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Sura 35
Aya 15
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۞ يا أَيُّهَا النّاسُ أَنتُمُ الفُقَراءُ إِلَى اللَّهِ ۖ وَاللَّهُ هُوَ الغَنِيُّ الحَميدُ

Ali Unal

O humankind! You are all poor before God and in absolute need of Him, whereas He is the All-Wealthy and Self-Sufficient (absolutely independent of the creation), the All-Praiseworthy (as your Lord, Who provides for you and all other beings, supplying all your needs).1
  • Fethullah Gülen expands in this idea:
    His is power, by which we are powerful.
    We are well-known by His Name or fame.
    We go beyond peaks and continue on our way;
    We overcome all difficulties with facility.
    We possess nothing worldly but are absolutely rich,
    And are dignified and respectable through His Dignity.
    We follow the way of reflection, so
    Whatever exists is a source of knowledge of God for us.
    (Key Concepts, 1: 172)
    What follows is an excerpt from Said Nursi on the same idea:
    Your perception and acknowledgment of your essential poverty leads you to the Divine Name the All-Merciful, by Which you find inexhaustible treasure. Your perception and acknowledgment of your essential helplessness leads you to the Divine Name the All-Powerful, by Which you find the real source of power. You can purify yourself by perceiving that your existence lies in acknowledging your essential non-existence. Considering yourself self-existent, you fall into the darkest pit of non-existence. In other words, relying on your personal existence and, thus, ignoring the Real Creator, causes your ephemeral personal existence to be drowned in the infinite darkness of non-existence. But if you abandon pride and egoism and recognize that you are only a mirror in which the Real Creator manifests Himself, you attain infinite existence. One who discovers the Necessary Being, the manifestations of Whose Names cause all things to come into existence, is counted as having found everything. (The Words, “The 26th Word,” 493).