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strate this importance:
Every atom in the universe contains beautiful artistry. Each of
these beautiful arts are proofs that demonstrate His existence,
and everyone who adheres to them can reach God. Think
deeply. As your thoughts deepen, you will rise and grow. 8
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
The great scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1880-1960), re-
garded as the mujaddid of the last Islamic century, speaks of the
importance of these signs throughout his Qur’anic commentary
The Risale-i Nur Collection:
There is a palace with a hundred doors, all closed. When one of its
doors is opened, the palace may be entered and the other doors
opened. If all of the doors are open and one or two are closed, it
may not be said that the palace cannot be entered. Thus, the truths
of belief are the palace. Each evidence is a key; it proves the truths
and opens a door. If one of the doors remains closed, the truths of
belief cannot be abandoned and denied. Satan, however, as a con-
sequence of certain things or by means of heedlessness or igno-
rance, points out a door that has remained closed, thus causing a
person to disregard all of the positive evidence. Saying: “See, this
palace cannot be entered. Perhaps it is not a palace, and there is
nothing inside it,” he deceives the person. 9
In his Mektubat (Letters), he emphasized the importance of
adhering to the signs leading to faith in our own time and said
that many previous Islamic scholars, if they were alive today,
would concentrate on freeing peoples’ faith by teaching them
about these signs:
