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ions and submit to those most necessary essential matters which are as great as the revolutions, if the Qur’an draws his attention to them thousands, or even millions of times, it is not excessive, for those discussions in the Qur’an are read millions of times, and they do not cause boredom, nor does the need cease.

For example, the verses,

For those who believe and do righteous deeds are gardens beneath which rivers flow,(85:11) ∗ They will dwell there for ever.(5:85, etc.)

These verses show the truth of the good news of eternal happiness, which “saves from the eternal execution of the reality of death, which every moment shows itself to wretched man, both himself, and his world, and all those he loves, and gains for them an everlasting sovereignty,” so if they were to be repeated thousands of millions of times and given the importance of the universe, it still would not be excessive and would not diminish their value. Thus, in teaching the innumerable, invaluable matters of this sort, and endeavouring to persuade, convince, and prove the occurrence of the awesome revolutions which will destroy the universe’s present form and transform it as though it were a house, the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition certainly draws attention to these matters thousands of times times explicitly, implicitly, and allusively, and this is not excessive. Indeed, it renews the bounty which is an essential need, just as the essential needs of bread, medicine, air, and light are renewed.

And, for example, as is proved decisively in the Risale-i Nur, the Qur’an repeats severely, angrily, and forcefully, such threatening verses as,

For wrongdoers there is a grievous penalty.(14:22) ∗ But for those who reject [God] – for them will be the Fire of Hell.(35:36)

The wisdom in this is that man’s unbelief is such a transgression against the rights of the universe and most creatures that it angers the heavens and earth and brings the elements to anger so that they deal blows on those wrongdoers with tempest and storm. According to the clear statement of the verses,

And when they are cast therein, they will hear the [terrible] drawing-in of its breath as it blazes forth ∗ Almost bursting with fury,(67:7-8)

Hell so rages at those iniquitous deniers that it almost disintegrates with fury. Thus, in accordance with the wisdom of showing, not from the point of view of man’s smallness and insignificance before such a general crime and boundless aggression, but the importance of the rights of the Monarch of Universe’s subjects before the gravity of the wrongful crime and the

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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