The Words forms the first part of the
Risale-i Nur Collection, a Qur'anic commentary exceeding five thousand pages
which was written in Turkish by the most significant Islamic scholar this
century, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, in order to prove and explain the truths of
belief to contemporary Muslims and modern man. In Bediuzzaman's view, in the
face of the assaults of materialist philosophy at the present time, the question
which takes priority over all else for Muslims is the saving and strengthening
of belief. For it is only in belief in God that man's true happiness and
progress, and the cure for the wounds caused him by materialism and misguidance,
are to be found. Bediuzzaman devoted his life and learning to the achievement of
these.