The Highway of the Practices of the Prophet: A Guide for the Search (from the Risale-i Nur Collection - Softcover

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933552122 ISBN 13: 9780933552128

Publisher: nur Publishers, Scottsdale, Ariz., 2006

Synopsis

"To follow the practices of the prophet is of the very greatest value. And to follow them when innovations are rife is of even greater value. To follow the practices recalls the Most Noble Prophet, and that recollection is transformed into recalling the Divine Presence. The moment his practices are observed in some minor action even, that becomes worship yielding reward......"

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About the Author

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was born a century ago, in 1873, in a village in eastern Anatolia, Nurs, from which he received the name Nursi. He received his basic education from the best-known scholars of the district. The extraordinary intelligence and capability of learning that he showed at a very early age made him popular with his teachers, colleagues and the people. When he was sixteen years old, he silenced the distinguished scholars who had invited him to a debate (debate was then a popular practice among scholars). This later recurred several more times with various groups of scholars, and he thereby began to be called Bediuzzaman (Wonder of the Age). The time he spent in education paved the way in his mind for the thought that at a time when the world was entering a new and different age, where science and logic would prevail, the classical educational system of theology would not be sufficient to remove doubts concerning the Qur'an and Islam. He concluded that religious sciences should be taught at modern schools on the one hand, and modern sciences at religious schools on the other. "This way," he said, "the people of the school will be protected from unbelief, and those of the madrasa from fanaticism." After completing a lifetime of almost a century, with every minute spent in the service of faith, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi departed from this world on the morning of March 23, 1960, with complete honor, dignity and victory, leaving behind him the Risale-i Nur Collection that would illuminate this and the forthcoming centuries and a love that would be handed over from generation to generation until eternity.

Edition details

• Publisher: nur Publishers, Scottsdale, Ariz.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0933552122
• ISBN 13: 9780933552128
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248