The Reality of Positive Action According to Imam Said Nursi

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Western modernity and their consequent of two world wars and an expansionist and occupying movement shocked the Islamic world, which discovered its civilizational regression and its inability to keep pace with the progress of technical and economic progress of Western nations. The reform movement will be the most violent in the center of the caliphate, where the secular policies of the Kemalist state based on the ruins of the Ottomans will know a radical break with religious traditions and eastern mores. Based on the revival of faith and the service of the Qur’an, in order to achieve what the Sufi orders and the Sheikh of knowledge have suffered from narrowing and persecution, the Nursi’s thought will be distinguished from other schools of  Islamic reform by a central concept that may contribute to rationalizing its path, we mean  by that the concept of “positive action”, whose most important characteristics and representations will be highlighted in this article.