Themes · theme
Remembering mortality (the contemplation of death) and orienting one's work toward the everlasting life rather than the passing world.
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A meditation on the twin invocation "O Eternal One, You alone are Eternal" that first severs the heart from everything that perishes and then consoles it: since the Truly Enduring One remains, whatever is loved and spent for His sake takes on a share of His permanence.
Sincerity (ihlâs): doing every act for God's pleasure alone, purified of show, ego and worldly reward — with three things that break it and four rules to win and protect it.
Twenty-six "Hopes": consolations for old age in which Nursî first lays bare a real grief from his own life — aging, loneliness, exile, the nearness of death — and then meets each with the light he found in belief, so that the very things that darken later life become doors of hope.
