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بِاسْمِهِ سُبْحَانَهُ

اَلسَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللّٰهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ

My Azîz, Siddîq Brothers and the Young Heroes Among the Nur Students!

At the end of the Staff of Mûsâ — in some of its copies — there is a reply that I gave to a question asked by the hero of the blessed students, junior Ali, who has a great rûh. Read it; in order to injure the value of the Risale-i Nur to an extent, some antagonists said to him: "Everyone knows Allah. An ordinary man believes in Allah just as an awliyâ does" and have tried to present the valuable and necessary emphasises of the Nur risales as excessive.

Now, in Istanbul, in order to deceive people and reduce the need for the haqiqahs of îmân within the Risale-i Nur, which everybody desperately needs like bread and water, some munafiqs, who harbour a far more terrifying idea of anarchy and have fallen into kufr al-mutlaq, want to oppose the Risale-i Nur by saying "Every nation and everybody know Allah. We do not really need new lessons about Him".

Whereas, to know Allah is to have a firm îmân in His rubûbiyyah encompassing the entire universe and in everything, particular or universal, from the particles to the stars being in the grasp of His control and its coming into existence through His qoudrah and irâdah; it is to have îmân in the sacred phrase لاَ اِلهَ اِلاَّ اللّٰهُ and its haqiqahs and in His having no shariks in His possession; to know Allah is to affirm these by heart. Otherwise, saying, “There is one Allah” but dividing His possession among causes and nature, attributing it to them, hashâ, accepting causes as His endless shariks and sources to which His possession referred, not acknowledging His irâdah and ‘ilm, the presence of which are with all things, refusing His strict commands and not acknowledging His attributes and the messengers and prophets He has sent, indeed, the haqiqah of îmân in Allah is not present in those words in any way. Rather, he says such words to provide a degree of consolation to himself against the worldly torments of the ma’nawî Jahannam in kufr al-mutlaq.

Yes, not denying is one thing, but having îmân is entirely different.

Yes, no conscious being in the universe can deny Al-Khâliq Zuljalâl, Whose existence is testified to by every particle of the universe. If he does so, he will remain silent and indifferent since the entire universe will refute him. But to have îmân in Him is to affirm Al-Khâliq by heart with all His attributes and names, by relying on the testimony of the entire universe as the Qur’an Great in Dignity instructs; it is to accept the commands He has sent through His messengers and to offer tawbah and feel regret in the heart when he sins and violates the commands. Otherwise, committing great sins freely but not offering istighfâr and being careless is evidence that he has no share of îmân in Allah.

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