“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)
One who does not recognize Allah is afflicted with a world-full of tribulations. While the world of one who does recognize Him is full of light and spiritual happiness; he perceives these in accordance with the strength of his belief. Lem'alar (The Flashes)
"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)
There is no god but Thou: Glory to Thee: I was indeed wrong. (al-Anbiya, 21:87)
Man’s first master and most influential teacher is his mother. (The Flashes)
And incline not to those who do wrong; or the Fire will seize you; and ye have no protectors other than Allah, nor shall ye be helped.
(Surah Hud 113)
The Pre-Eternal Designer turns over in front of our eyes the white page of winter and opens the green pages of spring and summer. Then He inscribes on the page of the earth's surface, with the pen of Power and Destiny, in the most beautiful form, more than three hundred thousand species of creation. Not one encroaches upon another. He writes them all together, but none blocks the path of another. In their formation and shape, each is kept separate from the other without any confusion. There is no error in the writing. (The Words)
This true love and passion in the heart of the universe points to a Pre-Eternal Beloved. {The Words}
The one who offers the supplications knows that there is Someone Who hears the wishes of his heart, Whose hand can reach all things, Who can bring about each of his desires, Who takes pity on his impotence, and answers his poverty. (The Words)
Man is a traveler. His journey moves from childhood to youth, from youth to old age, from old age to the grave, from the grave to the gathering place and from the gathering place to eternity. The necessities for both lives were given by the Owner. However, man spends those necessities in this transient world due to his ignorance. However, it is necessary to spend at least ten percent of those necessities for the worldly life and the remaining ninety percent for the eternal life. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)
If a person treats something to his family and the people in his house on the Day of Ashura (the tenth day of the month of Muharram), Allah Almighty will increase his sustenance during the whole year. (Hadith, at-Targhib wa't-Tarhib, 2:116.)
“Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, and establish regular prayers and regular charity, will have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve..” (Surah Al-Baqara 277)
The clouds, suspended between the sky and the earth, water the garden of the world in the most wise and merciful fashion, furnish the inhabitants of the earth with the water of life, modify the natural heat of life, and hasten to bestow aid wherever it is needed. (Ayat ul-Kubra)


















































