O my evil commanding soul! I am not subject to you. Worship whatever you want and pursue whatever you wish; I will be a slave only to the Wise Majestic Creator, who created me and put the sun, the moon and the earth to my disposal. Al-Mathnawi Al-Nuri
"Believers are like stones of a building. They preserve one another from collapsing." (Bukhari, Salat: 88)
A sane person will not be happy when he earns a worldly thing and will not be sorry when he loses a worldly thing. For, the world does not stop; it is moving. Man is moving together with it. You are also a traveler. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)
So long as man’s dirty hand does not interfere, there is no true uncleanliness or ugliness in anything. (The Flashes)
Those who wish to be permanently, eternally happy in this world and the Hereafter should take as their guide the instruction of Muhammad (pbuh) within the sphere of belief. (The Words)
Allah does not look at your appearance and property; He looks only at your hearts and deeds. (Muslim, Birr and Sila, 34.)
With the permission of Allah, united republics of Islam will be established and Islam will govern and dominate the world. We expect and ask it from divine mercy. (The Words)
Now consider the birds! A certain indication that their twittering and chirruping is an All-Wise Maker's causing them to speak is the astonishing way in which they express their feelings to one another with those sounds, and state their intentions. (The Words)
Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay they live finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord. (Aal-i Imran 169)
A person who performs hajj without uttering bad words and committing sins, he will return to his hometown sinless as if he has just been born. Hadith – Bukhari
One who does rebel against his father and cause him pain is a monster, a corrupted human being. (The Words)
“Fear the Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones, which is prepared for those who reject Faith.” (al-Baqara, 2:24.)
The following is reported from Hz. Ali (r.a.): The master of the months is Muharram. The master of the days is Friday. {Jamiu’s-Saghir - 4754}
Everyone who possesses beauty wants to both see and display his beauty. (The Words)
The following is reported from Hz. Ali (r.a.):
Educate your children in the following three things:
Love of your Prophet,
love of his Ahl al-Bayt,
and to read the Quran.
For, those who read the Quran will be together with prophets and saints under the shade of the Throne on the Day of Judgment, when there is no shade except the shade of the Throne.
Hadith - Jamiu's-Saghir - 311
“Lift up your head, look at the miraculous deeds of the most active and powerful being who wishes to make himself known. In the same way that you are not left to your own devices, so too, these phenomena and events have a master and a purpose.” (The Rays)
O Lord!
Truly distress has seized me But Thou art the Most Merciful of those that are merciful. al-Anbiya, 21:83.
When you meet a person returning from hajj, greet him. Shake hands with him and ask him to pray to Allah for your forgiveness before he enters his house because his sins have been forgiven. (Hadith - Jamiu's Saghir 847)
For those for whom ALLAH exists, everything exists; and for those for whom He does not exist, nothing exists; for them there is nothing. (The Rays)
This world is not a place created for people to live eternally. It is an inn and waiting room for the meeting of the creatures invited to the realm of eternal happiness of Allah Almighty. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)
O man! You have two ways before you. If you follow one of the ways, you will go to the lowest of the low part of the universe. If you follow the other day, you can ascend to the highest of the highest. (From Risale-i Nur Collection)
For all its glitter, the world is like a prison in relation to the hereafter. (The Words)
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A person who performs fasting for six days in the month of Shawwal after performing the whole month of Ramadan is regarded to have performed fasting the whole year!." (Riyadu’s-Salihin, Vol.2, p. 510,2.)
O people of faith!
If you do not wish to enter a humiliating condition of slavery, come to your senses and enter and take refuge in the citadel of: (Indeed the believers are brothers.) to defend yourselves against those oppressors who would exploit your differences! Otherwise you will be able neither to protect your lives nor to defend your rights. (Twenty-Second Letter, First Topic)
Indeed, the All-Wise Qur’an, each of whose words yield thirty thousand eternal fruits, is like a luminous Tree of Tuba that gains for believers in Ramadan millions of those eternal fruits. (Risale-i Nur Collection)
A person who sees the good in things has good thoughts. And he who has good thoughts receives pleasure from life. (The Letters)
That man can have nothing but what he strives for; (Surah An-Najm, 53:39)
Then contemplate (O man!) the tokens of Allah's Mercy! how He gives life to the earth after its death: verily the Same will give life to the men who are dead: for He has power over all things. (Ar-Room, 30:50.)
Then looking to the depths of the sea, the traveller saw that apart from the most beautiful, well-adorned and symmetrical jewels, there were thousands of different kinds of animal, sustained and ordered, brought to life and caused to die, in so disciplined a fashion, their provision coming from mere sand and salt water, that it established irresistibly the existence of a Powerful and Glorious, a Merciful and Beauteous Being administering and giving life to them. (The Rays – The Seventh Ray)
When you meet a person returning from hajj, greet him. Shake hands with him and ask him to pray to Allah for your forgiveness before he enters his house because his sins have been forgiven. (Hadith - Jamiu's Saghir 847)
For Allah is He Who gives (all) Sustenance― Lord of Power, Steadfast (forever). (Surah Adh-Dhariyat, 51:58)
In the month of Ramadan, the instinctual soul of everyone, from the richest to the poorest, may understand that it does not own itself, but is totally owned; that it is not free, but is a slave. It understands that if it receives no command, it is unable to do the simplest and easiest thing, it cannot even stretch out its hand towards water. Its imaginary dominicality is therefore shattered; it performs its worship and begins to offer thanks, its true duty. (Risale-i Nur Collection)
Man did not come to this world in order to live in fine manner and pass his life in ease and pleasure. Rather, possessing vast capital, he came here to work and do trade for an eternal, everlasting life. The capital given to man is his lifetime. (The Flashes)
To Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth; to Him do all questions go back (for decision). (Surah Aal-e-Imran – 109)
The Quran is both mentioning Allah and thought; it is both wisdom and knowledge; it is both truth and shari'ah; it is both a cure for hearts and guidance and mercy for believers. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)
O soul!
If, in a brief life, you want to do something that will profit you infinitely in the hereafter, and you want every moment of your life to be as beneficial as a life-time, and if you want to transform your habitual actions into worship and your heedlessness into awareness of the Divine presence,
Follow the Illustrious Practices of the Prophet (PBUH).
(The Words)
The month of Ramadan is an extremely profitable display and market for the trade of the hereafter. It is an extremely fertile piece of land for the crops of the hereafter. For the growth and flourishing of actions it is like April showers in the spring. (Letters)
"After belief, the most elevated truth in Islam is the obligatory prayers" (The Words)
In the month of Ramadan, the instinctual soul of everyone, from the richest to the poorest, may understand that it does not own itself, but is totally owned; that it is not free, but is a slave. It understands that if it receives no command, it is unable to do the simplest and easiest thing, it cannot even stretch out its hand towards water. Its imaginary dominicality is therefore shattered; it performs its worship and begins to offer thanks, its true duty. (The Letters)
Man's nature and spiritual faculties show that he is created for worship. (The Words)
"Anyone who performs fasting for six days in the month of Shawwal after fasting the whole month in Ramadan is regarded to have performed fasting in the whole year." (Hadith - Riyadu's-Salihin)
If a person sacrifices an animal willingly and expecting its reward from Allah, it will be a barrier for him against hellfire. (Hadith - Jamius-Saghir - 8825 )
The marvels of Your power which fill the earth and are known as plants and animals, and their creation from seeds and grains and droplets of fluid, perfectly, without error, in adorned fashion, each with its distinguishing features, form a testimony more brilliant and powerful than the sun to the existence, unity, wisdom, and endless power of their All-Wise Maker. (The Rays)
If you love wealth, seek it not with greed but with contentment, so that you may have it in abundance. Greed destroys sincerity and damages actions in regard to the Hereafter. Twenty - Second Letter - Second Topic
The happiness of the human beings in the world can be achieved through justice. Justice can be achieved only through the way the Quran shows. (From Risale-i Nur Collection - Damascus Sermon)
“Do not worry! You have an immortal youth; a shining, endless life awaits you. You will be joyfully reunited with the children and relatives you have lost. All your good deeds have been preserved and you will receive your reward.” (The Rays)


















































