The Second Sort of the Instances of Wisdom looks to the views of liv¬ing creatures and conscious beings. Beings each become an agreeable object of study, a book of knowledge. They leave their meanings in the sphere of existence in the minds of conscious beings and their forms in their memories, and on the tablets in the World of Similitudes, and in the notebooks of the World of the Unseen, then they depart from the Manifest World and withdraw to the World of the Unseen. That is, they leave behind an apparent existence, but gain many existences pertaining to meaning, the Unseen, and knowledge. Yes, since God exists and His knowledge encom¬passes everything, in the view of reality, in the world of believers there is
surely no non-being, extinction, nothingness, annihilation, and transitori-ness, while the world of unbelievers is full of non-existence, separation, nothingness, and transience. This is taught by the saying, which is on eve¬ryone's lips, "For those for whom God exists, everything exists; and for those for whom He does not exist, nothing exists; for them there is noth¬ing"
In Short: Just as belief saves man from eternal extinction at the time of death, so it saves everyone's private world from the darknesses of annihila¬tion and nothingness. Whereas unbelief, and especially if it is absolute unbelief, both sends man and his private world to non-existence with death, and casts him into infernal darknesses. It transforms the pleasures of life into bitter poisons. Let the ears ring of those who prefer the life of this world to that of the hereafter! Let them come and find a solution for this, or else let them enter belief and be saved from these dreadful losses!
Glory be unto You.' We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us: indeed, You are All-Knowing, All-Wise?³⁹
From your brother who is in much need of your prayers and misses you greatly,
Said Nursi
A Letter From Husrev⁴⁰ to Üstad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Concerning the Tenth Topic
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39. Qur'an,2:32.
40. Husrev Altınbaşak (1899-1977). One of Bediuzzaman's leading sludenis, who wrote out numerous copies oí the Risale-i Nur with his exceptionally fine handwriting. He also wrote copies of the Qur'an showing (he 'coincidences' (tawúfuqãt) of the word 'Allah', an aspect of its miraculousness which Bediuzzaman 'discovered.' He was togeiher with Bediuz¬zaman in the prisons of Eskişehir, Denizli,and Afyon. [Тг,|