Perles Eternelles

Despite the harassment Bediuzzaman received at the hands of certain officials and his being under constant surveillance, he was held in great respect by the majority of the inhabitants of the town, and a number used to visit him as …

As mentioned in the above letter, Bediuzzaman considered their greatest strength to be sincerity. In another letter he described the way of the Risale-i Nur as being “based on the mystery of sincerity.”[47. Kastamonu Lahikasi, 186.] While in Barla and …

Bediuzzaman saw the modern world as having captured man’s soul and plunged him into the life of this world and pointed out that the way to be saved from this abyss was through following the teachings of the Risale-i Nur. …

While explaining the Risale-i Nur’s functions and duties in his letters to his students, Bediuzzaman frequently stresses that these are concerned with belief and the strengthening and saving of it, and advises them, in the particular conditions of that time, …

Probably in 1940, Asiye Hanim, the wife of the Governor of Kastamonu Prison, brought a hundred-year-old jubba, that is, the gown worn by religious scholars, to give to Bediuzzaman. Knowing that he would not accept it as a gift, she …

In connection with its unparalleled role in strengthening and revitalizing belief in this century of severe attacks on religion, Bediuzzaman and the Risale-i Nur came to be recognized by many as fulfilling the requirements of Regenerator of Religion, promised by …

The Supreme Sign is a key to understanding Bediuzzaman’s own view of existence and his way of worshipping, for he said of it that he wrote it for himself according to his own understanding.[19. Sualar, 82.] The treatise comprises “the …

Bediuzzaman wrote to his students that the Risale-i Nur’s function was to save and strengthen belief in the face of the severe and combined attacks against it at the present time.[15. Kastamonu Lahikasi, 48, and, 10.] In addition to the …

Life in Kastamonu Bediuzzaman was released from Eskishehir Prison in March, 1936 after serving the eleven month sentence and was sent to Kastamonu in the Ilgaz Mountains to the south of the Black Sea. His enforced residence in this the …

One by one Bediuzzaman answered the charges made against him, supporting all his replies with evidence. He told the Court that since the best wile was to be without wiles, he had taken truth and honesty as the basis of …