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Expositions of Qur'anic verses and phrases, and aspects of the Qur'an's inimitability (i'jaz).
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Reading the three closing verses of Sūrat al-Fath, this Flash shows how the Qur'an foretold what was still hidden at the time — the conquest of Mecca, Islam's spread over empires, and the very characters of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs — as one strand of its miraculous inimitability.
Two answers to a student: that no creature truly dies for lack of provision, which is God's guaranteed gift; and that the Qur'an's "seven heavens and earths" should be read as layered, universal meaning, not refuted by the astronomy of the day.
Two stations: the first reads a puzzling Hadith and the Prophet's "People of the Cloak"; the second — the celebrated treatise on the Bismillah — unfolds six "mysteries" of "In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate" as the doorway to divine mercy.
A letter answering brothers' questions: why saints' predictions can fail (conditional destiny), why Nursî meets opposition with "light, not the club," how to read the Qur'an's metaphors, why rain and the unborn stay among the Unseen, and the key difference between reading creation for itself or as a sign of its Maker.
The Tabiat Risâlesi: a sustained refutation of materialist naturalism. Since any being can be explained only four ways — by causes, by forming itself, by "nature," or by the One Creator — and the first three collapse under a chain of "impossibilities," divine unity stands proven, and Nature is shown to be God's artwork, not the Artist.
A gathering of short pieces Nursî wrote to console his fellow prisoners in Eskişehir when he was forbidden to speak with them — small reflections on Qur'anic verses, defences, and meditations (from the kindness owed to a line of flies to the discipline of the soul) that turn a prison into a place of light.
A contemplative ascent: of the thirty-three "degrees" of declaring "God is Most Great" (Allāhu akbar), this chapter unfolds seven, climbing through the ranks of creation so that at every level — atom to galaxy — the same testimony to God's greatness is heard.
