Who was Bediuzzaman Nursi?

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (ra) (1873-1960 CE) was a great spiritual thinker of the 20th century CE who wrote a important commentary on the Holy Qur’an which is called the Risale e Nur (or the treatise of light). Through this work he helped keep the light of real Islam awake in the hearts of many Turks during dark days when that land was dominated by harsh hearted secular fundamentalists.

Bediuzzaman was a great spiritual teacher who came from very humble origins, born of a devout Kurdish village family in beautiful Eastern Anatolia, he grew from very humane and spiritual roots.

Bediuzzaman lived a long time and saw the fading of the Ottoman Caliphate, the occupation of Turkey by the hostile powers and the rise and development of the Turkish Republic. At first he faced many years of oppression in the Republican period. It was launched against him by the secular fundamentalist Republican Peoples’ Party, but later the arrival of the Democrat party saw the start of the very gradual rebirth of true Turkey, and Bediuzzaman's writings were at the heart of this rebirth.

The monumental Risale e Nur is a book that teaches genuine Orthodox Islam in a way compatible with the modern age and comprehensible to modern minded people.

Further Reading Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (ra) on Islam & Spirituality

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