Imam Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and His Relationship With the Muhammadiyah Union Association

Abstract

The Muhammadiyah Union Society was an Islamic association that made great efforts in its founding after the second conditionality in the Ottoman Empire. Darwish, my unit, "played an important role in the March 31 incident, after which Darwish was executed in my unit. Imam Nursi, who was one of the prominent members of this association, drew attention with his ideas despite his young age, and then people admired him for his depth in science, and he gained a distinguished position among scholars.

Discussions took place about the name, establishment, and purpose of the Muhammadiyah Union Society among scholars, and objections occurred to it. Accordingly, Imam Nursi wrote convincing scientific articles and defended the association, and published articles in the newspaper “Volkan” in which he stated that the association unites Muslims and brings them together on one word, and he was of the opinion that This association is not just an association that is built on specific people and has a register of its members. Rather, he believed that it is an association of all Muslims with its natural members and includes under its roof Islamic societies and groups, and this understanding developed by Imam Nursi with an Islamic reaction led to his innocence in the customary military court, although he was A member of the association's board of directors. Imam Nursi upheld the conditionality of acceptance of Islam in the turbulent days of the March 31 incident, and did some activities to that end, publishing written and oral letters to soldiers, porters, scholars, students, intellectuals, journalists and other groups of society, in which he emphasized unity and solidarity for the stability of security and peace.