But since these matters are explanations of the truths of belief, they are both learning, and knowledge of Allah, and lead to Allah’s presence, and are worship.

Insha’llah, these ’Risale-i Nur Medreses’ will secure in five to ten weeks the same results that the former medreses produced in five to ten years and they have been so doing for twenty years.

Also it is essential for the Government not to interfere with these Flashes of the Qur’an, the Ri-sale-i Nur, which is the Qur’an’s herald and is beneficial in many ways for the worldly and political life of this nation and country, and for its life in the Hereafter. Rather, it should work for its total spread and acceptance, so that it will atone for the grievous sins of the past, and form a barrier to the severe trials and anarchy of the future.

Said Nursi

One time at the start of my old age when the laughter of the Old Said was being transformed into the weeping of the New Said, supposing me still to be the Old Said, the worldly in Ankara invited me there, and I went.

At the close of autumn I climbed to the top of the citadel, which was far more aged, dilapidated, and worn out than me.