And set the sun as a lamp.(71:16)

Here, by depicting with the word “lamp” the world in the form of a palace, and the things within it as decorations, necessities, and provisions prepared for man and living beings, and the sun as a subjugated candleholder, it makes known the Creator’s mercy and bestowal. Now look and see what this foolish, prattling philosophy says:

“The sun is a vast burning liquid mass. It causes the planets which have been flung off from it to revolve around it. Its mass is such-and-such. It is this, it is that.” Apart from a terrible dread and fearful wonder, philosophy imparts to the spirit no knowledge that will perfect it. It does not speak of it as the Qur’an does. You may understand from this the value of the matters of philosophy, whose inside is hollow and outside, ostentatious. So do not be deceived by its glittering exterior and be disrespectful towards the miraculous expositions of the Qur’an!

[NOTE:  The six “Drops”  of the Fourteenth Droplet  in the Arabic Risale-i Nur, and especially the six “Points” of the fourth “Drop,” explain fifteen of the  approximately   forty  sorts  of  the  All-Wise  Qur’an’s  miraculousness. Deeming those to be sufficient,  we have limited the discussion here. If you wish, refer to them, and you will find a treasury of miracles.]

O God! Make the Qur’an healing for us, the writer of this and his peers, for all our ills, and a companion to us in our lives and after our deaths, and in this world, and in the grave, and at the Last Judgement an intercessor, and on the Bridge a light, and from the Fire a screen and shield, and in Paradise a friend, and in all good deeds a guide and leader, through Your grace and munificence   and   beneficence   and   mercy,   O   Most   Munificent   of   the Munificent and Most Merciful of the Merciful! Amen.

O God! Grant blessings and peace to the one to whom was revealed the All- Wise Qur’an, the Distinguisher between Truth and Falsehood, and to all his Family and Companions. Amen. Amen.

The Eternal One, He is the Eternal One!

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