• 10th Word,  2nd Truth,  Staff of Moses,  The fruits of belief,  The Words

    Hell: a mercy for nonbelievers?

    August 9, 2020 /

    Undeniably, hell is the worst place anybody could be in. It’s an abode of incredible suffering and grief. However, there are some aspects of mercy to it that are worth mentioning   Existence is superior to nonexistence Though hell is a place of incredible suffering, existence is always superior to nonexistence.   The death penalty, for instance, is far worse than a life sentence in prison. The same holds even with the toughest prisons where prisoners spend up to 23 hours a day in solitary confinement.   Relationships with believers First of all, we must realize that the existence of heaven necessitates the existence of hell. For how else would…

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    Can we prove the existence of an afterlife?

    March 1, 2020 /

    How do we know if an afterlife exists? Specifically, can we know that an afterlife exists by simply observing this universe? This was the question that Ustadh Bediuzzaman Said Nursi tackled in 1926[1], leading him to write The Tenth Word (also known as The Treatise of Resurrection) which is about 90 pages long. In the following posts, I will be commenting on this treatise part by part and analyzing them. The treatise goes something like this: a short story is given in the beginning where two men are roaming around in a beautiful country (pointing to this world) and one of them tries to explain to the other that there…

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