====== Enthusiasm ======

  * “Heart’s need to meet the beloved.”((Ali ibn Muhammed es-Seyyid eş-Şerif Cürcani, //Tarifat: Arapça-Türkçe Terimler Sözlüğü//, tr. Arif Erkan, İstanbul: Bahar Yayınları, 1997, p. 131.))

  * “**Enthusiasm** is the ecstasy of the heart when it remembers the beloved.”((Abu’n-Najib Abdulqahir as-Suhrawardi, //Kitabu Adabi’l-Muridin//, ed. Menahem Milson, Jerusalem, 1977, p. 304.))

  * “Love that affects and invades one’s feelings is called passion; [[love|love]] that is so deep and irresistible that it burns for union is called fervor and **enthusiasm**.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Kalbin Zümrüt Tepeleri//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2008, p. 196.))

  * “The course of action of those who are in this service of [[belief|faith]] and the Qur’an is [[contemplation|contemplation]] and their vision is compassion. If these two main lines are maintained, the meaning of [[helplessness|helplessness]], [[poverty|neediness]], **enthusiasm** and gratitude become clear.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, [[https://www.herkul.org/tag/sefkat-ya-hu/|“Şefkat Yâ Hû!”]], Bamteli, 24 Ocak 2016.))

  * “The heart should be so ecstatic with Divine love that all other considerations are replaced and lost. This [[love|love]] leads to a yearning for reunion with God. Joyful **enthusiasm** and yearning...”((M. Fethullah Gülen, [[https://www.herkul.org/bamteli/bamteli-ask-yolunun-adabi/|“Aşk Yolunun Âdâbı”]]))

  * “Now, as for the perfection of your [[life|life]], it is to perceive the lights of the Pre-Eternal Sun which are depicted in the mirror of your [[life|life]], and to [[love|love]] them. It is to display **ardour** for Him as a [[consciousness|conscious]] being. It is to pass beyond yourself with [[love|love]] of Him. It is to establish the reflection of His light in the centre of your heart.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Words//, New Jersey: The Light, 2013, p. 141.))

  * “After each group has completed its turn of parade and the desired results have been obtained, the All-Munificent Maker, the All-Compassionate Creator, causes most of them, by His Compassion, to feel weariness and distaste for the world. He grants them a desire for rest and a longing to emigrate to another world. Thus, when they are to be discharged from [[life|life]]’s duties, He arouses in them an **enthusiastic** inclination to return to their original home.”((Ibid., p. 222.))

  * “This is why the universe’s obedience to the Divine Command of ‘Be!’ and it is (36: 82) does not differ from that of a particle. Creation obeys this Divine Command, coming from the Creator’s Eternal Will, via the same forces of inclination, need, **yearning**, and attraction. All of these are urged to operate on all creatures by the same Divine Will. Delicate water, which cracks or even shatters iron when ordered to freeze, shows the power of this obedience.”((Ibid., p. 546.))

  * “When you look at lifeless things, you see that the potentiality in them moves in order to be realized. It is almost as if they feel pleasure in that movement. Do you not see how a drop of water opens its heart **enthusiastically** when its Originator commands it to do so? Despite its weakness and tenderness, when it hears its Lord command: ‘O water! Turn into ice and expand,’ it ‘feels’ such intense zeal that it can crack hard iron.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //Al-Mathnawi Al-Nuri//, New Jersey: The Light, 2007, p. 226.))

  * “Human senses are not restricted to the five known ones. Each person has many ‘windows’ opening on the Unseen,  and many other senses of whose nature he or she knows or does not know. For example, drive and **enthusiasm** are two other senses that do not lie.”((Ibid., p. 376.))

  * “God, the Necessarily Existent Being, in conformity with His essential independence of creation and absolute perfection, has infinite sacred compassion and infinite sacred affection and [[love|love]]. Such sacred [[compassion|compassion]] and sacred affection and [[love|love]] cause an infinite sacred **enthusiasm**, which engenders a limitless sacred joy that is the source of infinite sacred pleasure.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursî, //Mektubat//, İstanbul: Şahdamar Yayınları, 2010, p. 91.))

  * “The beautiful forms of bounties, their tastes and smells, are invitations to [[thankfulness|thanksgiving]]. By arousing **desire** in living beings and thereby directing them to appreciate and respect provision, they urge animals to give thanks through their disposition, and people to do so with their tongues and actions.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Letters//, New Jersey: The Light, 2014, p. 372.))

====== Absolute Enthusiasm ======

  * “There are four pillars of the way of being a worshipping and (thereby) beloved servant of God, as stated in the following: In the way of depending on [[consciousness|awareness]] of one’s impotence before God, four things are essential; They are, O beloved one, acknowledgement of one’s absolute impotence and [[poverty|poverty]] (before God), and **absolute [[thankfulness|thanksgiving]] and zeal** (in God’s cause).”((Ibid., p. 374.))

  * “... a believer equipped with a [[consciousness|consciousness]] of [[helplessness|helplessness]] and [[poverty|poverty]] is blessed with special favors from God Almighty, and they come like a bolt out of the blue. Everything is in its proper place, so there is no need for someone to intervene in order to save him in the flow of worldly events. Individuals who recognize this situation act with **enthusiasm** and see no reason for hopelessness. He says, ‘Why shouldn’t I keep running in His path with feelings of [[thankfulness|thankfulness]]!’ and rears up with **enthusiasm**. Before the blessings that come showering down, they feel energized and thankful; they proceed on, not losing speed for a lifetime. This is the Master Bediüzzaman’s consideration of [[helplessness|helplessness]] and [[poverty|poverty]], which refers to an acknowledgement that leads one to attain the feeling of **absolute enthusiasm** and absolute [[thankfulness|thankfulness]]. What is meant by ‘[[poverty|poverty]]’ and ‘[[helplessness|helplessness]]’ is not material [[poverty|poverty]]. This is the Honorable Sage Bediüzzaman’s consideration of [[helplessness|helplessness]] and [[poverty|poverty]], which refers to an acknowledgement that leads one to attain the feeling of **absolute enthusiasm** and [[thankfulness|absolute thankfulness]]. When individuals can do that, they fully sense the point of reliance, and they seek help in their heart, and thus set foot on this path that will lead them to God and deepen their relations with Him.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, [[https://herkul.org/kirik-testi/enaniyet-caginda-acz-u-fakr-yolu/|“Enaniyet Çağında Acz u Fakr Yolu”]]))

===== See Also =====

  * [[compassion|Compassion]]
  * [[contemplation|Contemplation]]
  * [[love|Love]]
  * [[thankfulness|Thankfulness]]

===== Other Languages =====

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