Page 187 - Self-Sacrifice in the Qur'an's Moral Teachings

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

Divine destiny reveals this to us: "Do not stop! Work!" For the Nur
students, speaking in the courts in the service of the Qur'an and belief
is like talking to a friend. Being taken to and from the police station is
no different than going to and from the market … Being cruelly sen-
tenced by a person to punishment is a proof that Allah will acquit him
in truth. All such cruelty and torture are medals of honor for students
of the Nur. How happy are those brothers of ours, the students of the
Nur, who have enjoyed those blessings for thirty years. 80

In one place, Said Nursi explains his students' devout and self-
sacrificial moral character and urges them to accept whatever happens
to them:
I have sacrificed all that I have, material and spiritual, and have borne
all suffering and torture. Thanks to this, the truth of belief has spread
everywhere. Thanks to this, the Risale-i Nur school has educated hun-
dreds of thousands, maybe millions, of students. They will now con-
tinue on this path of serving belief and will not depart from my
profession of sacrificing everything, both material and spiritual. They
will work solely to attain Allah's mercy inshaAllah [Allah willing].
Many of my students were exposed to various forms of suffering, tor-
ment, and torture along with me, and were sorely tested. Like me, I
wish them to give up their rights in the face of all injustice and those
who behaved unjustly, because this latter group, not being able to con-
ceive of the secrets and manifestations of the Divine destiny, unknow-
ingly served our cause and the spread of the truth of belief. Our duty
consists solely of wishing them to be rightly guided. 81

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