formed my grief and sorrow into joy... Just when they had turned the world into a sort of hell and the intellect into an instrument of torture, the light Muhammad (PBUH) had brought as a gift for mankind raised the veil; it showed in place of extinction, non-being, nothingness, purposeless, futility, and separations, meanings and instances of wisdom to the number of the leaves of the poplars, and as is proved in the Risale-i Nur, results and duties  which may be divided into three sorts... [^263]

[^263]:Nursi, Şualar, 213-4 (Eng. tr: Rays, 272-3).