The Fifth Level of the Luminous Verse “For us God suffices”

Another time my life was being shaken by harsh conditions, they directed my attention towards life. I saw that my life was departing at speed; the hereafter was drawing  close;  due  to  the  oppression  I  was  suffering  my  life  had  started  to  be extinguished. As is explained in the section of the Risale-i Nur on the divine name of Ever-Living, I thought  sorrowfully of how with its important functions, and great benefits and virtues, life did not  deserve to be so swiftly extinguished but to last a long time. I again had recourse to my master, the verse, “For us God suffices, and He is the Best Disposer of Affairs.” This time it told me: “Consider life from the point of view of the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, who gives you life!”

So I looked and I saw that if only one aspect of my life looked to me, a hundred looked to the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One. And if, of its results, one looked to me, a thousand looked to my Creator. Since this is the case, to live for one instant within the bounds of divine pleasure is sufficient; a long time is not required. This truth may be explained in four matters. Anyone who is not dead or who wants to be alive should seek the nature and reality of life and its true rights in those four matters; they will find them and be raised to life!

A summary is this: the more life looks to the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, and  the more belief becomes the life and spirit of life, the more it becomes perpetual and produces enduring fruits. It also becomes so elevated that it receives the manifestation of eternity; it no longer looks to the brevity or length of a lifetime.

The Sixth Level of the Luminous Verse “For us God suffices”

At a time when my advancing years and old age were giving warning of my particular parting amid the events of the end of time, which tell of the destruction of the world, the time of general parting, the feelings in my nature of love of beauty and passion   for   loveliness   and   fascination   by   perfection   were   unfolding   in   an extraordinarily  sensitive  manner. I saw with extraordinary clarity and sorrow that transience and decline,  which are always destructive, and death and non-existence, which perpetually cause separations, were tearing apart this beautiful world and these beautiful creatures in terrible fashion, and destroying their beauty. The metaphorical love in my nature boiled up and rebelled against this situation. In order to find consolation, I again had recourse to the verse “For us God suffices.” It told me: “Recite me and consider my meaning carefully!” So I entered the observatory of the verse in Sura al-Nur,