The Reasonings -
A Key to Understanding the Qur'an's Eloquence,
*[A5+] Hardback - 170 pages,
Back in Stock July 2017,
by Bediuzzzaman Said Nursi.
From '
'The Risale i Nur Collection''
A Key to Understanding the Qur'an's Eloquence!
Description from the publisher : This illuminating guide presents an innovative and contemporary approach to the Qur’an and its philosophy in the Islamic tradition. From the religious time’s purpose and objectives to its rhetoric and eloquence, various aspects of the Qur’an are examined while new insights are provided on the existence and oneness of God, Prophethood, and bodily resurrection.
This was the atmosphere in which Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, a scholar of great importance, found himself when he arrived in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman state in 1907. He studied the traditional Islamic sciences, having profoundly immersed his heart and mind in the Qur’an and the
Sunna, while at the same time he adopted a unique, individual manner of not asking any questions from living traditional circles, in addition to studying natural sciences and following new developments in sciences and technology.
In the face of the “ avant-garde-ists,” who evidently perceived Islam as a hindrance to development and associated the West’s scientific and military advances with its “negative” outlook on religion, Bediüzzaman Said Nursi declared, “I shall prove to the world that the Qur’an is a spiritual sun that cannot be extinguished.” It was in such an atmosphere that Said Nursi worked toward the construction of an indestructible fortress around the Qur’an, undeterred by the blasts detonated internally or externally, and thus opted to be a tireless servant in the implementation of the Divine declaration,
“
Indeed it is We, We Who send down the Reminder (i.e. the Qur’an),
and it is indeed We Who are its Guardian” (al-Hijr, 15:9).
The Reasonings is an indispensable guide for aspirers to knowledge who wish to obtain robust understanding amid the web of decades of dispute, and to unshackle themselves from excess and apathy.
Extract : If the truth, which has long slept, does not awaken within you
with this loud voice, and your heart does not open, take scholars such
as Ibn Humam and 'Fakhr al-Islam' by the hand, and go to Imam
al-Shafi‘i. Ask him: “The
Shari‘a orders the Prayer at five fixed times.
But in the world there are people in whose country there is sometimes
no time for the Late Evening or Night Prayer. There are people in other
countries where the sun does not rise for many consecutive days, or
does not set during other consecutive days. How do they fast?” Ask
him again, “ Turning towards the
Ka‘ba is compulsory during the Prayer.
But we can turn toward it only while standing or sitting. How can we turn
toward the
Ka‘ba in other acts of the Prayer such as during bowing and
prostration?”
Table of Contents :
---Bediuzzaman and The Reasonings,
---Preface,
---Introduction.
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The [1st] Part : The Element of Truth,
----The First Premise,
----The Second Premise,
----The Third Premise,
----The Fourth Premise,
----The Fifth Premise,
----The Sixth Premise,
----The Seventh Premise,
----The Eighth Premise,
----The Ninth Premise,
----The Tenth Premise,
----The Eleventh Premise,
----The Twelfth Premise,
------First Matter,
------Second Matter,
------Third Matter,
------Fourth Matter,
------Fifth Matter,
------Sixth Matter,
------Seventh Matter,
------Eighth Matter.
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The [2nd] Part : The Essence of Eloquence,
----First Matter,
----Second Matter,
----Third Matter,
----Fourth Matter,
----Fifth Matter,
----Sixth Matter,
----Seventh Matter,
----Eighth Matter,
----Ninth Matter,
----Tenth Matter,
----Eleventh Matter,
----Twelfth Matter.
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The [3rd] Part : The Element of Belief,
----The Element of Belief,
-----Introduction,
-----The First Purpose,
-----The Second Purpose,
------Introduction,
------Explaining Some of the Proofs of Muhammad’s Prophethood,
--------Introduction,
--------The First Way,
--------The Second Way,
--------The Third Way,
--------The Fourth Way,
--------The Fifth Way,
-----The Third Purpose,
--------Introduction,
--------A Summation of the Most General Proofs,
--------A Second Summation of Two Other General Proofs.
---Index ,
-----Index of God’s Names and Attributes.
*Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.4cm.
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