Belief and love, faithfulness, and Islamic patriotism and zeal

 

Those who see me during my travels think that I am a trader and ask me whether I am a trader.

ANSWER: I am a trader and chemist. QUESTION: What do you trade in?

ANSWER: In two substances: I mix them, and one is transformed into a cure, and the other into illuminating electricity.

QUESTION: Where are they found?

ANSWER: In the marketplace of true civilization and virtues. They are contained in a brilliant black box, on which “heart” is written; this exists in the chest that stands on two legs and on whose forehead is written “man.”

QUESTION: What are their names?

ANSWER: Belief and love, faithfulness, and Islamic patriotism and zeal.

 

(From Munazarat [“Discussions”])

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi