The main goal of the works of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, who is one of the important thinkers of the 20th century is to enable the people of his age to understand and practice the verses of Quran. In his books, he directly explained six hundred and twenty verses of the Quran and referred to thousands of verses. He examined the verses in the axis of general themes of the Quran, which are resurrection, tawheed (unity of Allah), prophethood and justice. In his books, Nursi focused on “to offer and express the realities of belief in the Quran with strong proofs” Bediüzzaman based his tafseer method on the combination of revelation and universe. The reality of the universe is understood with mana-yı harfi not with mana-yı ismi. Bediuzzaman used all the methods used by his contemporary mufaseers idiosyncratically and in a coherent way so as to serve the understanding and practice of the Qur’an in life. However while he was meeting the expectations of the society and the requirements of the age
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