The Risâle-i Nur Collection

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The Words is the first volume of the Risale-i Nur and consists of thirty-three independent parts or "Words", which explain and prove aspects of the fundamental matters of belief These consists of such matters as God's existence and unity, the manifestation of the Divine Names and attributes in creation, the resurrection of the dead and hereafter, prophethood, the miraculousness of the Qur'an, the angels, the immortality of man's spirit, Divine Determining (fate or destiny), together with such questions as the true nature of man and universe, and man's need to worship God. Each subject is explained with comparisons and allegories, and demonstrated with reasoned arguments and logical proofs...

The Flashes

The Flashes collection comprises thirty-three parts or "Flashes", which expounding the fundamental truths of the Qur'an and belief, and the Practices (Sunna) of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), from various angles, set forth important principles for both individual and social life. Also included in this collection are the celebrated treatise on Nature and discussion on Divine Self-Subsistence, which lay open the unsound basis of Naturalist and Materialist philosophies, and demonstrate in reasoned and logical manner the necessity of Divine existence and unity. Other sections answer criticisms made by atheists of certain Qur'anic verses and Hadiths.

The Letters

Largely replying to questions put by Bediuzzaman's students, these Letters cover a wide range of subjects: they provide illuminating answers to many questions of belief and Islam; they contain brilliant and unique explanations of the truths of belief and mysteries of the Qur'an, which also illustrate the Qur'anic way of Knowledge of God opened up by the Risale-i Nur; they offer important guidance contemporary Muslims concerning many questions ranging from Nationalism to Sufism; they also throw light on Bediuzzaman's own life in those years of exile and the conditions during the early years of the Turkish Republic...

The Rays

Including The Supreme Sign and 'The Second Ray', with their matchless proofs of the Divine existence and Unity; The Fruits of Belief and The Shining Proof, with their irrefutable proofs of the 'pillars of belief'; and collections of Bediuzzaman's letters to his students while in the prisons of Denizli and Afyon, together with parts of his defence speeches during his trial in Afyon court, and those of some of his students.