Name: Said
Father Name: Nursi
Year Of Birth: 1876
Year Of Death: 1960
Place Of Birth: Newres/Batlis
Place Of Death: Urfa/Northern Kurdistan
Life
Said Nursi He is a Kurdish scholar, born in the village of Newres in the province of Bitlis in central Kurdistan, in the year 1876 AD. He was one of the most prominent religious and social reform scholars of his time. Saeed Nursi was eager for knowledge and had a strong memory. At an early stage of his life, genius and intelligence seemed to him. Saeed Al-Nursi migrated to his village, the village of Nawras, in the year 1897 AD, and he lived in the city of Van – central Kurdistan, and there he deepened the study of various sciences such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, philosophy, history and geography. Because of his brilliance, he was nicknamed “Badi’ al-Zaman.” In the year 1907 AD, Said Nursi visited the city of Istanbul, and there he presented a project to the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid, in which he proposed the establishment of an Islamic university in Kurdistan similar to Al-Azhar University in Cairo under the name (Al-Zahraa School) for the study of Islamic sciences, and that the study there be in the Kurdish languages and Arabic and Turkish,The scholar Said Nursi was subjected to the most severe types of persecution, abuse, imprisonment, torture, exile and displacement at the hands of the Ottoman authorities and the Kemalist Turkish occupation authority.Saeed Nursi remained a defender of Islamic thought in Kurdistan and Anatolia.
He strongly opposed the racist Turkish nationalist Kemalist ideology imposed by the Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on Anatolia and northern Kurdistan. Saeed Nursi is famous for his many books, the most important of which are: 1-Messages of Light.2-Signs of miracles in terms of brevity. 3-the words . 4-Luminaries. 5-The radiations. 6-The writings. 7-The big verse. 8-Appendices. 9-Picking from the flowers of light (from the faculties of messages of light). Saeed Nursi wrote more than 130 letters under the title (Risalat al-Nur) in Arabic and Turkish, and one of his letters is a will addressed from him to the people of Kurdistan, which was published in the first issue of the Kurdish newspaper - Cooperation and Promotion - issued in Istanbul in the year 1908 AD. And this is the text of that commandment: {O Kurdish people, in agreement is strength, in union is life, in brotherhood is happiness, and in state and governance is safety, hold fast to the bond of union and hold fast to the rope of love and strength, in order to get rid of calamities and tribulations, listen to me carefully so that I tell you something, know that we have two jewels that we have to keep,
First Essence:
Humanity, which we must, by providing mental, intellectual, virility and human services, bring people's attention to us,
Second essence:
Nationalism, which gave us a special advantage for us, and those who preceded us remained in their honorable memory thanks to their goodness and kindness, and we, by our behavior and our preservation of the national spirit, we must make their souls in their graves happy, Then we have three enemies destroying us:
*The first enemy:
Poverty, and the evidence for that is the presence of 40,000 Kurdish porters in Istanbul.
*The second enemy:
Ignorance and illiteracy, and because of them, there is not one out of every thousand of us who can read a newspaper.
*The third enemy:
Enmity and difference, which have caused us to lose our strength,
So we need education and guidance,
And when you know that, know that our treatment lies in putting three diamond bracelets on our wrists, then we can expel the three enemies from among us, and these bracelets are:
*First: the bracelet of knowledge and reading.
*Second: The bracelet of agreement and love of the Kurdish national identity (Kurdaiti). Third: The bracelet that a person does what he has to do with his own hand, and that he is not like the lowly people who rely on the effort and ability of others.
*The last will: ( Read, read, read, and union, union, union ). Saeed Nursi lived in a purely Kurdish Islamic environment. And He passed away in 1960 . And his body was buried in the city of Urfa, Northern Kurdistan, But the Turkish Kemalist occupation authorities pursued him even in his grave, as they demolished his grave four months after his death, and transported his body by plane to an unknown destination, after declaring a curfew in the Kurdish city of Urfa.[1] [2]