What is the meaning of worship and how does compassion draw us closer to God?
Ninth Word – Part 1
Wisdom behind the timing for the five daily prayers.
Eighth Word – Part 3
Click Here for Part 2 And that unfortunate one has harmed himself. Through his lack of perception, he has turned a truth as beautiful as day and a luminous situation into the form of a dark and gloomy suspicion, a hell. He is not deserving of compassion and nor does Continue Reading
Killing the Nafs vs Training It
Which is superior: to kill one’s nafs or to train it?
Eighth Word – Part 1
If you would like to understand this world and the human soul within it, and the nature and values of religion for the human being, and that this world is a prison if his religion is not true, and that “يا الله” [O Allah] and “لا إله إلا الله” [There Continue Reading
Why we shouldn’t fear death
The thought of death usually invokes feelings of anxiety and fear, but is it really something to fear about? What is the Islamic viewpoint of death? There is a beautiful explanation of this in Parts from the work ‘The Testimonial of Two Schools of Misfortune’, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi – Biography Continue Reading
Science and Philosophy
What does the Risale-i Nur say about philosophy and science?
Remembering Death
Death is a reality that we shouldn’t forget.
Submission to God makes you free
How does selling yourself and your property to God make you free?
How are Prophets (عليهم السلام) a Mercy When Most Humans will Go to Hell?
If there was no revelation, there would be no responsibility to believe. Humans would not go to hell for rejecting it. Then how is revelation and the sending of prophets (عليهم السلام) a mercy to us?