The 3rd Word - The Words - Risale-i Nur Collection [AUDIOBOOK]

0:02 the third word in the name of God the merciful the compassionate oh you people worship if you want to understand what great profit and happiness lie in worship and what great loss in ruin lie in vice and dissipation listen to and take heed of the following story which is in the form of a comparison one time two soldiers received orders to proceed to a distant City they set off and traveled together until the road forked at the fork was a man who said to them the road on the right causes no loss at all and nine out of ten of those who take it receive a high profit and experience great ease while the road on

0:51 the Left provides no advantages and nine out of ten of its travelers make a loss but they are the same as regards distance only there is one difference those who take the left-hand Road which has no rules and no one in authority travel without baggage and arms they feel an apparent lightness and deceptive ease whereas those traveling on the right-hand road which is under military order are compelled to carry a kit bag full of nutritious rations for up cos or so and wait and the superb army rifle of about two Kia's which will overpower and rout every enemy after the two soldiers had listened to what this instructive

1:37 man had to say the fortunate one took the road to the right he loaded the weight of one Batman onto his back but his heart and spirit was saved from thousands of Batman's of fear and feeling obliged to others as for the other luckless soldier he left the army he did not want to conform to the order and he went off to the left he was released from bearing a load of one Batman but his heart was constricted by thousands of Batman's of indebtedness spirit crushed by innumerable fears he proceeded on his way both begging from everyone and trembling before every object in every event until

2:23 he reached his destination and there he was punished as a mutineer and a deserter as for the soldier who loved the order of the army had guarded his kit bag and rifle and taken the right-hand road he had gone on his way being obliged to no one fearing no one and with an easy heart and conscience until he reached the city he was seeking there he received a reward worthy of an honorable soldier who carried out his duty faithfully all rebellious soul know that one of those two travelers represents those who submit to the divine law while the other represents the rebellious and those who follow their own desires the road is the

3:10 road of life which comes from the spirit world passes through the grave and carries on to the hereafter as for the kit bag and rifle they are worship and fear of God there is an apparent burden in worship but there is an ease and lightness in its meaning at defies description for in the prescribed prayers the worshiper declares I bear witness that there is no god but God that is to say he finds the door of a treasury of mercy in everything because he is believing and saying there is no creator and provider other than him harm and benefit are in his hand he is both all-wise he does nothing in vain and he

3:59 is all compassionate his bounty and mercy are abundant and he knocks on the door with his supplication moreover he sees that everything is subjugated to the command of his own sustainer so he takes refuge in him he places his trust in him and relies on him and is fortified against every disaster his belief gives him complete confidence indeed like with every true virtue the source of courage is belief in God and worship and as with every iniquity the source of cowardice is misguidance in fact for a worshiper with a truly illuminated heart it is possible that even if the globe of the earth became a bomb and exploded it would not frighten

4:46 him he would watch it with pleasurable wonder as a marvel of the eternally besought ones power but one of famous degenerate philosopher with a so-called enlightened mind but no heart saw a comet in the sky he trembled on the ground and exclaimed anxiously isn't that comet going to hit the earth on one occasion America was quaking with fear at such a comment and many people left their homes in the middle of the night yes although man is in need of numberless things his capital is as nothing and although he is subject to endless calamities his power to is as nothing simply his capital and power extend only as far as his hand can reach however his

5:32 hopes desires pains and tribulations reach as far as the eye and the imagination can stretch anyone who is not totally blind can see and understand then what a great prophet happiness and bounty for the human spirit which is thus impotent in weak and needy and wanting our worship affirmation of God's unity and reliance on God and submission to him it is obvious that a safe way is preferable to a harmful way even if the possibility of its safety is only 1 in 10 but on the way of worship which is our matter here there is a 9 out of 10 possibility of it leading to the

6:18 Treasury of eternal happiness as well as its being safe while it is established by the testimony which is at the degree of consensus of innumerable experts and witnesses that besides being without benefit and the dissolute even confessed to this the way of vice and dissipation ends in eternal misery according to the reports of those who have uncovered the mysteries of creation this is absolutely certain in short like that of the hereafter happiness in this world lies in worship and being a soldier for Almighty God in which case we should constantly say praise be to God for obedience to him in success and we should thank him that we

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