My Dear, Loyal, Thoughtful Brothers!
Firstly: Owing to many signs, I have formed the certain opinion that the reason covert atheists have deceived a number of officials, and insistently levelled their accusations at A Guide for Youth alone out of all the lengthy confidential treatises of the Risale‑i Nur, and have caused me difficulties this last one and a half years, is the piece about the air (Hüve Nüktesi) in the Guide. For the true meaning of divine unity that the piece discloses most clearly and decisively, smashes absolute disbelief, In fact, in one part of it, it disallows every sort of doubt and hesitation. Because covert atheists could find nothing to combat this, they tried to prevent its spread by banning it officially. I am going to explain to you only three of many points related to the piece about the air that I expounded for the leading students of the Medresetü' z-Zehrâ the day before yesterday.
First Point: According to an inner meaning of the verse: To Him ascend [all] good words , one elevated and important duty of the element air is to be an ever‑changing page for the pen of divine power, in order to make heard to all the angels and spirit beings in the globe of the air the beautiful, meaningful, veracious words of belief inscribed by the pen of divine determining and spread through divine permission, and to convey them to the Supreme Throne.
Since this is the most important of the air's sacred duties and of the wisdom in its creation; and since by means of the radio the face of the earth is made into a single dwelling and is a vast divine bounty for humankind; most certainly, as humankind's universal thanks, before anything else the words that the radio broadcasts should be foremost the Qur'an and its truths, which are divine speech and “good words,” and the lessons of belief and fine morals, and the essential needs and benefits of mankind. Then it may be thanks for that vast bounty. For if thanks are not offered for bounties, they become harmful for people.
It is true that human beings have need for some enjoyable entertainments, as they have need for true facts and reality, but amusements should be only one in five. It is otherwise contrary to the air's purpose, Moreover, while being a vast bounty for humankind, it is the cause of laziness and vice and the neglect of necessary duties, thus becoming a serious calamity. For it destroys people's enthusiasm for work and effort, which they need.
Now, before my very eyes is the tiny machine of a radio, which was brought to my room so that I might listen to the Qur'an. I listened to it and saw that only a tenth of it was allotted to “good words.” I understood this to be a human error. God willing, they will correct it, And as thanks for this bounty of the radio, which should be a means of transforming the whole face of the earth into an enlightened council and elevated dwelling and a school teaching religious belief, four fifths of what it broadcasts will be “good words” which will be spoken to win everlasting life for human‑ kind.
Second Point: It says in the Risale‑i Nur that “one who cannot create the universe, cannot create an atom. Only the Being who creates the whole universe can create an atom in its right place and make it perform its orderly duties.” One particular proof of this sentence's universal proofs is this:
the handful of air in this small radio I have with me, which is the container and receptacle of words, demonstrates decisively the following: a single phrase of the Qur'an, for instance, “all praise be to God!” with all its letters and in the mode and style particular to the reciter, reaches our ears with no change through the handful of air in the radio, over distances varying from one hour to a year from one of the nearly two hundred radio stations whose names appear written in this machine. In order for the phrase to reach our ears and in order to convey it to them without its being altered or distorted, there have to be found in every atom of that handful of air, an infinite power and comprehensive will, and knowledge so all‑embracing it knows all the different modes of the Qur'an reciters in those centres all over the earth. For if there were no all-seeing eye to see them and ear to hear every- thing everywhere at the same moment, most certainly that miracle of power would not come into existence.
That is to say, this handful of air molecules can manifest such a miracle of power only through a knowledge and will that encompass the whole universe, and the power of a Being possessing hearing and sight, and an Absolutely Powerful One for whom noth‑ ing is difficult and for whom the greatest thing is as easy as the smallest. For to ascribe the existence of air waves to the creation of imaginary haphazard chance, blind force, and deaf nature, means making every single molecule an absolute ruler that sees, knows, and does everything in the globe of the atmosphere covering the whole earth. This is a totally impossible superstition which is infinitely distant from reason.
Third Point: The following fact is understood from the miracle of power that the handful of air displays in the tiny machine of this radio, a receptacle which acts as a flowerpot for the blooms of words: every one of the air's molecules describes Almighty God together with His Being and attributes, and every one of them proves them. With their extensive, lengthy proofs, the philosophers and religious scholars who investigate the universe, take the whole of it into consideration when proving the existence and unity of the Necessarily Existent One. Only then do they attain fully to knowledge of God. However, just as a fragment of glass displays the sun when it appears, the same as the surface of the ocean displays it, and it points to the sun; so too, in consequence of the above‑mentioned truth, all the particles in that handful of air display in themselves the manifestation of divine unity and of the divine attributes and perfection, the same as the ocean of the universe.
Thus, since the Risale‑i Nur, which is a flash of the miraculous meanings of the All-Wise Qur'an, has elucidated this fact, an attentive Nurju is not compelled to say: There is no existent save God in order to attain a constant sense of the divine presence and be perpetually aware of knowledge of God.
And the Nurju does not need to say: There is none witnessed save Him in order to attain a constant sense of the divine presence like some of the people of reality.
For the sacred window of the shining truth of In everything is a sign indicating that He is One! is sufficient for him. A brief explanation of this Arabic phrase is as follows:
Everyone in this world has their own world, their own universe. Quite simply, there are universes and worlds one within the other to the number of conscious beings. The pillar of each person's personal world, universe, and world is his own life, If he has a mirror in his hand and holds it up to a large palace, he will have a palace in his own mirror. Similarly, each person has his own personal world. Saying, There is no existent save He, some of the people of reality denied this personal world, and in accordance with the inner meaning of abandoning everything other than God, found a permanent sense of the divine presence and knowledge of God. Another group of the people of reality said: There is nothing observed save Him in order to find permanent cognizance of God and an awareness of the divine presence, and consigned their personal worlds to oblivion. They drew a veil of transience over them, and finding a sense of the divine presence, transformed all their lives into worship of a sort.
Now at the present time, in accordance with the inner meaning of And in everything is a sign indicating that He is One, which has become apparent through the miraculousness of the Qur'an's meanings (i'caz‑i mânevî), there is a window revealing divine unity in everything from particles to the stars, and there are signs (âyet), that is, indications and evidences, making known directly the Single One of Unity together with His attributes.
Thus, in the piece about the air (Hüve Nüktesi) are succinct indications to the above‑mentioned sacred truth concerning belief and the divine presence. The Risale-i Nur has proved and elucidated it. In former times, the people of reality explained it somewhat briefly and summarily. This means that these ghastly times are more in need of this truth, since it has been bestowed in detail through the All-Wise Qur'an's miraculousness and the Risale-i Nur has disseminated it.
The Enduring One, He is the Enduring One!Your brother,Saîd Nursî