Page 185 - Self-Sacrifice in the Qur'an's Moral Teachings

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

lacking in winter. He would have just a single egg by him and they made
his bread locally. But the Master was nonetheless perfectly content. 76

I used to give Bediuzzaman his food. "You must not allow any books,
pens, paper, or visitors in his room," they said. "All right," I said. He
would divide the bread I had brought him into perhaps seventy pieces,
taking some for himself and saying: "Ibrahim, my brother, take this to
my students." I was sometimes quite amazed by this. 77

The Students Also Endured

Like Said Nursi, his students faced many difficulties and contin-
ued to sacrifice their interests to spread the Qur'an's moral teachings.
We read in The Words that they memorized Said Nursi's words so that
they could better spread his teachings. They were taken to prison along
with Said Nursi and, while there, wrote down his words and then du-
plicated and distributed them.
If they had the secret means, they would again occupy themselves with
the Risales. There were even some students who learned it by heart, say-
ing: "I may be thrown into prison. They will not let me have the Risales,
and I will be unable to study." One student of the Nur [Light], when re-
moved from the prison, would draw closer to his Master and work and
publish for the Nur even more than before, as if that prison with its
whippings and beatings on the soles of the feet, full of torture of all kinds,
had been a source of strength and energy, as if it had had a spurring ef-
fect in the service of the Nur with loyalty, care and cunning. 78

As their belief, dedication, determination, and self-sacrifice grew,
the students described how they saw things:
The heroic Nur disciples of Emirdag were very loyal to our Master.
They would have died for their Master. They performed much greater

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