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| gencnurCom | From the Risale-i Nur Collection The Staff of Moses Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Contents PART
ONE— THE FRUITS OF BELIEF....................... 11 The
First Topic................................................................
13 A
Summary of the Second Topic....................................
15 The
Third Topic...............................................................
20 The
Fourth Topic.............................................................
25 The
Fifth Topic................................................................
28 The
Sixth Topic...............................................................
30 The
Seventh Topic...........................................................
36 A
Summary of the Eighth Topic............... '....................
53 TheNinthTopic................................................................
72 The
Tenth Topic, A Flower of Emirdað.........................
80 The
Eleventh Topic.........................................................
99 PART
TWO — A DECISIVE PROOF OF GOD......... 125 The
First Proof, The First Chapter of The Supreme Sign
127 The
Second Proof, The First Stopping-Place of
the Thirty-Second Word.........................................
183 The
Third Proof, The Twenty-Third Flash—On Nature
203 The
Fourth Proof, The Second Point of the Thirtieth Flash— The
Divine Name of All-Just.....................................
233 The
Fifth Proof, The Third of the Six Lights of the Greatest Name—The
Divine Name of Sapient........................ 238 The
Sixth Proof, The Ninth Truth of the Tenth Word. 250 The
Seventh Proof, The Seventeeth Window of the
Thirhj-Third Word
256
The
Eighth Proof, A Supplication................................
259 The
Ninth Proof, The Ninth Ray—About the Resurrection of the
Dead......................................................................
281 The
Tenth Proof, The First Station of the
Twentieth Letter..................................................
296 The
Eleventh Proof, The First Station of the
Twenty-Second Word..........................................
307 In
Appreciation, Letters...............................................
324 In
Appreciation, Ali Ulvi Kurucu's Preface to Bediuzzaman Said
Nursi's Biography
332
In
His Name, be He glorified! This
strange age, just as the believers have intense need for
the Risale-i Nur, so school teachers and students of
science have great need for The Staff of Moses, and
teachers of religion and 'hafizes' are in great need
ofZiilfikdr. For
in the treatise on the Qur'an's mirac-ulousness, for
example, many verses that have been subject to
questioning and objections are shown to contain flashes
ofmiracu-lousness and many fine and subtle points. In
the name of all the Risale-i Nur students, Said Nursi
In
His Name, be He glorified! And there is nothing but it
glorifies Him with praise. Peace
be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, for ever and
ever! My Dear, Loyal Brothers, Now
that the Risale-i Nur is being duplicated by machine and
is spreading generally, and many school children and
teachers who study modern science and philosophy are
holding fast to it, there is a point that needs
explanation: The
philosophy the Risale-i Nur strikes at fiercely and
attacks is not absolute, but the harmful sort. For the
philosophy and wisdom that serve the life of human
society, and morality and human attainments, and
industry and progress, are reconciled with the Qur'an.
Indeed, such philosophy serves the Qur'an's wisdom and
does not oppose it. This sort the Risale-i Nur does not
bother with. As
for the other sort, since it both leads to misguidance,
atheism, and the swamp of nature, and is the cause of
vice and dissipation, heedlessness and misguidance; and
since with its spellbinding wonders it opposes the
Qur'an's miraculous truths; the Risale-i Nur attacks and
deals slaps at it with the powerful proofs in the
comparisons contained in most of its parts. It does not
attack beneficial, rightly-guided philosophy. Members of
the secular schools can therefore embrace-the Risale-i
Nur without hesitation or objection. But
completely meaninglessly and unjustly, secret dissemblers
are turning a number of hojas against the Risale-i Nur, which
is the true property of the hojas and people of the medreses
[religious schools], and they similarly excite the
scholarly pride of certain philosophers. Since it is
possible they may do this to harm the Risale-i Nur, it
will be appropriate to include this piece at the
beginning of the collections, The Staff of Moses and Ziilfikar. Said
Nursi In
His Name, be He glorified! The Twenty-Eighth Flash and Eighth Ray proved with the same number that Imam 'Ali (May God be pleased with him) gave news of the Risale-i Nur and its important treatises almost explicitly in his Jaljalu-tiyya. Also in Jaljalutiyya, he foretold the final treatise of the Risale-i Nur with the lines: "And by the name of the Staff of Moses the darkness will be scattered." A couple of years ago I supposed The Supreme Sign to be the final part of the Risale-i Nur, but now, since in '64 (1944 A.D.) it was completed; and since the above lines predict a treatise that would disperse the darkness and give light and negate the sorcery; and since the first section of this collection, Fruits of Belief, acted as our court defence and scattered the awesome darkness that had descended on us; and the second section dispelled the darkness of philosophy, which had formed a front against the Risale-i Nur, and compelled the Ankara committee of experts to submit and appreciate it; and since there are numerous signs that it will disperse the darknesses of the future; and since just as the staff of Moses (PUB) caused twelve springs to gush forth and was the means of eleven miracles, so the present collection consists of the eleven light-scattering Topics of Fruits of Belief and the eleven certain proofs of The Eloquent Proof, |