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other with help and support.(17:88) ∗ God will produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him, lowly with the believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the way of God, and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault.(5:54) ∗ And say: Praise be to God, Who will show you His signs, so that you shall know them.(27:93) ∗ Say: He is the Most Merciful; we have believed in Him, and in Him have we put our trust. Soon you shall know which [of us] it is that is in manifest error.(67:29) ∗ God has promised to those among you who believe and act righteously that He will of a surety grant them inheritance [of power] in the land, as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion, which He has chosen for them; and that He will change [their state] after their fear, to one of security and peace.(24:55)

The information about the Unseen which many verses like these give turned out to be exactly true. Because it was given by a person who was subject to many criticisms and objections and could have lost his cause through the tiniest mistake; it was spoken unhesitatingly, and with absolute seriousness and confidence in a way that confirmed its authenticity. This news of the Unseen, therefore, demonstrates with certainty that the person who gave it had received instruction from the Pre-Eternal Master, and then he spoke.

##### The Third Glisten

The Third Glisten is its giving news of the divine truths, cosmic truths, and the matters of the hereafter. The Qur’an’s expositions of the divine truths and its explanations of the cosmos which solve the talisman of the universe and riddle of creation, are the most important of its disclosures about the Unseen. For it is not reasonable to expect the human reason to discover those truths about the Unseen and follow them without deviating amid innumerable ways of misguidance. It is well-known that the most brilliant philosophers of mankind have been unable to solve the most insignificant of those matters by use of the reason. Furthermore, it is only after the Qur’an has elucidated those divine truths and cosmic truths, which it points out, and after man’s heart has been cleansed and his soul purified, and after his spirit has advanced and his mind been perfected that his mind affirms and accepts those truths, and he says to the Qur’an: “How great are God’s blessings!” This section has been in part explained and proved in the Eleventh Word, so there is no need to repeat it. But when it comes to facts concerning the hereafter and Intermediate Realm, the human mind certainly cannot rise to them and see them on its own, but it can prove them to the degree it sees them through the ways shown by the Qur’an. It is

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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