From: irfan@maxwell.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan)
Subject: DROPLET VOL 1, NO 4, PART 4
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Electrical & Computer Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:18:27 CST

DROPLET VOL 1, No 4, Part 4

D R O P L E T
From The Vast Ocean Of The Miraculous Qur'an

Translations from the Arabic and Turkish Writings of Bediuzzaman
Said Nursi, 

The Risale-i Noor

VOL 1, No 4, Part 4
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Moreover, the prophets, headed by the Most Noble Messenger
(pbuh), whose spirits are all illuminated; the pure and pious
ones (saleheen), who are the poles of all luminous hearts; and
the veracious servants of Allah (SIDDIKEEN) who are like the
sources from which spring all acute bright intellects- they
together give to human the glad tidings of eternal felicity. 
Further, they proclaim and testify with firm faith that hellfire
exists for the sake of the deviated and paradise for the truly
guided.  This, they do on the basis of hundreds of self-evident
miracles and decisive  verses; the promises and threats You
(Allah SWT) have repeated in all of Your sacred books and
heavenly scriptures; all Your sacred names and attributes, such
as power, mercy, grace, wisdom, splendor and beauty, that
necessitate the existence of the hereafter; the dignity of Your
Splendor and the Monarchy of Your Dominion; and their numerous
observations and witnessings that convey the traces and effects
of the hereafter, and beliefs and affirmations with the
certainty at the degrees of knowledge and witnessing (ilmen
yakeen and aynel yakeen).  

 O All-Wise and All-Powerful One!  O Compassionate and Merciful
One!  O Generous One Ever True to His Promise!  O Imperious,
Overpowering, and Glorious One, the Possessor of Splendor,
Magnificence and Excellence! You are exalted and exempt to the
hundred thousandth degree from making so many of Your sincere
friends appear to be liars, from causing the testimony and
implications of so many of Your Names and Attributes become
obsolete and deceitful; from refuting and failing to perform
that (promise of resurrection) which is decisively necessitated
by the Sovereignty of Your Dominion; from rejecting the
countless prayers and petitions for the hereafter of Your
countless servants whom You love and who seek Your love with
faith in You and in obedience to You; and from assenting to the
denial of resurrection made by the people of deviation who
insult your Glory and Majesty with their rebellious misbelief
and their rejection of Your promises, who transgress against the
Majesty of Your Lordship and attack the Mercy of Your Dominion. 
We proclaim to the hundred thousandth degree the transcendence
and sanctity of Your Infinite Justice, Beauty and Mercy, and
their exaltation above such (accusations of) infinite oppression
and abomination.  We believe with all of our power in the truth
and veracity of the testimony given by the hundreds of thousands
of truthful messengers, all  the  prophets,  purified  and pious
ones, the  heralds  of  Your  Sovereignty,  to  the treasures of
Your eternal mercy, to the riches of Your bounty concealed in
the everlasting realm, and the wondrous and miraculous
manifestations of Your beautiful names that will appear in their
plenitude in the realm of eternal felicity.  Their indications
are true and correct, their predictions are veracious and
destined to occur.  They teach Your servants, by Your command
and within the sphere of truthfulness, that the greatest ray to
emerge from the name "The Truth (Al Hakk)" which is the source,
the sun, and the protector of all verities-  is the
unsurpassable truth of resurrection.  In this they believe
firmly, and they teach it as the truth.  O Lord!  For the sake
of  the  teaching and instruction they give, bestow upon us and
the students of Risale-i Nur perfect belief and fair ending to
our lives, and grant that we may partake of their intercession!
Amen." "They said: 'Glory to You of knowledge we have none, save
what You have taught us: in truth it is You Who are perfect in
knowledge and wisdom.'" 

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End of the Droplet Vol 1, No 4.
To be continued from Vol 1, No 5   In$a Allah.
Your Br. Irfan in Islam.