ZAKIRIN-SUFİ-32- BEDIUZZAMAN SAID NURSI(The great mujaddid of the 20th century and the commentator of the Qur'an for all people and religions) and RISALE-I NUR Collection and WORDS

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BEDIUZZAMAN SAID NURSI-The great mujaddid of the 20th century and the commentator of the Qur'an for all people and religions. RISALE-I NUR Collection and WORDS

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was born in 1876 in Eastern Turkey (the Village of Nurs) and died in 1960 in Urfa in Turkey.

The Risale-i Nur collection is a six-thousand-page commentary on the Quran written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi in accordance with the mentality of the age. Since in our age faith and Islam have been the objects of the attacks launched in the name of so called science and logic, Bediuzaman Said Nursi therefore concentrated in the Risale-i Nur on proving the truths of faith in conformity with modern science through rational proofs and evidence, and by decribing the miraculous aspects of the Quran that relate primarily to our century. This collection now has millions of readers both in and outside of Turkey.

Bediuzzaman understood an essential cause of the decline of the Islamic world to be weakening of the very foundations of belief.

His method was to analyse both belief and unbelief and to demonstrate through clearly reasoned arguments that not only is it possible, by following the method of the Quran, to prove rationally all the truths are the only rational explanation of existance, man and the universe.

Bediuzzaman thus demonstrated in the form of easily understood stories, comparisons, explanations, and reasoned proofs that, rather than the truth of religion being incompatible with the findings of modern science, the materialist interpretation of those findings is irrational and absurd. Indeed, Bediuzzaman proved in the Risale-i Nur that science's breathtaking discoveries of the universe's functioning corroborate and reinforce the truths of religion.

The Risale-i Nur shows that true happiness is only to be found in belief and knowledge of God, both in this world and the Hereafter. And it also points out the grevious pain and unhappiness that unbelief causes man's spirit and conscience, which generally the misguided attempt to block out through heedlessness and escapism, so that anyone with any sense may take refuge in belief.

Bediuzzaman displayed an extraordinary intelligence and ability to learn from an early age, completing the normal course of Madrasa (religious school) education at the early age of fourteen, when he obtained his diploma. He became famous for both his prodigious memory and his unbeaten record in debating with other religious scholars. Another characteristic Bediuzzaman displayed from an early age was an instinctive dissatisfaction with the existing education system, which when older he formulated into comprehensive proposals for its reform.

Contrary to the practice of religious scholars at that time, Bediuzzaman himself studied and mastered almost all the physical and mathematical sciences, and later studied philosophy, for he believed that it was only in this way that Islamic theology (Kalâm) could be renewed and successfully answer the attacks to which the Qur'an and Islam were then subject.

Risale-i Nur Collection, Subcategories:A Guide for Youth,Al-Mathnawi al-Nuri,Gleams of Truth,Humanity's Encounter with the Divine Series,25 Remedies for the Sick,33 Windows to the Truth,Belief and Unbelief,Belief and Worship,Existence and Divine Unity,Hope and Solace for the Elderly,Nature Cause or Effect,Prophet Muhammad and His Miracles,Reflections on the Divine,Sincerity and Brotherhood,The Miraculous Quran and Some of Its Mysteries,The Resurrection and the Hereafter,Ramadan, Frugality, Thanksgiving,The Gleams,The Letters,The Rays,The Reasonings,Words