Page 171 - Self-Sacrifice in the Qur'an's Moral Teachings

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

opened the dormitory, and gave what he had written to forty-five of his
students. From morning until evening, they would transcribe what he
had written into their own notebooks. They could never finish it. I
would sometimes join them and write like them. 57

Tarihce-i Hayat (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi) tells of Said Nursi's self-
sacrificial spirit:
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi is writing the Risale-i Nur collection under
such difficult and adverse conditions that he is subjected to difficulties
that no other scholar in history has ever been faced with. Yet since he
possesses an unextinguished determination, will, and love of service, he
is producing these extraordinary Risale-i Nur works, a great guide on
the true path that is enlightening and will enlighten the world of Islam

and all of humanity, and that will protect the nation and the country
against the monster of communism, the aggression of Freemasonry and
atheism, without being worn down, or tiring or losing heart, expending
all of his great energies with an incomparable patience and fortitude,
abandoning his earthly desires. The writing of the 130-part Risale-i
Nur collection is coming to an end after 23 years. Since the Risales were
written at a time of very great need, every treatise bears the provisions
of a most healthy antidote and medicine, and having such an effect
cures a great many people of spiritual diseases.

Anyone who reads the Risale-i Nur will form the impression that it has
been written just for him/her, and will reflect feeling a great enthusiasm
and a strong need. Such works are emerging [from these writings] that
Qur'anic truths that will suffice and respond to the requirements of all
people of this and future centuries with regard to faith, Islam, the mind,
the soul, the heart, and the intellect are being bestowed … 58

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