Risale-i Nur/The Words/The Twenty-Third Word (s:319)

.The Twenty-Third Word body {font-family:'Thorndale AMT',serif;font-size:12.0pt} The Twenty-Third Word[This Word contains Two Chapters]In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.Indeed, We have created man on the most excellent of patterns, * Then sent him down to the lowest of the low, * Except those who believe and do good deeds.1First ChapterWe shall explain in five ‘Points’ only five of the virtues of belief out of thousands.FIRST POINTThrough the light of belief, man rises to the highest of the high and acquires a value worthy of Paradise. And through the darkness of unbelief, he descends to the lowest of the low and falls to a position fit for Hell. For belief connects man to the All-Glorious Maker; it is a relation. Thus, man acquires value by virtue of the Divine art and inscriptions of the dominical Names which become apparent in him through belief. Unbelief severs the relation, and due to that severance the dominical art is concealed. His value then is only in respect to the matter of his physical being. And since this matter has only a transitory, passing, temporary animal life, its value is virtually nothing. We shall explain this mystery by means of a comparison:For example: among man’s arts, the value of the materials used and that of the art are entirely different. Sometimes they are equal, sometimes the material is more valuable, and sometimes it happens that five liras’ worth of art is to be found in material like iron worth five kurush. Sometimes, even, an antique work of art is worth a million while the material of which it is composed is not worth five kurush. If such a work of art is taken to the

Qur’an, 95:4-6.

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