of preferring the fragile fragments of glass of this world to the diamondlike bounties and pleasures of the Hereafter, and following the people of misguidance in their love of this world, even while being a believer oneself, id to show the hellish torment and pain present already in the Risale-i Nur.

In the face of the obstinacy that arises from the intoxication produced by the misgudance and vice that arise in turn from the absolute unbelief and science prevalent in this age, only one in ten or twenty may profit from the method that consists of speaking of God Almighty, proving the existence of Hell and attempting to dissuade men from evil and vice by means of its torment. For having heard the lesson, he may say "God id forgiving and merciful, and Hell is far off," and then continue with his vice. His heart and spirit will have been conquered by his senses.

Now most of the comparisons contained in the Risale-i Nur show the painful and terrifying consequences in this world of unbelief and misguidance; thus they inspire in the most obstinat and lustful of men disgust at illicit and inauspicious pleasures and vices, and induce the sensible among them to make repentance.

The small comparisons contained in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Words, as well as the long comparison in the Third Stopping-Place of the Thirty-Second Word, terrify even the most vicious of the