The Twenty-Third Flash

On Nature

[First written as the Sixteenth Note of the Seventeenth Flash, this part of the Risale-i Nur was later designated the Twenty- Third  Flash because of its importance. For it puts naturalistic atheism to  death with no chance of reanimation, and totally shatters the foundation stones of unbelief.]

A Reminder

This treatise explains through nine ‘Impossibilities,’ themselves comprising at least ninety impossibilities, just how unreasonable, crude and superstitious is the way  taken  by  those  Naturalists  who  are  atheists.  In  order  to  cut  short  the discussion here and because these impossibilities have been explained in part in other  sections  of  the  Risale-i  Nur,  some  steps  in  the  arguments  have  been skipped. It occurs to one, therefore, how is it that those famous and supposedly brilliant philosophers accepted such a blatantly obvious superstition, and continue to pursue that way. Well, the fact is they cannot see its reality. And I am ready to explain in detail and prove through clear and  decisive arguments to  whoever doubts it that these crude, repugnant and unreasonable  impossibilities are the necessary and  unavoidable result of their way;  in fact,  the  very  gist of their creed.1

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1   What occasioned the writing of this treatise were the attacks being made on the Qur’an by those who called everything that their corrupted minds could not reach a superstition, who were using Nature to justify unbelief, and were vilifying the truths of belief in a most aggressive and ugly fashion. Their attacks stirred up in my heart an intense anger which resulted in those perverted atheists and falsifiers

of the truth receiving vehement and harsh slaps. Otherwise, the way generally followed by the Risale-i

Nur is a mild, polite and persuasive one.