classes were sympathetic towards the lower classes, and it encouraged the bourgeousie to tyranny and the poor to revolt. It destroyed the tranquillity of mankind.

Second Point: Since the wonders of modern civilization are each a dominical bounty, they require real thanks and to be utililized for the benefit of humankind. But now we see that since they have encouraged a significant number of people to be lazy and indulge in vice, and have given them the wish to heed their desires in ease and comfort; they have destroyed these people's eagerness for effort and endeavour. Moreover, by way of dissatisfaction and extravagance, they have driven them to dissipation, wastefulness, unjustness, and what is unlawful.

For example, as it says in A Key to the World of the Risale-i Nur, although the radio is a great bounty and demands thanks in the form of being used for the good of humanity, since four fifths of it are used on unnecessary, meaningless trivia, it has encouraged idleness and depravity, and destroyed the eagerness for work. I myself even have seen that of a number of highly beneficial marvels which should be used for endeavour and work and man's true benefits and needs, eight out of ten are urging man to indulge in pleasure and amusement, to satisfy his desires, and to be lazy, and only one or two of them are being spent on essential needs. There are thousands of examples like these two small ones.

In Short: Since modern Western civilization has not truly heeded the revealed religions, it has both impoverished man and increased his needs. It has destroyed the principle of frugality and contentment, and increased wastefulness, greed, and covetousness. It has opened up the way to tyranny and what is unlawful. By encouraging people to take advantage of the means of dissipation, it has also induced those needy unfortunates to be totally slothful. It has destroyed the desire to strive and work. It has encouraged depravity and dissipation, and wasted their lives on useless things. Furthermore, it has made those needy and lazy people ill; with its abuses and prodigality, it has been the means of spreading a hundred sorts of diseases.

Humankind is constantly threatened by three awesome matters: severe needs, the tendency towards vice and dissipation, and death — and numerous illnesses which perpetually remind him of death — which the atheistic currents that have awakened mankind by their infiltrating civilization show to be eternal extinction. All these cause humanity a hellish torment.

In the face of this ghastly calamity, it is understood from the signs and allusions of the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition that with the awakening of its four hundred million students and its sacred, revealed fundamental