بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ الصَّلاَةُ وَ السَّلاَمُ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلَى آلِهِ وَ صَحْبِهِ اَجْمَعِينَ

 عيسى عليه السلام -  ‘ÎSÂ (as) – NASRÂNIYYAH

JESUS – CHRISTIANITY- 4

THE MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE

1. Favourable Europe and harmful Europe:

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi divides the Christian world, such as Europe and America, into two groups, favourable and harmful. According to the good tidings of certain âyahs and hadiths, it is hoped that these ahl al-kitâb who fell into extreme ghaflah and forgot the âkhirah amidst the dissipation and dhalâlah yet not tied to the irreligious currents will gradually join with the favourable Christians. (Qur’an 4:159) It is as follows:

Let it not be misunderstood. Europe is two: the first Europe follows the sciences serving justice and equity and the crafts beneficial for the life of society through the faydh it has received from the true religion of ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm. I do not address this first Europe. Rather, I address the corrupted second Europe, which, supposing that the evils of civilisation are virtues, drives mankind towards dissipation (safahat) and dhalâlah through the darkness of naturalist philosophy.

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Know, O second Europe! Holding a sick philosophy soiled with dhalâlah in your right hand and a dissipated and detrimental civilisation in your left hand, you claim that the happiness of mankind is with these two!

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O Europe, corrupted by dissipation and dhalâlah and distanced from the religion of ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm! With your blind genius having a single eye like the Dajjal, you gifted this Jahannam-like state to the rûh of mankind. You then come to realise that it is such a disease that has no cure; it throws man from the a’lâ ‘illiyyin to the asfal sâfilîn and lowers him to the most unfortunate level of animals. The remedy you have found for this disease is attractive playthings, sedative desires and fantasies of yours, which serve to numb the senses temporarily. May this remedy of yours kill you, and it will kill!

The Seventeenth Flash-Fifth Note

2. Irreligious currents are against the Muslim-Christian alliance. The following is a warning of Hazrat Bediuzzaman:

It is necessary that missionaries and pious Christians, as well as Nurjus, should be extremely cautious. Indeed, because with the idea of defending itself against the attacks of the religions of Islam and Christianity, the current arising from the north1 will work to destroy the alliance between Islam and the missionaries. In respect of Islam having a permissive attitude towards the lower classes and inviting the bourgeoise to help the lower classes through zakat being wâjib and interest (ribâ) being haram and not permitting the oppression of the bourgeoise towards the lower classes, the current arising from the north can deceive Muslims by giving privileges to the lower classes, and it can draw some of them on their side.

Emirdağ Addendum-1 (159)

4. Concerning the innocent Christians oppressed and who died in the Second World War, Hazrat Bediuzzaman stated that they might have a share from the truth of a sort of fatrah2. It is as follows:

Since the True Religion of Hazrat ‘Îsâ (as) will reign at the âkhirzaman and stand shoulder to shoulder with Islam, indeed, the present disasters suffered by the oppressed Christians who are the followers of Hazrat ‘Îsâ (as) and who have been left in darkness, like a fatrah, can be considered a type of shahâdah for them.

 The Kastamonu Addendum (111)

A Note: While the majority of the Christian priests inculcate baseless and false information and ideas against Islam, the Prophet Muhammad (asm) turned the attention of the Muslims towards ‘Îsâ (as) with his many hadiths. He gave the good tidings that ‘Îsâ (as) will be sent in the âkhirzaman, will scatter the current of irreligion and will rule over a vast area. Consequently, for centuries, Muslims await Îsâ (as) being sent. This point demonstrates that the Christian leaders are defeated by their bigotry, which arises from their desire to uphold their authority. While Muhammad (asm) consistently upheld the truth and rejected all bigotries emerging from emotions. Thus, true Christians are now seriously working to correct this error and will succeed, InshâAllah.

5. The struggle of irreligious currents against the samâwî religions:

Hazrat Bediuzzaman points out the necessity of the two great religions (Islam and Christianity) making peace due to the irreligious currents interfering World War II. It is as follows:

Because, during this world war, when two governments3 mutually claim and dispute for world supremacy, a case has opened in the court of peace and reconciliation between the two great religions, and a mighty struggle of the terrifying current of irreligion against samâwî religions has started…

 Sikke-i Tasdik-i Gaybi (191)

The continuation of the letter emphasises that in such difficult and corrupt times, religious life should be fortified rather than plunging into worldly struggles.

6. The Qur’an and the eternal happiness:

Bediuzzaman points out that due to various instances of unrest caused by brutal strife among mankind and the dire consequences of corrupt politics and dissipation (safahat) to the point of insanity, which are propagated and instilled by corrupt Europe, becoming evident, mankind will awaken. Mankind will deeply feel their need for the truths of the Qur’an. Consequently, the Risale-i Nur, which proves and demonstrates those truths with decisive proofs, will warn and guide mankind. It is as follows:

We shall briefly point out a very extensive and lengthy haqiqah that came to the heart on the night of Qadr. It is as follows:

Due to

• the most vigorous tyranny and despotism of this last World War,
• its merciless destruction and its scattering and ruining of hundreds of innocents because of a single enemy,
• the extreme despair of the defeated,
• the extreme haste and anxiety of the victors and their extreme pangs of conscience arising from being unable to maintain their dominance and repair the great destruction they made,
• the entire transitoriness and temporariness of the life of the world and the deceptiveness of the fantasies of civilisation and their being soporific becoming apparent to all,
• the human essence and the exalted dispositions in the fitrah of mankind being fearsomely wounded in the majority of mankind,
• ghaflah, dhalâlah and the deaf and harsh nature being smashed under the diamond sword of the Qur'an, and
• the extremely ugly and terribly cruel true face of world politics, which is the most suffocating, deceptive and widest veil of ghaflah and dhalâlah, becoming apparent,

most certainly and undoubtedly, the fitrah of man will search with all its strength for eternal life, which it truly loves and seeks, since worldly life, which is the metaphorical beloved of mankind, is thus ugly and transient, just as the signs of it are seen in the North, the West and America.

And most certainly and undoubtedly, the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition,

• which for one thousand three hundred and sixty years, each century has had three hundred and fifty million students,
• and each of the laws and claims of which is signed and affirmed by millions of people of haqiqah,
• and which exists in the hearts of millions of hâfidhs with sacredness and instructs mankind through their tongues every minute,
• and which, in a style that has no similarity with any book, gives the good tidings of eternal life and everlasting happiness for mankind and heals the wounds of all mankind,
• and which indisputably gives the good tidings of eternal life, gives the lesson of eternal happiness with its certain unshakeable proofs and innumerable indubitable arguments, claims tens of thousands of times and informs explicitly and indicatively with thousands of its severe, powerful and repeated âyahs;

most certainly, if mankind does not lose its mind entirely and material or ma’nawî qiyâmah does not erupt over its head, the broad continents and the great governments of the face of the earth will search for the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, and after comprehending its haqiqahs, they will embrace it with all their lives and rûhs like the famous preachers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and England, who are ready to accept the Qur'an, and an important community in America searching for the haqq religion. Because in point of this haqiqah, there is absolutely no equivalent to the Quran, and there cannot be, and nothing can take the place of this great miracle.

SECONDLY: Since the Risale-i Nur has demonstrated its service as a diamond sword in the hand of this greatest miracle and compelled its stubborn enemies to submit; the Risale-i Nur, which heralds the treasures of the Qur'an in a way that will completely illuminate both the heart, the rûh and the feelings and will give the medicine they need, and which has no source or authority other than the Qur'an and is its ma’nawî miracle, performs that duty completely; it has vanquished completely the extremely obstinate zindiqs and the fearsome propagandas against it; with the Risale on Nature4, it smashed nature to pieces, which is the most rigid strong castle of dhalâlah; with the Sixth Topic of the Fruit and the First, Second, Third and Eighth Proofs of The Staff of Mûsâ, by scattering the ghaflah, it has demonstrated the nûr of Tawhîd in an immensely brilliant fashion in the densest, most suffocating and widest scopes of the sphere of ghaflah and the most extensive veils of science.

The Addendum Of The Second Station Of The Thirteenth Word/An Important Matter Warned On The Night Of Qadr

7. ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm gives the good tidings of the coming of Muhammad (asm):

Yes, my Brothers, Hazrat ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm said in the noble Injil, “I am leaving so that a comforter shall come to you.” It means that by stating that Ahmad ‘Alayhissalâtu Wassalam shall come, the Qur'an shows the greatest result and aim and offers the greatest gift and solace to mankind.

The Kastamonu Addendum-215

(For further explanation please refer to The Nineteenth Letter-The Sixteenth Sign.)

8. The Muslim-Christian Alliance against irreligion and anarchy:

In one of his letters addressed to the official authorities, Bediuzzaman states that in the face of these worldly struggles and the intensification of anarchy, the favourable ones amongst the Christian states and nations will seek the unity of the Islamic countries and their strengthening. He also expresses the necessity of Islamic unity. It is as follows:

The indications of the matter discussed in the risale of An Important Matter Warned On The Night Of Qadr in the Youth Guide are now visible both in America and Europe. Therefore, the true strength of our present government is in relying on the haqiqahs of the Qur'an and serving them. Through this, within the sphere of Islamic Unity, the government can gain a reserve force of three hundred and fifty million brothers through Islamic brotherhood. Formerly, the Christian states did not support such Islamic Unity, but now, since Communism and Anarchism have emerged, both America and the European states are compelled to support the Qur'an and the Islamic Unity.

 Emirdağ Addendum-2 (54)

Bediuzzaman uses the following concise expression to explain that when Islamic Unity is formed, the representative of it will ally with the pious Christians:

The third duty of that person5 is to serve the religion of Islam by building the Islamic Khilâfah on Islamic Unity and allying with the pious Christians. This duty can be fulfilled only through millions of self-sacrificing individuals and with a great sovereignty and power.

Sikke-i Tasdik-i Gaybi (9)

9. The Muslim-Christian Alliance against transgressive irreligion is one of the most significant matters of our age. A meaningful hadith that is related to this matter decrees:

سَتُصَالِحُونَ الرُّومَ صُلْحًا آمِنًا فَتَغْزُونَ أَنْتُمْ وَهُمْ عَدُوًّا مِنْ وَرَائِكُمْ فَتُنْصَرُونَ وَتَغْنَمُونَ وَتَسْلَمُونَ6

“In the future, you will make a secure peace with the Byzantines7, then you and they will fight together against a common enemy, and you will be victorious; you will take the prize, and you will be safe.”

This noble hadith informs the Muslim-Christian Alliance against widespread irreligiousness and anarchy. The expression صُلْحًا آمِنًا8 implicitly conveys that the intense anarchy violating general peace and security in society will create a dire need for the restoration of public safety and that the power necessary to ensure security will only be through a Muslim-Christian Alliance.

The following sections provide explanations of this hadith in relation to our time:

Now, the people of îmân should unite not only with their Muslim brothers but also with pious and devout Christians. It is essential to set aside disputed matters and avoid contention because kufr al-mutlaq attacks the people of religion.

Emirdağ Addendum-1  (206)

 

As proof, it may be mentioned that according to a sahîh hadith, just as in âkhirzaman, the truly pious followers of Îsâ (as) will unite with the people of the Qur'an, and they will resist together against their common enemy, zandaqa. At this time, too, by not making the points of disagreement a cause of dispute and conflict temporarily, the people of religion and the people of haqiqah need to unite sincerely not only with their fellow believers and brothers and those who follow the same way but also with the truly pious and devout Christians against their common enemy, the attacking irreligious people.

 The Twentieth Flash-Second Cause

10. The Alliance between North America and the Muslim World:

In a warning he wrote in 1946, Bediuzzaman states that America will support Islam against the harmful part of Europe, which gradually becomes more aggressive and cruel towards the Islamic world. It is as follows:

An important concern and a consolation come to my heart that the consequence of these widespread struggles9 will give birth to destruction and the Dajjalic atrocity — even more harmful than that which resulted from the world war — in Europe, which is the very source of this civilisation and its foundational support.

The means of consolation for this concern is this: through the complete awakening of the Islamic world and by the New World accepting the true religion of Christianity as the principle for their actions and uniting with the Islamic world and by Injil uniting with the Qur’an and following it, they will resist against those two terrifying coming currents10 with a samâwî assistance and will be victorious, InshâAllah.

Emirdağ Addendum-1 (58)

11. The principles of alliance with the people of the book (Ahl al-kitâb):

A nobel âyah from the Qur’an (3:64) that decrees the fundamental principles of uniting with the people of the book (Ahl al-kitâb):

قُلْ يَٓااَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ تَعَالَوْا اِلٰى كَلِمَةٍ سَوَٓاءٍ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ اَلاَّ نَعْبُدَ اِلاَّ اللّٰهَ وَلاَ نُشْرِكَ بِه۪ شَيْئًا وَلاَ يَتَّخِذَ بَعْضُنَا بَعْضًا اَرْبَابًا مِنْ دُونِ اللّٰهِۜ فَاِنْ تَوَلَّوْا فَقُولُوا اشْهَدُوا بِاَنَّا مُسْلِمُونَ

Say: "O people of the book (Ahl al-kitâb)! Let us get together under the conditions of what is common between us. That is, we shall worship none but Allah; we shall not associate any partners with Him; we shall not take human beings as lords beside Allah." If they turn away, then tell them, "Bear witness that we are Muslims (peaceable)."

Here, it is completely demonstrated how various consciousnesses, different nations, different religions and different samâwî books can be united under a fundamental consciousness and a word of haqq and how an extensive, evident, mustaqîm way of hidâyah and a law of freedom Islam taught to the world of mankind. And it is indicated that from that moment these are not restricted to the Arabs and the Persians alone.

 (Hak Dini Kur’an Dili Tefsiri:1131)

The âyah (5:82) decrees the closeness and friendship of favourable Christians to the Muslims. Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır explains the âyah in his tafsir as follows:

11 وَلَتَجِدَنَّ اَقْرَبَهُمْ مَوَدَّةً لِلَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا الَّذ۪ينَ قَالُٓوا اِنَّا نَصَارٰىۜ ذٰلِكَ بِاَنَّ مِنْهُمْ قِسّ۪يس۪ينَ وَرُهْبَانًا وَاَنَّهُمْ لاَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ

...amongst all mankind, you will find that those who say, “We are the Christians,” are the closest to the mu’mins regarding affection. Though they are generally not mu’min and hostility toward mu’mins is present in them, they possess lesser hostility when compared to the followers of other religions. That is, their affection for mu’mins is not entirely impossible. Indeed, their affection is more expected and seems to be a closer possibility. The love for the people of îmân and the receptiveness to îmân present in them are higher than that found in others.

The reason for their closeness is this: amongst them ذٰلِكَ ,  there are present Qissîsبِاَنَّ مِنْهُمْ قِسّ۪يس۪ينَ , that is, monks and priests, وَرُهْبَانًا , those engaged in ‘ilm and ‘ibâdah, that is, those in the monasteries who abandon the world out of fear of the âkhirah and engage in ‘ibâdah that shatters the nafs. And, وَاَنَّهُمْ لاَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ they are neither proud nor boastful, but rather humble and friendly.

(Hak Dini Kur’an Dili Tefsiri: 1791)

12. The hatred of Jews towards Islam and Christianity:

Both Dajjals will be supposed to possess tremendous power because they won the assistance of a secret committee of Jews, which seeks severe revenge against Islam and Christianity, and the help of another terrible committee that is under the guise of women's liberation, and the Dajjal of Islam won even the support of the Mason committees by deceiving them.

The Fifth Ray-Three Brief Matters-The Third Aspect And Reason

13. The American ‘ulamâ and the Risale-i Nur:

Concerning a student of Nur sending the Risale-i Nur books to the Christians in America, Hazrat Bediuzzaman says:

The letter of Salâhaddin is significant in several aspects. The American ‘ulamâ will certainly not remain indifferent to the risale of The Staff of Mûsâ. If it reaches the hands of those who love religion for the sake of religion, it will make conquests. Otherwise, it is doubtful that they will work for its dissemination and acceptance, like our hojas with ananiyyah due to the vein of jealousy.

Emirdağ Addendum-1 (160)

14. Some âyahs of the Qur’an about the Christians:

While the âyahs of the Qur’an, such as (2:121) (3:113,114,115,199) (13:36) (28:52-55), and other similar âyahs mention the attributes of the favourable group amongst the people of the book (Ahl al-kitâb), many other âyahs inform that the majority of them have deviated from the right path.

The âyah (4:159) informs that the people of the book (Ahl al-kitâb) will believe Hazrat ‘Îsâ (as) before their death.

وَاِنْ مِنْ اَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ اِلاَّ لَيُؤْمِنَنَّ بِه۪ قَبْلَ مَوْتِه۪ۚ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَه۪يدًۚا12

While the âyah (4:90) is about the right of protection of non-Muslims who are not transgressive:

اِلاَّ الَّذ۪ينَ يَصِلُونَ اِلٰى قَوْمٍ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُمْ م۪يثَاقٌ اَوْ جَٓاؤُ۫كُمْ حَصِرَتْ صُدُورُهُمْ اَنْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ اَوْ يُقَاتِلُوا قَوْمَهُمْۜ وَلَوْ شَٓاءَ اللّٰهُ لَسَلَّطَهُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ فَلَقَاتَلُوكُمْۚ فَاِنِ اعْتَزَلُوكُمْ فَلَمْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ وَاَلْقَوْا اِلَيْكُمُ السَّلَمَۙ فَمَا جَعَلَ اللّٰهُ لَكُمْ 13 عَلَيْهِمْ سَب۪يلاً

15. The support of a powerful state for Islam:

The hadith Ibn Majah 4090:

14 إِذَا وَقَعَتِ الْمَلاَحِمُ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ بَعْثًا مِنَ الْمَوَالِي هُمْ أَكْرَمُ الْعَرَبِ فَرَسًا وَأَجْوَدُهُ سِلاَحًا يُؤَيِّدُ اللَّهُ بِهِمُ الدِّينَ ‏

“When the fierce battles occur, Allah will send such a troop from mawâli who will be the best Arab horsemen and the best armed, with whom Allah will support His religion.”

The word مَوَالِي (mawâli) is the plural of مولى (mawlâ). It is well-known that Arabs call مَوَالِي (mawâli) the people who are not from among them. It also can be seen in history books.Thus, the community mentioned in the hadith that will support and strengthen Islam might be a non-Arab nation.

It is understood from the indication of this hadith that one of the Christian states will help Islam with its advanced military technology, Allahu a’lam15 .

16. Western intellectuals’ admiration for Islam:

In the sermon he delivered to a large jamâ’ah at the Damascus Umayyad Masjîd in 1911, which was later published as a book, Bediuzzaman mentioned expressions from various European thinkers and philosophers that support this topic. It is as follows:

It is well-known that the most indisputable fadhîlah is one recognised even by the enemies of the person who possesses it. Here are two examples out of hundreds:

The First: Mr Carlyle, the most famous philosopher of the 19th century, particularly on the continent of North America, said through his publications with his loudest voice to philosophers and Christian scholars, he wrote the following in his works:

“Islam was born like an extremely brilliant flame and devoured other religions like the branches of a dried tree. And this devouring was the right of Islam because those other religions — not confirmed in the Qur’an — are nothing.” Mr Carlyle also said, “The words most worthy of attention are those of Muhammad (asm) above all. For the true word is his.” And he also said, “If you doubt the truths of Islam, you will doubt the evident and decisive incontestable matters. Because the most evident and incontestable truth is Islam.”

Thus, this renowned philosopher included his testimony about Islam in various sections of his writings.

Second Example: Prince Bismarck, one of the most famous philosophers of the last century in Europe, said:

"I have studied all the revealed Books. Since they were all corrupted, I could not find the true hikmah that I was searching for for the happiness of mankind. But I saw that the Qur'an of Muhammad (‘Alayhissalâtu Wassalâm) was far superior to all the other Books. I found hikmah in each of its words. There is no other work that will serve the happiness of mankind like this. Such a work cannot be the word of man. Those who say that it is the word of Muhammad (‘Alayhissalâtu Wassalâm) deny the incontestable matters of knowledge. That is, it is evident that the Qur'an is the word of Allah."

Thus, by relying on the fact that the fields of intelligence in Europe and America have produced crops of such genius scholars in pursuit of truth, such as Mr Carlyle and Prince Bismarck, I too say with all my conviction:

Europe and America are pregnant with Islam. One day, they will give birth to an Islamic state, just as the Ottomans were pregnant with Europe and gave birth to a European state.

O, my brothers who are here in the Umayyad Masjîd, and my brothers who are in the masjîd of the world of Islam half a century later!16 I wonder, do these introductions from the beginning of this sermon till now not conclude that the true and ma’nawî ruler over the continents of the future and what will lead mankind to worldly happiness and the happiness in the âkhirah is only Islam and the true religion of the followers of ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm, which transformed into Islam and will divest from the superstition and corruption that it will follow the Qur'an and unite with Islam?

The Damascus Sermon-30

 

…The great Bismarck, one of the greatest minds of the nineteenth century, a well-known scholar and foremost one of the social philosophers, said, “I have attentively examined the Qur’an from every aspect, and I have seen a great hikmah in each of its words. It does not have an equal, and there is no other work that will rule mankind, and it cannot come.” And addressing the Prophet, he said:

“O, Muhammad! I am indeed sad that I am not your contemporary. Mankind has seen only once a power as distinguished as yours; thereafter, it will not see another. Therefore, I bow in reverence in your presence.”

He put his signature on this. Since Bismarck excessively diminished the distorted and abrogated revealed books in this part of his work, those sentences should not be written; I pointed this out, too.

The facts:

•  Bismark is the most brilliant and the greatest philosopher of the nineteenth century and one of its most important figures in political and social life,

•  the Islamic world gains its independence partially,

•  foreign governments search for haqiqahs of the Qur’an,

•  a great current in favour of the Qur’an is present in the west and north-west,

• Mister Carlyle, America’s most eminent and famous philosopher, has said just like Bismarck, “The other books cannot reach the Qur’an in any aspect. That is the true word; we should listen to it,” he certainly concluded and

•  the rise and conquest of Risale-i Nur.

These are all auspicious signs that many Bismarcks and Carlyles will emerge in Europe and America…

Emirdağ Addendum-1 (268)

17. The call of Islam for the people of the book (Ahl al-kitâb):

There are âyahs in the Qur’an that mention explicitly and indicatively the people of the book (Ahl al-kitâb). For example (2:4):

17 وَمَا اُنْزِلَ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ : Know that the descriptions18 like these contain encouragement, and encouragement contains constructive decrees, such as "Believe in such-and-such… Make no distinction…"

The positioning of the phrase and its relations with the other phrases comprise four subtle points:

Firstly: To refer the deduction to the evidence. It is as follows:

"O man! If you believe in the Qur'an, you should also believe in the previous books, as the Qur'an affirms their veracity and testifies to them." The evidence of this deduction is the âyah مُصَدِّقًا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ19

Secondly: To refer the evidence to the deduction. It is as follows:

“O Ahl al-Kitâb! If you believe in the former prophets and previous books, you should also believe in the Qur'an and Muhammad ‘Alayhissalâm because the former prophets and their books gave the good tidings of his (asm) coming. Moreover, the affirmation of the former prophets and their books and the evidences of their nubuwwah are to be found more perfectly in the Qur'an with their haqiqah and rûh and more clearly in Muhammad ‘Alayhissalâm. Thus, according to this excellent reasoning, the Qur'an is the Kalâm of Allâh, and Muhammad ‘Alayhissalâtu Wassalâm is His Rasûl.”

Thirdly: In it, there is an indication that the possession of the Qur'an — that is, Islam that emerged from it in the Era of Bliss — is a tree, the origin of which is rooted in the depths of the past. Its spreading roots get water from the sources of its life and strength. And the branches of that tree spread out in the skies of the future and spread their fruitful branches. That is to say, Islam embraces the past and the future.

Fourthly: In it, there is an indication of urging ahl al-Kitâb to îmân, making it familiar to them and facilitating their embracing îmân. It is as though it says, “O Ahl al-Kitâb! There should not be any difficulty in entering this path because you are not casting away your shell entirely but only completing your beliefs and building on the beliefs established in you.” Because the Qur'an equalises and perfects the fundamentals and aqâid, it combines within itself the virtues of all the previous books and the principles of previous Sharî’ahs. It only establishes new decrees in secondary matters, which are subject to change due to differences in time and place. Because just as the ways of medical treatments and dresses change in four seasons, and the manners of training and tarbiyyah change according to the stages of life of a person, in the same way, hikmah and benefit necessitate that the laws concerning secondary matters change according to the stages of life of mankind. Because many of these secondary matters were once beneficial and were effective medicines in the infancy of mankind, and they eventually ceased to be beneficial. They are not medicines during its youth. Because of this mystery, the Qur'an repealed some previous secondary matters. That is to say, it decreed that their time had finished and that the turn had come for other decrees.

Signs of Miraculousness-108-109

 

Second Radiance: It is the Qur'an's youthfulness. It preserves its freshness and youthfulness in every age as if it were newly revealed. Indeed, since the Qur'an addresses all classes of mankind across every age as an azalî khutbah, it should possess a perpetual youth, which is how it has been seen and is seen. It even looks at centuries, each of which differs in terms of thoughts and dispositions, as if it looks particularly at that century; it makes others look to that century and gives lessons. The works and laws of mankind get old like mankind; they change and are changed, but the rules and the laws of the Qur'an are so firm and well-founded that they show more of their strength as the centuries pass. Yes, the people of the present age and ahl al-kitâb of this age, who are the most self-reliant and who close their ears to the words of the Qur'an, are so in need of its guiding speech of يَا اَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ يَا اَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ 20 that it is as though that address turns favourably towards this age directly, and the phraseيَا اَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ 21 also comprises the meaning of يَا اَهْلَ الْمَكْتَبِ22. It spreads out the shout of يَا اَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ تَعَالَوْا اِلَى كَلِمَةٍ سَوَاءٍ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَكُمْ 23 to all sides of the ‘âlam with all its severity, with all its freshness and youth..

The Twenty-Fifth Word-First Light -Third Ray-2nd Radiance

 

If we display the perfections of the morality of Islam and the haqiqahs of îmân with our actions, followers of other religions will certainly enter Islam in communities. Rather, some of the continents and states of the globe of the earth will even seek refuge in Islam.

The Damascus Sermon-24

 

سُبْحَانَكَ لاَ عِلْمَ لَنَا اِلاَّ مَا عَلَّمْتَنَا اِنَّكَ اَنْتَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ

اَللّٰهُمَّ صَلِّ وَ سَلِّمْ عَلَى شَمْسِ سَمَاءِ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ قَمَرِ بُرْجِ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ عَلَى آلِهِ وَ اَصْحَابِهِ نُجُومِ الْهِدَايَةِ وَ ارْحَمْنَا وَ ارْحَمِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ آمِينَ آمِينَ آمِينَ

هَدَينَا اللّٰهُ وَ اِيَّاكُمْ اِلَى الصِّرَاطِ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ