an obligation which if undertaken by part of the community, released the rest. It considered itself to be charged with sacrificing itself for Islam, which was united, and carrying the banner of the Caliphate.

So its disaster now will be made up for by the future Prosperity and Freedom of the Islamic World. For this calamity has speeded up in wondrous fashion the growth of Islamic Brotherhood, the leaven of our lives.

(The Seeds of Reality, The Letters, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, 547)

(This Compilation -The Islamic Unity- has been prepared by the Ittihad Strategic Research Board - Istanbul - Turkey. First published in Turkish in 1980, Second published in 1992. Published in Arabic 1992. English Translation published in March 1999.)