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By Kasim Cobanoglu, on June 28th, 2010%
 by Yusuf KARA
There are many people in the society who have difficulty in understanding the reality that the heaven and the hell are eternal and unfortunately many deny this truth. However, as stated in the verses such as: “Certainly, those who believe, do righteous deeds, and whole-heartedly submit to their Master, such are they who are the people of Paradise. Therein, they are forever residents.” (Hûd, 23) and “As for the deniers of the truth who belied Our verses, such are they who are the companions of the fire. Therein they are the eternal residents.” (Baqara, 39), it is evident that there is an everlasting life in the hereafter both in the heaven and the hell. Of these two eternal places of residence, people are more inclined to raise objection against the eternity of the hell, which is the eternal place of torture. In this context, sticking to their ill-willed minds and interests instead of the clear verses of the Qur’an, people go astray coming up with statements like: “Allah is most Merciful and most Just, so how come can he put people into an eternal hell.” Continue reading Why the hell is eternal?
By Mevlut Murat, on September 3rd, 2009%
 So many people do not desire the hereafter life and its pleasures and delights as they reckon that they are too far away. Although same people attain the goal of raising to a high rank, reaching the retirement, owning a flat or a piece of land at the very last years of their life, they do not mind and they think those happy years are not very far away. Besides, they suffer much for these worldly materials. They try hard by spending all their life with big investments, labours, efforts and struggles in sweat and dirt. For the sake of those goals, they forget what the sunshine is; they do not have enough time for their children and for a good sleep; their relations with their wives and husbands are so weak that it looks as if they are living in different cities. It is strange that there is no guarantee for them for reaching their goals. At the very moment of when they reckon they attained their goals, most of them crossed with the truth of “Every soul shall have a taste of death”.
Continue reading Is not the retirement as far away as the paradise?
By Mevlut Murat, on May 4th, 2009%
from Treatise for the Elderly
One time at the start of my old age when the laughter of the Old Said was being transformed into the weeping of the New Said, supposing me still to be the Old Said, the worldly in Ankara invited me there, and I went. At the close of autumn I climbed to the top of the citadel, which was far more aged, dilapidated, and worn out than me. It seemed to me to be formed of petrified historical events. The old age of the season of the year together with my old age, the citadel’s old age, mankind’s old age, the old age of the glorious Ottoman State and the death of the Caliphate’s rule, and the world’s old age all caused me to look in a most grieved, compassionate and melancholy state in that lofty citadel at the valleys of the past and the mountains of the future. As I experienced an utterly black state of mind in Ankara encompassed by four or five layers of the darknesses of old age one within the other*, I sought a light, a solace, a hope.
Continue reading Deliverance through Belief / Seventh Hope
By Mevlut Murat, on April 13th, 2009%
This is to imagine your brothers’ virtues and merits in your own selves, and to thankfully take pride at their glory. The Sufis have terms they use among themselves, “annihilation in the shaykh,” “annihilation in the Prophet;” I am not a Sufi, but these principles of theirs make a good rule in our way, in the form of “annihilation in the brothers.”
Continue reading Ground Rules for Sincerity; Rule #4
By Mevlut Murat, on April 1st, 2009%
You should know that all your strength lies in sincerity and truth. Yes, strength lies in truth and sincerity. Even those who are wrong gain strength from their sincerity in their wrongdoing.
Continue reading Ground Rules for Sincerity; Rule #3
By Mevlut Murat, on March 31st, 2009%
This is not to criticize your brothers who are employed in this service of the Qur’an, and not to excite their envy by displaying superior virtues. For just as one of man’s hands cannot compete with the other, neither can one of his eyes criticize the other, nor his tongue object to his ear, nor his heart see his spirit’s faults. Each of his members completes the deficiencies of the others, veils their faults, assists their needs, and helps them out in their duties. Otherwise man’s life would be extinguished, his spirit flee, and his body be dispersed.
Continue reading Ground rules for the sincerity; Rule #2
By Mevlut Murat, on March 30th, 2009%
A ground rule for the success
You should seek Divine pleasure in your actions. If Almighty Allah is pleased, it is of no importance even should the whole world be displeased. If He accepts an action and everyone else rejects it, it has no effect. Once His pleasure has been gained and He has . . . → Read More: Ground rules for the sincerity; Rule #1
By Mevlut Murat, on March 9th, 2009%
In His Name, be He glorified.
And there is not a thing but it glorifies Him with praise
My friends in prison and brothers in religion!
It occurred to me to explain a truth to you which will save you both from worldly torment and the torment of the Hereafter. It is as follows:
Continue reading Reconciliation through The Risale-i Nur
By Mevlut Murat, on March 5th, 2009%
In His Name, be He glorified
My dear and loyal brothers!
I shall explain in three ‘Points’ an effective solace for those who are experiencing the calamity of prison, and for those who kindly help them and faithfully supervise their food, which comes from outside.
First Point: Each day spent in prison may gain as much as ten days’ worship, and, with regards to their fruits, may transform those transient hours into enduring hours, and through five or ten years’ punishment may be the means of saving a person from millions of years of eternal imprisonment. For the believers, the condition for gaining this most significant and valuable advantage is to perform the obligatory prayers, repent for the sins that were the cause of their imprisonment, and offer thanks in patience. For sure, prison is an obstacle to many sins: it does not provide the opportunity for them.
Continue reading Prison as Profit
By Mevlut Murat, on March 3rd, 2009%
Again a text from the Risale-i Nur which had enlightened our lives as youngs…
Author of those books haad suffered alot in his life because of his toughts and taughts. Another person who has been judged for his precious ideas…
Here a text from his book “A Guide for Youth”
Those in prison are in great need of the true consolation of the Risale-i Nur. Particularly those who having suffered the blows of youth, are passing their young, sweet lives in prison; they need the Risale-i Nur as much as they need bread.
Continue reading How to benefit from Prison?
By Mevlut Murat, on March 2nd, 2009%
The question we asked ‘Ustad’, our Master, was this:
“For two years during the most critical times of this World War* (World War II), which is closely connected with the fate of the Islamic World,-and now it is about ten years-you have asked neither us, nor Emin, who everyday sees to your needs, anything at all about it, you have given it no importance at all. Is there some other fact more momentous than this event, that dominates and overrules it? Or is it harmful in some way to be preoccupied with it?” He answered as follows:
Continue reading The most important problem of mankind
By Mevlut Murat, on March 1st, 2009%
A Warning, Lesson and Reminder Given to a number of Unhappy Youths
One day a number of bright youths came to me, seeking an effective deterrent in order to guard them- selves against the dangers arising from life, youth, and the lusts of the soul. Like I had told those who had previously sought help from the Risale-i Nur, I also said to these youths:
Continue reading Youth Will Go
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