From: irfan@maxwell.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan)
Subject: DROPLET VOL 1, NO 4, PART 2
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Electrical & Computer Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:18:53 CST

DROPLET VOL 1, No 4, Part 2

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 2
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One of the hundreds of consequences of belief in resurrection
relates, then, to the social life of man.  If the numerous other
aspects and benefits of this single consequence are deduced by
analogy with these four, it can be understood that the
occurrence of the truth of resurrection is as certain as the
great truth of humanity and its universal need.  It will be even
more manifest than the proof provided for the existence of food
by the existence of need in man's stomachs.  If the consequences
of the truth of resurrection are subtracted from the human
state, the essence of humanity - important, exalted, and vital
humanity - will descent to the state of carrion, a corpse fed on
by microbes.  

Let the sociologists, politicians and moralists who concern
themselves with the administration of humanity, with morals and
human society, pay close attention!  How do they intend to fill
this vacuum, and with what will they cure these deep wounds?

Second Remark:  We set forth now, in extremely compact fashion,
one proof that emerges from the confirmations given to
resurrection by the other pillars of faith. 

All the miracles indicating the messengerhood of Muhammad -peace
and blessings be upon him (pbuh)- all the proofs of his
prophethood, and all the evidences of his truthfulness, together
bear witness to and establish the reality of resurrection.  For
throughout his life that exalted being (pbuh) concentrated,
after the Oneness of Allah, on resurrection, among all the
articles of faith.  Indeed, all the miracles and the proofs
attesting to all the prophets, and causing men to affirm their
message, bear witness to the veracity of resurrection. 
Similarly, belief in "His Messengers" is necessarily followed by
belief in "His Books," and this too necessitates the truth of
resurrection.

All the miracles, proofs and facts that establish the veracity
of the Qur'an, the Miraculous Exposition, bear witness to and
prove the reality of resurrection and the certainty of its
occurrence. For about one-third of the Qur'an consists of
declarations of the hereafter, and most short suras begin with
very powerful verses concerning the hereafter. The Qur'an
proclaims, proves, and demonstrates the certainty of
resurrection with thousands of verses, explicitly or implicitly.
 For example:  "When the sun is folded up," [Qur'an 81:1]; "0
men, fear your Lord; the trembling of the hour is an awesome
event," [Qur'an 22:1]; "When the earth is convulsed," [Qur'an
99:1];"When the heavens are torn asunder," [Qur'an 82:1]; "When 
the  heavens  are  torn  apart," [Qur'an 84:1]; "Concerning what
do they dispute,"  [Qur'an 58:1]; "Has the story reached you of
the overwhelming event?" [Qur'an 88:1]. Just as these verses at
the beginning of thirty or forty suras show with the utmost
certainty that resurrection is the most important and essential
of the truths concerning humanity, many other verses also
demonstrate, prove, and convince the various evidences of its
reality.

Is it at all possible that belief in resurrection should be
untrue, -a belief, even though a single indication of a single
verse would have sufficed, made as manifest as the sun by the
additional thousands of affirmations and proclamations put forth
in a book only few verses of which bears the fruit of all the
numerous scientific and cosmic truths as contained in the
Islamic sciences? Would it not then be thousand times more
impossible and absurd to deny the resurrection, than denying the
sun or the existence of the universe?  If a sultan sometimes
sends forth an army into battle merely in order to affirm a
single one of his commands; is it, then, at all possible that
that most Glorious and Exalted Sovereign Sultan will permit His
words, His promises and threats, to appear as lies to be
regarded as untrue?  

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To be continued In$a Allah.
Your Br. Irfan in Islam.