About

Intention & principles

This site is an independent companion and study aid for Lem’alar (“The Flashes”), one of the books of the Risale-i Nur collection by Bediüzzaman Said Nursî. It is built for English-speaking readers who want to understand, navigate, search and remember this dense work.

It is not the book. We do not host or reproduce the Risale-i Nur text or any of its translations. The actual reading happens on the official source, erisale.com, which we link to throughout. What you find here is the map around the original: outlines, our own summaries, a glossary, a concept index, search and a private reading-progress layer.

Faithfulness principles

• Strict separation of voices. Our notes are clearly marked as a companion aid and are never presented as Nursî's words.
• Not a “simplified Risale.” This is a study aid, not an easier or modernised version of the text.
• Faithfulness over cleverness. Our summaries describe and map the text; they do not editorialise, issue rulings, or extrapolate beyond it.
• In our own words. Summaries are written so they never reproduce a translation's wording. Anything uncertain is marked for review.
• Qur'anic verses. Arabic is shown as-is; English meanings carry an explicit translation source.

Copyright & disclaimer

We do not own or redistribute the Risale-i Nur text. All rights to the original Turkish and to its translations belong to their respective holders. The original Turkish remains under copyright in Turkey, and the English translations are separately copyrighted. We link out to the official source rather than reproducing any of it.

Qur'anic verse meanings quoted on this site are limited quotations of individual verses, shown with their translation source attributed on the page. We do not reproduce any translation in full.

Privacy

No accounts, no backend, no analytics, no third-party tracking, no ads. Anything you save — reading progress, bookmarks and notes — is stored only on your device, in your browser's local storage, and never leaves it. You can clear all of it at any time:

This removes your read-status, bookmarks, notes, continue-reading and the 15-day tracker from this browser. Your light/dark preference is kept.

Licensing

The code of this site is released under the MIT License. Our original companion content (summaries, outlines, glossary, structure) is released under CC BY-SA 4.0. These licenses apply only to our work, not to the Risale-i Nur or its translations.

Corrections & contributions

Faithfulness matters more than speed here. If you find an error in an outline, summary, glossary term, or an official-source link, corrections are welcome — see the contribution guide in the repository.