A Qur'anic View
From The Collection of Risale-i Nur
On The Latest Events in The World
We would like to present to your kind interest the real looking view of Islam against any kind of terrorism like the one happened in America and offer our condolences to the relatives of oppressed people in those attacks.
"If any one slew a person -unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land- it would be as if he slew the whole people,
Qur’an, 5:32.the rights of an innocent man cannot be cancelled for the sake of all the people. A single individual may not be sacrificed for the good of all. In the view of Almighty God’s compassion, right is right, there is no difference between great and small. The small may not be annulled for the great. Without his consent, the life and rights of an individual may not be sacrificed for the good of the community. If he consents to sacrifice them in the name of patriotism, that is a different matter."
Letters, from the Collection of Risale-i Nur, by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
O mankind! We created you from a single [pair] of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other.1
That is, “I created you as peoples, nations, and tribes, so that you should know one another and the relations between you in social life, and assist one another; not so that you should regard each other as strangers, refusing to acknowledge one another, and nurturing hostility and enmity.”
In order to explain the principle of “knowing and assisting each other” which the verse indicates, we say this: an army is divided into divisions, the divisions into regiments, the regiments into battalions, companies, and then into squads, so that every soldier may know his many different connections and their related duties; then the members of the army may truly perform a general duty governed by the principle of mutual assistance, and their social life be guarded against the attacks of the enemy. This arrangement is not so that divided and split up, one company should compete with another, one battalion be hostile to another, and one division act in opposition to another. Letters, from the Collection of Risale-i Nur, by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi
The reward of innocent martyrs according to Kur'an and its modern commantary Risale-i Nur in this century by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi which is also presented in the International Symposium- 1998 by Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael -General Secretary of Interreligious Dialogues, Vatican-:
Writing during one of the most tragic periods in the history of Anatolia,10 Said Nursi could not ignore the reality of the deaths of so many innocent persons. It is to his great credit that he rose above sectarian loyalty to address the question of innocent Christians as well as Muslims who fell victim to the times. "Even if those innocent people were unbelievers," he stated,
"In return for the tribulations they suffered due to that worldly disaster, they have such a reward from the treasury of Divine mercy that if the veil of the Unseen were to open, a great manifestation of mercy would be apparent in relation to them and they would declare, ‘O Lord, thanks be to You! All praise belongs to God.’"11
Said Nursi noted that he was moved to intense compassion and pity when he saw the sufferings of innocent people, and he was "touched strongly by the afflictions, poverty and hunger visited on unfortunates as a result of mankind’s disaster and the winter cold, as well as by a harsh non-physical, spiritual cold." He held that those innocent people who died in such circumstances "were martyrs of a sort, whatever religion they belonged to," and that "their reward would be great and save them from Hell." "Therefore," he concluded, "it may be said with certainty that the calamity which the oppressed among Christians suffer, those connected to Jesus (UWP)...is a sort of martyrdom for them."12
Those who oppressed others and perpetrated evil against their neighbors will be punished by God. By contrast, he adds, "If those who suffered the calamity were those who hastened to assist the oppressed, and who strove for the welfare of humanity, and struggled to preserve the principles of religion and sacred revealed truths and human rights, their rewards will be so great from God as to completely transcend their earthly sufferings.
Note: You can find answers to any kinds of questions and matters in the books of Said Nursi which are written according to the understanding of this age.