The Necessity of Prophethood among Scholars of Al-Sunna and Al-Jamaa According to Risale-i Nur's View

Abstract

Allah sent the apostles and prophets as guides and teachers for people so that man can understand his role in the earth and his duties towards his Creator. The importance of the messengers and prophets ’mission to the people of the Sunnis and the community, is the subject of this paper. This paper aims to prove the hypothesis that Bediuzzaman Said al-Nursi was an imam who accommodated all the ideology of the Islamic nation with its various ramifications, and it was in agreement with the public of scholars and did not deviate from them with a different opinion.

 To validate the hypothesis, the paper was divided into two paragraphs. The first is the concept of prophecy and the second is the necessity of it. The researcher used the inductive method in his review of the views of some of the most prominent scholars of the nation, such as Imam Al-Ghazali, while showing the fragmentation of philosophers in this field. The deductive approach was not neglected, when needed, in arriving at results and recommendations.

The researcher reached to; the absorption of Imam Bediuzzaman Said al- Nursi, may God have mercy on him, to Islamic schools of jurisprudence throughout the development of Islamic thought, and he was aware of the idea of ​​ Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. It turned out that Imam al-Nursi, agreed with the majority of scholars in terms of the concept of prophecy, and in terms of the necessity of the mission of the prophets and messengers to humanity, in a modern and renewed spirit without departing from the ancestors, but by absorbing the development of the human mind according to time and place. Also, Imam al-Nursi was aware of the deviations of philosophers in this matter, warned of their mistake, and the necessity of avoiding it because that would lead to a departure from Islam.