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In his Letters (Mektubat), Imam-i Rabbani (may God be pleased
with him), the hero and a sun of the Naqshbandi Order, said: “I
prefer the unfolding of a single matter of the truths of belief to
thousands of illuminations, ecstasies, and instances of wonder-
working.” He also said: “The final point of all the ways is the clar-

ification and unfolding of the truths of belief.” ... In which case,
the Naqshi way consists of three “veils”: The first and most im-
portant is direct service to the truths of belief; Imam-i Rabbani
traveled this way in his later years ...

Since the reality of the matter is thus, my conjecture is that if per-
sons like Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir Jilani (may God be pleased with
him) and Shah Naqshband (may God be pleased with him) and
Imam-i Rabbani (may God be pleased with him) were alive at the

present time, they would expend all of their effort in strengthen-
ing the truths of belief and tenets of Islam, for they are the means
to eternal happiness. If there is deficiency in them, it results in
eternal misery. 10
In other writings, Bediuzzaman refers to these signs’ impor-

tance in the following terms:
At this time the truths of belief must be the first objective, the first
duty, and the fundamental aim. Everything else remains in the

second, third, and fourth place. Serving them with the Risale-i Nur
must be the primary duty, subject of concern, and fundamental
aim … Those scholars outside the frame of the Risale-i Nur, and
perhaps holy men too because of their links to this political and
social life, leave the importance of the truths of belief to the sec-
ond or third place and, under the influence of those tendencies,

even come to love those hypocrites who share the same ideas
with them … I think that while the true students of the Risale-i Nur
are fulfilling their duty to explain the truths of belief at the level of