the veracity of the messengership of Muhammad (PBUH), and that one who does not deny all of them cannot in truth deny his messengership. For this purpose, and since everyone does not always have the time or capability to read the whole Qur' an, it repeats those stories as it does the main pillars of belief, so as to make all the long and middle-length suras each like a small Qur'an. To repeat them then is not excessive, it is required by eloquence and teaches that the question of Muhammad (PBUH) is the greatest question of mankind and the most crucial matter of the universe.

It has been demonstrated decisively in the Risale-i Nur with many proofs and indications that by giving the highest position to the person of Muhammad in the Qur'an and including him in four pillars of belief and holding "Muhammad is the Messenger of God" equal to the pillar of "There is no god but God," shows that the messengership of Muhammad (PBUH) is the greatest truth in the universe, and the person of Muhammad is the most noble of creatures, and his universal collective personality and sacred rank, known as the Muhammadan Reality, is the most radiant Sun of the two worlds. His worthiness for this extraordinary position has also been proved. One of these proofs is this:

According to the principle of 'the cause is like the doer,' since the equivalent of all the good works performed by all his community at all times enters his book of good works; and the light which he brought illuminates all the truths of the cosmos; and he makes grateful not only the jinn, mankind, and animate beings, but also the universe and the heavens and earth; and since the supplications of plants, offered through the tongue of disposition, and the supplications of animals offered through the tongue of their innate need, and the righteous of his (PBUH) community every day bequeathe to him their benedictions and supplications for mercy and spiritual gains, whose millions — and together with spirit beings, even, millions of millions — of unrejectable supplications are accepted, as we actually witness with our eyes; and since each of the three hundred thousand letters of the Qur'an yield from a hundred to a thousand merits, only with regard to the recitation of the Qur'an by all his community, infinite numbers of lights enter the book of his deeds; — the One All-Knowing of the Unseen saw and knew that the Muhammadan (PBUH) Reality, which is his collective personality, would in the future be like a Tuba-tree of Paradise, and in accordance with that rank accorded him supreme importance in the Qur'an, and in His Decree showed the following of him and receiving of his intercession through adhering to his Illustrious Sunna to be one of the most important matters concerning man. And from time to time He took into consider-