Said Nursi Quotes


In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.


Citations

Nursi, Bediuzzaman Said. The Words. Translated by Şükran Vahide, Sözler Publications, 2004, p. 77.

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Said Nursi
Said Nursi
  • Born:
  • Died: March 23, 1960
  • Nationality: Turkish
  • Profession: Theologian

Said Nursi, also spelled Said-i Nursî or Said-i Kurdî and commonly known with the honorific Bediüzzaman (meaning "wonder of the age"), or simply Üstad (meaning "master") was a Kurdish Sunni Muslim theologian who wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection, a body of Qur'anic commentary exceeding six thousand pages. Believing that modern science and logic was the way of the future, he advocated teaching religious sciences in secular schools and modern sciences in religious schools. Nursi inspired a religious movement that has played a vital role in the revival of Islam in Turkey and now numbers several millions of followers worldwide. His followers, often known as the "Nurcu movement" or the "Nur cemaati".