This podcast is dedicated to answering the three fundamental questions of human existence: “Where are you coming from? Where are you going to? And what is your destination?” in the light of the Risale-i Nur: a profoundly spiritual, insightful, and intellectual commentary on the Qur'an by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1878-1960): one of the most remarkable scholars of Islam in the modern era who distinguished himself with extraordinary memory and intellect, sincere devotion and spirituality, and an ...
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Twenty-Second Word 08: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 8). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-Second Word 07: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 7). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-Second Word 06: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 6). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-Second Word 05: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 5). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-Second Word 04: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 4). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-Second Word 03: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 3). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-Second Word 02: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 2). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-Second Word 01: Existence of God
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The "Twenty-Second Word" offers twelve demonstrative proofs for the existence and oneness of God. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 1). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is only meant to help with understanding the recorded discussion. …
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Twenty-First Word 06: Obsessive Thoughts
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The "Twenty-First Word" addresses some of the challenges that the lower soul and Satan pose to believers. It has two stations. The "First Station" focuses on the lower soul's laziness in performing daily prayers and explains the preciousness and necessity of daily prayers. The "Second Station" offers a potent remedy against obsessive thoughts that …
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Twenty-First Word 05: Obsessive Thoughts
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The "Twenty-First Word" addresses some of the challenges that the lower soul and Satan pose to believers. It has two stations. The "First Station" focuses on the lower soul's laziness in performing daily prayers and explains the preciousness and necessity of daily prayers. The "Second Station" offers a potent remedy against obsessive thoughts that …
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Twenty-First Word 04 (repeat): Obsessive Thoughts
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The "Twenty-First Word" addresses some of the challenges that the lower soul and Satan pose to believers. It has two stations. The "First Station" focuses on the lower soul's laziness in performing daily prayers and explains the preciousness and necessity of daily prayers. The "Second Station" offers a potent remedy against obsessive thoughts that …
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When people from different parts of Turkey came to Ustad Nursi and asked him to teach them, he would tell them not to come to him but to read the Risale-i Nur. Thus, everybody can read the Risale-i Nur on their own and benefit from it. One does not need permission from a teacher who had already studied the Risale-i Nur with another teacher. Neverth…
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The Messenger of God Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Actions are according to intentions." In that case, the essential question to answer in thinking about reading the Risale-i Nur depends on the reader's intention. This episode, based on a similarly titled section on the reflections-RN.org website, offers guidelines about what to…
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The Risale-i Nur is a Qur’anic commentary that makes substantial contributions to the Islamic tradition especially in the fields of dialectical theology (kalam) and Sufism (taṣawwuf) but also offers important insights about the methodologies (uṣūl) of the sciences of Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr) and prophetic traditions (ḥadīth). This episode is b…
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Who Was Bediuzzaman Said Nursi 04 (mp4)
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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1878-1960 C.E., 1295-1379 Hijri) or Ustadh Nursi, as his followers refer to him, was a great scholar, gnostic, and saint of the fourteenth century of the Islamic calendar. He struggled his entire life to understand, implement, teach, and uphold the message of the Qur’an and the Prophetic example. His unshakable certainty in …
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Who Was Bediuzzaman Said Nursi 03 (mp4)
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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1878-1960 C.E., 1295-1379 Hijri) or Ustadh Nursi, as his followers refer to him, was a great scholar, gnostic, and saint of the fourteenth century of the Islamic calendar. He struggled his entire life to understand, implement, teach, and uphold the message of the Qur’an and the Prophetic example. His unshakable certainty in …
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Who Was Bediuzzaman Said Nursi 02 (mp4)
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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1878-1960 C.E., 1295-1379 Hijri) or Ustadh Nursi, as his followers refer to him, was a great scholar, gnostic, and saint of the fourteenth century of the Islamic calendar. He struggled his entire life to understand, implement, teach, and uphold the message of the Qur’an and the Prophetic example. His unshakable certainty in …
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Who Was Bediuzzaman Said Nursi 01 (mp4)
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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1878-1960 C.E., 1295-1379 Hijri) or Ustadh Nursi, as his followers refer to him, was a great scholar, gnostic, and saint of the fourteenth century of the Islamic calendar. He struggled his entire life to understand, implement, teach, and uphold the message of the Qur’an and the Prophetic example. His unshakable certainty in …
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The "Twenty-First Word" addresses some of the challenges that the lower soul and Satan pose to believers. It has two stations. The "First Station" focuses on the lower soul's laziness in performing daily prayers and explains the preciousness and necessity of daily prayers. The "Second Station" offers a potent remedy against obsessive thoughts that …
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The "Twenty-First Word" addresses some of the challenges that the lower soul and Satan pose to believers. It has two stations. The "First Station" focuses on the lower soul's laziness in performing daily prayers and explains the preciousness and necessity of daily prayers. The "Second Station" offers a potent remedy against obsessive thoughts that …
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The "Twenty-First Word" addresses some of the challenges that the lower soul and Satan pose to believers. It has two stations. The "First Station" focuses on the lower soul's laziness in performing daily prayers and explains the preciousness and necessity of daily prayers. The "Second Station" offers a potent remedy against obsessive thoughts that …
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The "Twenty-First Word" addresses some of the challenges that the lower soul and Satan pose to believers. It has two stations. The "First Station" focuses on the lower soul's laziness in performing daily prayers and explains the preciousness and necessity of daily prayers. The "Second Station" offers a potent remedy against obsessive thoughts that …
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. In this section, we focus on timeless messages from the Qur'anic narrations of prophetic miracles. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episo…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. In this section, we focus on timeless messages from the Qur'anic narrations of prophetic miracles. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episo…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. In this section, we focus on timeless messages from the Qur'anic narrations of prophetic miracles. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episo…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. In this section, we focus on timeless messages from the Qur'anic narrations of prophetic miracles. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episo…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. In this section, we focus on timeless messages from the Qur'anic narrations of prophetic miracles. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episo…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. In this section, we focus on timeless messages from the Qur'anic narrations of prophetic miracles. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episo…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. In this section, we focus on timeless messages from the Qur'anic narrations of prophetic miracles. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episo…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 05). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 04). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 03). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 02). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is…
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The "Twentieth Word" teaches us how to recognize timeless universal precepts and general laws in the narration of particular historical incidents in the Qur'an. For a rough translation of the section that is being discussed click here (scroll to Episode 01). This text is a work in progress and should not be considered a finalized translation. It is…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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“There are three universal things that make our Lord known to us: One is this Book of the Cosmos. We have heard a small part of its testimony in thirteen flashes from the “Thirteenth Lesson” of the Treatise of Light in Arabic. Another is the Seal of Prophets, blessings and peace upon him, who is the Great Sign of that great book. And the other is t…
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The Eighteenth Word is composed of three points: The Third Point that we are reflecting on in this episode is a commentary on the verse “Say, ‘If you love God, follow me, and God will love you… (Qur'an, 3: 31)” This point builds on the second point and establishes that since there is beauty in the creation, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him…
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The Eighteenth Word is composed of three points: The Second Point that we are reflecting on in this episode is a commentary on the verse “He gave everything its most beautiful form… (Qur'an, 32: 7),” and it shows that there is an aspect of true beauty in everything, even in things that look ugly. For a rough translation of the section that is being…
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The Eighteenth Word is composed of three points: The first point is a commentary on the verse “Do not think that those who exult in what they have done and seek praise for things they have not done will escape the torment; agonizing torment awaits them (Qur’an, 3: 188).” and offers a powerful chastisement to the evil-commanding lower soul. For a ro…
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The Seventeenth Word is a commentary on the verses: "We have adorned the earth with attractive things so that We may test people to find out which of them do best, // but We shall reduce all this to barren dust (Qur'an, 18: 7-8)." and "The life of this world is nothing but a game and a distraction… (Qur'an, 6: 32)" It exposes the reality of the wor…
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The Seventeenth Word is a commentary on the verses: "We have adorned the earth with attractive things so that We may test people to find out which of them do best, // but We shall reduce all this to barren dust (Qur'an, 18: 7-8)." and "The life of this world is nothing but a game and a distraction… (Qur'an, 6: 32)" It exposes the reality of the wor…
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The Seventeenth Word is a commentary on the verses: "We have adorned the earth with attractive things so that We may test people to find out which of them do best, // but We shall reduce all this to barren dust (Qur'an, 18: 7-8)." and "The life of this world is nothing but a game and a distraction… (Qur'an, 6: 32)" It exposes the reality of the wor…
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The Seventeenth Word is a commentary on the verses: "We have adorned the earth with attractive things so that We may test people to find out which of them do best, // but We shall reduce all this to barren dust (Qur'an, 18: 7-8)." and "The life of this world is nothing but a game and a distraction… (Qur'an, 6: 32)" It exposes the reality of the wor…
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