possess any wonderful spiritual powers with which to prove these truths, nor do I have any saintly powers with which to attract hearts. I do not possess an elevated genius with which to subjugate minds. I am like a suppliant servant at the court of the AllWise Qur'an. Sometimes I seek help from the All-Wise Qur'an's mysteries in order to smash the obduracy of the stubborn people of misguidance and make them see things fairly. I perceived a Divine favour in this `coinciding', as instances of the miraculous power of the Qur'an, and I embraced it with both hands..."
In the Tenth Word, this appeared both in the timing of its being written, and in hand-written copies of the work in particular, written by Bediuzzaman's students, where, in a manner entirely outside their will, the letter `alif, the first letter of the word `Allah', displayed this `coinciding' to such a degree that it could in no way be attributed to chance. Examples in other parts of the Risale-i Nur will be given later.
Bediuzzaman attached the greatest importance to this treatise which as he said, "explained to ordinary people, and even to children", truths of belief which even a genius of philosophy like Ibn-i Sina had confessed his impotence before. Ibn-i Sina (Avicenna) had declared that `resurrection cannot be understood by rational criteria.’ Bediuzzaman wrote also in a letter in the early 1930's that its "value had not been fully appreciated." And that he himself had "studied it perhaps fifty times, and each time I have received pleasure from it and felt the need to reread it.”
What form then does Bediuzzaman's Treatise on Resurrection take that it is able to prove such difficult matters so simply and clearly? He himself described it like this:
"Each [of the `Twelve Truths' of which the main part of the work is composed proves three things at the same time. Each proves both the existence of the Necessarily Existent One, and His Names and attributes, then it constructs the resurrection of the dead on these and proves it." Bediuzzaman then continues: "Everyone from the most obdurate unbeliever to the most sincere believer can take