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Date: Saturday, 21 August, 2010
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In this session, brother Levent Altunbas, together with brothers Kerem and Turhan, discusses the first and second Notes of the Seventeenth Flash. In this Flash, the author Bediuzzaman Said Nursi provides concise notes pertaining to the Unity of Allah.
The First Note relates to the human desire for eternity. Bediuzzaman reminds us that we all have the innate desire to live forever, and the innate love of eternal things. Since this is the case, we should not attach ourselves to perishable, transient things. These can not satisfy us. We can only be content with the True Eternal One (Baki-i Hakiki).
In the Second Note, Bediuzzaman points out that in terms of being a ‘created’ being, no person is inferior or superior to another person. In fact, no ‘created thing’ is superior or inferior to another. But Allah is infinitely superior to all things. And all things are equally distant from Allah, in terms of their fitness to be worshipped. Since only Allah is worthy of worship, and since no one apart from Allah is superior to us, we should not subjugate ourselves to other people. We should not feel obligated to other people nor be enslaved by worldly things.
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In this session, we answer a question from our audience relating to the First Flash. In this Flash, and in many parts of the Risale-i Nur, we are informed that true love should only be for Allah, and that love of anything else can never be real, but merely ‘metaphorical’. But since we see beauty in worldly things, and especially in other people, how can we turn our love for those things toward love for Allah? How can we direct our love toward the True Beloved (Mahbub-u Hakiki)
We should understand that all things in the universe merely reflect the Names and attributes of Allah. Things which are beautiful, and which we love, are only beautiful thanks to the beauty and perfection of their Creator. We should therefore not love them on their own account, but on account of their Creator. We should say like Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, “Look how beautifully they have been made,” rather than, “Look how beautiful they are”.
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