In His Name, Glory be to Him.
There is nothing that does not glorify Him with praise.
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

There is no god but God, One having no partner; His is the Kingdom and to Him belongs all praise; He alone gives life and makes to die; He is living and dies not; in His hand is all good. He is powerful over everything, and unto Him is the homecoming.

It is very meritorious to recite these affirmations of Divine Unity after the day’s first and last prayers. Each phrase is equal in worth to God’s Greatest Name, and conveys good tidings to humanity by displaying and manifesting a different aspect of the Lordship’s Unity. This is equal to manifesting one of the Greatest Names, a ray of Divine Singularity’s magnificence, and a perfection of Divine Oneness. Referring the reader to The Words for a full explanation of such a sublime truth, I summarize it below in an introduction and two stations.[1]

Introduction

Belief in God is creation’s highest aim and most sublime result, and humanity’s most exalted rank is knowledge of Him. The most radiant happiness and sweetest bounty for jinn and humanity is love of God contained within knowledge of God. The human spirit’s purest joy and the human heart’s sheerest delight is spiritual ecstasy contained within love of God. All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasures are contained within knowledge and love of God. Those who truly know and love God can receive endless happiness, bounties, enlightenment, and mysteries. Those who do not are afflicted with endless spiritual and material misery, pain, and fear. If any person were allowed to rule this world, despite his or her being powerless, miserable, and unprotected amid other purposeless people in this world, what would its true worth be?

People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.

[1] Said Nursi, The Words, 2 vols.