A Flower of Emirdağ

The Tenth Topic of Fruits of Belief,

The Eleventh Ray

A Flower of Emirdağ

[An extremely powerful reply to objections raised against repetition in the Qur’an.]

My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Due to my wretched situation, this Matter is confused and graceless. But I knew definitely that beneath the confused wording was a most valuable sort of miraculousness, though unfortunately I was incapable of expressing it. But however dull the wording, since it concerns the Qur’an, it is both worship in the form of reflection, and the shell of a sacred, elevated, shining jewel. The diamond in the hand should be looked at, not its torn clothes. Also, I wrote it in one or two days during Ramadan while extremely ill, wretched, and without food, of necessity very concisely and briefly, and including many truths and numerous proofs in a single sentence. Its deficiencies, then, should be overlooked! [^11]

[^11]:As the Tenth Matter of the fruit of Denizli Prison, it is a small shining flower of Emirdağ and of this month of Ramadan. By explaining one instance of wisdom in the repetitions of the Qur’an, it dispels the poisonous, putrid illusions of the people of misguidance.

My True and Loyal Brothers! While reading the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition in Ramadan, whichever of the thirty-three verses I came to that in the First Ray describe the allusions to the Risale-i Nur, I saw that the page and story of the verse also look to the Risale-i Nur and its students to a degree – in so far as they have a share of the story. Particularly the Light Verse in Sura al-Nur, just as it points to the Risale-i Nur with ten fingers, so the Darknesses Verse following it points directly at those opposing it; these afford a further share. Quite simply, I understood that this station rises from particularity to universality and that one part of that universality is the Risale-i Nur and its students.

Indeed, in regard to the breadth, exaltedness, and comprehensiveness that the Qur’an’s address receives from firstly the extensive station of the universal dominicality of the Pre-Eternal Speaker, and from the extensive station of the