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In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate The Seventh Word If you want to understand what valuable, difficulty-resolving talismans are the two parts of the phrase I believe in God and the Last Day , which open both the locked talisman of creation and the door of happiness for the...

On Thanks In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. And there is nothing, but it glorifies Him with praise. Through repeating verses like, Will they not then give thanks? 1* Will they not then give thanks? And we stall surely reward these who give thanks. 2 * If you give...

The Sixth Word In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Verily God has purchased from the believers their persons and their property that Paradise might be theirs. If you wish to understand how profitable a trade it is, and how honourable a rank, to sell one's person...

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Indeed, God is with those who fear Him and those who do good. If you want to see what a truly human duty and what a natural, appropriate result of man's creation it is to perform the prescribed prayers and not to commit serious sins...

The Fourth Word In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. The prescribed prayers are the pillar of religion. If you want to understand with the certainty that two plus two equals four just how valuable and important are the prescribed prayers, and with what little...

The Twenty-Third Flash On Nature [First written as the Sixteenth Note of the Seventeenth Flash, this part of the Risale-i Nur was later designated as the Twenty-Third Flash because of its importance. This treatise puts naturalistic atheism to death with no chance of reanimation, and...

The Twenty-Fourth Flash On Islamic Dress for Women [While being the Second and Third Matters of the Fifteenth Note, this treatise was made the Twenty-Fourth Flash because of its importance.] In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. O Prophet! Tell your wives and...

The Third Word In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. O you people, worship.... If you want to understand what great profit and happiness lie in worship, and what great loss and ruin lie in vice and dissipation listen to and take heed of the following story which is...

The Second Word In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Those who believe in the Unseen. 1 If you want to understand what great happiness and bounty, what great pleasure and ease is to be found in belief in God, listen to this story which is in the form of a...

The First Word Bismillah, In the Name of God, is the start of all things good. We too shall start with it. Know, O my soul! Just as this blessed phrase is a mark of Islam, so too it is constantly recited by all beings through their tongues of disposition. If you want to know what an...

The Twentieth Flash On Sincerity [While being the First of the Five Points which form the Second of the Seven Matters of the Seventeenth Flash, this became the Twentieth Flash because of its importance.] In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. The verse: Verily We...

The Twenty-Second Letter In His Name! And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise. [This letter consists of Two Topics; the First summons believers to brotherhood and love.] FIRST TOPIC In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Verily the believers are...

In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful "All the sciences speak of God and make known the Creator" The Sixth Topic [This consists of a single, brief proof of the pillar of belief, ‘Belief in God,’ for which there are numerous decisive proofs and explanations in many...

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful ALL GOOD is in HIS HAND That is, all good things are in His hand, all good deeds are in His account book, all beneficence is in His treasury. Since this is so, those desiring good must seek it from Him, those wishing for what is best...

WHAT is the WISDOM BEHIND CALAMITIES SENT BY GOD? In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful Almighty God sends calamities and inflicts tribulations; is this not tyrannical towards the innocent in particular, and animals even? T h e A n s w e r : God forbid, the...