From: irfan@bode.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan)
Subject: DROPLET VOL 1, NO 4, PART 1
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Date: 15 Dec 92 20:54:44 CST

DROPLET VOL 1, No 4, Part 1

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 1
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HASHIR  AND  AKHIRAH (RESURRECTION AND THE HEREAFTER) THE NINTH
RAY (continued from Droplet vol.1, no.3)

Second Example: With the life in the hereafter, the other class
of human, the elderly people can only stand firm against the
nearing grave and they can only find consolation against the
termination of their worldly life and being have to close their
beautiful world very soon.  The unbearable pains and despair in
their quickly saddened souls resulting from approaching death
and annihilation can only be confronted with the hope of eternal
life.  Otherwise, those respectful elderlies who need compassion
so much and whose hearts need comfort and peace more than ever,
and those very worried (elderly) mothers and fathers would feel
such devastating cries in their souls and turmoil in their
hearts that this world would become a prison for them and this
life itself would be a rather heavy pain to endure.  

Third Example: The young generation -who will take over the
responsibilities of the human society, but at the same time
whose faculties are stirred intensely and whose selfish desires
may go to extremes- can only be stopped from any wrong doings
-like rebellious acts and destruction of the orderly
continuation of the society- by the idea of the Hell. 
Otherwise, without the fear from Hell, but instead with the
principle, "might is right,", that drunk youth, following their
selfish desires, would change the world into a Hell for the weak
and the poor.  So they would change their high human ranks into
the ranks of the lowest wild animals.

Fourth Example: The most comprehensive center of the human
society in worldly life, the most fundamental resource, and a
paradise and refuge of the happy worldly life is the family
life.  Yes, the home of everybody is his world.  The life and
happiness of any family life can be continued only by the
respect which is sincere, serious, and loyal, and by the mercy
which is real and compromising.  This true respect and sincere
mercy can only come by after aiming at an everlasting
friendship, immortal companionship, and eternally bonding
togetherness.  There can only  be a true kinship like that of
father and sun, brotherhood, and friendship in infinite time
with unlimited life.  For example, a man would say, "My wife
will forever be my company in the everlasting life for eternal
times.  If she, by time, lost her beauty and became an old
women, it would be allright, because an everlasting beauty will
be coming to her.  For the sake of such an infinite
companionship, I would do every necessary compromise and show
merciful compassion."  

Thus, he can consider his wife with everlasting beauty and treat
her with utmost mercy and compassion.  Otherwise, a
companionship that ends in eternal seperation after a few hours
of bodily marriage would be without doubt superficial, temporary
and unfounded.  It would be nothing more than the sexual
instinct of animals, and consist only of artificial compassion
and the pretense of respect.  As is the case with animals, other
interests and powerful feelings would arise and, defeating that
respect and concern, turn the worldly paradise into a worldly
hell.  
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To be continued In$a Allah.
Your Br. Irfan in Islam.
 
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