"Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur’an."
- Said NursiA well-known Islamic scholar and theologian from Turkey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was Said Nursi. His well-known work, "The Risale-i Nur," was written to help Muslims navigate the difficult times of secularism and the decline of traditional values. One of Nursi's stories concerns a t…