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Islamic Scholars And The Signs Leading To Faith
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                    our time the Risale-i Nur Collection is a spiritual diamond sword in
                    the hands of the faithful that needs to be primarily undertaken by
                    the people of faith and Islam. The lessons of the Qur’an, the com-
                    mon signs of knowing God, come through the knowledge and in-
                    spiration of the verses that address themselves to the awareness
                    of the age, and the recognition and understanding of the time. It

                    brings the most proper style to a person’s needs and instructs. 13
                    In many of his other works, the master drew attention to the
               proofs of faith in the creation of the universe and living things,

               saying that everything was a proof displaying God’s superior
               might. Other of Bediuzzaman’s statements about signs leading
               to faith are given below:

                    O man who is addicted to enjoyment and pleasure! I am seventy-
                    five years old, and I know with utter certainty from thousands of
                    experiences, proofs, and events that true enjoyment, pain-free
                    pleasure, grief-free joy, and life’s happiness are only to be found in
                    belief and in the sphere of the truths of faith. While a single
                    worldly pleasure yields numerous pains, as though dealing ten
                    slaps for a single grape, it drives away all of life’s pleasure. 14

                    It is unlikely that a book, whose words hold the entire book
                    within itself and whose letters hold an entire line within them-
                    selves, can come into being without the existence of an au-
                    thor. Likewise, the existence of the Book of the Universe

                    depends on the existence of God, the Ever-Lasting. 15
                               No unbiased being in the universe can
                                            deny God, the All-Glorious,
                                                  Who has as many wit-

                                                     nesses as the components
                                                        of the universe ... If it
                                                          did, it would re-
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