From: irfan@maxwell.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan)
Subject: DROPLET VOL 1, NO 4, PART 3
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Electrical & Computer Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:38:02 CST

DROPLET VOL 1, No 4, Part 3

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 3
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Now, as the proof to the reality of resurrection, a single
indication suffices from that glorious spiritual monarch
(Rasulullah SAV) who has uninterruptedly ruled for thirteen (now
fourteen) centuries over countless spirits, intellects, hearts
and souls, within the sphere of righteousness, wisdom, and
truth, and has administered and educated the humanity. After  he
has proven and demonstrated that reality, not with one
indication but with thousands of explicit evidences, is not the
ignorant fool who fails to recognize such truth worthy of
torment in hellfire, and will it not be just for him to suffer
therein?  

Similarly, all the heavenly scriptures and sacred books, each
addressed to a certain age and time,  accept the truth of
resurrection as set forth with repeated and explicit proofs  in 
the  Qur'an, a  book  addressed  to the future and to all ages.
They accept it in  a  fashion  appropriate to their  age,  and
set it forth in a veiled, concealed and general fashion,  but
they assert it so powerfully as to constitute a  thousandfold 
signature to the claim of the Qur'an.

We  will include  here,  because  of  its  relevance to the
theme of resurrection, a proof of resurrection drawn from the
Treatise of Supplication. This proof, containing the testimony
borne to "Belief in the Last Day" by  the  other  pillars  of 
belief,  specially belief in Allah's Messengers and His books,
is  brief  but  powerful,  and  it suffices  to dissolve all
doubts. We thus say in supplication:

"O Merciful Lord!  Through the teaching of the Most Noble
Messenger (Rasul-u Ekrem ASV) and the instruction of the
All-Wise Qur'an,  I have understood that all the sacred books
and prophets, headed by the Qur'an and the Most Noble Messenger,
unanimously testify and bear witness that the manifestations of
all of Allah's Splendid (Celal) and Beauteous (Cemal) Names that
are to be seen everywhere in this world will continue in
eternity in still more refulgent form; that the compassionate
bounties and the merciful manifestations, samples of which we
observe in this transient world, will persist and continue in
more brilliant fashion in the realm of eternal felicity; and
that the human, and all the living creatures and even things,
who are in absolute desire and need of those bounties and
merciful gifts are all attracted to those meaningful samples
with pleasure and accompany each other with love and affection
during their brief lives in this world,  will remain together
eternally in the hereafter.  

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

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