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The Purpose of life:The Risale-i Nur perspective-2-
Hazrat SAID NURSI?s approach for the discovery of purpose in life is completely based on the concept of Prophethood. He reminds us that we cannot arrive at our life?s purpose by starting with a focus on ourselves. We must begin with God, our Creator. We were made by God and for God and until we understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to the dead end.
SAID NURSI relies on ?God?s Will? to discover and interpret the real purpose of life. He does not allow himself or his readers to rely on any so-called meditational techniques or Naturalist and Materialist philosophies.
Nursi?s discovery is that man?s true purpose of life is to worship God, but worship for the sake of ritual is meaningless. Man is supposed to work for the global peace, justice, and the betterment of humanity through this act of worship. SAID NURSI writes;
On the other hand, the line of prophethood considered, in the manner of a worshipper, that the aim of humanity and duty of human beings is to be moulded by God-given ethics and good character, and, by knowing their impotence to seek refuge with Divine power, by seeing their weakness to rely on Divine strength, by realizing their poverty to trust in Divine mercy, by perceiving their need to seek help from Divine riches, by seeing their faults to ask for pardon through Divine forgiveness, and by realizing their deficiency to be glorifiers of Divine perfection.
According to SAID NURSI, no such worship is accepted and even regarded as worship if it is not linked with the development and welfare of other human beings and environment regardless of their race, colour and geographical identities.
May Almighty God give us strength to serve his people so that we may get his love and pleasure
The Words/ Thirtieth Word-First Aim, p.563
SAID NURSI relies on ?God?s Will? to discover and interpret the real purpose of life. He does not allow himself or his readers to rely on any so-called meditational techniques or Naturalist and Materialist philosophies.
Nursi?s discovery is that man?s true purpose of life is to worship God, but worship for the sake of ritual is meaningless. Man is supposed to work for the global peace, justice, and the betterment of humanity through this act of worship. SAID NURSI writes;
On the other hand, the line of prophethood considered, in the manner of a worshipper, that the aim of humanity and duty of human beings is to be moulded by God-given ethics and good character, and, by knowing their impotence to seek refuge with Divine power, by seeing their weakness to rely on Divine strength, by realizing their poverty to trust in Divine mercy, by perceiving their need to seek help from Divine riches, by seeing their faults to ask for pardon through Divine forgiveness, and by realizing their deficiency to be glorifiers of Divine perfection.
According to SAID NURSI, no such worship is accepted and even regarded as worship if it is not linked with the development and welfare of other human beings and environment regardless of their race, colour and geographical identities.
May Almighty God give us strength to serve his people so that we may get his love and pleasure
The Words/ Thirtieth Word-First Aim, p.563