Bediuzzaman attached the greatest importance to this treatise, which, as he said, "explained to ordinary people, and even to children", truths of belief which even a genius of philosophy like Ibn Sina (Avicenna) had confessed his impotence before. Ibn Sina had declared that 'resurrection cannot be understood by rational criteria.' [^53] Bediuzzaman wrote also in a letter in the early 1930's that its "value had not been fully appreciated." And that he himself had "studied it perhaps fifty times, and each time I have received pleasure from it and felt the need to reread it." [^54]
[^53]:Sözler, 85 (Eng. tr.: Words, 106).
[^54]:Nursi, Barla Lahikası, 169.
What form then does the Treatise on Resurrection take that it is able to prove such difficult matters so simply and clearly? He himself described it like this:
Each [of the Twelve Truths of which the main part of the work is composed] proves three things at the same time. Each proves both the existence of the Necessarily Existent One, and His Names and attributes then it constructs the resurrection of the dead on these and proves it." Bediuzzaman then continues: "Everyone from the most obdurate unbeliever to the most sincere believer can take his share from each Truth, because in each the gaze is turned towards beings, works. Each says: 'There are well-ordered acts in these, and a well-ordered act cannot be without an author, in which case it has an author. And since the act has been carried out with order and balance, its author must be wise and just. Since he is wise, he does nothing in vain. And since he acts with justice, he does not permit rights to be violated. There will therefore be a great gathering, a supreme tribunal.' The Truths have been tackled in this way. They are succinct, and thus prove the three things at once. [^55]
[^55]:Ibid., 160.
At the end of the conclusion of the Tenth Word itself, this is enlarged upon. Bediuzzaman explains that the proofs for resurrection rest on Divine works in the universe which proceed from the manifestation of the Greatest Divine Name and the greatest degree of manifestation of the other Names and are therefore vast and immense. He writes:
Since the resurrection and Great Gathering occur through the manifestation of the Greatest Name, they are to be proved as easily as the spring, and submitted to with certainty, and believed in firmly, through seeing and demonstrating the immense acts which are apparent through the manifestation of God Almighty's Greatest Name and the greatest degree of all His names. [^56]
[^56]:Sözler, 85 (Eng. tr.: Words, 106-7).