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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

continue to do so in future. Every effort to explain Qur'anic
morality and invite people to the path of true Islam helps
fulfill that duty and plays an important role in the struggle

against terrorism. Bediuzzaman drew attention to the
importance of that: "The Risale-i Nur definitely has no connection
with politics. But since it has smashed absolute disbelief, it destroys
and repulses anarchy, which underlies absolute disbelief, and

absolute despotism, which overlies it." 60
In another statement, he sets out some essentials to get
rid of anarchy: "Respect, compassion, refraining from sin,
security, the giving up of lawlessness and being obedient to
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authority." Later in the same statement, he describes how the
Risale-i Nur fulfills the duties it has assumed:

When the Risale-i Nur looks to the life of society, it
establishes and strengthens these five principles in a
powerful and sacred fashion and preserves the cornerstone
of public order... Over the last twenty years, the "Risale-i
Nur" has made one hundred thousand people into

harmless, beneficial members of this nation and country. 62

ART, WISDOM AND UNANIMITY OF
PURPOSE

In his works, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi offers a detailed

description of the form that struggle against terror, atheism,
anarchy and the problems of the Islamic World should take:
"Our enemies are ignorance, poverty and inner conflict. We shall

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