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A Brief Look at Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s Life, The Risale-i Nur, and ‘Letters-1928-1932’

Seeds of Reality are aphorisms from the booklet called Seeds of Reality, which was first published in 1920.

Addendum: Ways of cleaning the soul and developing the spirit.

Ninth Allusion: The benefits of the Sufi way.

Eighth Allusion: It mentions eight important dangers on the Sufi way. Ninth Allusion: The benefits of the Sufi way.

Seventh Allusion: It states that the Sufi way and truth should serve and follow the Shari'a and answers the question “Can there be saints outside the bounds of the Sunna and Shari'a?”

Sixth Allusion: It explains that the best of the ways of sainthood is following the practices of the Prophet, that its most important foundation is sincerity, its sharpest strength is love, and that this world is not the realm of reward but...

Fifth Allusion: It explains the reality of the Unity of Existence and the Unity of Witnessing.

Fourth Allusion: It explains that sainthood is easy but also difficult, short but also long and valuable but also dangerous.

Third Allusion: Sainthood is a proof of prophethood, and the Sufi way is a proof of the Shari'a.

Second Allusion: Remembrance of Allah and reflective thought.

First Allusion: Explanation of Sufism, path, sainthood, and spiritual journeying.

Ninth Section (The Nine Allusions): It is about sainthood and Sufism

The Eight Symbols, which is the Eighth Section

Seventh: Said Nursi’s answer to those who ask him, “Your former refutations and strivings in the way of Islam were not in your present style. Also you do not defend Islam against Europe in the manner of the philosophers and thinkers...

Sixth: It is about Mahdi’s victory over the secret society of Sufyan, Jesus eliminating the secret society of Dajjal (Antichrist) and becoming a member of the religion of Islam.

Fifth: The answer to the following question: “How can Mahdi improve the world in a few years at a time when religious feelings weaken and the society corrupts so much.

Fourth: The answer given to those who claim that Islam can be strengthened through nationalism.

Third: The answer to the following question of the people of innovation: “Europe advanced when it abandoned religious bigotry; is it not better for us to give up bigotry?”

Second: The answer to the following question of the people of innovation: In Europe, revolutionists and philosophers made progress by making a revolution in Catholicism; is a religious revolution like that not possible in Islam?”

First: The answer to the people of innovation who ask, “Europeans who have embraced Islam translate many things like the call to prayer and iqama into their own languages. Does the fact that the World of Islam does not object it mean that...

The Seventh Section, which is the Seventh Booklet (Seven Signs): It explains a secret and a reality of the following two verses with seven signs: (al-A’raf, 7:158.), (at-Tawba, 9:32.) It consists of seven answers to seven important questions.

Addendum to the Sixth Section, which is the Sixth Booklet: It was written to avoid the hatred and insults that can target us in the future.

A Sacred Date

Sixth Satanic Stratagem: The desire for physical comfort and neglecting one’s duty.

Fifth Satanic Stratagem: Egotism and conceit.

Fourth Satanic Stratagem: Nationalist feelings.

Third Satanic Stratagem: Greed and ambition.

Second Stratagem: The vein of fear.

First Stratagem: Desire for fame.