Said Nursi Quotes


Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.


Citations

Nursi, Bediuzzaman Said. Reasonings: A Key to Understanding the Qur'an's Eloquence. Translated by Huseyin Akarsu, Tughra Books, 2008, p. 32.

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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".