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		THIRTY THREE WINDOWS MAKING KNOWN THE CREATOR
			From the Risale-i Nur Collection
			
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A   D R O P L E T    From the Vast Ocean of Miraculous Qur'an

Translations from the Works of Bediuzzaman (The Wonder of the Age) 
					Said Nursi.
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     In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

 "He it is who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth 
to make it supreme over all religion: and sufficient is  Allah as  a Witness.  
Muhammed is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are firm
against the unbelievers and merciful among each other.  You will see them 
bowing and prostrating  themselves, seeking Allah's grace and His pleasure. 
Their mark is on their face the sing of prostration; this is their similitude
in the Torah and Indgil." [Qur'an 48:28-29]" 
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		THIRTY THREE WINDOWS MAKING KNOWN THE CREATOR


        In the Name of Allah, The Merciful, The Compasionate. 
                                        
"We shall show them Our Signs in the furthest horizons and in themselves, 
 so that it will be clear to them that this [Qur'an] is indeed the Truth.  
 Is it not enough that your Sustainer witness all things?" [Qur'an; 41:53]

 Question:  We would like a consice explanation of the ways man and universe,
that is, the microcosm and the macrocosm, point to the necessary existence and
Uniqueness of Allah and His Dominical attributes and functions, which the two
parts of the above verse denote.  For the unbeleivers have gone too far, they
say:  "For how long shall we say: 'And He is Powerful over all things'
and have to raise our hands?"

 Answer:  The Thrity-Three Words[1] that have been written from thirty-three 
drops from the ocean of this verse and from the seas of truth which flow from 
it.  If you look at them, you will find your answer.  What we say now is only 
a sort of hint to the sprinklings of a single drop from the ocean.

[1] Body of works of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Close to 6000-pages commentary
on certain verses of the Qur'an and the sayings of Prophet Muhammad SAW.) 
 
 For Example:  If a wonderworker wants to build a mighty palace, he first of
all sets the foundations in a wise and regular fashion, and plans them in a way
suitable to their future purpose and results.  Then he skilfully divides them
into sections and apartments.  Next, he orders and arranges the apartments, and
decorates them with tapestries, then illuminates them with lights.  Then, in 
order to renew his ingenious works and favours in that magnificent and adorned
palace, he makes fresh things, new changes and transformations in every level
of it, and then he installs a telephone in each apartment connected to his own
abode, and opens up a window from each, so that his abode may be seen.  
     
     In just the same way, "And Allah's is the highest similitude" [Qur'an;
16:60], the Peerless Creator, Who is named with a thousand and one Sacred Names
such as All-Glorious Maker, All-Wise Sovereign, All Just Arbiter, willed the
creation of the palace of the universe and the tree of the cosmos, which forms
the macrocosm.  He set the foundations of the palace and the tree in six days
through the principles of wisdom and Laws of His Pre-Eternal Knowledge, then He
divided and formed it into the higher and lower levels and branches through the
principles of Divine Determining and Decree.  Next, HE adorned everything ,
each world in an appropriate manner, like the heavens with the stars and the
earth with flowers.  Then He manifested and made luminous His Names within the
arena of His Universal Laws and General Principles, and then in a special way
sent to the assistance of individuals His Names of Most Merciful and All-
Compoassionate crying out at the constraint of His Universal Laws.

   That is to say, within those universal  and general principles He has 
special favours,  special succour, special manifestaions, so that everything 
may seek help from Him and look to Him at every time for every need.  Then 
from every apartment, every level, every world, every realm of being, every
individual, from everything, He opened up windows which would show Himself,
that is, make known His Existence and Oneness.  He left a telephone in every
heart.

     For now we shall not  attempt to discuss those innumerable windows, which
is anyway beyond our power.  Referring them to the All-Encompassing knowledge 
of Allah, we shall only point out in a consice and brief manner Thirty-Three
Windows-since it corresponds to the blessed number of the tesbihat following
the prescribed prayers, and for a more detailed explanation of this, which
forms  the Thirty-Third Letter and Thirty-Third Word and consists of  gleams
from verses of the Qur'an, we refer readers to the rest of the Words.


     FIRST WINDOW
     
If we look, we  see that  all things  and especially  living    creatures  have
numerous different needs and numerous different wants.  And those wants and 
needs are  given them 

	1.	at the appropriate time, 
	2.	in unexpected ways, 
	3.	from places they  do not  know, and  
	4.	their hands cannot reach;

succour comes to them.  But the power of these needy beings is  not  sufficient
for even the smallest of those endless things  they  wish for; they cannot meet
their needs.  

[Editor's Note:  Consider for example the babies of all animate beings.  When
those babies come to this world they are utterly helpless.  Though they need 
to be fed, they cannot eat everything; a special milk like sustenance is needed
for them.  And there we see milk is sent to them at the very appropriate time
when they are in most need of it though they have no power to obtain such a
sustenance.  Do those babies expect the way the milk is given to them at all?
They cannot even think of it when they are born.  Do the mathers think of their
babies and prepared that milk for them?  NO!  Do the mothers have any control
whatsoever in the production of that milk at all?  NO!  That milk comes at the
very appropriate time and in unexpected ways.  Do the babies know the place
where the milk comes from?  NO!  They cannot even think of it.  So, the milk
comes to them from places they do not know.  Do the babies have any hand in the
production of that milk?  NO!  So, that milk comes to them in a way that their
hands cannot reach or have any control.  The One Who created those babies knows
the need of them and sends help to them in the way desribed.]   

Consider yourself.  Of how many things are you in need that your hands cannot 
reach,  like your  external and inner senses and their needs?   

[Editor's Note:  We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to breath, we need
to digest, we need to sleep, we need to go to the rest rooms, etc.  As we need
to eat we also need food that is eatable, digestable and which is not poisoness
and etc. in other words right food.  As we need to drink we need right drink,
as we need to breath we need right air and a working system.  We need right 
amount of temperature and right amount of air pressure.  And so and so forth.
Otherwise our system would not be able to work properly.  
Therefore, The One Who created us is the One Who created the right food, right
drink, right air, right amount of temperature and right amount of air preassure
and so and so forth.  In summary, the One Who created us is the One Who created
the whole universe and everyting in it so that they work harmoniously 
altogether.]

Compare all other living creatures with yourself.  See, just as singly they 
testify to the  Necessary Existent One and indicate to His Oneness, so too in 
their totality do they show to the reason a Necessarily Existent One behind 
the veil of the unseen, a Single One of  Unique, among titles of Most Generous,
All-Compassionate, Nurturer, and Disposer.

     And so, oh ignorant unbeliever and dissolute heedless one!  With what can
you explain this wise, percipient, compassionate activity?  Deaf nature?   Blind
force?   Senseless chance?   Can   you  explain it  through impotent,  lifeless
causess?


     SECOND WINDOW
While in their existence and indivuality, things are in a hesitant, bewildered,
and shapless form among innumerable possible ways,  they are  suddenly given  a
most well-ordered and  wise aspect  of indivuality.   For  example, each  human
being has on his face the characteristics which  differentiate him from all his
fellow humans, and it is equipped with utter  wisdom with   external and  inner
senses.  

[Editor's Note:  For the people who give the creation of human beings and other
animate beings into the hands of blind nature, causes, random and chaotic 
procesees they should expect random and chaotic results.  The results cannot be
well ordered, fashioned and wise.  
   Even an orderly inanimate being cannot come into existence out of random and
chaotic processees.  Suppose you take apart all the componenets used in the 
making of a TV and put them into a large bag and throw them in the open and 
leave it to the nature, causes, random and chaotic processees and give it a 5 
billion years, it will never come together to make the TV unless the 
Creator have a hand (Will, Order and Power) in it.
   If they (unbelievers) see this as absurd and impossible how can they
attribute the orderly animate beings into the hands of blind, dumb and deaf 
nature, causes and chances.
   Therefore, every repetition that occurs in the creation of the animate beings
is a slap on the face of the unbelievers to wake them up from the heedless way 
that they follow.  Like the very human face have two eyes, one nose, two ears,
one mouth around the same spots of the human face.  If one numbers all these
organs and then cast lots in a way whatever number he draws first he will put
that organ in place of the first organ and whatever he draws as second he will
put that organ in place of the second organ and so ad so forth.  Then watch
how does that human face take a shape out of that casting lots.  If left
to the blind, deaf and dumb nature, causes, chances and random procesees that
what one would expect to happen not only in terms of human face but also in 
terms of every organ of human body leaving aside the spiritual features like 
heart, conscience, mercy, love and etc..
  Everytime the human organs appear around the same spot of the body tells
and speaks with the tounge of state that "we are not the work of blind, dumb
and deaf chances and random processes; we are the work of Our Creator."  This
repetition of similar things is a stamp of the Name ONE of Allah.  And every
repeated thing not being exactly the other is a stamp of the Name UNIQUE of 
Allah.   Editor's Note ends here.]   

   This proves that the face is most brilliant stamp of Divine Oneness. 
And just as  each face  testifies to  the existence  of an  All-Wise Maker  and
points  to His existence, so too the stamp which all faces display in  their   
totality shows to the mind's eye that all things are  a seal peculiar to  their
Creator.
     O denier!  To what workshop can you refer these stamps which can in no way 
be imitated and the stamp of Eternal  Besoughtedness which is on the totality?




     THIRD WINDOW

   The army of all the various species of animals and plants on the face of the
earth consists of four hundred thousand different groups [1].  Their being   

[Editor's Note:  The number four hundred thousand is probably used to refer to
the great number of species, and thus not necessarily refer to the exact 
numbering.]

managed and raised with perfect balance and order through their sustenance, forms,
weapons, clothes,  instructions, and  demobilizations which  are all  different
with nothing  being forgotten and none of them being confused is a stamp of the
Single One of Unique as brilliant as the sun which can in no way be doubted.  Who
other  than  One possessing  boundless power,  all-encompassing knowledge,  and
infinite  wisdom could interfere in this  administration which  is wondrous  to
the utmost degree.  For if one  who cannot  administer and  raise all  together
these species and nations, which are one within the other, and interferes with 
one of them, he will throw the lot into disorder.  Whereas according to the 
meaning of, 

    So turn your vision again, do you see any flaw?  [2],

there  is  no  sign of  confusion.   That means  not so  much as  a finger  can
interfere.

[1]  The members of some of those groups in one spring, even, are more numerous
than all the memebers of the human race from the time of Adam up to the Last Day.
[2]  Qur'an 67:3


     FOURTH WINDOW

  This is the acceptability of the supplications  offered through the tongue of
latent ability by all seeds,  and through  the tongue  of innate  need by  all
animals, through the tongue of exigency by the desperate.

[Editor's Note:  One can consider the first three windows as examples to this
fourth window and ponder over its meanings.]
 
   Thus, just as each of these innumerable supplications is observedly accepted
and responded to, so too in a  measure do they in their entirety self-evidently
indicate  to  and  point  to  an  All-Compassionate and  Generous Creator,  the
Answerer of Prayer.


    FIFTH WINDOW
          
    We see that things and particularly living beings come into existence of a
sudden, instanteneouly.  Whereas, while things which appear suddenly out of a
simple subtance should be 

	*  simple, 
	*  formless, 
	*  and without art, 
	
	*  they are created with an art and beauty needing much skill, 
	*  and decorated with painstaking embroideries needing much time, 
	*  and adorned with wonderfull arts needing many tools.  

Thus, just as each of these instantancous, wondrous arts and beautiful
combinations indicate to the Necessary Existence of an All-Wise Creator and the
Uniqueness of His Dominicality, so too in their totality do they show in most 
brilliant fashion an Infinitely Powerfull, Infinitely Wise Necessarily Existent
One.

    So now, o stupified denier!  Come on, with what can you explain this? 
With nature, which is unconcious, impotent, and ignorant like you?   Or do  you
want to make an infinite mistake and call that All-Holy Maker 'Nature', and  on
the pretext of naming Him that, attribute the miracles of His  Power to  nature
and perpetrate and  impossibility compounded a thousand times over?



     SIXTH WINDOW

In the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation  of night  and
day  and the boats which travel through the seas for the benefit of men, and in
what Allah sends down from the sky as rain and with it raises to life the earth
after  its  death and  raises in  it every  sort of  living  being, and in  the
circulating of the winds and the clouds subjugated between the heavens and  the
earth, are signs for a people who think. [3]

[3]  Qur'an  2:14


     Just as this verse points out the Divine Existence and Uniqueness, so too
is it a most large window  displaying a Greatest Name.

     The gist of the verse is this:  All the worlds in the higher and lower
levels of the universe show with all different tongues a single result,
	
	that is, the Dominicality of a Single All-Wise Maker.  

It is as follows: just as 

	*  in the heavens (and cosmography even admits) extremely extensive 
results show the Existence, Uniqueness, and Perfect Dominicality of an 
All-Powerful One of Glory, 

so too 

	*  on the earth (and geography even testifies to it and acknowledges
it) most orderly changes, like in the seasons, for most extensive benefits show 
the Existence and Uniqueness and Perfect Dominicality of the same All-Powerful 
One of Glory.

     Also, just as, 
     
     *  being given their sustenance with perfect mercy, 
     *  and being clothed in different forms with perfect wisdom,
     *  and being decked out with all sorts of senses through Perfect 
        Dominicality, 
     
each of all the animals on the land and in the sea again testify to the 
Existence of the All-Powerful One of Glory and indicate to His Uniqueness, 
so too in their totality do they show on a vast scale the Tremendousness of 
His Godliness and the Perfection of His Dominicality.  

And so also, 

	*  just as each of the well-ordered plants in gardens,
	*  and the finely adorned flowers which the plants display,  
	*  and the well-proportioned fruits which the flowers display,
	*  and the embellished embroideries which the fruits display,

testitfy to the Existence of the All-Wise Maker and point to His Oneness, 
so too in their totality do they show most brilliantly the beauty of His Mercy
and the Perfection of His Dominicality.

     Also, just as 

	*  the drops of rains sent from the clouds in the sky charged with 
duties for important instances of wisdom and aims and necessary benefits
and fruits 

again demonstrate to the number of their drops the Necessary Existence and 
Oneness and Perfect Dominicality of the All-Wise Maker, so too do

	*  all the mountains on the earth 
	*  and the storing-up in them of minerals with all their different
properties for numerous different benefits 

show with the strength and firmness of a mountain the Existence and Oneness
of the All-Wise Maker and the Perfection of His Dominicality.

     Also, just as 
     
	*  the small hills in the plains 
	*  and among the mountains being adorned with numerous varieties of 
well-ordered flowers 

each testify to the Necessary Existence of an All-Wise Maker and point to His
Oneness, and all together show the Majesty of His Sovereignity and the 
Perfection of His Dominicality, so too, do 

	*  the great varity of the well-ordered shapes of all the leaves of 
the grasses and trees, 
	*  and all their different stages and states 
	*  and well-balanced and ecstatic  movements 

again show the Necessary Existence and Uniqueness and Perfect Dominicality 
of the All-Wise Maker.

     ALL THE WORLDS IN THE HIGHER AND LOWER LEVELS OF THE UNIVERSE SHOW WITH
ALL DIFFERENT TONGUES A SINGLE RESULT, 

     THAT IS, THE DOMINICALITY AND ADMINISTRATION OF A SINGLE ALL-WISE MAKER.
     
     Also, just as 
     
	*  the well-ordered and regular development 
	*  and the time of growth of each of all living bodies, 
	*  and each being equipped with all sorts of tools 
	*  and their being  directed consciously towards numerous different
fruits 

again testify to the Necessary Existence of the All-Wise Maker and indicate to
His Uniqueness, and in their totaltity show on a truly vast scale His 
All-Encompassing Power, and All-Embracing Wisdom, and the beauty of His Art, 
and the Perfection of His Dominicality, so too 

	*  souls and spirits being situated in all animal bodies, 
	*  and their being armed in most orderly fahion with numerous
sorts of faculties,  
	*  and their being sent on numerous different duties with
perfect wisdom 

testify to the number of animals rather to the number of their faculties, 
to the Necessary Existence of the All-Wise Maker and point to His Uniqueness, 
so too in their totality do they show most brilliantly the beauty of His Mercy
and the Perfection of His Dominicality.

     Also, just as 
     
	*  the inspiratons from the unseen imparted to all hearts which make
known to man every sort of science and knowledge and truth, 
	*  and teach the animals how to procure their needs, 

make known the Existence of an All-Compassionate Sustanier and point to His 
Dominicality, so too do

	*  each of their external and inner senses which are like rays that 
gather immaterial flowers from the garden of the universe each being a key to 
a different world 

demonstrate as clearly as the sun the Necessary Existence, Uniqueness, Oneness,
and Perfect Dominicality of the All-Wiser Maker, the All-Knowing Creator, the 
Most Compassionate Creator, the All-Generous Provider.
     
     Thus, from the twelve aspects, mentioned here a vast window is opened 
which displays with a twelve-coloured light of truth the Oneness, Uniqueness, 
and Perfect Dominicality of the Almighty Allah.

     And so, o unhappy denier!  With what can you close this window which is
as broad as the globe of the earth, indeed, as its yearly orbit?  And with what
can you extinguish this source  of light  which shines like the sun?   Behind
which veil of heedlessness can you hide it?


     SEVENTH WINDOW
     
	*  The perfect order of the works of art scattered over the face of the
universe, 
	*  and their perfect proportion and balance, 
	*  and the perfection of their adornment, 
	*  and the case in their creation, 
	*  and their resembling one another, 
	*  and their exhibiting a single nature 
	
demonstrate on a vast scale the Necessary Existence and Perfect Power and 
Uniqueness of an All-Wise Maker.

     And so too, just as 

	*  the creation of innumerable, different, well-ordered complex beings
from inanimate and simple elements 

again testifies, to the number of those composite beings, to the All-Wise 
Maker's Necessary Existence and point to His Uniqueness, so also in their 
totality do they demonstrate in most brilliant fashion His Uniqueness and 
the Perfection of His Power.

     And as too does 

	*  the utmost distinguishing and differentiating of beings as they are
renewed while being assembled and dissolved (that is, during what is called the
composition of beings) amid the utmost degree of intermingling and confusion,

For example, 

	*  the distinguishing of the shoots 
	*  and growth of seeds 
	*  and roots without confusing them in any way although they are all 
mixed up, 
	*  and the mixed-up substances entering trees being sepetated to the 
leaves, flowers, and fruits, 
	*  and the nutriments which enter the body in mixed-up form being
differentiated and sepatated out with Perfect Wisdom and Perfect Balance for
the cells of the body, 

again demonstrates the Necessary Existence and Perfect Power and Uniqueness of 
the Absolutely Knowing One, the Absolutely Powerful One.

     And so too does 

	*  the making of the world of minute particles onto a boundless, broad
arable field 
	*  and every instant sowing and harvesting it 
	*  and obtaining the fresh crops of different universes from it,
	*  and those inanimate, impotent, ignorant particles being made to 
perform innumerable orderly duties most consciously, wisely, and capably again

show the Necessary Existence of the All-Powerful One of Glory and Maker of 
Perfection, and His Perfect Power and the grandeur of His Dominicality and His
Uniqueness and the Perfection of His Dominicality.

     Thus a large window is opened onto the knowledge of Allah through these 
four ways, and they display the All-Wise Maker to the mind on a large scale.

     And now you unhappy heedless one! If you do not want to see Him and learn
of Him in this way, divest yourself of your reason, become an animal and thus 
be saved.


     EIGTH WINDOW
     
	*  The testimony of all the prophets (Upon whom be peace), who are those with
luminous spirits among mankind, relying on their manifest and evident
miracles,
	*  and the testimony of all the saints, who with their luminous hearts
are the spiritual poles, relying on their illuminatios and wonder-working, 
	*  and the testimony of all the purified scholars, who posses luminous
minds, relying on researches and verifications, 

to the Necessary Existence, Uniqueness, and Perfect Dominicality of the Single
One of Unique, the Creator of All Things forms a truly vast and luminous window.

     O you unfortunate denier!  In whom do you place your trust so that you do
not heed these? Or by closing your eyes in the daytime do you imagine the world
to be plunged in the night?


     NIGTH WINDOW
     
     The universal worship in the cosmos self-evidently demonstrates an
Absolute Object of Worship.  Indeed, 

	*  the perfect obedience and worship of all angels and spirit beings 
(which is established by the testimony of those who have penetrated to the 
spirit world and the inner dimension of things and have met with the angels 
and spirit beings) 
	*  and all living beings self evidently performing their duties in 
perfect order and in a worshipful manner, 
	*  and all inanimate things self evidently carrying out their duties
with perfect submission and in a worshipful manner

all demonstrate the Necessary Existence and Uniqueness of a True Object of 
Worship.

     And so too 

	*  the true knowledge of the knowing, which bears the power of
consensus, 
	*  and the fruitful thanks of all those who offer thanks, 
	*  and the radiant glorification of all those who recite Allah's Names,
	*  and the praises, which increase bounty, of all those recite Allah's
praises, 
	*  and all the demonstrative proofs  and descriptions of Divine Oneness
of all those who acknowledge it,
	*  and the true love and passion of all lovers of Allah, 
	*  and the true will and desires of those who seek Him, 
	*  and the earnest searching and penitence of all those who turn to Him 

demonstrate the Necessary Existence and Uniquness of that Pre-Eternal 
All-Worshipped One, Who is The Thanked One, The Praised One, One, 
The Beloved One, The Desired One, and The Sought One.

     And so too all the acceptable worhip of perfect human beings and the
spiritual radiance and suplications, visions and illuminantions resulting from
their acceptable worship again demonstrate  the Necessary Existence and 
Uniquness and Perfect Dominicality of that Eternal Being, the Enduring Object of
Worship.

 Thus, these three aspects open up a broad, light-giving window onto Divine
Oneness.

     TENTH WINDOW
     

     	#  And He sends down water from the sky 
    	#  and brings forth with it fruits for your  sustenance;  
    	#  and He has made  subject to  you the  ships, that they sail
through the sea by His command; 
	#  and He has made the  rivers subject  to you;  
	#  And He has made subject to you the sun  and the  moon, both 
diligently pursuing their courses; 
	#  and He has made subject to you the night and the day.  
	#  And He gives you of all that you ask Him.  
	#  But if you count Allah's bounties, you will never be able to number
them. 
     						Qur'an 14:32-34


     						
     The mutual assistance and solidarity of beings in the universe and the
fact that they respond to one another shows that all creatures 

	*  are trained by a Single Instructor, 
	*  are organized by a Single Director, 
	*  are under the Jurisdiction of a Single Disposer, 
	*  are the servants of a Single Lord.  
	
For throught an all-embracing law of mutual assistance, 

	*  the sun cooks the necessities for the lives of living beings on the
earth through a Dominical Command 
	*  and the moon acts as a calendar, 
	*  and light, air, water, and sustenance hasten to the assistance of 
living beings, 
	*  and plants hasten to the assistance of animals, 
	*  and animals hasten to the assitance of human beings, 
	*  and the members of the body hasten to assist one another, 
	*  and particles of food even hasten to the assitance of the cells of
the body.  


	*  This most wise and generous mutual assiatance of these beings, 
	*  and their responding to one another's needs 
	*  and their supporting and strengtening one another 

under 
	*  a law of generosity, 
	*  a law of compassion, 
	*  a law of mercy 

show clearly and self-evidently that they are 
	*  the servants, 
	*  officials, 
	*  and creatures 
of 
	*  a Sole, 
	*  Unique Single One, 
	*  a Peerless Eternally Besought One, 
	*  an Absolutely Powerful, 
	*  Absolutely Knowig,
	*  Absolutely Compassionate, 
	*  Absolutely Generous,
	*  Necesssarily Existent One.

     And so, o wretched bankrupt philosophy!  What do you say to this mighty
window? Can your chance interfere in this?



          ELEVENTH WINDOW
          
    	#  For indeed in the remembrance of Allah do heart find rest.
    							Qur'an 13:28
    							
All spirits and hearts are delivered 

	*  from the distress and confusion arising from misguidance, 
	*  and from the spiritual pains arising from distress, 

through knowing a Single Creator.  They are saved by attributing all beings to
a Single Maker.  They find assurance through the remembrance of a Single God.

For, as is proved decisively in the Twenty-Second Word, if all beings are not
attributed to a Single God, it becomes necessary to ascribe a single thing to
innumerable causes, and then the existence of single thing becomes as difficult
as all beings.  Then a single fruit becomes as difficult as the universe, 
indeed, more difficult.   

For just as if the management of one soldier is given  to a  hundred different
people, a hundred difficulties arise, and if a hundred soldiers are given to 
the direction of one officer, they are as easy to manage as a single soldier,
so too the coinciding of numerous different causes in the creation of a single
thing is difficult to the hundredth degree.  And if the cteation of numerous 
things is given to a Single God, it becomes easy to the hundredth degree.

     Thus, it is only recognizing the Oneness of the Creator and knowledge of
God that delivers man from the boundless distress arising from the curiosity
and desire to search for the truth inherent to his nature.   Since there are
endless difficulties and pains in unbelief and associating  partners to God,
that way is certainly impossible and contains no truth.   While since suitably
to the ease, multiplicity, and fine art in the creation of beings, three is a
boundless ease in affirming Divine Oneness, that way is surely necessary and 
the truth.

     And so o you miserable people of misguidance!  See how dark and full of
pain is the way of misguidance!  What is it that makes you  take it?   And see
how easy and pleasant is the way of belief and affirming Divine Oneness!  Take
that way and be delivered!




               TWELFTH WINDOW
               
    	#  Glorify the Name of your Sustainer, the All-Highest,
    	#  Who has created, and given order and proportion, 
    	#  And Who has determined (the nature of all things)
	#  and guided (them towards their fulfilment).
						 Qur'an 87:1-3

     According to the meaning of this verse, all things, and especially living
creatures, have been given  a form  and well-orderd  proportions in  accordance
with wisdom as though they have emerged from a mould.  And there are  intricate
extremities in those measured proportions for  benefits and various uses.

     And the form of their clothes and their proportions, which they change
throughout the periods of  their lives,  are each  immaterial and  well-ordered
forms and measured proportions constituted from the appointed  events of  their
lives again in a fashion suitable to wisdom and benefits.   This shows  clearly
that those innumerable creatures, whose forms and proportions have been planned
in the sphere of determining of and All-Powerful One of Glory, an All-Wise One
of Perfection, and who have  been given  forms fashioned  in the  workshop of  
Divine Power, point  to that  Being's Necessary  Existence and  testify to  His
Oneness and Perfect Power with endless tongues.  Look at your own body and its
members and the fruits of its intricate and complex  places!   See the  perfect
Power within the Perfect Wisdom.

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Perpared and submited by the Risale-i Nur Students of Madsion, WI.