الْعُلَمَاءَ وَرَثَةُ الأَنْبِيَاءِ The meaning of this hadith is: “The scholars are the heirs of the Prophets”. The Noble Prophet expresses with great eloquence that being a scholar is no easy matter. For since a scholar is heir to the Prophets; therefore in regards to conveying and spreading the truth […]
BEDIUZZAMAN SAID NURSI
Clearest Mirror to Reflect Personality of a Reformer
It is said that best criterion for judging the integrity and sincerity of a reformer is this: What are the changes he had undergone in his personal, social, physical and spiritual life, between the early days of when he began pursuing his cause until he achieved success? For example, in […]
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: His Modesty and Humility
These two qualities, modesty and humility, have served a great benefit and had a profound effect in the spread of the Risale‑i Nur around the world in such an extraordinary way. Because Ustad did not dress himself up as a ‘Pole of the Gnostics’ (Qutb’ul Arifin) and a ‘Guide of […]
Who is Bediüzzaman?
Brief Look on Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s Life Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was born in 1877 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 Ottoman Empire, its collapse […]