Risale-i Nur/The Rays/The Fifteenth Ray/Second Station (s:604)

.The Shining Proof body {font-family:'Thorndale AMT',serif;font-size:12.0pt} The Shining ProofSecond StationIn the Name of God, the Merciful, the CompassionateAnd from Him do we seek help [One of the truths contained in the last verse of Sura al-Fatiha, which indicates the comparison of the people of guidance and the straight path and the people of misguidance and rebellion, and is the source of all the comparisons in the Risale-i Nur, is expressed also in wondrous and miraculous fashion by the verse of Sura al-Nur:God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp; the lamp enclosed in glass; the glass as it were a brilliant star; lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! God guides whom He will to His Light; God sets forth parables for men; and God knows all things.1and a subsequent verse:Or [the unbelievers’ state] is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by [dark] clouds...(to the end of the verse)]2It is proved in the First Ray that the first verse above, the Light Verse, contains ten allusions to the Risale-i Nur; it miraculously foretells that Qur’anic commentary. This was the main reason the name ‘Nur’ (light) was given to the Risale-i Nur. In consequence of the description in the comparison of a journey of the imagination in a section of the Twenty-Ninth Letter, of a miracle resembling that of the “Nun of Na‘budu” in the word “Nur” in this extraordinary verse, the traveller in The Supreme Sign (Âyetü’l-Kübra) questioned the whole universe and every sort of being in order to seek, find, and learn about his Creator. He came to know Him through thirty-three ways and cogent proofs with ‘the certainty of knowledge’ and ‘the vision of certainty.’ The untiring, insatiable traveller journeyed too with his mind, heart, and imagination through the centuries and

Qur’an, 24:35.

Qur’an, 24:40.

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