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The organism hears its brother’s voice. It sees its food. If it were enlarged to the size of a man, its senses would be wondrous, its life dazzling, and the sight of it like a lightning flash lighting up the skies.

Man is not a living being composed of dead beings, but a living human cell composed of thousands of millions of living cells.

Man is like the Sura Ya. Sin., in which is inscribed Sura Ya. Sin. “Blessed be God, the Best of Creators!”(23:14)

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Materialism Is an Immaterial Plague

Materialism Is an Immaterial Plague

Materialism is an immaterial plague; mankind caught this fearsome fever. [^20] Its inculcation and imitation caused mankind to be visited suddenly by divine wrath.

[^20]:This alludes to the First World War.

This plague spreads to the extent the ability to criticize spreads. It was inculcated by science and learnt blind imitation from modern civilization.

Freedom led to criticism; misguidance sprang from its pride.

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There Is Nothing Idle in Existence; The Unemployed Man Works on Account of Non-Existence

There Is Nothing Idle in Existence;

The Unemployed Man Works on Account of Non-Existence

The most miserable, wretched, and distressed person, is the unemployed. For idleness is non-existence within existence, death within life. Whereas exertion is the life of existence, and the waking state of life!

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Usury and Interest Cause Absolute Harm to Islam

Usury and Interest Cause Absolute Harm to Islam

Usury is the cause of idleness, it extinguishes enthusiasm for work.

The profit of the doors of usury and their containers, the banks, is always for the worst group of mankind, the infidels.

The infidels’ profits go to the worst of them, that is, the oppressors.

The profit of the oppressors always goes to the worst of them; that is, the dissolute; it causes the World of Islam absolute harm.

4–6 October 2026 · Istanbul

13th International Bediuzzaman Symposium

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