"good words," and the lessons of belief and fine morals, and the essential needs and benefits of mankind. Then it may be thanks for that vast bounty. For if thanks are not offered for bounties, they become harmful for people.

It is true that human beings have need for some enjoyable entertainments, as they have need for true facts and reality, but amusements should be only one in five. It is otherwise contrary to the air's purpose, Moreover, while being a vast bounty for humankind, it is the cause of laziness and vice and the neglect of necessary duties, thus becoming a serious calamity. For it destroys people's enthusiasm for work and effort, which they need.

Now, before my very eyes is the tiny machine of a radio, which was brought to my room so that I might listen to the Qur'an. I listened to it and saw that only a tenth of it was allotted to "good words." I understood this to be a human error. God willing, they will correct it, And as thanks for this bounty of the radio, which should be a means of transforming the whole face of the earth into an enlightened council and elevated dwelling and a school teaching religious belief, four fifths of what it broadcasts will be "good words" which will be spoken to win everlasting life for human- kind.

Second Point: It says in the Risale-i Nur that "one who cannot create the universe, cannot create an atom. Only the Being who creates the whole universe can create an atom in its right place and make it perform its orderly duties."

One particular proof of this sentence's universal proofs is this: the handful of air in this small radio I have with me, which is the container and receptacle of words, demonstrates decisively the following: a single phrase of the Qur'an, for instance, "all praise be to God!" with all its letters and in the mode and style particular to the reciter, reaches our ears with no change through the handful of air in the radio, over distances varying from one hour to a year from one of the nearly two hundred radio stations whose names appear written in this machine. In order for the phrase to reach our ears and in order to convey it to them without its being altered or distorted, there have to be found in every atom of that handful of air, an infinite power and comprehensive will, and knowledge so all-embracing it knows all the different modes of the Qur'an reciters in those centres all over the earth. For if there were no all-seeing eye to see them and ear to hear every- thing everywhere at the same moment, most certainly that miracle of power would not come into existence. That is to say, this handful of air molecules can manifest such a miracle of power only through a knowledge and will that encompass the whole universe, and the power of a Being possessing hearing and sight, and an Absolutely Powerful One for whom noth-