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these have followed the true path shown by them. All the
people who believed in the messengers and all their actions

performed together with those messengers, constitute these
messengers' collective personalities.
This can clearly be seen in the stories about the
prophets in the Qur'an. For example, the people of our
Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) repre-
sented his collective personality. But this formed on the
condition of the Prophet's (may Allah bless him and grant
him peace) existence. This will not change in the End Times.
As Bediuzzaman has said, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and
Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will personally exist as leaders of
guidance at the head of the communities of believers ac-
companying them.
Therefore, in using the term "collective personality,"
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi used it in conformity with the law
of Allah revealed in the Qur'an. In fact, in referring to his
own students and works as a collective personality,
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was personally at its head.
The collective personality of the Risalat an-Nur in-

cludes those students that follow it as well as the works, but
Bediuzzaman, the leader of the Nur movement, cannot be
considered as distinct from it.
This will be better understood by an examination of
the comments in the Risalat an-Nur about the second com-
ing of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh):
1. It could only be a wondrous person with the power of