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)
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The self-evident testimony to the existence of the truth of perfections given by all the exalted instances of wisdom in the universe, all its wondrous beauties, its just laws, its wise purposes, and in particular its testimony to the perfections of the Creator, Who brought forth the cosmos out of the void and then administered it in every way miraculously and beauteously, as well as the perfections of man, who is the conscious mirror of the Creator - such testimony is extremely clear. (The Rays)
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All the beauty in the universe comes from the beauty of the beauteous one the constantly changing and renewed universe describes and defines through all its creatures and the tongues of their mirror-like beings. The Rays
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O my soul! Make the following divine principle a guide for you: مَنْ اٰمَنَ بِالْقَدَرِ اَمِنَ مِنَ الْكَدَرِ (Hadith - ad-Daylami). Do not pursue temporary, unimportant pleasures like foolish children (Badiuzzaman Said Nursi)
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Since the sphere of the licit is sufficient for all the pleasures, delights and joys of the spirit, heart and soul, do not approach the sphere of the illicit. For one pleasure within that sphere sometimes leads to a thousand pains. It will also cause the loss of the All-Merciful One's favors, which are true and lasting pleasures. (The Words)
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O my conceited soul! You resemble a grape-vine. Do not become proud! The vine itself did not attach the bunches of grapes. Someone else attached them to it. (The Words - Twenty-sixth Word)
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My Compassionate Sustainer has made the world a house for me, the sun and moon lamps for it, and the spring, a bunch of flowers for me, and summer, a table of bounties, and the animals, He has made my servants. And He has made plants the decorated furnishings of my house. (The Words)
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"If the reward yielded by good works at other times are tenfold, in the month of Rajab they are more than a hundredfold, in Sha‘ban they exceed three hundredfold, and in Ramadan they reach a thousandfold, while on Fridays in Ramadan they reach thousands and on the Night of Power may reach thirty thousand.
I congratulate you with all my heart and soul on the blessed month of Ramadan. May Almighty Allah make the Night of Power the equivalent of a thousand months for all of you, and accept it as an eighty-year lifetime of worship." (The Rays)
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Happy the husband who sees the wife’s firm religion and follows her, and himself becomes pious in order not to lose his companion of eternal life. Happy the wife who sees her husband’s firmness in religion and becomes pious so as not to lose her eternal friend. (The Flashes)
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There are no days dearer to Allah among the days in which Allah is worshipped than the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah. The fasting in one of those days is equivalent to one year's fasting; and the prayers performed at one of those nights are equal to the prayers performed at Laylat al-Qadr." (Tirmidhi: Sawm, 52; Ibn Majah, Siyam,39)
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It is impossible for a book every word of which includes a book and every letter of which includes a line to emerge without a writer. The book of the universe is dependent on existence of the Eternal Maker. Those who are not drunk can be witnesses for the book of the universe by believing in the Eternal Maker. (Masnawi an- Nuriyya)
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Repel (Evil) with what is better: then will he between whom and thee was hatred become as it were thy friend and intimate! (Surah Fussilat 34)
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Just as the most precious jewel in the treasury of Mercy and its doorkeeper is the Prophet Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), so too is its first key In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. And its most easy key is the prayer for the Prophet. (The Flashes)
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All the beauty in the universe comes from the beauty of the beauteous one the constantly changing and renewed universe describes and defines through all its creatures and the tongues of their mirror-like beings. The Rays
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You are a guest here. You will go somewhere else after you leave here. A guest does not bind his heart to something that he cannot take with him. You will leave this city as you leave this house. You will also leave this ephemeral world. Then, try to leave this world in dignity. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)
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O MY BROTHERS OF THE HEREAFTER!
And O my companions in the service of the Quran! You should know—and you do know—that in this world sincerity is the most important
principle in works pertaining to the Hereafter in particular; it is the greatest strength, and the most acceptable intercessor, and the firmest point of support, and the shortest way to reality, and the most acceptable prayer, and the most wondrous means of achieving one’s goal, and the highest quality, and the purest worship. (The Rays)
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The strange creatures whose splendid sustenance is given them out of simple sand and water, and the living creatures of the seas with their well-ordered beings, especially of the fishes who populate the seas with one fish producing a million eggs, there is not one but through its creation and its duties, its being sustained and administered, nurtured and superintended, it indicates its Creator and testifies to its Provider. (The Rays)
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The universe is a tree. Elements are its branches. Plants are its leaves. Animals are its flowers. The brightest, most luminous, best, most generous, honorable and pleasant fruit among them is Hazrat Muhammad, the Master of all prophets and apostles, the Leader of Muttaqis and the beloved one of the Lord of the Realms.
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In which case, only the One Who fills the whole face of the earth with all the fruits can give an apple to someone as true sustenance. And only He can be his true Provider." (The Twenty-Fifth Word)
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The essence of knowledge, the king and sultan of sciences is the science of belief. (The Words)
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"O Allah! Make the months of Rajab and Sha'ban blessed for us, and let us reach the month Ramadan." (Jamiu's-Saghir, 2/90)
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O Most Merciful of the Merciful! In veneration of Your Most Noble Messenger (PBUH) allow us his intercession, give us success in following his Sunnah, and make us neighbors to his Family and Companions in the Realm of Bliss! Amin! Amin! Amin!. (The Rays)
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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. (From Risale-i Nur Collection, Masnawi an-Nuriyya)
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A single Ramadan can produce fruits equal to that of a lifetime of eighty years. The fact that, according to the Qur’an, the Night of Power is more auspicious than a thousand months. (The Letters)
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The most virtuous prayer after fard prayers is tahajjud prayer, which is performed in the middle of the night. The most virtuous fasting after the month of Ramadan is fasting in the month of Muharram, the month of Allah. (Hadith - Jamiu's Saghir 1274)
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All the beauty in the universe comes from the beauty of the beauteous one the constantly changing and renewed universe describes and defines through all its creatures and the tongues of their mirror-like beings. (The Rays)
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It is as easy for Him to create the spring as to create a flower. He is One for Whose power it is as easy to create all animals as to create a fly. (The Words)
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O ye who believe! if a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye have done. (Surah Al-Hujraat, 6)
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All the beauty in the universe comes from the beauty of the beauteous one the constantly changing and renewed universe describes and defines through all its creatures and the tongues of their mirror-like beings. (Risale-i Nur Collection - The Rays)
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Innocent conversation with your innocent children in your home is more pleasurable than a hundred cinemas. (The Flashes)
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They consider the snow to be very cold and uninviting, but under that cold and unpleasing veil there are aims so warm and results so sweet that they defy description. (The Words)
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Yes, nothing is difficult for the power that produces a huge fig tree from a fig seed and produces a big melon by fixing it with a thin stem. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)
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Abdurrahman bin Awf (r.a.) narrates: Allah definitely rendered it fard to fast in Ramadan. I rendered tarawih prayer sunnah for you. If a person performs fasting during the day and performs prayers at night by believing and expecting the reward from Allah, He will eliminate his previous sins. (Hadith - Jamiu's Saghir)
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"The one who gives life, is He alone, in which case, it is also He alone Who creates all things. For the spirit, light, leaven, fundament, result, and summary of the universe is life, so whoever grants life must also be the Creator of the whole universe. The one who grants life, then, is certainly He; it is the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One." Badiuzzaman, (The Letters)
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Now hath come unto you an messenger from amongst yourselves: it grieves him that ye should perish: ardently anxious is he over you: to the Believers is he most kind and merciful. (Surah at-Taubah 128)
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Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises all beings in the heavens and on earth do celebrate, and the birds (of the air) with wings outspread? Each one knows its own (mode of) prayer and praise. And Allah knows well all that they do. (Surah an-Noor,41)
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That is to say, it is as if ‘He is One’ is saying to man: “God is One. Do not wear yourself out having recourse to other things; do not demean yourself and feel indebted to them; do not flatter them and fawn on them and humiliate yourself; do not follow them and make things difficult for yourself; do not fear them and tremble before them; because the Monarch of the universe is One, the key to all things is with Him, the reins of all things are in His hand, everything will be resolved by His command. If you find Him, you will be saved from endless indebtedness, countless fears.” (The Twentieth Letter)
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Fasting in Ramadan, then, is the key to a true, sincere, extensive, and universal thankfulness. For at other times of the year, most of those who are not in difficult circumstances do not realize the value of many bounties since they do not experience real hunger. Those whose stomachs are full and especially if they are rich, do not understand the degree of bounty there is in a piece of dry bread. But when it is time to break the fast, the sense of taste testifies that the dry bread is a most valuable Divine bounty in the eyes of a believer. (The Letters)
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Prepare yourselves; you will go to another and permanent realm, a realm such that this one will appear as a dungeon by comparison. (The Words)
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Whosesoever this flower is the seal of, the stamp of, the signature of, the impress of, all the flowers of that species throughout the earth are surely His seals, His stamps. (The Words)
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Since there is death and we shall enter the grave, and this life departs and an eternal life comes. (The Letters)
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Since you are convinced that all things and acts are from Allah, you should consent to whatever happens to you, whether pleasing or harmful. (The Words)
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The heavens and the earth become incensed. And through this allusion it says: "One Whose commands the skies and the earth obey like two obedient soldiers may not be rebelled against", restraining in a most awesome fashion. (The Words)
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Just as the heavens and stars testify to your existence and unity, so with its clouds, lightning, thunder, winds, and rain, does the atmosphere testify to Your necessary existence and unity. (The Rays)
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Leave off your pride, understand your impotence, recognize your Owner, know your duties, learn why you came to this world! (The Flashes)
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Since we have a Compassionate Creator, there can be no exile for us! Since He exists, everything exists for us. Since He exists, the angels exist, too. The world is not empty. Lonely mountains and empty deserts are full of Almighty Allah’s servants. Apart from His conscious servants, stones and trees also become like familiar friends when seen through His light and on His account. They may converse with us and give us enjoyment. (The Flashes)
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And the earth We have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things in due balance. And We have provided therein means of subsistence― for you and for those for whose sustenance ye are not responsible. And there is not a thing but its (sources and) treasures (inexhaustible) are with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable measures. Surah al-Hijr 15/19-21
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