In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
The Second Ray
The Final Fruit of Eskişehir Prison The Second Ray of the Thirty‑First Flash
This Ray was written sixteen years ago at a time I remained alone in Eskişehir Prison after my friends had been released. It was written at great speed with my own very deficient pen at a distressing, disagreeable time, and is therefore somewhat lacking in order. Still, I saw when correcting it recently that in respect of belief and the affirmation of divine unity it is extremely valuable, powerful, and important.
Said Nursi
The seventh paramount point about the greatest name of Allah, The One, and the seventh of the six points elucidating the six greatest names.
Note:In my view, this treatise holds great importance, for the significant and subtle mysteries of belief that it contains unfold and develop. The person who reads and understands it will save his belief, Allah willing. Unfortunately I have been unable to meet with anyone here so have been unable to write out a fair copy myself. If you want to understand the treatise’s value, first of all read the Second and Third Fruits of the First Station carefully and the Conclusion at the end and the matter in the two pages preceding that, then study the whole of it slowly!
The Seventh of the Six Points About the Six Greatest Names, About “Allah, the One”
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
And from Him do we seek help.
Inspired by one splendid meaning of the verse, And know that there is no god but Allah, and by a famous oath of the Prophet (UWBP), this treatise consists of a subtle point I perceived about three beautifully sweet and subtle fruits of the affirmation of divine unity, and three matters necessitating it, and three proofs of it.
The oath Allah the Most High’s Most Noble Messenger (UWBP) most frequently used was: By Him in Whose hand is Muhammad’s being, which shows that even the furthermost tips of the tree of the universe, and its broadest extent, and its minor particulars, exist through the power and will of the Single One of Unity. For if the most choice and exceptional of creatures, Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), does not own himself, and if he is not free to act as he wishes and is tied in his actions to another’s will, certainly, nothing, no function, state or circumstance, whether particular or universal, can be outside the power of that all‑encompassing will.
Yes, what this meaningful oath of Muhammad (UWBP) indicates is the mighty, all‑encompassing unity of dominicality. We refer the details and proofs of this elevated truth to the Risale‑i Nur, which is The Illuminating Lamp (Siracü’n‑Nur), since in it are set forth and explained a hundred, perhaps a thousand, clear proofs of divine unity. In this Second Ray, in the first of the three brief stations contained in this most important truth of belief, three subtle, sweet, precious, and luminous universal fruits out of innumerable fruits will be explained in summary fashion, thereby alluding to the insights and experiences which impelled my heart to those fruits. In the Second Station, three universal matters and motives necessitating this sacred truth are explained, which have the power of three thousand such matters. In the Third Station, three signs pointing to this truth of divine unity are mentioned, which have the power of three hundred signs, indications, and proofs.