The Letters 1 and 2 : From the Risale-I Nur Collection : (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi )
Description
ISBN: 9757388424, 9757388440
Author: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; Sukran Vahide (translator)
Publisher: Kaynak Publications (1998)
Pages: 583 Binding: Paperback
Description from the publisher:
Written by a celebrated Islamic scholar to his students in Turkey after his political exile in 1925, these letters follow the long-established traditions of correspondence between spiritual masters and their students in remote lands. Both expressions of friendship and long-distance tutorials on points of scholarly debate, most of the letters are answers to questions about theology and hold forth on such matters as the nature of hell, the suffering of innocents, the miracles of Prophet Muhammad, and the divine purpose of the universe.
Bediüzzaman Said Nursi was a 20th-century Turkish scholar of Islam and philosophy who advocated compatibility of Islamic thought with modernity. He was the author of the Risale-I Nur, a 5,000-page modern commentary on the Qur'an.
The Letters 1-2 consists of the most important letters written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi to his students between 1926 and 1932. The letters, arranged by the author, were written in response to his student's questions and to reply to those who had adopted anti-Islamic viewpoints and ideas. The author discusses, among many other subjects, life, Paradise and Hell, how the Qur'an and science view nature, divine unity, knowledge and love of God; and the advantages and risks of following a spiritual order.