TO CONCLUDE:

The Holy Qur’an addresses the intellect as well as man’s other inner faculties. It directs man to consider the universe and its functioning in order to learn its true nature and purposes as the creation and thus to learn the attributes of its Single Creator and his own duties as a creature. This, then, is the method that Bediuzzaman employed in the Risale-i Nur. He explained the true na-ture of the universe as signs of its Creator and demon-strated through clear arguments that when it is read as such all the fundamentals of belief may be proved ra-tionally.

When this method is followed, a person attains a true belief that will be sound and firm enough to with-stand any doubts that may arise in the face of the subtle attacks of Materialism, Naturalism and atheism, or the materialist approach to scientific advances. For all sci-entific and technological advances are merely the un-covering of the workings of the cosmos. When the cos-mos is seen to be a vast and infinitely complex and meaningful unified book describing its Single Author, rather than causing doubt and bewilderment, all these discoveries and advances reinforce belief, they deepen and expand it.

Man’s most fundamental need is the need for relig-ion, the need to recognize and worship Almighty God with all His Most Beautiful Names and attributes, and to obey His laws; those manifest in the universe and