Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. Said Nursi More Quotes by Said Nursi More Quotes From Said Nursi The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world. Said Nursi outcome hereafter life world Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary. Said Nursi cheap paradise hell time The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God. Said Nursi man god heart love Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet! Said Nursi cooperation brotherhood practice love The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world. Said Nursi stars sun time world The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent. Said Nursi loved through things existence What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world? Said Nursi thoughts future heart world The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display. Said Nursi then transparency truth reality The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable. Said Nursi incalculable signs unity divine A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth. Said Nursi whatever lie nature truth There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden. Said Nursi care fear rose heart Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself. Said Nursi mirror sea tree water If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit. Said Nursi job sin mind heart The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter. Said Nursi power sleep winter life
