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THIS WORLD

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Were you created only for this world that you spend all your time on it?O my world-worshipping soul! Does your slackness in worship and remissness in the prescribed prayers arise from the multiplicity of your worldly occupations, or because you cannot find time due to the struggle for…September 3, 2024
Winning the Eternal Case: Far More Important Than the World WarOne time, I was asked the following question by the brothers who assist me: “For fifty days now —and now seven years have passed— (this refers to 1946) you have asked nothing at all about this ghastly World War, which…September 3, 2024
How All-Wise Qur’an speaks of the universe?If you ask: “Why does the All-Wise Qur’an not speak of beings in the same way as philosophy and science? It leaves some matters in brief form, and some it speaks of in a simple and superficial way that is easy in the…September 2, 2024
Profound Answer to the Criticisms on Risale-i NurIf you say like those who suppose irreligion to be politics of a sort and in this episode have said: “You are spoiling our civilization and our pleasure with these treatises of yours…” I reply: It is a universal…September 2, 2024
Your Doomsday Before DoomsdayYou have illusions and see the exceedingly temporary world as undying and permanent. When you look around yourself at the world, you see it as stable to a degree, and constant. Since looking with the same view you also…September 2, 2024
Wisdom behind Karbala TragedyQuestion: What was the wisdom in the tragically cruel treatment those blessed persons (Hadhrat Husain and his relatives) received? The Answer: There were three main reasons for the pitiless cruelty Hadhrat Husain’s…September 2, 2024
Fasting from the point of view of social lifeOne of the many instances of wisdom in fasting from the point of view of man’s social life is as follows: Human beings have been created differently with regard to their livelihoods. In consequence of this, Allah…September 2, 2024
Fasting in Ramadan: Key to true, sincere, extensive, and universal thankfulnessOne of the many instances of wisdom in the fast of the blessed month of Ramadan with respect to thankfulness for Allah Almighty’s bounties is as follows: As is stated in the First Word, a price is required for the foods…September 2, 2024
Cures for the sickness of scruplesبِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيم ﴿رَبِّ اَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ هَمَزَاتِ الشَّيَاطِينِ❁ وَاَعُوذُ بِكَ رَبِّ اَنْ يَحْضُرُون﴾ O one afflicted with the sickness of scruples! Do you know what your scruples resemble? A…September 2, 2024
Wisdom of the MisfortunesPhysical misfortunes grow when they are seen to be large, and shrink when they are seen to be small. For example, a dream enters one’s vision at night. If one pays it attention, it swells up and grows; if one does not…September 2, 2024
Power of Patient Enough for Misfortunes of the PresentThe power of patient endurance given to man by Allah Almighty is adequate to every misfortune, unless squandered on baseless fears. But through the predominance of delusion, man’s neglect and his imagining this…September 2, 2024
Infinite generosity requires infinite bountyOn Resurrection and The Hereafter The Gate of Generosity and Mercy, the Manifestation of the Names of Generous (Al-Karim) and Merciful (Al-Rahim) Is it at all possible that the Lord of this world, Who in His works…September 2, 2024
Brotherhood of Islam Against All the EnemiesA regrettable social condition and an awesome disease affecting the life of society, fit to be wept over by the heart of Islam: To forget and abandon internal enmities when foreign enemies appear and attack is a demand…September 2, 2024
Frugality is far away from stinginessThere is a great difference between frugality and stinginess. Just as humility is a praiseworthy quality superficially resembling but different to the bad quality of servility, and dignity is a laudable virtue…September 2, 2024
Do Not Interfere in Allah’s ConcernsAlthough those who strive on the way of Truth should think only of their own duties, they think of those that pertain to Almighty Allah, base their actions on them, and fall into error. It is written in the work Adab…September 2, 2024
Qur’an Brings Real HappinessWestern science and civilization had to some extent a place in the Old Said’s thought, so when the New Said embarked on his journeys of the mind and the heart, they were transformed into sicknesses of the heart and were…September 2, 2024
Islam Brings ProgressO miserable pseudo-patriot who fervently encourages Muslims to embrace this world and forcibly drives them to European industry and progress! Beware, don’t let the bonds be broken that tie certain members of this nation…September 2, 2024
Du’a For Happiness in This Life and NextWhoever makes this fleeting life his purpose and aim is in fact in Hell even if apparently in Paradise. And whoever is turned in all seriousness towards eternal life receives the happiness of both worlds. However…September 2, 2024
Everlasting CompanionshipThe most comprehensive centre of man’s worldly life, and its mainspring, and a paradise, refuge, and fortress of worldly happiness, is the life of the family. Everyone’s home is a small world for him. And the life and…September 2, 2024
illness Yields Huge FruitsUnhappy sick person! Do not be anxious, have patience! Your illness is not a malady for you; it is a sort of cure. For life departs like capital; if it yields no fruits, it is wasted; and if it passes in ease and…September 2, 2024
Healing All the Sick OnesIf being healed of a dreadful disease is considered from the point of view of the affirmation of Divine unity, on the face of the bestowal of healing on all the sick in the huge hospital called the earth, through the…September 2, 2024
Sustaining All InfantsWhen the particular act of sending to the assistance of a powerless infant lacking will, pure white milk from an unexpected place, that is, from between blood and excrement, is considered from the point of view of the…September 2, 2024
The Truth“The light of conscience is religious sciences. The light of the mind is civilized sciences. Reconciliation of both manifests the truth. The student’s skills develop further with these two (sciences). When they are…September 2, 2024
Masters in Moral and Material ProgressJust 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…September 2, 2024
We have no right to complain -1As was explained concerning the meaning of divine determining, known as destiny, in the Twenty-Sixth Word, men have no right to complain in the case of disasters and illness for the following three reasons: First…September 2, 2024
Questions and AnswersQuestion-1: What wisdom does it spring from, Adam (Upon whom be peace) being expelled from Paradise and some of mankind, the sons of Adam, being sent to Hell? What was the reason for it? Answer-1: The reason for it…September 2, 2024
About the Prophethood of Muhammed (PBUH)I could not praise Muhammed with my words; rather, my words were made praiseworthy by Muhammed (SAW). There are three great and universal things that make known to us our Sustainer. One is the Book of the Universe…September 2, 2024
3 kinds of patienceAnd so, my impatient soul! You are charged with being patient in three respects. One is patience in worship. Another is patience in refraining from sin. And a third is patience in the face of disaster. If you are…September 2, 2024
I had concluded no trade; the capital of life was all lostI had concluded no trade; the capital of life was all lost; I came to the road to find the caravan had moved on, unaware. Lamenting, I continued down the road, all alone, a stranger; My eyes weeping, my heart in…September 2, 2024
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: His Imanالْعُلَمَاءَ 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…September 2, 2024
Mankind Will Embrace the Qur’anI 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…September 2, 2024
Belief makes man into manBelief makes man into man, indeed, it makes man into a king. Since this is so, man’s basic duty is belief and supplication. Unbelief makes him into an extremely impotent beast. Out of thousands of proofs of this matter…September 2, 2024
Comparison between Qur’an and Philosophy StudentsAs 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…August 31, 2024
Death is a Created Bountyاَلَّذِى خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيٰوةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ اَيُّكُمْ اَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً Who creates death and life that He may try you, which of you is the best in conduct .(67:2) Verses like this in the All-Wise Qur’an, the…August 31, 2024
Were you created only for this world?O my world-worshipping soul! Does your slackness in worship and remissness in the prescribed prayers arise from the multiplicity of your worldly occupations, or because you cannot find time due to the struggle for…August 31, 2024
The Spring: Numerous Indications of ResurrectionIs it at all possible that the One Who gives life to this vast dead and dry earth; Who in so doing demonstrates His power by deploying more than three hundred thousand different forms of creation, each of them as…August 31, 2024
Great News Behind DeathTHE SEVENTH PHRASE: وَيُمِيتُ“And deals death” He is the one who causes death. He discharges you from the duty of life, changes your abode from this transitory world, and releases you from the labour of service. That…August 31, 2024
Youth will DepartAs is described in A Guide For Youth , there is no doubt that youth will depart; it will change into old age and death as certainly as the summer gives its place to autumn and winter, and the day changes into evening…August 31, 2024
Earthquake is not a chance eventQuestion: The neglectful and heedless put it about that the earthquake resulted from a fault in the rock strata inside the earth, and look upon it as quite simply a chance event, natural, and without purpose. They do…August 31, 2024