IN HIS NAME WE GLORIFY
This lecture which has been written with the
spiritual support of our
beloved and precious Teacher Bediuzzaman
and with the influence
of the lessons from the Treatises of Light, is a sweet
pleasant conversation
regarding the Treatises of Light. I am not capable of explaining the value of the Treatises
of Light, And I dare not. Please
do not suppose that I can do this. Because I am an ignorant and the most novice reader of the Treatises.
My cultural background is not
sufficient to describe the value of such a masterpiece
which acquired such a fame amongst the Nations.
I have to admit this.
The great honor belongs
to the intellectual, scholarly, virtuous readers of the Treatises of Light who
are intelligent and appreciative.
Yes, I had not read any single article in the
Press and in our Books
that was explaining the value of the HOLY QURAN until
the moment I met the Treatises of Light.
Later I understood that the foreign great men
admired the Holy Quran more than the intellectuals rising in our country over
the last fifty
years. The Noble Quran the Sun of
the entire World has been placed at the high position which it deserves
inside the green silk fabrics in
the White House in America.
Inventors, philosopher, doctors, lawyers, psychologists
have been studying
and making use of the books written on the principles of the Noble Quran. These important persons have been acquiring international fame thanks to the informations they extract from this Holy Book.
Sweden, Norway and Finland have organized a special Board of Scholars that has searched for
a Great Book to save their youth. Finally they decided that
the HOLY QURAN must be studied by all in order
to make the Youth to gain best moral qualities and become
broad-minded intellectuals.
There have been many Foreigners who admired Islam
and the Quran. Since Non-Muslims admire and make use
of the Holy Book of Islam,
the smart Muslim Youth cannot hesitate and be negligent
any longer.
Our Glorious Lord has responded to the most sacred
and most sincere
desire of the Youth also in the Twentieth Century. He granted the TREATISES OF LIGHT (RISALE-I
NUR) which are the genuine
commentary and interpretation of the HOLY QURAN for this century of civilization. These treatises
have been sourced from the
Holy Quran and authored within
the principles of the Holy Quran.
The author is Bediuzzaman (The Wonder of the Age). Great many scholars and
scientists confirmed that the honourable author of the Treatises
of Light had been deservedly
called Bediuzzaman
(the Wonder of the Age). Nevertheless, such a famous and powerful
person has not become known to all.
Yes, the Communists worked in our society over
the last fifteen-twenty years. Let alone present such Genius
of ours, they slander Him with several false stories. They made
use of all Media and opportunities in order to succeed in this.
They are trying very hard in speaking ill of our Scholars before
the Nation. We perceived the truth of the matter only within
the last one year. We understood that our Press and Media were
full of Communist Microbes thanks to the development of Democracy
in our Country. And all the while we were deceived.
We cleaned our minds from the false propaganda
and lies about our Religious Scholars. We got rid of the negative
impressions about them. Then we embraced our QURAN from which
all the genuine intellectuals of the World benefited. And afterwards
we began to study the masterpieces interpreted from the QURAN
into our Language. Just like the young generation do not know
the true value of the great works of our Great Men such as MAWLANA
JALALUDDIN, YUNUS EMRE and EVLIYA CELEBI, the youth do not know
much about BEDIUZZAMAN.
However those who happened to learn the existence
of such a Precious Person have immediately perceived His high
value, and desired strongly to benefit from Him. Inshaallah
(Allah willing) many millions of people in Turkey and in the whole World will benefit from the
works of this Great Man.
This estimate and wish has been much more reinforced
by the power, strength and innovation inside the Treatises of
Light.
Yes, the books which can make the contemporary
human beings happy are solely the Treatises of Light. This is
certain belief of those who read and study the Treatises of
Light, not only the words of some Lazy student like me.
Just like that those who embrace the Holy Quran will have happiness in both the World and the Hereafter,
those who study and practice the Risale-i
Nur (Treatises of Light) which are
illuminating and high commentaries of the Quran, will attain the True Happiness. The youth who will
study them will have a bright future, they will become intellectual
and cultural persons. We believe unshakably that our morality
will be elevated as long as we study them… As much as we study
them, we learn obedience to OUR ALLAH, OUR PROPHET, our parents
and to the right and just Law… Let the people read them and
try them. Then those who read personally will decide themselves
on these opinions.
If I can enter into the Masjid of our Prophet Hazrat MUHAMMAD
(Peace & Greetings be upon Him) and if I can go up to the
Minaret of His Masjid and if Allah
gives me a strong voice so that the entire World can hear me,
I will proclaim with all my power and strength that :
“the Treatises of Light are the Masterpiece
works which will save all the Youth and the Humanity from evil,
error, corruption and bestiality…”
I cannot estimate the greatness of the sacred
desire of those people who dive into the OCEAN OF LIGHT since the Treatises of Light have awakened such
a high desire in me even if I studied only nine or ten books
yet.
You don’t need to receive explanations from any
source in order to have an idea about the Treatises of Light.
You read these luminous works yourself. The Light of the Holy
Quran will fill in you and will develop
your Faith. The Treatises of Light will convince you that due
to belief the World is more delightful than the Paradise. You will begin to love the World not for a
transient life but for an Eternal Life. You will understand
once more that performing the ritual prayers is a great genuine
pleasure.
You will begin to enjoy so much to enter the
presence of our Great Allah during prayers that your days without
prayers will become full of distress and suffering. You will
feel most joyful, most pleasing and happiest moments of your
life during prayers. In fact you all know too that those who
perform this sacred duty
properly will have joy and happiness in the World and
in the Hereafter and they actually do.
When you will be engaged in the service of the
Treatises of Light (Risale-i Nur), if they invite you
to the Paradise while living on
Earth, you
would not want to go to Paradise yet leaving that service, such a great honor
like to serve the Holy Qur’an, by
realizing that such a
sacred duty and such a high happiness are available right
now in this world.
When we say that the world can be considered
as a virtual paradise
from the point of view of Faith, some may reply:
what pleasure
have we had till this day in this world life and how in
the future can we lead a life of pleasure?
In fact the Treatises of Light have proven with their
strong logical proofs and definitive evidences that this World
is like a spiritual paradise for the people of Faith and it
is like a spiritual Hell for the people of Misguidance.
Risale-i Nur (Treatises of
Light) have been authored with the Divine Favor,
not written by the author’s own choice, in order to save the
Muslims of the 20th Century and all Human Beings
from the deep Darkness of Materialist Opinions and terrible
roads of Misguidance. You can read the Treatises of Light continuously
with the unhurried behaviour and by learning the meanings of
the theological words in them. Some kind of cheerfulness and
a strong zeal will be aroused in you like those who work hard
night and day.
If you are taking a little slowly, remember that
you are under the influence of your carnal mind. Then you must
increase the level of your activity immediately. Because the
youth is going to end. It is our strong determination not to
waist even five minutes in the way to study such books whose
values are not measurable.
The fortunate people who study the Risale-i Nur are definitely not
concerned with personal material benefits. Because their goals
are to obtain the Divine Consent. Thanks Allah, now these are
millions of our beloved friends who have perceived that studying
and working for the Risale-i Nur is the service for
our Holy Book. No one can deny this fact which is clearly apparent
for those who have sound minds. There are even some students
who do not complete their night-sleeps for the sake of Risale-i
Nur Studies which are for sake of Allah.
There are even such true students of THE LIGHT
who are at the service of the Treatises of Light: If he is offered
the wealth of American Billionaire Ford for copying and publishing
some other books instead of Risale-i
Nur (Treatises of Light), he will
reply as follows even without lifting his pen from the lines
of Risale-i Nur
:
“Even if you give the whole wealth and the kingdom of the World
to me, I will not accept. Because Allah Almighty will give me
an inexhaustible eternal Treasure due to the Service of Risale-i Nur. I wonder if that wealth
of yours can make me happy? That is quite doubtful. But there
is no doubt and misgiving about an Eternal Treasure and a True
Happiness which Allah Almighty will bestow on me.”
If a young man was a little late to appreciate
the value of Risale-i Nur
(Treatises of Light), he will say with great grief:
“
I must dedicate this poor Youth of mine which awakened lately
for the Services and Studies on the path of the Qur’an
and the Faith for the sake of our Beloved Allah and our Beloved
Prophet, absolutely not for the temporary things of this world.
I cannot fail to write and publish the Treatises of Light (Risale-i
Nur).”
Some people might think that we are disconnected
from this World completely when they see that we are so much
engaged in the Treatises of Light. On the contrary, we first
complete our job correctly if we are single professionals, or
our lessons and home works if we are students, or our duty if we
are civil servants. Reading the Risalei-
Nur has been giving us strength and enthusiasm by multiplying
our success in these world affairs. They are teaching us the
value of the time. They prevent us from wasting our times in
idle games or on the streets instead of working on work-hours.
They teach us that we should schedule our jobs. And even they
instill us that we should work when
we can rest.
It is not possible to explain exactly the value
of the Risale-i Nur.
The readers’ hearts will be filled with the appreciation of
their value and there are such devoted persons that even if
all the humans try to make them abandon Risale-i
Nur, yet they cannot succeed.
I would like to become the servant of the TEACHER
who was charged with composing the Risale-i
Nur and It is an honour for me to
become the servant of His servant. This loyalty is not exaggerated
at all. When we read a valuable book we feel some kind of devotion
for its author. For example, people feel a certain admiration
for the works of Molliere, Shakespeare
and Victor Hugo.
I wonder what should be the level of devotion
for the person who is the Interpreter of the HOLY QUR’AN which
is the Guide of the Religion of
ISLAM?
If the works of Famous Goethe are printed on paper, the
works of Bediuzzaman, idest, the TREATISES
OF LIGHT (Risale-i Nur) are worthy to emboss on the golden and silver tablets.
If it is normal to study the works of Socrates – the teacher
of Plato – and Aristoteles until midnights, it is not an exaggeration to spend some sleepless
nights for the sake of reading the works of Bediuzzaman. If one spends five Dollars for the book of a
World–famous author, one can spend a whole wealth for such a
sacred work like Risale-i Nur
which deserve the greatest fames and highest ranks in both Worlds,
and one should.
If our devotion to Truthful Books is graded as
ten, our connection to a MIRACLE OF THE QUR’AN like RISALE-I
NUR which guide us in this World and in the Hereafter, must
be infinitely strong.
Therefore, Brothers, Let us embrace them, to
get illuminated by their Lights. Let us turn our faces and eyes
at the Library of Risale-i Nur
which are the spiritual miracles of the HOLY QUR’AN. Let us
make them the source of Point of View. And let us repeat the
sacred words of the Holy Qur’an with all our Power and Strength.
The Risale-i Nur which are Genuine Interpretation of the Holy Quran, are our Souls, Our Hearts, and our Lives. We accept
them as the Goal of our Lives and the Capital of our Life-times.
Yes, my Brothers, the features inside the Risale-i Nur, are not existing in
any book composed until now. You can ask me how I know this?
Some genuine scholars who dedicated their lives to
reading hundreds of volumes have announced
this Truth after reading the Treatises of Light. And
these people have come to the conclusion that these contemporary
humans however great knowledge they might have, they are in
need of studying the Treatises of Light.
The Learned, the virtuous and the intellectuals
who are afraid of becoming addicted to diseases such as vanity,
haughtiness and selfishness have been embracing the Risale-i
Nur immediately. Some of them have been trying to become students
for The Light even if they are 60 – 70 years old.
The author of the Risale-i Nur mentioned one of the
most important features of his works as follows:
“Any book will be read and will give some
information. But the Risale-i Nur will give a spiritual pleasant lesson to the intellect and the heart and the soul
as well.”
This feature of the Risale-i Nur can be observed on
the readers visually. The Turkish Muslim Youth want to become
scientists and scholars with belief and enlightenment, not with
dark thoughts. The university students at the departments of
Law, Medicine and Science can achieve to obtain the essential
truths of various social, scientific and spiritual branches
of knowledge through the Risale-i
Nur.
Those who want to learn the facts of the Religion
are reading the Risale-I Nur. Those who are searching the Truth are reading the Risale-i Nur. Those with the nature
of struggling and striving are reading the Risale-i Nur. Those who want to
reach the summit of heroism and bravery are reading the Risale-i Nur. Nation-lovers are
reading the Risale-i Nur.
The scholars of Art and Scientists are reading the Risale-i Nur. The Sufis are reading
the Risale-i Nur.
The fans of Literature,
too, are reading the
Treatises of Light (Risale-i Nur).
Their capacity of oratory and poetry has been increasing ten-folds
after studying the Risale-i Nur. Thus every segment of human society feel
the great need in their souls for the Risale-i
Nur.
Those who study the Risale-i Nur (Treatises of Light)
certainly come out
victorious from the scholarly discussions and debates, and they express the Truth with ultimate clarity.
The judges who study the
Risale-i Nur with full acceptance
do not decree wrongfully.
The source and the foundation of the true civilization
and high social principles and humanitarian laws is the QURAN.
You will find what you were looking for inside
the Risale-i Nur
which are genuine and blessed commentaries and
interpretations of the
HOLY QURAN, and you will become eager to read them again
and again with feelings of admiration.
There is a great benefit in studying the Risale-i Nur completely before starting
a University Degree. Otherwise it is strongly probable to fall
into terrible disasters.
The style of the Risale-i Nur is unique all by itself
and is not comparable to any other style. This fluent and attractive
style stirs up the ardour of reading regularly. Then this ardour
turns into desire to read the Collection of the Light completely
as soon as possible due to the enjoyment given by the sweet
and different style of this unmatched original work.
The Holy Quran has
a spiritual effect on its readers
even if they don’t understand the meanings. The Risale-i
Nur has also spiritual influence for
it is a spiritual miracle of the Holy Quran,
even if you cannot understand some of the Arabic words in it.
Yes, an appreciative intellectual who reads a
little bit from the Risale-i Nur, arrives at the opinion that Risale-i Nur is a masterpiece. Risale-i
Nur has such an unmatched explanatory
style that just like all, learned-scholarly people understand
its truths, all readers and listeners - even if they are uneducated
- can understand
and relate its truths too.
Risale-i Nur is the treasure
of epigrams and aphorisms. If we can learn by heart some of
the aphorism and sentences in the Risale-i
Nur, we will notice that they will come out of our hearts
and tongues like precious stones and jewellery.
Bediuzzaman is giving a goodnews
at the last section of the Treatise of Sincerety.
We believe no other author has been granted to give the goodnews of such a wonderful facility. Our Great master says
in that Treatise :
“The person who reads these Treatises in
understanding and acceptance for one year, can become a Genuine
Scholar of this era.”
A scholar is a person who owns the power of Knowledge
and Science. Young or old age does not matter. The Risale-i Nur turn those Young man
and Young women who read them with dedication for a year into
Scholars. Would a Youngman with sound mind and heart
waist his five minutes even, when he hears the existence of
such a Knowledge which can be obtained so easily and quickly
as a merciful favour of our Allah Almighty to the contemporary
humans ? No, Certainly he would not !
The youth of this country and this nation have
been awakening. This awakening youth have an aptitude for serving
the nation to reach true Progress and Happiness
through the Risale-i Nur. However, they need the spiritual help and the protection
of the Community of the Risale-i Nur in order to obtain extraordinary accomplishment within
the narrow circle of friends and family and large circle of
social life as well.
And to this end, it is necessary to get connected
in a serious and sincere way to the spiritual community of the
Risale-i Nur (Treatises of Light).
My dear brothers ! I am sure that you’ll work
hard with diligence in order to read such precious books as
soon as possible. I hope this from my heart. Even now you realize
that a spiritual force within you is driving you to study.
Please decide to learn the Ottoman (Old Turkish)
Language and Script to increase your benefit from these books.
We have to educate ourselves and we determined to do so. We
shall, Allah-willing develop ourselves by studying continuously,
diligently and resolutely.
Turkish Muslim Youth cannot and will not wait
any longer without benefiting from the Risale-i
Nur when they see and hear the extraordinary favours on us.
They will fill their minds with Knowledge and hearts with Light
(of Belief) and they actually do.
Thus we have been trying to become true servants
of our Great Allah and Muslim Turkish Youth as examples for
the World Youth.
We have great and various benefits in hand copying
the Risale-i Nur
books. Ottoman Script can be learned in a very short time period..
(Tr. Note : Ottoman Script is Turkish Language written with
Arabic Letters).
You are learning strongly when writing by hand
and also copying the Risale-i Nur being a service for the Holy Quran, you will be granted blessings of many pages when writing
one page. The information and knowledge acquired by hand writing
settle in the memory more solidly.
A friend of ours who appreciated the value of
the Risale-i Nur
asked:
“Is the Risale-i Nur a two-volume collection
?” I said “No,
it is a rich collection of many books.” He asked again: “All
of them written in new Turkish (Latin) Script?” I said “These
volumes you see are printed in Latin Script”.
My friend thought for a moment and he said in
a way which resembles a Great Man who makes fast and correct
decision vigilantly: “I cannot deprive myself of reading the
Ottoman Script volumes of such a precious Collection. I must
start to study the Old (Ottoman) Script.” (*) (* : due to the Despotic Rule
in Turkey and Pressures over Religious Activities between 1926
and 1950, the books of the Collection of Light were multiplied
by hand copying the original Ottoman Manuscript by thousands
of students of Light.)
We want to perform the Greatest Service for all
the humanity through Knowledge and Moral Perfection. And Inshaallah we shall do so…
It was all along my habit to make decent and
honest friends. When I met a potential friend, I chose him as
a friend candidate. I was thinking that it was necessary to
test him at least for a year or two to have a genuine and eternal
friendship.
Now when I meet a new friend, and when they mention
him as a Loyal and True Student of the Risale-i Nur, I am getting connected
to him with all my sincerity…
The marvellous power in the Treatises of Light
turn the Lazy to the Dynamic, those who like the contemptible and dirty enjoyments into those who enjoy
the chaste and decent pleasures.
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It gives an aversion for inauspicious and unclean
pleasures, makes easy to abandon them. Besides it is giving
the cleanest, genuine and everlasting pleasures. It is saving
the people from pessimism and instilling in them a fortune and
happiness with belief. It is granting the enthusiasm and desire
to become the most advanced and a great human being not a mediocre
one. It is healing the unlikable deeds
like pride, arrogance and haughtiness. It is giving value to
people with virtues like dignity and modesty. It is reconciling
the enemies and the vindictives. It is
teaching that evil deeds should not be responded with evil deeds,
on the contrary with good deeds and patience and endurance.
It is protecting the Young men like you who are
gentle and good-tempered chaste, well-mannered, clean, cute
and precious from the corrupt circle of friends, and the evil
setting and bad habits of the society.
Therefore, a Loyal True Student of the Risale-i Nur does not damage his
good morals even if he stays amongst millions of immoral people.
On the contrary he goes into a struggle against his carnal soul
in order to improve his morals further. He becomes victorious
with the help of the knowledge he learned from the Risale-i
Nur, and the determination and spiritual
power he received from the Risale-i Nur.
He gets the determination to improve and reform
the corrupt societies, and he does not try to adapt and adjust
himself to such societies. He becomes a Reformer who is equipped
with the most advanced and highest Social Principles through
the help of Allah the Great and the Lessons of Belief based
on investigation and research presented in the Risale-i Nur.
He tries to civilize those who entered into a
state of Anarchy and those who fell away from humanity.
Here we take refuge with Allah who is our Helper
and whose Power and Grandeur have no limits, and we beg Him
earnestly.
We have been working (in this Service) by calling
for spiritual help from our PROPHET MUHAMMAD (s.a.w.) who was the founder and publisher of the TRUE CIVILIZATION
which offers True Humanity, Prosperity and Happiness for all
Human Beings. And we call for the spiritual support of the Community
of Risale-i Nur.
Yes, My Brothers! There is only one Sound Truth
today which can heal our Social sicknesses and wounds. And that
is the Medicines of the Treatises of Light which are the Genuine
Interpretation of the HOLY QURAN.
This truth has been appreciated by the teachers
who have the honor of raising the
youth.
We shall always keep in mind how to improve and
develop ourselves. The Treatises of Light are teaching that
this world is a trading house in which we can earn the eternal
happiness. And we shall not be content with little successes
in obtaining an endless Science. We shall insaallah work with determination and persistence in order
to earn more and develop more in this Science.
The sciences advance with full speed. The advance
in Spiritual Knowledge is similar to this. We have been living
in an era in which one-hour distance has been reduced to one-minute.
The sphere of spirituality is even faster and wider. The science
of Truth which could be studied thoroughly in half a century
in the olden times, can be obtained in one year now, maybe even
sooner. Such a success
can be possible only by continuous and persistent study.
Yes, my brothers, we have to run on the path
to the Risale-i Nur
in order to become a true and noble human being and to serve
substantially for our nation and country and the entire world.
Even we must increase our running speed. That is we should not
waist even five minutes while we can use this time for reading.
This is what I mean with “speed in reading”
We must tell ourselves always and wherever we
are: “For Goodness Sake! We should not waste our times. The
true capital of our lives, the Time should not be wasted.
And we should find methods to use the Time more efficiently.”
We should consider the Time very important and work seriously
to develop the services for the LIGHT.
1947
On behalf of Students of Light in Konya
Zübeyir GÜNDÜZALP
