The Short Words: On the Meaning of Belief And the Value of Worship (Risale-i Nur Collection)

The Short Words, as the title suggests, short, simple, reader-friendly pieces describing, through the use of comparisons, metaphors, and analogies, the virtues of belief and worshipful action.

The Short Words comprises the first ten chapters of the thirty-three chapter work known as The Words, which in turn forms the first part of the Risale-i Nur (Epistles of Light) collection, a commentary on the Quran that totals in excess of six thousand pages. The Risale-i Nur was written in Turkish by ...