This document provides an overview of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and his Risale-i Nur (Epistles of Light) work. It discusses that the Risale-i Nur is a Quranic commentary that explains and proves the truths of belief through powerful arguments. It contains nearly 6000 pages dealing with topics like divine unity, prophethood, the resurrection, justice, morality, philosophy and defending against irrelevant thoughts of unbelief. The Risale-i Nur has been translated into over 45 languages and provides concise explanations of the Quran that appeal to people of all backgrounds.

1. BEDİÜZZAMAN
SAİD NURSİ

2. Qur’an
divine unity (al-tawhîd)
prophethood (alnubûwwa)
the resurrection of the dead
(al-hashr)
justice (al-'adâla)
It is obvious that Qur’an is most miraculous book, sending to all
people and other creature to introduce The whom written it.
The fundamental aims of the Qur'an and its essential elements
are fourfold:

3. What is the Qur'an? How is it defined?
 the key to the truths concealed beneath the lines of
events
 the tongue of the Unseen World in the Manifest World
 it is the sun, foundation, and plan of the spiritual
world of Islam
 the expounding word, lucid exposition, decisive proof,
and clear interpreter of the divine essence, attributes,
names, and functions

4.  the expounding word, lucid exposition, decisive proof,
and clear interpreter of the divine essence, attributes,
names, and functions
 the light and water of Islam, the macroanthropos
 the true guide and leader urging humanity to
prosperity and happiness

5. Also…
 a book of law
 a book of prayer
 a book of wisdom
 a book of worship
 a book of command and summons
 a book of invocation

6.  it is a unique, comprehensive sacred book
comprising many books to which recourse may be had
for the needs of all mankind.
 it is a revealed scripture resembling a sacred library
that offers treatises suitable for all the various ways
and different paths of the all the saints.

7. The Qur’an only for Muslims,is right?
 No,to all mankind. Because;
 The Qur'an is a revealed scripture which contains in
summary the books of all the prophets, whose
times were all different, the writings of all the saints,
whose paths are all different, and the works of all the
purified scholars, whose ways are all different.

8. Its six aspects are all brilliant and free of the
darkness of doubts and scepticism
 its point of support is certain heavenly revelation and
the pre-eternal Word;
 its aim and goal is self-evidently eternal
happiness; its inner aspect is clearly pure
guidance;
 its upper aspect is necessarily the lights of belief;

9.  its lower aspect is undeniably evidence and proof;
 its right aspect is evidently the surrender of the heart
and conscience;
 its left aspect is manifestly the subjugation of the
reason and intellect;
its fruit is indisputably the mercy of the Most
Merciful and the realm of Paradise; and its rank
and desirability are assuredly accepted by the
angels and man and the jinn.

10. A famous European of the last century who was
also a scholar and philosopher said;
 "I have studied all the revealed books, but since they
are corrupted, I have been unable to find the true
wisdom I was searching for, for the happiness of
mankind. Then I saw that the Qur'an of Muhammad
was far superior to all the other Books. I found wisdom
in all its words. There is no other work that will serve
man's happiness like this. Such a work cannot be the
word of man. Those who say it is Muhammad's work
are denying the imperatives of knowledge. That is, the
Qur'an is self-evidently the word of God."
Prince Bismarck

11.  A famous European scholar and philosopher of the 19th
century, Carlyle, did not hold back from proclaiming in
the loudest voice to philosophers and Christian scholars
the following, which he also wrote in his works, that Islam
was born like a brilliant flame and devoured the religions
of its time as though they were dead wood. It was Islam's
right to do this he said, for it was a reality, while the other
religions lacked reality. He said also that the words most
worthy to be heeded first are those of Muhammad (Upon
whom be blessings and peace), for the true word was his.
He said too that if the truth of Islam is doubted then the
most self-evident matters should be doubted,because the
most self-evident and necessary truth is Islam.(1)

16.  ‘’So, supported by the fact that the clever fields of
Europe and America have produced crops of brilliant
and exacting scholars like Carlyle and Bismarck, I say
with all assurance:
Europe and America are pregnant with Islam; one day
they will give birth to an Islamic state. Just as the
Ottomans were pregnant with Europe and gave birth
to a European state.’’
Said Nursi

17. There are two sorts of Qur’anic
commentaries:
The first is the well known sort of commentary.
Commentaries of this sort expound and elucidate the
Qur'an's phraseology, words, and sentences.

18.  The second sort explain, prove, and elucidate with
powerful arguments the Qur'an's truths related to
belief. This sort has great importance. Sometimes the
well-known, externalist commentaries include this
sort in summary fashion.
 But the Risale-i Nur has made it its basis directly, and
is a commentary on the Qur'an's meanings which
silences obstinate philosophers in unprecedented
manner.

19. As a short view
 Risale-i Nur was written between in 1925-1950.
 all of books comprise nearly 6000 pages.
 İn addition becoming a tafsir,but not keeping to order
of ayah as in done in classic Islamic exegenesis, it deals
with also morality and philosophic .
 As mentioned, main topic is belief , its necessitates
and protecting from irrelevant thoughts possessing in
unbelief.

20.  Since the Qur'anic verses in the Risale-i Nur are expounded
in Turkish(*) with supreme art and skill without anything
of their virtues, which are the Qur'an's greatest miracle,
being lost, every class of people -men, women, officials,
tradesmen, scholars and philosophers- can read and
understand it. Profiting from it to the extent they can, they
become ever more attached to it. High school students,
university students, professors, lecturers, and philosophers
all read it. These educated classes profit from it to an
extraordinary degree, affirming its originality and the
superior art of its composition, and feeling a strong desire
to read the whole work.
The Fourteenth Ray, 543, Zübeyir Gündüzalp
*now traslated into nearly 45 different languages

21. Also other topics
 Islam and relations with other religions
 Divine Determining (Qadar)
 Resurrection,
 Eternity
 Proofs of Qur’an belongings to Allah

22. An original question from Words,The
Sixteenth Word
 "The Oneness of the Divine Essence together with the
universality of the Divine acts, the Unity of Almighty God's
person together with His unassisted comprehensive
dominicality, His Singleness together with His unshared
all-embracing disposal, His being beyond space and yet
present everywhere, His infinite exaltedness together with
being close to all things, and His being One and yet
Himself holding all matters in His hand, are among the
truths of the Qur'an. Yet the Qur'an is All-Wise, and that
which is Wise does not impose on the reason things which
are unreasonable. And the reason sees an apparent
contradiction between these things. I would like an
explanation of them which will impel the reason to
submit."

23.  The Collection of Risale-i Nur proves and explains
the truths of faith in conformity with modern
science through rational proofs and evidence.