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What is the Qur’an? |
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| THE QUR`AN
is the pre-eternal translator of the mighty Book
of the Universe, and the post-eternal interpreter
of the various tongues reciting the verses of
creation, and the commentator of the book of the
Worlds of the Seen and the Unseen, and the
revealer of the treasuries of the Divine Names
hidden in the heavens and on the earth, and the
key to the truths concealed beneath the lines of
events, and the tongue of the Unseen World in the
Manifest World, and the treasury of the
post-eternal favor of Divine Mercy and of the
pre-eternal addresses of Divine Glory, which come
from the World of the Unseen beyond the veil of
this Manifest World; it is the sun, foundation,
and plan of the immaterial world of Islam, and
the sacred map of the worlds of the hereafter,
and the expounding word, lucid exposition,
decisive proof, and clear interpreter of the
Divine Essence, Attributes, Names, and functions;
it is the instructor of the world of humanity,
and the light and water of Islam - the
macroanthropos, and the true wisdom of mankind,
and the true guide and leader urging humanity to
prosperity and happiness, and it is a both a book
of law, and a book of prayer, and a book of
wisdom, and a book of worship, and a book of
command and summons, and a book of invocation,
and a book of thought, and a unique,
comprehensive Sacred Book, comprising many books,
to which recourse may be had for all the needs of
all mankind. And it is a Revealed Scripture like
a sacred library offering treatises suitable for
all the various ways and different paths of the
all the saints and the veracious ones and the
wise and the learned, which is appropriate for
the illuminations of each way and enlightens it,
and is suitable for the course of each path and
depicts it. SECOND PART and complement
to the definition: As is explained and proved in
the Twelfth Word, since THE QUR`AN has come from
the Sublime Throne, and the Greatest Name, and
from the highest degree of each Name, it is God`s
Word in regard to the Sustainer of All The
Worlds. And it is God`s decree through the title
of God of All Beings. And it is an address in the
name of the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth.
And it is a conversation in respect of Absolute
Dominicality. And it is a pre-eternal discourse
on account of universal Divine Sovereignty. And
it is a notebook of the favors of the Most
Merciful One in regard to all- embracing,
all-encompassing Divine Mercy. And it is a
collection of ad- dresses at the start of which
are certain ciphers in respect of the tremendous-
ness of Divine Majesty. And through its descent
from the comprehensive- ness of the Greatest
Name, it is a Sacred Book full of wisdom which
looks to and inspects all sides of the Sublime
Throne. It is because of this mystery
that with complete fitness the title of The Word
of God has been given to the Qur`an, and is
always given. After the Qurtan comes the level of
the Books and Scriptures of the other prophets.
But the other innumerable Divine Words are each
in the form of inspiration made manifest through
a special regard, a partial title, a particular
manifestation, a particular Name, a special
Dominicality, a particular sovereignty, a special
Mercy. The inspirations of the angels and man and
the animals vary greatly with regard to
universality and particularity. THIRD PART: THE QUR`AN
is a Revealed Scripture which comprises in
summary the Books of al1 the prophets, whose
times were al1 different the writings of all the
saints, whose paths are all different, and the
works of all the purified scholars, whose ways
are all different. Its six aspects are all
brilliant and refined of the darkness of doubts
and scepticism; its point of support is certain
heavenly revelation and the pre-eternal Word; its
aim and goal is self-evidently eternal happiness;
its inner aspect is clearly pure guidance; its
upper aspect is necessarily the lights of belief;
its lower aspect is undeniably evidence and
proof; its right aspect is evidently the
surrender of the heart and conscience; its left
aspect is manifestly the subjugation of the
reason and intellect; its fruit is indisputably
the Mercy of the Most Merciful One and the realm
of Paradise; and its rank and desirability are
assuredly accepted by the angels and man and the
jinn. From Risale-i Nur |
