Again, there was to have been a treatise explaining in twenty-five degrees of reflective thought the important truth stated in numerous verses of the Qur’an and expressed by the phrase: There is no power and strength save through God, the Exalted, the Mighty.³ Like the Fifth Flash, this too formed degrees I had felt in myself and observed through reflection and remembrance of God in my journeying of the spirit, and therefore, since it was the means to illumination and spiritual pleasure more than intellectual knowledge and reality, it was considered appropriate to include it at the end of the Flashes—which are about reality, rather than among them.

FOOTNOTES

1. Qur’an, 3:173.

2, 3. Our Master, Hazret-i Ustad, said in explanation of these two phrases in the footnote of the Sixth Chapter of the Twenty-Ninth Flash, which is in Arabic: “The degrees of these two phrases were written in Arabic because they are reflection and remembrance of God rather than intellectual knowledge..... ” The Fourth Ray, called ‘Hasbiye Risalesi’, about the verse For us God suffices, and he is the Best Disposer of Affairs, was written subsequently in Turkish.

Signed, Ustad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s Students.