Just as the All-Wise Qur’an sends the Prophets to man’s communities as leaders and vanguards in respect of spiritual and moral progress, so too it gives each of them some wonders and makes them the masters and foremen in regard to mankind’s material progress. It commands men to follow them […]
I shall allude briefly to a most extensive and lengthy truth which occurred to my heart on the Night of Power. Because of the extreme tyranny and despotism of this last World War and its merciless destruction, and hundreds of innocents being scattered and ruined on account of a single […]
As for the sincere, wholehearted student of the Qur’an, he is a worshipping servant. But he is an esteemed servant who does not stoop to bow in worship before even the mightiest of creatures, and does not make the supreme benefit of Paradise the aim of his worship. And he […]
وَمِنْ ثَمَرَاتِ النَّخِيلِ وَاْلاَعْنَابِ تَتَّخِذُونَ مِنْهُ سَكَرًا وَرِزْقًا حَسَنًاإِنَّ فِى ذٰلِكَ لاٰيَةً لِقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ This verse (Nahl 16:67) invites our attention to the date and to grapes, saying, “For those of intelligence, there is great proof, argument and evidence of the Divine unity in these two fruits. These two fruits […]
وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ فِى اْلاَنْعَامِ لَعِبْرَةً نُسْقِيكُمْ مِمَّا فِى بُطُونِهِ مِنْ بَيْنِ فَرْثٍ وَدَمٍ لَبَنًا خَالِصًا سَۤائِغًا لِلشَّارِبِينَ This verse (Nahl 16:66) is a decree overflowing with useful instruction. To place in the nipples of cows, camels, goats and sheep, as well as human mothers, in the midst of blood […]
The Risale-i Nur As the New Said, Bediuzzaman had immersed himself in the Qur’an, searching for a way to relate its truths to modern man . In Barla in his isolation he began to write treatises explaining and proving these truths, for now the Qur’an itself and its truths were under […]