The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; (Quran 49:10) Work together for the sake of virtue and piety. (Quran 5:2) And hold fast, all of you together to the rope of Allah and be not divided among yourselves and remember Allah’s favor on you, for […]

From Bediuzzaman’s Damascus Sermon: “The thing most worthy of love is love, and the most deserving of enmity is enmity. That is, love and loving, which render man’s social life secure and lead to happiness are most worthy of love and being loved. Enmity and hostility are ugly and damaging, have overturned man’s social life, […]

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was an extraordinary man of genuine peace, love, sincerity and brotherhood. He promoted throughout his long life of 87 years peace through dialogue, and he strongly opposed war, physical weapons and any enmity between believers. He even prohibited his students from politics and political involvement.  Noteworthy is that Bediuzzaman not only promoted […]

Indeed in the heavens and earth are signs for those who believe. (Qur’an 45:3)  Bediuzzaman’s words from The Staff of Moses: If we observe the face of the earth in the summer, we see that an absolute munificence and liberality, which necessitate confusion and disarrangement, is to be seen within a total harmony and order. […]

These are wise words from Bediuzzaman Said Nursi from Mathnawi-i Nuriye on the power of belief to create human kinship.  “O Friend! Belief establishes a true brotherhood, attachment, inter-connection and bonds of unity among all beings, whereas disbelief, like the frost, causes beings to appear disconnected and different from each other and makes them regard […]