oca 2008 21:22:41 GMT

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, ... read all article

THE RISALE-INUR: REVOLUTION OF BELIEF

Paz, 31 Ara 2007 14:36:12 GMT

THE RISALE-INUR: REVOLUTION OF BELIEF As someone bom and raised in Britain, I am often asked what we as Muslims have to offer to the West. But before I answer, I should like to ask a question myself: Are we Muslims because we believe in Allah, or do we believe in Allah because we are Mus¬lim ... read all article

Who is Bediuzzaman Said Nursi ?

Cum, 13 Nis 2007 22:11:49 GMT

The Power of Belief   Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was born in 1876 in eastern Turkey and died in 1960 in Urfa in Turkey. Readers may refer to his biography for details of his long and exemplary life, which spanned the last decades of the ... read all article

What is the Risale-i Nur?

Cum, 13 Nis 2007 21:12:16 GMT

What is the Risale-i Nur? The Risale-i Nur collection is a six-thousand-page commentary on the Quran written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi in accordance with the mentality of the age. Since in our age faith and Islam have been the objects of the attack ... read all article

The Second Ray

Cum, 13 Nis 2007 20:58:56 GMT

The Second Ray The Final Fruit of Eskisehir Prison The Second Ray of the Thirty-First Flash In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. This Ray was written sixteen years ago at a time I remained alone in Eskisehir Prison after my friends had been released. It was written at gre ... read all article

The Third Ray

Cum, 13 Nis 2007 20:56:48 GMT

The Third Ray A Supplication [This treatise proves with extraordinary decisiveness, authenticity, and certainty together with a wondrous conciseness, the most important of the fundamentals of belief such as the necessary existence, unity, and oneness of God, the splendour of ... read all article

The Fourth Ray

Cum, 13 Nis 2007 20:55:52 GMT

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.] NOTE: U ... read all article

The Fifth Ray

Cum, 13 Nis 2007 20:54:49 GMT

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 end of ti ... read all article

The Sixth Ray

Cum, 13 Nis 2007 20:53:58 GMT

The Sixth Ray [This consists of only two Points] In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. [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 be ... read all article