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Conclusion

Conclusion

[This forms a brief indication to a lengthy truth concerning a subtle point of miraculousness of great importance which was imparted to me after sunset and demonstrates clearly miraculous predictions of Sura al-Falaq concerning the Unseen.]

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Say: I seek refuge with the Sustainer of the rising dawn ∗ From the evil of aught that He has created, ∗ And from the evil of the black darkness whenever it descends, ∗ And from the evil of blowers on knots, ∗ And from the evil of the envious when he envies. [^48]

[^48]:Qur'an, 113:1-5.

Commanding God's Messenger (PBUH) and his community: "Protect yourselves from the evil beings and satans among jinn and men who strive in the universe on account of the worlds of nonbeing," this mighty, wondrous verse looks to all ages, and with its allusive meaning looks more to our strange age, even explicitly, and calls on the Qur'an's servants to seek refuge with God. This miraculous prediction about the Unseen is here explained briefly in five signs, as follows:

All the verses of this sura have numerous meanings. Only in respect of their allusive meaning, their repeating the word "evil" four times in five sentences is certainly guidance from the Unseen in a way befitting the Qur'an's miraculousness; as is with a powerful relation and in four ways their pointing the finger with the same date to the four unparalleled, ghastly, stormy evils, material and immaterial, of this age, with its revolutions and clashes, and their implicitly giving the command: "Withdraw from these!"

For example, the sentence "Say: I seek refuge with the Sustainer of the dawn" coincides with the date 1352 or 1354 according to abjad and jafr reckoning, alluding to the Second World War, which was brewing up then erupted due to the prevalent ambition and greed of mankind and the First War, and in effect saying to the community of Muhammad (PBUH): "Do not enter this war, but seek refuge with your Sustainer." With another of its allusive meanings, as a special favour to the Risale-i Nur students, who are servants of the Qur'an, it hints to them that they were to be saved around the same date from Eskişehir Prison and an awesome evil, and that the

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