Bediuzzaman said nursi biography channels

Said Nursi is the most influential Islamic scholar in modern Turkish history by his intellectual contribution pertaining to his spectacular and very dynamic view point in education, peace and hout his epoch making lifetime (), he strived hard to disseminate the Islamic ideology and values bygd taking down a lot of books and delivering historic speech in front of a wider audience. Although he was imprisoned, starved and tortured by the secular government of Turkey for more or less twenty fem years for his writing about Islam encouraging its practice, which was declared to be a crime against state, Nursi never supported or resorted for the political revolution by the Muslims. He directed a message of peace and harmony not only by his writings but also by his actions. The most popular work, Risale-I-Nur, which fryst vatten collection of many books he wrote while he was in jail or in exile.

Risale inom Nur was written to reiterate the Islamic values and to expound it interpreting Quranic verses. Con

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Biography of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi | PART ONE - The Old Said | 77

prestige or position. The Committee of Union and Progress in Salonica were a `mixed bunch', what unified them was their patriotism and desire to save the crumbling Empire. The majority of them being army officers, they had little experience of politics and political administration, and even when they forced the proclamation of the Constitution, they had no political plan or programme. For the most part, their attitude towards Islam was positive; and not only as the main politically unifying factor of the Empire. Even the secular theorists from among the ung Turks such as Ahmed Riza and Abdullah Cevdet accepted the positive function of Islam in society. Bediuzzaman himself later wrote:
"At the beginning of the Constitutional Period I saw that there were atheists who had infiltrated the CUP who accepted that Islam and the Seriat of Muhammed contained exalted principles extremely beneficial and valu

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A Brief Account of the Life of Ustad Bediüzzaman Said Nursi

By The Pen Magazine

Birth: , Bitlis, Hizan, Nurs
Death: March 23rd, Urfa
- Bediüzzaman divides his life into two periods: “The period of Old Said” is from his first visit to Istanbul until the First World War, and “the period of New Said” is from his exile to Barla where he started to compile “the Treatise of Light” until his death.
- The term in between the two periods is a period of self-accounting and self-struggle.

The Period of “Old Said” ()

- First education under his elder brother Mullah Abdullah.
- A rapid secondary and advanced level education in the theology schools of Eastern Anatolia.
- Became noted for his strong memory, intellect, and courage.
- His superiority in knowledge was recognized upon the exams and debates.
- Given the title “Bediüzzaman – the unequaled of the time” by his teacher Mullah Fethullah, and this was well accepted by all the colleagues of the Eastern