Because philosophy, science, and natural philoso­phy do not know this subtle instance of wisdom, they have confused unconscious nature, blind chance, and lifeless causes in this utterly knowing, wise, percipient activity, and falling into the dark­ness of misguidance, have been unable to find the light of reality.

Say, "God [sent it down];" then leave them to plunge in vain discourse and trifling.^[12]O our Sustained Do not cause our hearts to swerve now that You have guided us, and bestow mercy upon us from Yourself; indeed, You are the Bestower of Gifts?

O God! Grant blessings and peace to the Solver of the talisman of Your universe to the number of atoms of beings, and to his Family and Compan­ions, so long as the earth and the heavens persist.

The Eternal One, He is the Eternal One! SaidNursi

from The Twenty-Sixth Letter Second Matter

"In Everything is a Sign that He is One"

Explanations of the three questions asked by the former teacher (hojd) are to be found in various parts of the Risale-i Nur. For now we shall just make brief allusion to them.

His First Question: Muhyi'l-Din al-'Arabi said in his letter to Fakhr al-Din Razi: "To know God is different to knowing He exists." What does this mean and what did he intend by saying it?

Firstly: In the introduction to the Twenty-Second Word, which you read to him, the comparison and example showing the difference between the true affirmation of divine unity and its superficial affir­mation point to what was intended. While the Sec­ond and Third Stopping-Places of the Thirty-Second Word and its Aims, elucidate it.

And secondly: Muhyi'l-Din al-'Arabi said that to Fakhr al-Din Razi, who was a leading authority on theology, because the explications of the tenets of belief and the existence of the Necessary Existent and divine unity offered by the authoritative schol­ars of the principles of religion (usid-tid-diri) and theology (kalam) were insufficient in his view.

Yes, the knowledge of God gained through theol­ogy does not afford a complete knowledge and a complete sense of the divine presence. However, when gained through the method of the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, it affords both complete knowledge and a total sense of the divine presence. God willing, all the parts of the Risale-i Nur per­form the duty of an electric lamp on that light-filled highway of the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition.
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12 .Qur'an,6:91. 9.Qur'an,3:8.