Said Nursi's Thought On Community Development

"Indeed, everything you say must be true, but it is not right to say everything true. If on occasion it is damaging, then be silent. But there is no fatwa for lying. Everything you say must be the truth, but you do not have the right to say everythiing that is true." (Badiuzzaman Said al-Nursi)IntroductionAt the outset, I would like to express my warmest gratitude to the Director of The Istanbul Foundation for Science and Culture for his invitation to me to present a topic which will discuss the opinions of the universal Said Nursi's ideas, at the forum International Symposium "Bringing Faith, Meaning and Peace to Life in a Multicultural World: The Risale-i Nur's Approach." It is an honor for me to be invited here to present a paper at this the 7th International Symposium (October 2004).The title of my paper is "Said Nursi's Thought on Community Development." This paper is a simple attempt which will understand to the Nursi's ideas on community development based on Risale-i Nur. My purpose in this writing want to understand some opinions of Said Nursi on community development which I am always thinking it. Because, as a Muslim believer, and Said Nursi understood the Al-Qur'an comprehensively, I want to know, Is Said Nursi discussed the principles of community development. Certainly, in no way this article shall exhaust the subject-matter (the topic), but it seeks only to draw attention to some aspects that will hopefully according to Said Nursi. It is inspiration from Risale-i Nur. This article, therefore, is a study to understand Nursi's ideas for community development, or the principles of community development according to Said Nursi.....