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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: The Great Scholar Of Islam Who Learned
And Taught In The School Of Yusuf
morality of Islam. As a result, they were investigated and impris-
oned. In each instance, their innocence was established.
Nevertheless, in the meantime, the prisons they were kept in be-
came schools as they had been for Yusuf (as), and their sincerity,
love for one another, and determination were enhanced and

strengthened.
The treatment Bediuzzaman was exposed to, and the accusa-
tions he was assailed with, were the fulfillment of the verses of the
Qur’an. Even if his life is only briefly examined, it becomes apparent
that he experienced circumstances similar to the sincere believers
had, as revealed in the Qur’an, and that he responded with a level of
morality much like them. For this reason, it will be of benefit to con-

sider his life.

The Life Of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
Said Nursi is one of the greatest Islamic scholars and thinkers of
recent times. He was born in 1873 in the Nurs village, of the Hizan
district in Bitlis, and he died in 1960, in Sanliurfa.

He acquired advanced knowledge of the sciences, as well as reli-
gious insight, when he was still young, and he was noticed for his
sharp mind, strong memory, and superior abilities at an early age.
He began to be called Bediuzzaman for these qualities, meaning
“the beauty of the age.”
He never shied from any effort to exemplify the morality of the
Qur’an, which is why he was constantly slandered and oppressed

by the Masons and other enemies of Islam.
He came to Istanbul in the year 1907, in order to solve what he
considered to be the urgent problem of education in the east, by lob-

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