Sixteenth Letter: It includes the answers of Badiuzzaman Said Nursi as five points to questions about the social life and politics in the period of one-party administration.
The Sixteenth Letter
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
Men said to them: “A great army is gathering against you,” and frightened them. But it [only] increased their belief; they said: “For us Allah suffices, and He is the best Disposer of Affairs.”1
This letter manifested the meaning of the verse, But speak to him mildly,2 and was not written vehemently. It is the answer to a question asked me explicitly and implicitly by many people.
[To reply is not agreeable to me and I do not want to, for I have bound everything to reliance on Allah. But since I have not been left in peace to myself in my own world and since they have directed my attention towards the world, I am compelled to propound five Points in the language of the Old Said in order to explain the reality of the situation both to my friends, and to ‘the worldly,’ and to those in authority, so as to save not myself, but my friends and my Words, from the suspicions and ill-treatment of ‘the worldly.’]
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1. Qur’an, 3:173.
2. Qur’an, 20:44.
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- Sixth Question: Does the verse, ‘Everything will perish save His countenance’ (al-Qasas, 28:88) include the hereafter, Paradise, and Hell?
- Fifth Point: It is an answer that will silence the worldly for the rules and bid’ahs they offered to Badiuzzaman Said Nursi.
- The Addendum of the Sixteenth Letter: It was written with the tongue of the Old Said in order to dispel the groundless doubts and panics of the worldly and the irreligious people about Badiuzzaman Said Nursi.
- First Point: It is about the fact that the aim of serving the Quran prevented Badiuzzaman Said Nursi from politics.
- Sixteenth Sign: It mentions the wonders that took place before Hz. Muhammad’s prophetic mission, that were related to prophethood and that were called irhasat. They are of three kinds.
- DO NOT UNDERRATE ANIMALS
- What is the wisdom behind Hz. Muhammad (pbuh)'s being chosen as the most distinguished individual among all creatures?
- The Subject Index of Risale-i Nur
- Seventh Matter: It was written in order to eliminate the fears of those who stopped serving Islam temporarily due to various reasons and who received divine blows and in order to give them moral support.
- Thirteenth Letter includes answers to the state of Badiuzzaman Said Nursi in his exile life, and the questions why he did not apply for a permission document and why he stayed away from politics.
