All praises and thanks are due to Allah, in the numbers of all particles of the universe.
He, the Lord of the Worlds, has sent down the Holy Qur’an which addresses all classes of humanity and whose truths will surely exist unto the Day of Judgement. Thank be to Him who appoints mujaddids from the family of Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him). Mujaddids are those, who appear at the turn of every century, to revive Islam removing from it any extraneous elements and restoring it to pristine purity. They are the inheritors of the prophets helping Muslims in times of hardship and violence.
Peace and blessings be upon the Pride of the Universe, the Most Loved One, The Prophet Muhammad in the numbers of letters that were written and words that were uttered. Peace and Blessings be Upon Him who gave us good news saying: “Surely Allah will send for this Ummah at the advent of every one hundred years a person who will renovate its religion for it” [1] and paid tribute to those scholars expressing “The scholars of my ummah are like the prophets of Bani Israel (sons of Israel)”. As the Quran is the word of Allah, it is a never-ending treasure. As this divine order comes out from the eternity past (azal), it goes through the eternity future (abad). Many tafasir (interpretations of the Qur’an) were written in every century with the same basics which aimed at the benefit of humanity and have many lovely details, each mind-blowing detail has its own beauty.
Those truthful scholars have prescribed the remedies for every age inspired by the Qur’an and have cured the diseases of their age compiling the medicines from the unique pharmacy of the Sacred Words of the Qur’an. During this century, humankind has been driven into a spiritual calamity and depression which has never been seen in the history of humanity, as stated in the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad as fitna (trial) during the end of time (akhir al-zaman). On the one hand, the struggle of systemizing the denial of uluhiyyah (godhood) which has been attacking the tenets of belief in the name of philosophy and science, on the other hand, even the most destructive manners are welcomed across the governments’ scale, and this kind of ideology has been spreading around the world like an epidemic via means of mass media. Other than that, immoral enjoyments and vulgarity have turned into chronic moral anarchism and these harmful so-called-enjoyments are delivered
under some deceiving masks and methods so that they all become the fundamental reasons for the spiritual crisis of our time.
Islamic world, being left without a leader and protector, have been exposed to the hatred and hostility of some countries for a thousand years. They had seized an opportunity to act disdainfully in the aftermath of the fall of the Great Islamic Ottoman Empire. Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, who has had an ultimately massive influence on our age, witnessed the well planned distortions, and struggled against them with an inexhaustible energy during the last years of hardships of the would-finish-Islamic Caliphate. He expressed Qur'anic prescriptions and some ways out in Damascus in his khutba (sermon) to ten thousand people.
“The recipe for a diseased age, a sick community and a suffering man is to follow and obey the Qur’an. The recipe for the magnificent but unfortunate continent, a glorious but ill-fated state, a rich but ownerless nation is the unity of Islam.” [2]
1. Sunan Abu Dawood
2. Letters (al-Maktubaat, Imam Nursi) -II, p. 456